In Das Lied von der Erde , Gustav Mahler fused the two forms that most obsessed him song and symphony into a masterpiece that epitomized his musical genius and the very spirit of late Romanticism.
Based on a cycle of six poems translated from the Chinese by Hans Bethge,.
It is a work of stunning power, one that musical artists and audiences worldwide have made a repertoire favorite, and it is reprinted here from the original Full Score published in Vienna by Universal-Edition in 1912.
In Das Lied von der Erde , Gustav Mahler fused the two forms that most obsessed him song and symphony into a masterpiece that epitomized his musical genius and the very spirit of late Romanticism