Gustav Mahler: Welt Und Traum-Sinfonie 1 (Mariss Jansons) (CD, Br-Klassik)

GUSTAV MAHLER (1860-1911) World and Dream: An audio biography by Jörg Handstein + Symphony No. 1 in D major Narrator: Udo Wachtveitl Mahler: René Dumont Alma: Laura Maire Quotes: Krista Posch, Gert Heidenreich, Hans Jürgen Stockerl Author: Jörg Handstein Editor and director: Bernhard Neuhoff Including Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 with Mariss Jansons and the SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA OF THE BAVARIAN RADIO Live recording: Munich, Herkulessaal der Residenz, 01/02/2007 From the series BR-KLASSIK WISSEN On the Mahler double year: Sein Life as an exciting audio biography! Successful continuation of the BR-KLASSIK WISSEN series including Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 with Mariss Jansons and the BR Symphony Orchestra! The son of a schnapps distiller in the Moravian provinces becomes the director of the Imperial and Royal Court Opera in Vienna, the God of the southern zones. Gustav Mahler’s life is the story of a triumphant career. As a conductor he is acclaimed, as an opera director he is admired and hostile, as a composer he is misunderstood: do you always have to be dead before people let you live? In Fin de Siècle Vienna, not only art flourishes, but also anti-Semitism. Mahler’s life is therefore also the story of a person who feels homeless everywhere, in Hamburg and Budapest, in Vienna and New York. He forbids his wife Alma, who is swarmed by Viennese society, to compose. Private catastrophes overshadow the last few years: the death of his daughter, a heart disease, and finally Alma’s affair with the architect Walter Gropius, which Mahler turns to Sigmund Freud for advice. In his ten-part audio biography, Jörg Handstein tells Mahler’s life against the background of an exciting era, colorful and polyphonic, true to the facts and close to the sources. Speakers like Udo Wachtveitl, René Dumont, Laura Maire and Gert Heidenreich guarantee listening pleasure at the highest level.