Dialogue / MVP 5
Programme
Krešimir Stražanac, bass-baritone
Doriana Čakarova, piano
“Under the above title are offered to the numerous friends of the composer’s classic muse the last blossoms of his noble spirit. These are the compositions he wrote in August 1828, shortly before he left this world, works which proclaim in the most definitive manner the consummate nature of his mastery.”
(Publisher Tobias Haslinger, 31 January 1829, Wiener Zeitung)
Mahler’s five lieder based on texts by Friedrich Rückert are an expression of his most intimate emotions. They were created in the peaceful environment of Maiernigg in Carinthia, where the composer had a modest summer refuge.
