Thou singest ye carol

Raoul Steffani (baritone)

&

Alma Mahler (composer/muze)

 This episode features Alma Mahler’s Fünf Lieder, composed in 1900 and performed here by a baritone. Dutch singer Raoul Steffani and British pianist Julius Drake present the songs interspersed with works by Alma’s lovers and musical associates, among them Alexander Zemlinsky, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Hans Pfitzner, Franz Schreker and Bruno Walter.

Alma wrote around 100 songs, a number of instrumental compositions and an opera that she never completed. Most of her output was lost during the Second World War, although some works had already been destroyed by Alma herself. Only seventeen songs have survived. Their style evokes the music of Johannes Brahms, Franz Schreker and Alexander von Zemlinsky, rather than that of her first husband, Gustav Mahler.

Playlist:

I.

1. Alma Mahler- Die stille Stadt (Dehmel)
2. Hans Pfitzner- Abendrot (Lienhard) Op. 24/4
3. Alexander Zemlinsky – Frühlingstag (Siebel), Op. 2, Boek 2/1
4. Bruno Walter- Des Kindes Schlaf (Eichendorff)
5. Erich W. Korngold – Abendlandschaft (Eichendorff), Op. 5/4

II.

6. Alma Mahler- In meines Vaters Garten (Hartleben)
7. Hans Pfitzner- Ist der Himmel darum im Lenz so blau (Leander), Op. 2/2
8. Franz Schreker- Frühling (Lemayer), Op. 4/2
9. Alexander Zemlinsky- Geflüster der Nacht (Storm), Op. 2/3
10. Erich W. Korngold – Sommer (Trebitsch), Op. 9/6

III.

11. Alma Mahler – Laue Sommernacht (Bierbaum)
12. Hans Pfitzner – Venus Mater (Dehmel), Op. 11/4
13. Franz Schreker- Sommerfäden (Leen), Op. 2/1
14. Alexander Zemlinsky – Empfängnis (Wertheimer) Op. 2 Boek 2/6

IV.

15. Alma Mahler – Bei dir ist es traut (Rilke)
16. Hans Pfitzner – Sehnsucht (Liliencron), Op. 10/1
17. Alexander – Zemlinsky Entbietung (Dehmel), Op. 7/2
18. Erich W. Korngold Liebesbriefchen – (Honold), Op. 9/4
19. Franz Schreker- Traum (Leen), Op. 7/3

V.

20. Alma Mahler- Ich wandle unter Blumen (Heine)
21. Franz Schreker- Im Garten unter der Linde (Becher)
22. Alexander Zemlinsky – Selige Stunde (Wertheimer), Op. 10/2
23. Hans Pfitzner- Nachts (Eichendorff) Op. 26/2
24. Erich W. Korngold- Glückwunsch (Dehmel) Op. 38/1

Bariton Raoul Steffani and pianist Julius Drake

Take a look at: https://www.concertzender.nl/programma/die_sanck_een_liedt_808232/