Mahler: Songs of Youth and Awakening album review – exuberance and intensity from fine cast of singers

Rennert/Konradi/Peter/Keenlyside/Middleton (Signum) This collection of songs that the composer wrote as a young man is full of interest and emotion. Pianist Joseph Middleton brings sensitive support and an array of illustrative colours The second volume in Signum’s survey of Mahler song focuses on the three books of Lieder und Gesänge that the composer worked on in his 20s, rounding off the album with his first vocal masterpiece, the Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen. These early ditties are highly individual, often quirky and invariably full of interest. Joseph Middleton, whose instinctual paci

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