Brahms - Alto Rhapsody, Song Of Destiny / Mahler - Songs Of A Wayfarer - Bruno Walter
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Johannes Brahms: "Alto Rhapsody", "Song Of Destiny"
Gustav Mahler: "Songs Of A Wayfarer"
Mildred Miller (voc)
The Occidental College Concert Choir and the Columbia Symphony Orchestra conducted by Bruno Walter
1 LP, standard sleeve
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33 RPM
Size : 12'’
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : Unspecified
Label : Speakers Corner
Original Label : Columbia
Recording: June 1960 and January 1961 at Columbia Studios, Hollywood
Production: John McClure
Originally released in 1963
Reissued in 2017
Tracks :
Side A :
1. Brahms: Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53
2. Brahms: Song Of Destiny, Op. 54
Side B : Songs Of A Wayfarer (Leider Eines Fahrenden Gesellen)
- Wenn Mein Schatz Hochzeit
- Ging Heut' Morgen Über's Feld
- Ich Hab' Ein Glühend' Messer
- Die Zwei Blauen Augen
Reviews :
The "Alto Rhapsody", "Song Of Destiny" and "Song Of A Wayfarer". Each of these three vocal compositions is unique in its expression and construction, yet the frayed emotional worlds of all three works are connected by a multitude of fine threads. The "Alto Rhapsody", which Brahms wrote as a wedding gift for Clara Schumann’s daughter Julie, in whom he was himself in love, demonstrates with almost Wagnerian weight the anger that the disappointed Brahms must have felt while composing. The "Song Of Destiny" too, with its sonorous E major waves of harmony, soon announces in C minor the finiteness of existence as Hölderin’s poem demands.
That finally a hopeful, conciliatory – though unsure – moment lingers is reflected in the musical means. Many emotions and vagaries are emulated in Mahler’s song cycle. The journeyman sets off on his wanderings in order to forget his unhappy liaison and strides through the ups and downs of mixed emotions and painful heartache. Drumrolls and march rhythms reflect the real world and sounds of nature, dissonances and a change between major and minor keys show the way from dreams, reality and feelings. The recording with Mildred Miller and the Columbia Symphony Orchestra under Bruno Walter has achieved reference status and is sure of a place in the TAS Super LP List given out by "The Absolute Sound".
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