Gustav Mahler : The Symphonies & Kindertotenlieder - cd 09 & 10 of 14 - Symphony No.7 - Kindertotenlieder - BSO - Seiji Ozawa

It's a Finnwake personal rip (september 2010): 2 zip files with the 10 tracks of cd's 9 and 10 (of 14) on ape files (compressed from the original wave files), the 126 page boxset booklet (in English, German, French), plus the box cover and front and back cover of the three cd's.

http://www.amazon.com/Mahler-S...&qid=1283672921&sr=1-1

The Box Cover:
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Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer, he acted as a bridge between the 19th century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century. While in his lifetime his status as a conductor was established beyond question, his own music gained wide popularity only after periods of relative neglect which included a ban on its performance in much of Europe during the Nazi era. After 1945 the music was discovered and championed by a new generation of listeners; Mahler then became one of the most frequently performed and recorded of all composers, a position he has sustained into the 21st century.
The Symphony no.7 was written in 1904-05 (scoring repeatedly revised). It is sometimes referred to by the title Song of the Night (German: Lied der Nacht), though this does not derive from Mahler and was not approved by him. It was performed for the first time in Prague on september 19, 1908. A few weeks later he conducted it in Munich and the Netherlands. Both the audience and the performers at the premiere were confused by the work, and it was not well received. It remained for a while as one of Mahler's least appreciated works, often accused of incoherence. More recently, scholars and conductors have experimented with a range of interpretations of the work, especially the tempo of the finale, and the work has thrilled more audiences worldwide and has since become more popular.
Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children) is a song cycle for voice and orchestra by Gustav Mahler. The words of the songs are poems by Friedrich Rückert. Mahler selected five of Rückert's poems to set as Lieder, which he composed between 1901 and 1904. The songs are written in Mahler's late-romantic idiom, and like the texts reflect a mixture of feelings: anguish, fantasy resuscitation of the children, resignation. The final song ends in a major key and a mood of transcendence. The poignancy of the cycle is increased by the fact that four years after he wrote it, Mahler lost his daughter, Maria, aged four, to scarlet fever. He wrote to Guido Adler: "I placed myself in the situation that a child of mine had died. When I really lost my daughter, I could not have written these songs any more. The translation of the titles are: "Now the sun will rise as brightly", ""Now I understand why you flashed such dark flames at me", "When your mother", "I often think they've only gone out", "In this weather, in this bluster".

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