No composer before Mahler had ever devoted himself exclusively to two genres so apparently incompatible as the intimate lied and the grandiose symphony. In ‘Das Lied von der Erde’, Mahler fascinatingly combines these two seemingly opposed genres.
No composer before Mahler had ever devoted himself exclusively to two genres so apparently incompatible as the intimate lied and the grandiose symphony. In ‘Das Lied von der Erde’, Mahler fascinatingly combines these two seemingly opposed genres.