Now Available for Streaming and Download from Presto Music
When The Music of Gustav Mahler: Issued 78s, 1903-1940 was first issued in 2013, International Record Review’s Robert Matthew-Walker wrote, “This collection of every known commercially issued Mahler recording from 1903-40 is one of the most important Mahler issues in recent decades and is very strongly recommended indeed”
In Gramophone, Rob Cowan wrote, “Urlicht’s Gustav Mahler set of ‘Issued 78s, 1903-1940’, which features artists who knew and worked with him, runs the gamut from one extreme to the other, from Dauber’s cheesy Das Lied potpourri and Konoye’s rather plain-Jane 1930 Japanese account of the Fourth (the first-ever electrical recording of a Mahler symphony; graced by Eiko Kitazawa’s pretty singing), to the full-on conflagration that is Walter’s famous pre-Anschluss 1938 VPO account of the Ninth. … Excellent transfers and exhaustive notes complete a valuable issue.“
For the first time, Urlicht AudioVisual is making this set available for streaming and download through Presto Music in five volumes, to be released through 2025.
The first volume focuses on some of the rarest Mahler recordings, the complete acoustic recordings – including Oskar Fried’s revelatory recording of Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony. The release includes all of the relevant liner notes for the original release along with texts and translations.
Weber, completed by Mahler: Die drei Pintos – Ein Mädchen verloren
Leopold Demuth with piano accompaniment
Des Knaben Wunderhorn – Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?
Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit – Ich ging mit Lust
Grete Stückgold with orchestral accompaniment
Symphony No. 2 in c minor
Gertrud Bindernagel • Emmi Leisner
Berliner Domchor • Kapelle der Staatsoper Berlin
Oscar Fried, conductor
Des Knaben Wunderhorn – Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?
Lula Mysz-Gmeiner with piano accompaniment
The second volume focuses on the first Mahler recordings that were made in the electrical era – including Heinrich Rehkemper‘s groundbreaking collaboration with legendary Mahler conductor conductor Jascha Horenstein in Kindertotenlieder and the first recording of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony – made in Tokyo under the direction of Hidemaro Konoye. The release includes all of the relevant liner notes for the original release along with texts and translations.
Concertgebouworkest Amsterdam • Willem Mengelberg, conductor
Des Knaben Wunderhorn – Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?
Lula Mysz-Gmeiner, alto • Julius Dahlke, piano
Das Lied von der Erde – Potpourri [Von der Jugend, abbreviated]
Des Knaben Wunderhorn – Rheinlegendchen
Dol Dauber Salonorchester
Kindertotenlieder
Heinrich Rehkemper, baritone
Orchester der Staatsoper Berlin • Jascha Horenstein, conductor
Johann Sebastian Bach orch. Mahler: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068 – Aria
Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York • Willem Mengelberg, conductor
Rückert Lieder – Um Mitternacht
Aaltje Noordewier-Reddingius, soprano • Anthon van der Hörst, organ
Des Knaben Wunderhorn – Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht
Elizabeth Schumann, soprano • George Reeves, piano
Symphony No. 4
Eiko Kitazawa
Tokyo New Symphony Orchestra • Viscount Hidemaro Konoye
Coming March 21 from Presto Music