Mahlermania: The Cosmos of Gustav Mahler's Songs

From the Tischlerei of the Deutsche Oper Berlin

Jörg Königsdorf - dramaturge

Simon Pauly - baritone

Katarina Bradic - mezzo-soprano

Mahlermania - Nico and the Navigators

Orchestra Deutsche Oper Berlin

2:28 Symphony No. 4, 3rd. Movement by Gustav Mahler and Anne Champert

Moritz Gann
Orchester Deutsche Oper Berlin

7:13 Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht (Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen), No. 1 by Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schönberg

Moritz Gnann, Simon Pauly
Orchester Deutsche Oper Berlin

9:10 Symphony No. 1, 3rd. Movement by Gustav Mahler and Anne Champert

Moritz Gann
Orchester Deutsche Oper Berlin

12:10 Starke Einbildungskraft (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) by Gustav Mahler and Anne Champert

Moritz Gann
Orchester Deutsche Oper Berlin

19:08 Urlicht ( Des Knaben Wunderhorn) by Gustav Mahler and Anne Champert

Moritz Gann, Simon Pauly
Orchester Deutsche Oper Berlin

24:37 Selbstgefühl (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) by Gustav Mahler and Anne Champert

Moritz Gann, Simon Pauly
Orchester Deutsche Oper Berlin

26:38 Revelge (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) by Gustav Mahler and Anne Champert

Moritz Gann, Simon Pauly
Orchester Deutsche Oper Berlin

33:45 Symphony No. 1, 3rd. Movement by Gustav Mahler and Anne Champert

David Johnson - piano

36:35 Wenn dein Mütterlein (Kindertotenlieder), No. 3 by Gustav Mahler

Moritz Gann
Orchester Deutsche Oper Berlin

39:09 Oft denke ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen (Kindertotenlieder Nr. 4) by Gustav Mahler and Rainer Riehn

Katarina Bradic, Moritz Gann
Orchester Deutsche Oper Berlin

42:10 Symphony No. 1, 3rd. Movement by Gustav Mahler and Anne Champert

Moritz Gann
Orchester Deutsche Oper Berlin

44:47 Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz (Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen), Nr. 4 by Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schönberg

Moritz Gann, Simon Pauly
Orchester Deutsche Oper Berlin

50:50 Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) by Gustav Mahler and Anne Champert

Moritz Gann, Simon Pauly, Katarina Bradic
Orchester Deutsche Oper Berlin

58:27 Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Rückert Lieder) by Gustav Mahler and Anne Champert

Moritz Gann, Katarina Bradic
Orchester Deutsche Oper Berlin

1:06:30 Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 (arangements for four hands) by Gustav Mahler and Otto Singer

David Johnson - piano

1:10:40 Der Abschied (Das Lied von der Erde) by Gustav Mahler and Rainer Riehn

Moritz Gann, Katarina Bradic
Orchester Deutsche Oper Berlin

A progressive outlook versus fear of the unknown, the bitterness of the outsider versus a yearning for greener grass, a manic drive versus self-absorption… Gustav Mahler's music is a mass of contrasts and dualities linked only by a weak tissue of shifting balances. In Mahler's body of songs no less than in his nine symphonies, this inner conflict thrusts itself upon the audience with existential urgency: each song marks a way-station along a road that leads from the romantic idylls of the "Wunderhorn" via the familial intimacy of the "Rückert–Lieder" to the contemplative outlook of Far Eastern lyricism in the "Lied von der Erde".

In their first production at the Deutsche Oper Berlin; Nico and the Navigators tackle the cosmos of Mahler's songs in an evening of poetical and physical expression that endeavours to distil this sifting of senses for the stage. For Nico and the Navigators this Mahler project represents not only another excursion into musical theatre but also the beginning of a sustained collaboration with the opera house.