{"id":19372,"date":"2014-06-18T05:30:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T09:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=19372"},"modified":"2014-06-17T09:52:01","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T13:52:01","slug":"cd-review-bernarda-fink-sings-mahler-lieder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2014\/06\/18\/cd-review-bernarda-fink-sings-mahler-lieder\/","title":{"rendered":"CD review: Bernarda Fink sings Mahler Lieder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/Mahler-Lieder.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19374\" alt=\"Mahler-Lieder\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/Mahler-Lieder.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/Mahler-Lieder.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/Mahler-Lieder-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/Mahler-Lieder-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">BERNARDA FINK<br \/>\nMahler Lieder (Harmonia Mundi)<\/p>\n<p>Argentinian mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink\u2019s new recording of songs by Gustav Mahler is a mesmerizing cabinet of curiosities.<\/p>\n<p>The music on the album is very familiar, featuring the <i>Kindertotenlieder<\/i> and several <i>R\u00fcckert-Lieder<\/i> as the anchors. But what is less familiar are the means with which Fink and her collaborators engage the listener like a tractor beam from beginning to end.<\/p>\n<p>It all starts with Fink\u2019s rich voice, still flexible but bolstered with decades of experience and a deep musicality now that she is in her late 50s.<\/p>\n<p>Mahler demands (often in detailed explanations in the score) utmost dedication to clear emotional expression. Fink excels, treating each song as a mini opera, with her as the leading storyteller.<\/p>\n<p>The icing on this musical cake comes from collaborators Anthony Spiri at the piano, conductor Andr\u00e9s Orosco-Estrada and the Tonk\u00fcnstler-Orchester Nieder\u00f6sterreich.<\/p>\n<p>Spiri is elegance itself, a co-equal with the mezzo. Orosco-Estrada alternates between Mahler\u2019s original orchestrations and Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg\u2019s chamber reductions, with a musical aesthetic focused on simple, direct communication.<\/p>\n<p>The results are very compelling and, in several instances, bracingly fresh and modern.<\/p>\n<p>You can find more information about the album at Harmonia Mundi\u2019s frustrating website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harmoniamundi.com\/#\/albums?id=1947\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/fink.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19373\" alt=\"fink\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/fink.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/fink.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/fink-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>John Terauds<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERNARDA FINK Mahler Lieder (Harmonia Mundi) Argentinian mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink\u2019s new recording of songs by Gustav Mahler is a mesmerizing cabinet of curiosities. The music on the album is very familiar, featuring the Kindertotenlieder and several R\u00fcckert-Lieder as the anchors. But what is less familiar are the means with which Fink and her collaborators engage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[117,77,51,52,56],"tags":[509,1500,1965],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/fink.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-52s","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19372"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19379,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19372\/revisions\/19379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19372"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=19372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}