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Kindertotenlieder

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Kindertotenlieder

Cycle of five songs by Gustav Mahler, with orchestra or piano, to poems by Friedrich Rückert; they were composed in 1902 and first performed in Vienna, Austria, on 29 January 1905, conducted by Mahler.


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The horror of the school siege in Beslan, Russia, lent a terrible relevance to Tudor's 1937 Rambert commission Dark Elegies, an eloquent, masterfully composed depiction of communal grief set to Mahler's Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children).
Following up on this whimsical montage, "New Visions" has since mounted a bardic recitation of the Beowulf epic, in its original Anglo-Saxon, and a dramatization of Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder song cycle.
The musical highlights include performances from Mahler's Symphonies 1, 2, 3, 5 and 9, Das Lied von der Erde and the Kindertotenlieder.
 
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