Editor's Choice
Mahler’s Song of the Earth
Australian Chamber Orchestra: Mahler’s Song of the Earth
Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
“I have got to accept the horrors of loneliness,” Mahler wrote to Bruno Walter before working on Das Lied von der Erde. He had just lost his daughter Maria to scarlet fever and been diagnosed with an incurable heart condition, yet he still wrote what musicologist Deryck Cook described as…