Music
Mahler & Ye: The Song of the Earth review – Gustav gets taken to a new world
The texts that Mahler used for Das Lied von der Erde, his great song-symphony, came to him third-hand. The German words he set had been translated from the French, which was in turn versions of poems from the golden age of Chinese literature during the Tang dynasty (AD618-907). The convoluted …
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