Classic Recording Quarterly‘s Alan Sanders devotes nearly two pages to a detailed review of the recordings in “The Music of Gustav Mahler: Issued 78s” in the magazine’s Winter 2014 edition, and he likes what he hears!
“[Ward] Marston has been at work [transferring Oskar Fried’s acoustic recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2] again, and he has produced a notably clearer and fuller sound than before. …
“I have compared the [Bruno Walter transfers with those on EMI/Warner’s recent Walter collection (6 79026-2)… the new Symphony No. 9 has a little more warmth and presence. …
“There is also a Das Lied potpourri and an arrangement of a Wunderhorn song played by the Dol Dauber Salonorchester. Both are strangely convincing. One disc that needs to be mentioned is of the “Urlicht” from the Second Symphony, coupled with one of the Rückert Lieder, sung by the contralto Sara Charles Cahier. She was a member of the Vienna Hofoper between 1907 and 1911, and performed under Mahler’s baton shortly before he lef his post as music director. She also sang in the first performance of Das Lied von der Erde. At the time of the 1930 recording she was 60, but she still sings affectingly. …
“A fascinating and most valuable set, and it is supported by a very informative 50-page English language essay.”
Now available in the US and most European and Asian territories.
- The most comprehensive collection ever assembled of Mahler’s music as issued on 78s between 1903 and 1940 — every such recording listed in Péter Fülöp’s Mahler Discography
- New transfers by Ward Marston and Mark Obert-Thorn
- Detailed notes on the music, the recording artists, and revelatory information about performances of Mahler’s music prior to World War II by Sybille Werner
- Full texts and translations
- Super-value price
No longer available, limited to an edition of 1000 copies
Carl Maria von Weber, completed Mahler: Die drei Pintos – Ein Mädchen verloren
Leopold Demuth with piano accompaniment
Recorded in 1903, Vienna
Des Knaben Wunderhorn – Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?
Grete Stückgold with orchestral accompaniment
Recorded ca. 1915
Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit – Ich ging mit Lust
Grete Stückgold with orchestral accompaniment
Recorded between 1919 and 1921, Munich
Symphony No. 2 in c minor
Gertrud Bindernagel, soprano / Emmi Leisner, contralto / Berliner Domchor / Kapelle der Staatsoper Berlin / Oscar Fried, conductor
Recorded in 1924 in Berlin
Des Knaben Wunderhorn – Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht
Lula Mysz-Gmeiner, alto, with piano accompaniment
Recorded in 1925 or 1926
Symphony No. 5 in c-sharp minor – 4. Adagietto
Concertgebouworkest Amsterdam / Willem Mengelberg, conductor
Recorded in May 1926, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Des Knaben Wunderhorn – Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht
Lula Mysz-Gmeiner, alto / Julius Dahlke, piano
Recorded in 1928
Das Lied von der Erde – Potpourri [Von der Jugend]
Des Knaben Wunderhorn – Rheinlegendchen
Dol Dauber Salonorchester
Recorded 28 September 1928 in Vienna
Kindertotenlieder
Heinrich Rehkemper, baritone / Orchester der Staatsoper Berlin / Jascha Horenstein, conductor
Recorded in 1928, Berlin
Johann Sebastian Bach orch. Mahler: Overture (Suite) No. 3 – 2. Air
Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York / Willem Mengelberg, conductor
Recorded 16 January 1929, New York
Rückert Lieder – Um Mitternacht
Aaltje Noordewier-Reddingius, soprano / Anthon van der Hörst, organ
Recorded in 1928, Central Hall, Westminster, London
Des Knaben Wunderhorn – Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht
Elizabeth Schumann, soprano / George Reeves, piano
Recorded 18 February 1930, Small Queen’s Hall, London
Symphony No. 4 in G Major
Eiko Kitazawa, soprano / Tokyo New Symphony Orchestra / Viscount Hidemaro Konoye, conductor
Recorded 28 & 29 May 1930, Parlophone Studio, Kawasaki
Symphony No. 2 in c minor – 4. Urlicht
Rückert-Lieder – Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
Mme. Sara Charles Cahier, contralto / Orchester der Staatsoper Berlin / Selmar Meyrowitz, conductor
Recorded 1 October 1930, Berlin
Des Knaben Wunderhorn – Rheinlegendchen
Des Knaben Wunderhorn – Der Tamboursg‘sell
Heinrich Schlusnus, baritone / Orchester der Staatsoper Berlin / Hermann Weigert, conductor
Recorded in 1931
Symphony No. 2 in c minor
Corinne Frank Bowen, soprano / Anne O‘Malley Gallogly, contralto / Twin City Chorus / Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra / Eugene Ormandy, conductor
Recorded in concert 6 January 1935, Cyrus Northrop Auditorium, Minneapolis
Rückert-Lieder – Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
Das Lied von der Erde
Kerstin Thorborg, contralto (Ich bin der Welt, Das Lied) / Charles Kullman, tenor (Das Lied) / Wiener Philharmoniker / Bruno Walter, conductor
Recorded in concert 24 May 1936, Musikverein, Vienna
Symphony No. 5 in c-sharp minor – 4. Adagietto
Wiener Philharmoniker / Bruno Walter, conductor
Recorded 15 January 1938, Musikverein, Vienna
Symphony No. 9
Wiener Philharmoniker / Bruno Walter, conductor
Recorded in concert 16 January 1938, Musikverein, Vienna
Rückert-Lieder – Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft (sung in English)
Charles Kullman, tenor / orchestra conducted by Malcolm Sargent
Recorded 30 June 1938, London
Rückert-Lieder – Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft
Lieder und gesänge aus der Jugendzeit – Hans und Grete
Suzanne Sten, soprano / Leo Taubman, piano
Recorded in 1940
Symphony No. 1 in D Major
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra / Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor
Recorded 4 November 1940, Cyrus Northrop Auditorium, Minneapolis
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