Mahler: Totenfeier; Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen – review

Connolly/Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Jurowski(Signum Classics)In 1888, while he was in the process of completing his First Symphony, Mahler drafted a symphonic poem that he called Totenfeier (Funeral Rites). Though it was originally intended as a self-contained work, he debated for five years whether to extend it into a full-scale symphony, before taking the plunge, revising what he had already written and transforming it into the first movement of what would be his Second Symphony, t...

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