Pentecost Music & Mahler & Veni, Creator Spiritus

For Pentecost Sunday. Part 1 of Mahler’s 8th Symphony follows the text of the hymn “Veni, Creator Spiritus.” Sir Georg Solti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, with the Vienna concert choir and the Vienna Opera choir.

Easter Music & Choral Finale & Mahler 2nd

Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection,” Finale with Vocal Score. Conducted by Maris Jansons, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Choir, soloists Bernarda Fink and Ricarda Merbeth.

Pentecost Music & Veni Creator Spiritus & Mahler & No. 8

London Philharmonic Choir and London Philharmonic Orchestra, Tiffin School Boys’ Choir, directed by Klaus Tennstedt (1986). Soloists : Elizabeth Connell, Edith Wiens, Felicity Lott (sopranos), Trudliese Schmidt, Nadine Denize (mezzosopranos), Richard Versalle (tenor), Jorma Hynninen (baritone), Hans Sotin (bass).

ADDENDUM: Must be vinyl. The record skips in a handful of places. Amazing lack of pops and fizzes otherwise, though, if this is vinyl.

Consecration Day Five & Mahler Eighth, Veni Creator

Klaus Tennstedt directs the London Philharmonic Orchestra with the London Symphony Orchestra and Choir, the London Symphony Chorus, and the Eton College Boys’ Choir. Royal Festival Hall, 1991. Eike Wilm Schulte (Baritone), Susan Bullock, Jane Eaglen and Julia Varády (Soprano), Trudeliese Schmidt (Mezzo Soprano), Jadwiga Rappé (Alto), Hans Sotin (Bass), Kenneth Riegel (Tenor), and Malcolm Hicks (Organ).

Text for Day 5 of the Total Consecration here, and on video here:

Mahler 9th & Adagio

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, directed by Herbert von Karajan.

Easter Music Special & Zappa & Mahler

Kind of an Easter tradition around here.

First, Zappa’s extended guitar piece “Watermelon in Easter Hay,” originally from Joe’s Garage Act III (1979). This live recording is from 1988.

Next, most of the choral segment from the finale of Gustav Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony (no. 2). Myung-Whun Chung conducts the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra (2010). Chorus and soloists unknown.

This segment of the text is by Mahler himself.

O glaube, mein Herz, o glaube:
Es geht dir nichts verloren!
Dein ist, ja dein, was du gesehnt!
Dein, was du geliebt,
Was du gestritten!

O glaube
Du wardst nicht umsonst geboren!
Hast nicht umsonst gelebt, gelitten!

Was entstanden ist
Das muß vergehen!
Was vergangen, auferstehen!
Hör’ auf zu beben!
Bereite dich zu leben!

O Schmerz! Du Alldurchdringer!
Dir bin ich entrungen!
O Tod! Du Allbezwinger!
Nun bist du bezwungen!

Mit Flügeln, die ich mir errungen,
In heißem Liebesstreben,
Werd’ich entschweben
Zum Licht, zu dem kein Aug’ gedrungen!

Sterben werd’ ich, um zu leben!
Aufersteh’n, ja aufersteh’n
wirst du, mein Herz, in einem Nu!
Was du geschlagen
zu Gott wird es dich tragen!

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O believe, my heart, O believe:
Nothing to you is lost!
Yours is, yes yours, is what you desired
Yours, what you have loved
What you have fought for!

O believe,
You were not born for nothing!
Have not for nothing, lived, suffered!

What was created
Must perish,
What perished, rise again!
Cease from trembling!
Prepare yourself to live!

O Pain, You piercer of all things,
From you, I have been wrested!
O Death, You masterer of all things,
Now, are you conquered!

With wings which I have won for myself,
In love’s fierce striving,
I shall soar upwards
To the light which no eye has penetrated!

Die shall I in order to live.
Rise again, yes, rise again,
Will you, my heart, in an instant!
That for which you suffered,
To God will it lead you!

Sunday Music & Mahler 8th & Chorus Mysticus

Finale of Mahler’s 8th Symphony (Chorus Mysticus).

Simon Rattle directs the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, with combined choruses: City of Birmingham Symphony Youth Chorus, London Symphony Chorus, Toronto Children’s Chorus, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus. BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall (2002).

Sunday Offering & Mahler & Urlicht

Leonard Bernstein, London Philharmonic, Janet Baker (1974).

Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection”: 4th Movement, “Urlicht” (Primeval Light).

O red rose!
Man lies in greatest need!
Man lies in greatest pain!
How I would rather be in heaven.
There came I upon a broad path
when came a little angel and wanted to turn me away.
Ah no! I would not let myself be turned away!
I am from God and shall return to God!
The loving God will grant me a little light,
Which will light me into that eternal blissful life!

9.11 In Memoriam

Gustav Mahler Symphony 9, 4th Movement, Adagio.

Claudio Abbado conducting Vienna Phil (1988).