Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin

The emotionally unsettling six lieder with orchestra are preceded by the meditative and sensuous orchestral work “Blossoming II” by the Japanese composer Toshio Hosokawa. The composer took his inspiration from a lotus flower with its roots in the earth and its blossom on the surface of a lake in 2011. He savours the growth of the orchestral sound which subsequently comes to full bloom in Mahler’s Late Romantic tonal painting.


Toshio Hosokawa (*1955)

Blossoming II (2011)

for orchestra


Gustav Mahler (1860 – 1911)

Das Lied von der Erde (1908)

for tenor, alto and orchestra

I. The Drinking Song of Earth's Misery

II. The lonely one in Autumn

III. Of Youth

IV. Of Beauty

V. The drunken man in Spring

VI. The Farewell


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