Mahler: Lieder der Jugend - Songs of youth and awakening

Twenty of the glorious songs Mahler wrote in the early 1880s, their quasi orchestral textures and often-thrilling responses to the chosen texts here brought fully to life by this most accomplished group of performers.

SIGCD1006 59 minutes 16 seconds

‘The early songs of Gustav Mahler aren’t under-realised, under-cooked or under anything – at least as presented in this collection … Middleton is the go-to source for this music’ (Gramophone)