Album guide
Gustav Mahler: Dark Flame
- Composer
- Mahler
- Released
- 2003
- Label
- Winter & Winter
- Forces
- Piano, Vocal
- Personnel
- Uri Caine and a mixed vocal and instrumental ensemble
Unlike Urlicht, Dark Flame draws specifically on Mahler’s songs.
Caine moves between gospel choir, klezmer, Asian instruments, spoken word and electronics; in one arrangement, a single word can trigger a sudden breakbeat or change of texture.
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Source works
The album’s complete track listing, with each classical source identified and original compositions marked plainly.
- Songs on the Death of Children: Dark FlameKindertotenlieder: Nun seh’ ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen
- Only Love BeautyLiebst du um Schönheit
- In Praise of Lofty JudgementLob des hohen Verstandes
- Songs of a Wayfarer: Two Blue EyesLieder eines fahrenden Gesellen: Die zwei blauen Augen
- Shining TrumpetsWo die schönen Trompeten blasen
- The Lonely One in AutumnDas Lied von der Erde: Der Einsame im Herbst
- Song of the Prisoner in the TowerLied des Verfolgten im Turm
- When My Sweetheart Has Her WeddingLieder eines fahrenden Gesellen: Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht
- Labor LostVerlorne Müh!
- On YouthDas Lied von der Erde: Von der Jugend
- The Boy’s Magic Horn: RhinelegendDes Knaben Wunderhorn: Rheinlegendchen
- Songs on the Death of Children: When Your Mother Comes in the DoorKindertotenlieder: Wenn dein Mütterlein
- St. Anthony of Padua Preaches to the FishesDes Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt
- Only Love BeautyLiebst du um Schönheit