Angelika Kirchschlager: The complete "5 Lieder" (Alma Mahler)

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5 Lieder (1910):
I. Die stille Stadt 00:00
II. In meines Vaters Garten 02:58
III. Laue Sommernacht 07:55
IV. Bei dir ist es traut 10:15
V. Ich wandle unter Blumen 12:09

Mahler, Alma (1879-1964)
Angelika Kirchschlager -mezzosoprano
Helmut Deutsch -piano

Alma played the piano from childhood and in her memoirs reports that she first attempted composing at age 9. She studied composition with Josef Labor beginning in 1895. She met Alexander von Zemlinsky in early 1900, began composition lessons with him that fall, and continued as his student until her engagement with Gustav Mahler (December 1901), after which she ceased composing. Up until that time, she had composed or sketched many Lieder, and also worked on instrumental pieces as well as a segment of an opera. She may have resumed composing after 1910, at least sporadically, but the chronology of her songs is difficult to establish because she did not date her manuscripts.
Only a total of 17 songs by her survive. Fourteen were published during her lifetime, in three publications dated 1910, 1915, and 1924; it is unclear whether she continued composing at all after her last publication. The works appeared under the name 'Alma Maria Schindler-Mahler'; the cover of the 1915 set was illustrated by Oskar Kokoschka. Three additional songs were discovered in manuscript posthumously; two of them were published in the year 2000, and one remains unpublished. Her personal papers, including music manuscripts, are held at the University of Pennsylvania, and at the Austrian National Library in Vienna.
These songs are regularly performed and recorded. Orchestral versions of the accompaniments have been produced by David and Colin Matthews, and by Jorma Panula.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Mahler

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