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Mahler
Rückert-Lieder
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Kindertotenlieder
Reviewed by: William Yeoman
Reviewed: March 2007
CD No: DECCA ELOQUENCE 442 8287
Duration: 67 minutes
This is the first release on CD of “Rückert-Lieder” and a most welcome one. Here, as throughout the disc, Marilyn Horne uses her rich timbre to inflect the luminous quality of her interpretations with an ambiguity that particularly suits “Kindertotenlieder” from which ‘Oft denk’ ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen’ is exemplary in this respect. Mehta and Lewis are sympathetic partners.