Gustav Mahler: Two songs after Friedrich Rückert | Elena Zhidkova (mezzo...

Elena Zhidkova (mezzo-soprano) and Nikolaus Rexroth (piano) perform two Lieder by Gustav Mahler, both based on poems by Friedrich Rückert; Liebst du um Schönheit (Lov'st thou but beauty), and Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (O garish world, long since thou hast lost me). They formed part of a 2020 concert held in the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Concert Hall in Yekaterinburg, Russia. . Mahler presented both Lieder in 1905 as part of the series Sieben Lieder aus letzter Zeit (Seven Songs of Latter Days). Two of these were musical renderings of texts from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, and the other five were composed as adaptations of poems by Friedrich Rückert. These five Rückert pieces are often performed as a song cycle, despite being written as independent, stand-alone Lieder for voice accompanied by piano, or orchestra