Das Lied von der Erde

„Dunkel ist das Leben, ist der Tod.“ (Sombre is life, sombre is death). With Das Lied von der Erde, Mahler casts a gaze filled with suffering at the unfathomable depths of existence. This work, considered as one of the masterpieces of the end of romanticism, composed by Mahler following the death of his eldest daughter, exudes nostalgia and detachment. Based on Chinese poems from the Tang dynasty, this symphony in six movements takes leave of life in all serenity, to vanish into death. Or is it about the final appearance of a new life? „Ewig, ewig…“ (Eternally, eternally…)