Songs of Fate

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Anna Lucia Richter sings Mahler with Les Chants du Destin!With great emotional depth and subtle creative force, mezzo-soprano Anna Lucia Richter performs Gustav Mahler's Wunderhorn-Lieder and Kindertotenlieder - two cycles that illuminate the human condition in all its facets like few others. In the Wunderhorn-Lieder, we encounter tender childhood memories and dreamlike stories - a world between irony, folk song tonality, and profound melancholy. The poignant counterpoint is formed by the Kindertotenlieder, in which Mahler sets the pain of losing a child to music with piercing clarity and moving restraint. With the Gürzenich Orchestra of Cologne, under the direction of Jordan de Souza, Anna Lucia Richter lends these lieder a very personal new dimension through her richly nuanced voice.