Simon O'Neill with NZSO & Hamish McKeich Photo: Screenshot NZSO/Latitude Creative
Gustav Mahler was 24 years old when he wrote these songs and he’d just been through a painful breakup. Over the winter months he transformed his journey from pain to acceptance into the text and the music of these four songs.
The 'Songs of a Wayfarer' follow the emotional and physical journey of a distraught young man who sets out to find himself in the aftermath of a shattered affair, eventually finding shelter and a measure of peace under the blossom-laden boughs of a Linden tree.
- Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht (When My Sweetheart is Married)
- Ging heut' Morgen über's Feld (I Went This Morning over the Field)
- Ich hab' ein glühend Messer (I Have a Gleaming Knife)
- Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz (The Two Blue Eyes of my Beloved)
Recorded 6 August 2020, Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ Concert
Producer: David McCaw
Engineer: Darryl Stack
