Simon Rattle conducts Gustav Mahler at the Dresden Music Festival: “Rest for my lonely heart”

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The Chamber Orchestra of Europe celebrates the “Song of the Earth” in touching soundscapes.

The years of World War II had roiled Richard Strauss, perhaps transformed it, which might explain why he wrote “Metamorphoses”. An old work, 06 premiered in Zurich. The swan song of a composer whose cultural-historical self-perception and ambivalent relationship to the Nazi dictatorship still divides minds to this day….