Einsamkeit (D 620)
(Loneliness, D620) (1818)2.2.2.2-2.2.0.0-timp-strings
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"[This] orchestration of one of Schubert's longest songs ... showed how much Mahler's inspiration was rooted in Schubert and how much Schubert anticipated Mahlerian world-weariness. Glanert's orchestration, all low woodwind and uneasy pizzicatos, is extraordinary: towards the end there is a surge in the strings that has you choking back tears ... it was a remarkable experience." (Tim Ashley, The Guardian, 21 Feb 2010)
"Here [the song] was given an ingenious new orchestration by Detlev Glanert. Though full of echoes from Schubert’s orchestral sound world – everything from Rosamunde to the Great C Major Symphony – it also hinted, in its agitated passages, at how much Mahler took up Schubert’s lyrical threads and wove them into his own vast tapestries." (Richard Morrison, The Times, 22 Feb 2010)