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Somewhere in the midst of so many recitals of Gustav Mahler’s songs, it became clear to me that I was singing a kind of autobiography. A diary, if you will, of a man residing within these lieder, a man of incredible perception. 

Mahler had the phenomenal capacity of turning experience into sound, somehow distilling the thrills and defeats of life, its profundity and absurdity into notes. Notes that speak to us with an uncanny familiarity. These songs, while seemingly personal testimonies of Mahler’s life, actually echo our own. We discover in the words and musical phrases messages of untimely truth, and questions that will always be asked of the human experience.

So, these songs are both deeply personal and universal. We sense Mahler’s character and personality, we witness him observing himself and others, hear his laughing, and sense his doubt, frustrations and joys. And through all of this he captures what it means to be alive, in a language that goes far beyond the individual.