Mahler: Kindertotenlieder - Leber Film Part 1 - Janet Baker

This is Part One of Titus Leber´s first fictional short film (1976) - Kindertotenlieder ("Songs of dead children) - which won awards at the Valladolid International Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival, and was Austria's nominee for best short film for the Academy Awards. It is a multi-layered experimental movie dealing with a mother's lamentation for her dead child. The film draws from Hans Christian Andersen's The Story of a Mother and on Gustav Mahler's cycle of songs based on the poems by Fredrich Ruckert. During the course of the film, the entire song cycle is presented (but not in the original order). Leber's film is not an illustration of Mahler's songs but rather a visual poem that is embedded in Mahler's composition.

The Song Cycle is sung in this 1966 recording by Janet Baker with the Hallé Orchestra under Sir John Barbirolli.

This version was digitalised from a faded VHS recording and restored and edited using Sony Vegas.

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