Music: Rückert-Lieder: Liebst du um Schönheit (If you love for beauty’s sake)
Composer: Gustav Mahler (transcribed for String Quartet and Mezzo Soprano by Zakarias Grafilo)
Artists: Kindra Scharich, mezzo-soprano; Alexander String Quartet
Album: The Mahler Song Cycles: In meinem Himmel (FCL 2019)
Label: Foghorn Classics
https://foghornclassics.com

The award-winning Alexander String Quartet joins with acclaimed mezzo-soprano Kindra Scharich in this world premiere recording of some of Mahler’s great orchestral Lieder — transcribed for voice and string quartet by Zakarias Grafilo. Commissioned by LIEDER ALIVE!, these exquisite transcriptions combine the lushness of the orchestral versions with the intimacy of chamber music — and the result is transcendent.

Mahler: Rückert-Lieder: Liebst du um Schönheit (If you love for beauty’s sake)

Alexander String Quartet