Gustav Mahler Lied Collector’s Edition

In 2011, the Gustav Mahler Festival brought together professional classic singing with electronic visualisation and, through the combination of classic music and digital moving images, created a new form of artistic expression, bringing classic music closer to people. The audio-visual results of this experiment are documented in two different media: seven DVDs and a book. Mahler’s source of inspiration, nature, also inspired the opulent, abstract floral collages, which, exclusively in black-and-white, run throughout the entire design, echoing the essential quality of musical composition: compression and emotion, drama and reduction. The aesthetics of “colourlessness” additionally provides space for the imagery of the artists and for the music. Featuring the same reduced design, a book with selected texts, a detailed backstage photo gallery with portraits of the artists and numerous production details complement this edition in a slipcase. Statement by the jury »This work presents a fantastic visual solution for a DVD edition. With extraordinary images of plants, it arouses curiosity, puzzles and thus involves recipients. The different photo series and the austere and calm layout combine in a highly unexpected, innovative and sensitive manner with the music of Gustav Mahler.«