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British contralto Kathleen Ferrier sings an excerpt from the fourth of the five Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children) by Austrian composer Gustav Mahler. The songs are poems by German writer Friedrich Rückert, which Mahler set to music in 1902.
"'Oft denk 'ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen' from Kindertotenlieder" composed by Gustav Mahler, performed by Wiener Philharmoniker under the direction of Bruno Walter, from Mahler: Kindertotenlieder, Arias and Songs by Gluck, Handel, Green, Purcell, Mendelssohn (Cat.# EMI CDH 7610032) (p)1987 EMI Records Ltd. All rights reserved.