Gustav Mahler's Third Symphony still ranks today as one of the greatest and most powerful creations of the Late Romantic period. The huge symphony, longer and more monumental than the others and containing texts from the collection of poems by Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim entitled Des Knaben Wunderhorn, was composed over a period of four years from 1892 to 1896. It is performed here by Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks under the...

Tenor Jonas Kaufmann and pianist Helmut Deutsch have made their first recording of Schubert's Winterreise, recorded in October 2013 in the August Everding Hall in Grünwald in Munich. For Jonas Kaufmann, interpreting the classical lieder repertory is "the haute école of singing, " and Schubert's Winterreise is generally regarded as the pinnacle of lieder singing. The Winterreise song cycle (Winter Journey) is set to 24 poems by the poet Wilhelm Müller...

"Conversational Germany includes the 10 lessons from Pimsleur's Basic German plus an additional 6 lessons. The 16 lessons in Conversational German are the same first 16 lessons in the Pimsleur Comprehensive German Level 1."--Container note.

Three 60-min. CDs cover language structure and real-world situations with a listening guide that gives you the words and phrases from each lesson.