When Mahler composed Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) between 1908 and 1909, he set six Chinese poems from the Tang dynasty in German translation. Almost a century later, composer Xiaogang Ye takes those same poems but sets them, reordered, in the original Mandarin. And what a rapturous, colorful creation it is, especially when performed with the spirit these superb musicians bring to it, conducted by the world-renowned Long Yu. Mezzo Michelle DeYoung and tenor Brian Jagde are the fine soloists in a reading that wonderfully embraces the poignancy of Mahler’s great song-symphony. Soloists soprano Liping Zhang and bass-baritone Shenyang, meanwhile, sing with genuinely touching ardor.