Mahler Symphony No. 4 - 1st Movement - Listening Guide
Moderately, not rushed, Sonata form. Flutes and sleigh bells open the unusually restrained first movement (and used later with a melodic theme known commonly as the ‘bell theme’, which helps define se...
18 Mar 202128min
Mahler Symphony No. 4 - 2nd Movement - Listening Guide
Leisurely moving, without haste. Scherzo and Trio. The second movement is a scherzo that features a part for a solo violin whose strings are tuned a tone higher than usual. The violin depicts Freund H...
18 Mar 202128min
Mahler Symphony No. 4 - 3rd Movement - Listening Guide
Peacefully, somewhat slowly. Theme and variations. The third movement is a solemn processional march cast as a set of variations. Mahler uses the theme and variation structure in a more unconventional...
18 Mar 202145min
Mahler Symphony No. 4 - 4th Movement - Listening Guide
Very comfortably. Strophic. The fourth movement opens with a relaxed, bucolic scene in G major. A child, voiced by a soprano, presents a sunny, naive vision of Heaven and describes the feast being pre...
18 Mar 202145min
Mahler Symphony No. 5 - Intro - Listening Guide
The Symphony No. 5 by Gustav Mahler was composed in 1901 and 1902, mostly during the summer months at Mahler’s cottage at Maiernigg. Among its most distinctive features are the trumpet solo that opens...
18 Mar 202120min
Mahler Symphony No. 5 - 1st Movement - Listening Guide
The both first movements are in the tragic and gloomy keys of c-sharp minor resp. a minor; The only programmatic indication, Trauermarsch (funeral march), is found in the first movement. The silence i...
18 Mar 202131min
Mahler Symphony No. 5 - 2nd Movement - Listening Guide
The second movement starts tumultuously and pushing forward in the key of a minor before gliding in a beautiful calm and cantabile theme in the key of f minor “in the rhythm of the funeral march” acco...
18 Mar 202142min
Mahler Symphony No. 5 - 3rd Movement - Listening Guide
As the second part of the symphony follows the above-mentioned third movement, the Scherzo. Totally unexpected, the character of the symphony seems to change: A joyful and exuberant, nearly burlesque ...
18 Mar 202147min
