Mahler Symphony No. 1 - 3rd Movement - Listening Guide
Solemnly and measured, without dragging, very simple, like a folk-tune, once again somewhat more agitated, as at the start. A funeral march based on the children’s song “Frère Jacques” (or “Bruder Jac...
18 Mar 202120min
Mahler Symphony No. 1 - 4th Movement - Listening Guide
Energisch, Stormily agitated – Energetic. The fourth movement is by far the most involved, and expansive. It brings back several elements from the first movement, unifying the symphony as a whole. The...
18 Mar 202135min
Mahler Symphony No. 2 - Intro - Listening Guide
The ink was barely dry on the score of his First Symphony in 1888 when Mahler began to toy with the idea of a new large symphonic work in c. The opening movement was soon completed and named Todtenfei...
18 Mar 202111min
Mahler Symphony No. 2 - 1st Movement - Listening Guide
Based on the poem Todtenfeier by Adam Mickiewicz. With deeply serious and solemn expression. With this funeral march and the eloquence of its thematic material, the power of its architectural structur...
18 Mar 202130min
Mahler Symphony No. 2 - 2nd Movement - Listening Guide
Very leisurely. Never hurry. Two sections alternate in this idyllic movement, so different in style, atmosphere and scale from the first that Mahler specified their separation by a few minutes’ pause....
18 Mar 202111min
Mahler Symphony No. 2 - 3rd Movement - Listening Guide
With a gently flowing movement. The tragic, or at least pessimistic, the conception of this symphonic Scherzo seems worlds away from the humour of the Wunderhorn song in which St. Anthony preaches to ...
18 Mar 202120min
Mahler Symphony No. 2 - 4th Movement - Listening Guide
Primeval Light. Very solemn but simple (In the manner of a chorale). After the “tormenting” questions of the opening movement and the grotesque dance of the Scherzo, humankind is freed from uncertaint...
18 Mar 202111min
Mahler Symphony No. 2 - 5th Movement - Listening Guide
At the same speed as the Scherzo. In a wild outburst. The Scherzo’s “cry of despair” is recalled, then answered by a hesitant statement on the horns of the emerging “Resurrection” theme. There follows...
18 Mar 20211h
