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Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) Symphony No.4 & Adagietto (Symphony No.5) 🎧 Qobuz Tidal 🎧 Spotify Youtube Music 🎧 Apple Music Amazon Music 🎧 Deezer Amazon Store 🎧 Napster Soundcloud — 🎧 LineMusic日本 Awa日本 Click to activate the English subtitles for the presentation (00:00-04:29) 00:00 Symphony No. 4 in G Major - I. Bedächtig, Nicht Eilen 16:17 Symphony No. 4 in G Major - II. In Gemächlicher Bewegung 25:52 Symphony No. 4 in G Major - III. Adagio, Ruhevoll 46:52 Symphony No. 4 in G Major - IV. Sehr Behaglich (with Emmy Loose) 55:26 Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor - Adagietto, Sehr Langsam Philharmonia Orchestra Conductor: Paul Kletzki Recorded in 1957, 1959 New mastering in 2022 by AB for CMRR Photo: Alma Mahler (1879-1964) 🔊 FOLLOW US on SPOTIFY (Profil: CMRR) : 🔊 Download CMRR's recordings in High fidelity audio (QOBUZ) : ❤️ If you like CM//RR content, please consider membership at our Patreon page. Thank you :) Alma Maria Schindler, the twenty-three-year-old, “the most beautiful girl in Vienna“, intelligent and cultured, daughter of a famous painter, gifted for music herself, and since her early childhood, she has frequented the intellectual elite of the capital... For Mahler it was love at first sight. Wilhelm Mengelberg, the legendary conductor who reigned over the famous Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra from 1895 to 1945, became a personal friend of the Mahler family. His notes in the margin of his score of the Fifth Symphony are most revealing: “Gustav Mahler to Alma! Instead of a letter, he sent her the manuscript without further explanation. She understood and replied that she would come!!! Both of them told me that ! » In the left-hand margin, Mengelberg has written a poem of which we do not know whether he is the author or whether it was entrusted to him by the composer, but which embraces the melody of the first violins: How I love you You my sunshine I cannot with words Telling you. May my torment Can I moan to you and my love O you my joy! And, at the end of the movement, at the bottom of the page, Mengelberg adds: “If music is a language, here's the proof. It tells him everything in notes and sounds, in music.“ The adagietto was one of Mahler's first works to enjoy great popularity, and it has often been taken from the symphony to which it belongs to be played alone. It has also been used more than once as film music and to underline the painful romanticism of particular situations. It was Visconti who drew the most remarkable effects from it, using it to accentuate the contrast between the beauty of the child and the decline of his worshipper, the main theme of his film. The movement, which lasts only a few bars, provides a moment of wonderful peace between the scherzo and the finale. It is based on a poem by Friedrich Rückert, which Mahler set to music in 1904 and which ends with the following verses. I died in the tumult of the world and rest in a quiet place! I live alone in my paradise, in my love, in my singing. This celestial music is entrusted to the harp and the strings, the role of the harp being not so much to provide accompaniment for the strings as to hover over them and make them hear angelic sounds that contrast with their more earthly voice. Listening to him, one thinks of the angels that Fra Angelico depicted playing the harp from the heavens to encourage men to persevere in virtue. The beauty of this breathless melody is not made of serenity. Compared to the slow movement of Beethoven's Ninth, it seems hesitant. One has the impression that as soon as it reaches ecstasy it falls back to earth and rises again immediately. The theme on which the adagietto opens is the quietest moment. The music unfolds slowly and, after a radiant passage for which Mahler gave the indication mit Würme (with warmth), it becomes more intense as the flickering voice of the violins rises higher and higher. The harp falls silent during their ascent and then a heavenly chord is heard which causes them to fall. They let themselves fall in a vertiginous glissando so that they no longer reach such heights. Harp and violins continue the hesitant exposition of the theme together, separating for the last bars... Click to activate the English subtitles for the presentation (00:00-04:29) Mahler - The Song of the Earth (.: Kathleen Ferrier, Bruno Walter, Wierner Philharmoniker): Gustav Mahler PLAYLIST (reference recordings):
