Mahler's Final Adagio

[Guest]

Musicians of the National Youth Orchestra describe the challenges of performing the piece and Edward Seckerson discusses how a personal crisis in Mahler's life is etched into the score
Radio 4, 1.30-2.00 p.m. 20th September.

[Serial_Apologist]

Thanks for drawing this to our attention, Ofchap. That huge atonal chord in the first movement of Mahler 10 - repeated in the finale - doesn't exactly reach forward - Schoenberg (whom I am listening to at the moment on 3) - had got there first; but it's always fascinated me.

S-A

[Roehre]

Thanks for drawing this to our attention, Ofchap. That huge atonal chord in the first movement of Mahler 10 - repeated in the finale - doesn't exactly reach forward - Schoenberg (whom I am listening to at the moment on 3) - had got there first; but it's always fascinated me.
S-A

AND that chord in the first movement is an afterthought.
The four stave continuity draft of the Adagio doesn't contain these bars: they were inserted after Mahler received the letter (addressed to him, consciously or otherwise) confirming Alma's infidelity.

[Serial_Apologist]

AND that chord in the first movement is an afterthought.
The four stave continuity draft of the Adagio doesn't contain these bars: they were inserted after Mahler received the letter (addressed to him, consciously or otherwise) confirming Alma's infidelity.

Never knew that...

[BBMmk2]

Didnt she have an affair with the artist Kandinsky?

[Roehre]

Didnt she have an affair with the artist Kandinsky?

During her marriage with Mahler she had an affair with Walter Gropius, whom she married in 1915.
But in the mean time she started to see Oskar Kokoschka, who expressed his love for Alma in his painting Die Windsbraut (1914 !). Alma left Kokoschka as well, and though still married with Gropius, she started an affair with Franz Werfel, whom she eventually married in 1929.

Tumultuous lady, she was

[gradus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWFEy1lVUMI

[Serial_Apologist]

Perhaps she'd heard of Alma Mater, and decided she had to go one better!

[Roehre]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWFEy1lVUMI

Her husbands are shown at 1'14 and 2'05

[scottycelt]

Gropius ... ... the poor chap might have found himself rather more at home in Up Pompeii than Down Vienna?