Mahler "Adagietto" (2 Pianos) Ver. 1

[SalMessina1]

Ecco come suonano gli angeli...

Grazie!

[rlfmoba]

An sich interessiert mich der erwähnte Tritonus nach der 5. Minute nicht, ich vermute, dass er bereits die 12-Ton-Technik von Johannes Brahms auch voraussah. Der erwähnte 'impressionistische' Touch kam ganz gut 'raus. Nur die Nonen hätte ich gerne noch ein wenig mehr gehört...

[DesAbends]

@rlfmoba

Yes, Liszt's Faust-Symphony was before Brahms...

[boethius6]

@rlfmoba 1905 die 12 Tontechnik von BRAHMS voraussah???

[rlfmoba]

@boethius6 Sollte ein Scherz sein ;)

[armandoorque]

Awesome arrangement, only one observation: at 5:31 I didn't felt the A sharp leading to the E, perhaps that chord was a little "oversaturated" although the rest of the piece is perfect, sorry for my english.

[benjianubis]

im interested to know if they sell this music somewhere and i want to buy it bc i play piano

[stravinskie3]

@leco--and this music, as far as i know, albeit i respect your speculation that it might be austrian nationalistic music, is inspired by Mahler's love for his soon-to-be wife at the time, Alma. You can hear the daydreamy-feeling in the melody and his will to stay away from oblivion; Mahler's fifth symphony is notoriously known to be distraught, expressing his grief of his parents' deaths and other unfortunate personal happenings.

[stravinskie3]

I would very much disagree that it's like brahms--he's more like the bach of 19th century; mahler is post-romantic, meaning he wrote romantic music but later (for example his unfinished 10th symphony) wrote non-tonal music that people now speculate would have become, had he not died, like schoenberg's music as we know it.

[lecochonbleu]

Gorgeous version. Thanks.

I don't think it's 'Impressionist' in the way the French composers & some like them have been called impressionist. Mahler is a 20th C. composer, but very much a Romantic composer (in a way also, the extender of the Rom. era, but that's different). This movement to me really is in the Austro-German Romantic tradition stemming from the 19th C. It's very close to Brahms, maybe not too unlike some Bruckner.

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[lecochonbleu]

But to me, also, it's clearly nationalist, like Grieg, Mussorgsky, Sibelius and Bartok. This movement, to me, is the height of Austrian 'nationalism'.

In Mahler I really hear exactly what he is - an Austrian-Bohemian composer, though I don't think that can really be called 'nationalist', from that time where this can be called Austrian nationalist. It's certainly strong enough in Austrianness (!) to be that.

[raig0maru]

this is impresionist music? o asi se escribe mi engles es mas o menos nomas xD

[musicfonts]

O.O amazing

[Edgar1946]

I didn´t know this version. Thank you.

[iroveashe]

Any way to get the score?

[natachu444]

Amazing performance!