Description: This treatment has been done for strings and piano (harp preferred but optional). The original key of F has been retained, and the harp part is embraced by the celli in definitive sections. This arrangement is playable by advancing ensembles, with expanded use of rhythms, ranges and keys, but technical demands are still carefully considered. Includes parts for viola T.C.
Description: This treatment has been done for strings alone with an optional part for harp. The original key of F has been retained, and the optional harp part is embraced by the celli in definitive sections. This arrangement is playable by advancing ensembles, with expanded use of rhythms, ranges and keys but technical demands are still carefully considered. Includes viola T.C. parts and optional harp and piano.
Description: The tune 'Brother John,' or 'Bruder Martin' to Mahler's recognition, is used in the third movement, titled 'Funeral March in the Manner of Callot,' to create a sense of irony. The inspiration for this section was a woodprint from a book of fairy tales. The print depicts forest animals serving as pallbearers at a hunter's forest funeral. The question is not so much, 'Are you sleeping (forever)?' as it is 'Are we mourning or celebrating?' The animals appear unsure whether to focus on the end of the hunter, or the end of the hunt. Mahler sets the tune in a minor key to stress this irony as the music moves between merriness and brooding. The tune appears as a canon, or round.
Description: The name Mahler is so closely associated with the symphony and Lied genres that it is little known how intensively he applied himself to chamber music during his studies. Of his numerous attempts in this field only one piano quartet composed between 1876 and 1878 has survived - and of this merely the first movement in its entirety. The latter was only rediscovered in the 1960s and first published in 1973. Even if Brahms is unmistakably his model, the quartet movement contains enough individual and also unconventional elements - such as the almost symphonic treatment of the piano - for Henle to incorporate it into their Urtext ranks. In addition, they have included an appendix “for study purposes” with Mahler's fragmentary sketch for a further movement, a scherzo for the same instrumentation.
Description: Taken from the third movement of Mahler's most performed symphony, Solemn Processional is based on his song “Heavenly Life.” This glorious hymn-like processional highlights sustained ensemble playing and features pizzicato bass throughout.
Description: Taken from the third movement of Mahler's most performed symphony, Solemn Processional is based on his song Heavenly Life. This glorious hymn-like processional highlights sustained ensemble playing and features pizzicato bass throughout. Dur: 4:50
