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In Reply to: Yes, laaaaaaydieieieieieieies and gentlewoman! posted by Rob on March 15, 2000 at 08:13:43:
yes!!!
I love das Knaben wunderhorn! Szell conducting, you say????I love the versions also for piano/voice. I've played several of them.
The writing is so evocative! You don't have to close your eyes to
see the mountains, streams, farms and cows with cowbells!The most moving Mahler experience i ever had was last fall...
We took a 3 week trip to Europe (Italy, Switzerland, Leichtenstein,
Germany, and Austria!). rented a car (the only way to do it...)When we were driving from Lago di Como (Bellagio) to St. Moritz,
the scenery was spectacular in a way i had never seen before.
The alps, the rich, luscious green grass, the streams, the old
farms and huts dotting the verdure meadows, the cows with those melodious
and distinctive swiss cowbells (must be a law which makes all the cows
in Switzerland wear 'em). While i was driving and absorbing all of this,
i turned on the radio... and the first thing i heard was Mahler!!!!!!!!!All of a sudden, all that he did in his writing, the instrumentations,
the folk song melodies and those he composed which sounded like folk
songs, his style of ornamentation, his love for woodwinds, ALL of that....
it all of a sudden made sense. It was as if, for the first time,
i understood what Mahler was doing. I then experienced Mahler in a way
which was fuller than any time before, or since! The music and the land
were one....Bill
Thanks Bill, this was a highly enjoyable post in Mahler's spirit, because the folk-songs are such an integral part of his music.Rob
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