was the soundtrack of the disater that was my U6th year at school.
I listened to it so many times that I nearly wore out my friend's tape and she was forced to buy me a recording as a present when I went to university.
When I arrived, I discoverd the score in the library, copied out the first page and sent it to her. I bought the same friend the score for her 21st birthday.
Mahler never finished the symphony, but he had sketched most of it in short score by the time of his death and Deryck Cooke completed it in the 60s and then revised it in the early 70s.
The Adagio first mvt sometimes gets played alone, but the whole symphony rarely gets an outing. Tonight is one such occasion, at the Proms with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.
PS To the people who say that Mahler only converted to Catholicism to get the job at the Vienna State Opera, I say listen to the 8th symphony.
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Interesting. I am off straight away to listen to 8 and 10. i only know a few of them reasonably well. (No2 bored sat in chorus waiting to sing..) and l don't think l know no.10 at all (ashamed.)
Not many people know 10 and it is powerful stuff.
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