The Mahler Symphonies

Few composers since the mid-twentieth century have escaped Mahler's influence. This book is the first discussion of Mahler's ten completed symphonies to offer music lovers a comprehensive overview of the music as it strikes today's listeners. The book caters to the novice as well as the expert as David Hurwitz describes what the listener will hear section by section. He explains how each work is arranged how the various parts relate to one another and how one work leads to the next. The emphasis throughout is on the experience of listening and how each symphony embodies Mahler's dictum that the symphony 'must embrace the world. It must contain everything'. Hurwitz describes the emotional extravagance that lies at the root of Mahler's popularity the consistency of his symphonic thinking and his dazzling and revolutionary use of orchestral instruments to create an expressive musical language that is varied in content and immediate in impact.

G major-Mahler's Symphony No.4 In G Major was written at the turn of the century between 1899 and 1901. It is comprised of four movements for a small orchestra which last around one hour (The shortest of the symphonies composed by Mahler). This work features on the 2010 A Level Syllabus. First performed on November 25th 1901 in Munich and first recorded in May 1930 by the New Symphony Orchestra of Tokyo.

G. Mahler: Symphonie No. 1G. Mahler: Symphonie No. 2G. Mahler: Symphonie No. 3G. Mahler: Symphonie No. 4G. Mahler: Symphonie No. 5G. Mahler: Symphonie No. 6G. Mahler: Symphonie No. 7G. Mahler: Symphonie No. 8G. Mahler: Symphonie No. 9G. Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde / Clarinette / Zimmermann

Over the years, the need for a new edition of Mahler's Symphony #2 became apparent for several reasons. First, many new sources for this work have become accessible since 1970, when Erwin Ratz completed the first critical edition of this symphony, the most significant being Mahler's personal reference score in which he recorded changes to be made (his last entries were made in September 1910). The second reason was the significant strengthening of the editorial standards of the critical edition in recent years. The music is now computer-generated. Previously, changes to the score could be made only by retouching the film of old engravings. Computerizationalso ensures a concurrence between the score and performance materials. Editorially, the new edition benefits from expanded texts that describe and assess the source materials, document and explain the editors' decisions and provide detailed information on the work's origin, the history of the published scores, performance practices, etc. Over the past five years, Renare Stark-Voit and Gilbert Kaplan, editors of the new edition of Symphony #2, have identified, evaluated and analyzed every significant source, and as a result of their work a substantial number of errors have been corrected. (Reinhold Kubik, taken from the preliminary note) Oh believe, my heart, oh believe:Nothing is lost with thee!Thine is what thou hast desired,What thou hast loved, what thou hast fought for!(Gustav Mahler in the Finale of Symphony #2) / Choeur Mixte (SATB) Et Piano

Gustav Mahler's Symphony Nr. 10 is the last and only unfinished symphony in his complete oeuvre. On 5 September 1910 Mahler wrote his last notes: exactly 100 years later, the 23-year-old conductor and composer Yoel Gamzou presented with great success his new reconstruction of this extraordinary work. The World Première with the International Mahler Orchestra took place at the Ryckestrasse synagogue in Berlin as part of the Jewish Cultural Days 2010. / Partition D'Etude

Ausgewählte Sätze. Par MAHLER GUSTAV. These technically approachable arrangements for the piano of some of Mahler's most significant works, invite us to explore the sound world of their creator./ Répertoire / Piano

 Cette transcription de la Symphonie TITAN de Gustav Mahler a été réalisée en répondant aux réflexes techniques de l'organiste, C'est dire qu'il ne s'agit pas d'une simple réduction de la partition d'orchestre vers l'orgue, mais bien d'un arrangement pensé pour l'orgue et pour l'organiste, tout en respectant le caractère et les colorations de l'oeuvre originale,Ainsi, certains éléments existants dans la symphonie originale ont pu être retirés et d'autres ajoutés, ou réécrits et on se gardera surtout d'imiter l'orchestre, que ce soit par les phrasés, les tempi, et par la registration,Il faut jouer cette transcription comme un oeuvre pour orgue, écrite pour l'orgue dès le départ, - 1- Langsam, Schleppend_Immer sehr gemächlich, (18')- 2- Kräftig bewegt (10')- 3- Feierlich und gemessen (12')- 4- Finale, Stürmich bewegt (22') À propos de Paul Sterne The Mahler Organ Project / Orgue

With a detailed preface by Giselher Schubert. Mahler 2 – written between 1888 and 1894 and known as 'Resurrection Symphony'. Mahler found inspiration for the final 'Resurrection' movement at the funeral of Hans von Bülow.

Gustav Mahler septième rangs symphoniques parmi les oeuvres les plus populaires et accessibles du compositeur. Ne possédant ni un 'programme', ni un thème folk-song, il s'agit d'une composition purement instrumentale, à la fois plein d'espoir et romantique de l'humeur, avec une structure harmonique et stylistique qui évoque le voyage tous les jours de l'aube au crépuscule.Ce score est reproduit en miniature d'une édition officielle, compléter avec des mouvements numérotés pour en faciliter la consultation. Abordable et compact, il est idéal pour une utilisation en salle de classe, à la maison ou dans la salle de concert.Réimpression de Siebente Sinfonie von Gustav Mahler: Orchester-Partition, Ed. Bote and Bock G., Berlin, 1909. / Orchestre

Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 4 arranged for 17 soloists by Karl Aage Rasmussen. Parts are available on hire: hire@ewh.dk

New Critical Edition - Octavo Score. Herausgegeben von der Internationalen Gustav Mahler Gesellschaft, Wien / Conducteur

Révisé en 1998 - Score in-octavo. Herausgegeben von der Internationalen Gustav Mahler Gesellschaft, Wien / Conducteur

Gustav Mahler's symphonies tend to be scored for a large orchestra putting this wonderful music out of reach of many smaller orchestras. This arrangement whilst not simplifying the music attempts to remedy this by reducing the orchestral requirements. The original orchestration requires 3 flutes 3 oboes 3 clarinets 3 bassoons 7 horns 4 trumpets 3 trombones tuba timpani percussion and strings. Although in many of Mahler's symphonies each movement seems to be an integral part of the larger work we feel that this movement can stand alone quite happily and offers a good entry to the symphonic world of Gustav Mahler.

Par MAHLER GUSTAV. In this great work, first published in 1912, Mahler experimented with the four-movement symphonic form, producing a masterpiece of musical innovation, satiric writing and poetic drama expressed in purely instrumental terms. Now the full orchestral score of the Ninth Symphony is available in this inexpensive, high-quality edition, reprinted from an authoritative Viennese score. Music lovers and admirers of Mahler's work will find in these pages abundant evidence of the fresh and formidable thinking the composer brought to this monumental composition. One of the last composers of the great Romantic tradition, Mahler possessed a strong sense ofthe dramatic in life. He chose to record that drama in nine magnificent symphonies, all works of vivid orchestration, innovative symphonic structure, and rich emotional expression./ Répertoire / Orchestre