Mahler
Tom Service discovers how Mahler was the first 'non-classical' classical composer.
Mahler's music - Huge eighty minute long symphonies, enormous orchestral forces, it should be thought of as the epitome of a complex cerebral classical music culture, surely?
Not if Mahler has anything to do with it.
Tom Service discovers how Mahler is the first non-classical Classical composer, how he happily harvested his tunes from everwhere from folk songs and children's rhymes to the landscape and nature, and how we as listeners are the most crucial part of them all and why he wanted every one of us to hear his music differently.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony No 2 in C minor, 'Resurrection' (1st mvt)
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Singer: Magdalena Ko啪en谩. Singer: Kate Royal. Choir: Berlin Radio Choir. Conductor: Simon Halsey.- G. Mahler, Symphony no. 2 'Resurrection': Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle.
- EMI Classics.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony no. 8 - finale
Performer: Berlin Radio Choir. Performer: Prague philharmonischer Chor. Performer: T枚lzer Knabenchor. Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker. Performer: Claudio Abbado.- DG.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 3 In D Minor, i. Kr盲ftig Entschieden
Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.- Channel Classics : CCS SA 38817.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony no.4 - 1st movement
Performer: Claudio Abbado. Performer: Vienna Philharmonic.- DG.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony no.6 - 1st movement
Performer: New York Philharmonic. Performer: Leonard Bernstein.- CBS.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony no.7 - 4th movement 'Nachtmusik;
Performer: Claudio Abbado. Performer: Chicago Symphony Orchestra.- DG.
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Gustav Mahler
Theme from G. Mahler's 1st Symphony
Performer: Giora Feidman Trio. Music Arranger: Giora Feidman.- Plane.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony no.3 - 3rd movement
Performer: Claudio Abbado. Performer: Vienna Philharmonic.- DG.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony No 1 in D major, 'Titan' (1st mvt)
Conductor: Leonard Bernstein. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.- 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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John Williams
March of the Resistance
Performer: Studio Orchestra.- Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
- Walt Disney Records.
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Jerry Orbach
Be Our Guest - from Beauty and the Beast
Performer: Studio Orchestra.- The Very Best of Disney.
- Pickwick.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony no.3 - 1st movement
Performer: New York Philharmonic. Performer: Leonard Bernstein.- CBS.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony no. 1 in D major ..., 3rd movement
Performer: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Performer: Iv谩n Fischer.- Channel Classics.
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Gustav Mahler
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (1999 Digital Remaster): IV: Die zwei blauen Aug
Singer: Janet Baker. Conductor: John Barbirolli. Orchestra: Hall茅.- Mahler: Kindertotenlieder - 5 R眉ckertlieder - Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen.
- Warner Classics.
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Gustav Mahler
Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (R眉ckert-Lieder)
Singer: Janet Baker. Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: John Barbirolli.- Mahler: Kindertotenlieder - 5 R眉ckertlieder - Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen.
- Warner Classics.
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