Listening Guide – Movement 4: Scherzo. Allegro pesante. Nicht zu schnell
Transcript On the title page of the sketches for this movement, Mahler again poured out his grief: The Devil dances it with me Madness, seize me, the accursed! Destroy me so that I may forget that I exist! that I may cease to be that I for… And then it breaks off, with such an […]
Listening Guide – Movement 3: Purgatorio. Allegretto moderato
Transcript The so called Purgatorio movement is the shortest of any of Mahler’s, purely symphonic movements lasting little more than four minutes, wedged between two large and complex scherzo’s, this brief relatively uncomplicated movement seems nearly buried by them, its position as the central movement makes it kin to the middle movement of the Seventh […]