Listening Guide – Movement 2: Lied 2: Schlussszene aus Goethe’s Faust
Transcript Part Two of the Eighth Symphony is Mahler’s longest symphonic movement, the length of its texthe closing scene from Goethe’s Faust part two, is so extensive that it might well be considered beyond the limits of symphonic form. It Mahler treats his subject no less symphoniclly than he had with a latin hymn of […]
Listening Guide – Movement 5: Finale. Langsam, schwer
Transcript Mahler’s last symphonic movement, he wrote one of his most beautiful themes, and some of his most stirring soul searching music. In his final effort to transcend human suffering and mortality, Mahler creates one final dualism. That is the summation of his search for answers to the existential questions that plagued him throughout his […]