The Slipped Disc daily comfort zone (147): …. and what Schnittke made of unfinished Mahler
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The Mahler movement here sounds very Brahmsian..it didn’t particulaly in the Argerich/Maiskys recording. The Jewish elements also come through more clearly.
Then, shift of terrain.The inconlusive lines weaving toards the upper reaches at the end…
Post World War One Mahler, perhaps? I’m kind of hoping Schnittke doesn’t take a shot at Mahler 10. Luciano Berio . . . . now he’s someone I would have been curious to hear what he could have done with Mahler 10
G. Kremer is a force of nature. He’s amazing. Thanks for this, Maestro.
From Schnittke’s biographer, Alexander Ivashkin (source: Wikipedia) there is a fine passage about Schnittke’s attachment to Vienna; there,”he fell in love with music, which is part of life, part of history and culture, part of the past which is still alive. I felt every moment there (the composer wrote) to be a link of the historical chain: all was multi-dimensional; the past represented a world of ever-present ghosts, and I was not a barbarian without any connections, but the conscious bearer of the task in my life.”