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concert, £5 CD voucher and many other benefits. Gustav Mahler
(1860-1911) [arr. Cortese] Das Lied von der Erde (1909) I: Das
Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde II: Der Einsame im Herbst III: Von
der Jugend IV: Von der Schönheit V: Der Trunkene im Frühling VI:
Der Abschied Nowhere is the oscillation between the public and
private spheres captured more meaningfully than within the music
of Gustav Mahler, whose whole output treads a fine balance
between the quiet, private moment and the magnitude of the world
around us. Mahler believed in taking inspiration from the sounds
that surrounded him in daily life – birdsong, the sound of cow
bells, folk song and hunting calls – and incorporating these
elements of the everyday into his works. A symphony, he
believed, ‘must be like the world. It must embrace everything’.
But unlike most of his contemporaries, Mahler composed very
little across different genres: with the exception of a few
early works, he confined hims