Mahler - 4th Symphony, 2nd mvt (piano solo)

Gustav Mahler - 4th Symphony, 2nd movement (piano solo) with score In gemächlicher Bewegung. Ohne Hast Arranged and performed by Iain Farrington Published by Aria Editions ​ Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) started composition on his Fourth Symphony in the summer of 1899, finishing the short score the following year while staying on the Wörthersee in Austria. Mahler himself conducted the work’s premiere in Munich on 25th November 1901. The symphony’s final movement is a song written and orchestrated in 1892, using a text from ’Des Knaben Wunderhorn’ (The Boy’s Magic Horn), the collection of folk-songs made by Achim von Amim and Clemens Brentano and published in the first decade of the nineteenth century. The first movement has the elegance of a Classical work from Haydn, with lightly bouncing textures, as well as intricate counterpoint. At the climax of the development the mood darken