Mimi Ezust ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>I have been trying with no luck to find out which Mahler was used in
>"Educating Rita." There was a scene where Rita is starting to share an
>apartment with a depressed woman.  She says something like 'life is not
>worth living without Mahler'.  Mahler is playing in the background in at
>least two other scenes, and is on the turntable spinning around noiselessly
>after her suicide.

When Rita arrives and??? (Maureen Lipman) says "Wouldn't you just *die*
without Mahler?" (I clearly recall nodding in agreement when I first saw
this, in 1983 in Leominster Mass), the finale (IIRC) of the 6th is playing.

We see the famous yellow label revolving when her attemnpted suicide is
discovered, which means - assuming it's still the 6th - that it must have
been either the Abbado or Karajan, and I have heard it's the former.

Deryk Barker
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