Jon Johanning <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Jonathan Ellis wrote:
>
>>Or is it just that Mahler appeals more to somebody who has just past
>>fifty than to somebody a lot younger?
>
>He appealed to me in my twenties (especially the Lieder eines fahrenden
>Gesellen -- oh, how I identified with that love-sick wretch!)
Well, I am just twenty and not even love-sick and he's got me too!! So
could someone please recommend a complete Mahler cycle - or is it better
to buy them individually. And yes, price IS a factor, what with the rupee
being down under against the doller:-(.
BTW, I had somehow always identified Beethoven with Blake - the raging
poet-prophet of romanticism:
"... that William Blake
Who beat upon the wall
Till Truth obeyed his call"
But hearing the profoundly sad Mahler ninth reminds me of Yeats himself:
"We were the last Romantics. Took for theme
Traditional sanctity and loveliness..."
Has anyone ever felt this way or mentally drawn such parallels.
Anupam.
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