This evening, I acquired a recording of Mahler's "Unfinished" 10th Symphony. I have only heard the 1st movement adagio of this piece and since I liked it enough, I thought I'd give the rest of the piece a go.
Actually, the adagio itself is quite stunning. It touches something inexplicable in me.
For the Mahler purists among you (which, if I know my readers, are none of you) his last official composition was this very adagio - scored and all. The second mvt. exists only in reduced score version and the remaining movements exist only in sketches. The second mvt and the remaining movements were scored accordingly by Deryke Cooke and it remains just as contraversial and as much of an enigma as the composition of Mozart's Requiem.
Here's is a link of Leonard Bernstein conducting what I presume is the Vienna Phil in a performance of part of the very adagio I speak of:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wyqg8XvdElQ&feature=related
Good stuff, if you ask me.
But since no one asked me, I'm going to bed.
P.S. Someday, I want to write a film score
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