[luvie]

Good stuff, Maestro! :)

[Publius]

Gustave Mahler was fascinated by a collection of German folk poetry known as “The Young Boy’s Magic Horn”. He set many of these poems to music, and one was featured at the beginning of this thread, “Primal Light”, which he used in his Second Symphony.

He also used another poem, “Bimm Bamm”, which attempts to recreate the sound of church bells. This was inserted into his Third Symphony as the fifth movement. The chorus is supposed to be angels singing in heaven.

Even when Mahler is working with beauty and innocence, he can’t help letting his sardonic side come out, and at 2:30 he lets it loose. But he resolves it beautifully with the soprano voices holding the last note.

Mahler: Third Symphony, Fifth Movement