Your Guide to Mahler's Symphony No. 1 "Titan" (an audio podcast)

One of the more original first symphonies from a composer, Gustav Mahler's entry into the symphonic world was initially misunderstood. John Banther and Evan Keely break down what made this symphony different, what to listen for, and why the journey is worth the test of patience!
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[@KDG702]

I loved listening to this. I love Mahler to pieces. Am preparing to perform this, and am diving as deep as I can to understand the music. I loved hearing your perspectives on this. Mahler truly is magnificent.

[@Opechater9613]

thank you for this very interesting podcast!

[@minjiahuang]

Thanks for this and both of you did a good job! It will be wonderful if you talk about every Mahler's Symphony!
I am enjoying your episode drinking coffee and eating moon cake in Canada😊

[@CitizenKane359]

Another influence on Mahler, from the proverbial other side of Wagner and Bruckner, was Brahms, who was visited by Mahler toward the end of his (Brahms') life. The opening theme of Mahler's Third Symphony is, in effect, the "big theme" from the finale of Brahms' First Symphony, and the scherzo of Mahler's Fifth Symphony quotes the development section of the first movement of Brahms' Second Symphony. Not to mention the fact that Brahms, like Mahler, loved the horn and wrote incredibly beautifully for it.

[@alexandrugheorghe5610]

24:00 I think he was just excited