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...You can sense her struggling to rescue writer Arthur Schnitzler and his dowdy wife Olga from awkwardness and misery....
...Like Arthur Honegger’s Pacific 231, Liu Yuan’s amusing Train Cantata (1997) evokes a steam locomotive....
...scrutiny, and maintained close links with modernist composers Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schoenberg....
...By far the better concert was the first one, in which Daniel Harding conducted Mahler’s Symphony No.6....
...He was born Arthur Ward in Birmingham and I particularly like the story of his wife consulting a Ouija board on the best way for him to make a living. The answer came back C-H-I-N-A-M-A-N....
...He also tied his colours to lesser composers for whom he felt a special affinity, such as Sir Arthur Sullivan, whose music he had sung on stage as a schoolboy....
...composers Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schoenberg....
...And where would you place such 20th-century masterpieces as Mahler’s The Song of the Earth or Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit?...
...Arthur Lourié’s Chant funèbre sur la mort d’un poète (1921) applied choral bloat to a tragic text by Anna Akhmatova....
...embracing the nervy unwieldiness of a Mahler symphony, complete with edgy waltz and the dark energy of a Walton concerto....
...They included the artists Andre Breton, Max Ernst and Marc Chagall, the revolutionary Victor Serge, and the novelist Franz Werfel with his wife Alma Mahler, whose trunk contained the scores of her second...
...Under Gustav Mahler, the Vienna state opera became Europe’s leading musical stage and, in the first decades of the 20th century, Arnold Schönberg revolutionised music with his composition methods....
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