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Symphony No. 10 in F-sharp major: Adagio

191023 min

This guide follows Mahler’s Symphony No. 10 in F-sharp major: Adagio (1910) in one part (sonata form).

Recording: SWR Symphonieorchester, Teodor Currentzis (2023)

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– Sonata form0:08–23:29

The viola alone opens in the , free and unaccompanied, and then the proper arrives with warm string and trombone sounds. The , lighter, follows. The viola music comes back and then the , now more intense, and after them the begins. The follows. The climbs to the dissonant chord of nine pitches, after which the music grows very quiet. The recalls , the viola opening and the before it fades.

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Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.

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