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...consists of two slow movements framing a biting central scherzo, and it is full of Albert's trademark evocations of musical forebears. It opens, for example, with a motive for two clarinets, twined in thirds, that recalls Wagner, and along the way there are echoes of Debussy and Mahler as well. Albert reveled in his compositional heritage; what a pleasure it is to hear a work end as confidently as this one does, in an optimistic blaze of surging brass, fortississimo...
...than 25 years later, the dream comes to an end when Bernard Haitink decided to end his celebrated tenure with the Concertgebouw. Now, six years later, the classical label Philips documents Haitink's discographic achievements by compiling and re-releasing six of his symphonic cycles, namely Brahms, Beethoven, Bruckner, Mahler, Tchaikovsky, and Schumann...
...simply, extremes in classical music are no longer in vogue. The casual classical music public is no longer fascinated with the blatant neuroticism and psychic distress found in Mahler, for example, but seeks relatively non-offensive music. The unsubtle may call it chewing gum for the mind, but both Gorecki's symphony and Deutsche Grammophon's recent effort contain very real musical gems...
Furthermore, Jett was known for his peculiar fascination with the symphonies of Gustav Mahler, the poetry of Lord Byron, and the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche...
...Mahler's Fourth Symphony...