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Mahler Symphony No. 5, Part 2

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

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Exploring the Trio Section

The speakers analyze a trio section in Mahler's Symphony No. 5, discussing its return to the Lendler music with fuller scoring and the ongoing structural debates surrounding the movement. They highlight the contrast between despair in the first two movements and the striving upward in the third movement, and describe a stunning passage where time seems to stop and the solo horn embarks on a winding journey through different keys, characters, and ideas.

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