|
|
Article: Gustav Mahler.
- Article from:
- Notes
- Article date:
- June 1, 1994
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1994 Music Library Association, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
The Kaplan Foundation's extraordinary four-color facsimile of Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony (New York, 1986) was the first reproduction of a completed autograph full score by this composer. More modest in scope but just as welcome is the new companion publication, an equally handsome boxed set of manuscript facsimiles and commentary, as well as a recording, of Mahler's most popular composition, the Adagietto for strings and harp from his Fifth Symphony. "From Mahler with Love" is the tide of Gilbert Kaplan's introductory essay (for reasons presently to become apparent), but the Foundation's ventures might well be dubbed "From Kaplan with Love": the publishing of such ...