Justin,
thank you for your review.
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Originally Posted by Justin Tokke
Here's the down side: the ending. It killed it for me. Every thing was Mahlerian until that darned ending. Mahler has never finished a movement like that. It sounded way out of context because nothing like that happened before in the piece. It was nice on it’s own, but does not work here. If I were you, I would have kept dying out with the same material just before that ending/coda thing i.e. Mov. 4 of Symphony No. 4.
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Well, I could have finished in bar 96, very Mahlerian and reminding the last bar of the Adagietto. However, I didn't want this piece to be just an example of "how Mahler would do it".
Regarding the fact of Mahler would never finish a movement like that is discussable. Although different in orchestration the last bars, of the 3rd movement of 4th symph., 4th mov. of the 9th or even the final mov. of the 10th (this one not fully composed and orchestrated by Mahler) may be considered to have a similar ending.
About the ending not being related to the rest of the work i'm afraid is not correct. The short theme played by the basses, violas and 2nd violins is in fact a variation of the main theme, and the subject played by the cellos is related to bar 48/53.
Justin, once again thank you for listening and for your comments.
Regards,
Bruno