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String Quartet in D Minor, D. 810 ("Death and the Maiden"), arranged for string orchestra by Gustav Mahler. Antonio Dvorak, String Quartet in F Major, op. 96 ("American"). Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Charles Rosenkrans. Telarc CD-80610, 2003.
When Gustav Mahler shared his idea of reinventing Franz Schubert's popular Dminor string quartet as an orchestral work, it was not received warmly. He conducted a performance of the slow movement in 1894 to an ambivalent audience, and never completed his arrangement. After his death, Mahler's daughter Anna found the abandoned sketches and shared them with David Matthews and Donald Mitchell, two Mahler experts who were able to interpret his notes and turn them into a publishable score. That score was published in 1984 and is here performed beautifully by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ...