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Bride of the Wind. Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Music by Gustav Mahler, Alma Mahler, and Stephen Endelman. DG 289 469 584-2.
"Bride of the Wind" is, as you probably know, director Bruce Beresford's film biography of Alma Mahler and her conquests of quite a few of Vienna's leading artists in the early part of the twentieth century. Among the men she married was Gustav Mahler, so the film dwells mostly on his music and a little of hers.
This DG soundtrack album seems mainly to serve as an introduction to Gustav's music, and folks who already own most of the composer's symphonies and songs may safely ignore it. The soundtrack is made up of bits and pieces of Mahler's output, plus a few new transitional items written by Stephen Endelman. The Mahler excerpts are played by the Vienna Philharmonic led by Pierre Boulez and Claudio Abbado, depending. These extracts, taken from previously released ...