Love song

Mahler's Fifth Symphony is especially remembered for its wonderful Adagietto for strings and harp, which has been heard in Visconti's film Death in Venice, at President Kennedy's funeral and at the commemorations of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. For Mahler, the piece was a declaration of love for his new wife Alma, but in the great symphony it is a small respite on the way from the mourning march and storms of the beginning to the optimistic rush o...