"MAHLER: Adagietto (in concert)" genre: Romantic
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	My transcription of Mahler's famous Adagietto from his Fifth Symphony, composed as a love letter of sorts to his fiance Alma in 1900, is the fruit of my residency at the Chateau de la Fontaine in the French countryside of the Vallee du Loire in 1989. What distinguishes this piano reduction from previous attempts is my refusal to compromise Mahler's original intentions. It is something on the order of a literal translation, rather than a paraphrase. Every effort has been made to preserve Mahler's registration and contrapuntal textures. Re-arrangement of voicing or the adding of notes or chords, in order to conform to the conventions of romantic era piano music have been avoided, with few exceptions. I have also preserved the score's dynamic markings which govern a single pitch or unisons where, in the original, the strings swell or diminsh. Obviously, the piano itself is physically incapable of such gradations, because the rapid decay of pitch is a natural property of the instrument, and cannot be manipulated at will to the extent it can be with other instruments. Thus, for the pianist, these dynamics must be regarded as informing the work's psychological content. He must imagine the swells and decays, which impoart subtle effects on the Adagietto's rhythmic vitality. Registrational textures are thus experienced as a kind of gradual unfolding, a perpetually evolving distension as each harmony and melodic pitch gives birth to its neighbor. Articulation also benefits in this pianistic format, because the player, so informed, is more aware of and enhances the onset and release of individual pitches and chords -- their entrances and exits, if you will.
	Label: ENIGMA Credits: Recorded in concert, Florida 1992. ATTENTION PIANISTS: SCORE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE. EMAIL JBY FOR DETAILS
	Story Behind the Song Recorded in concert, Florida 1992.

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