Episode 6

First page of the sixth movement of Mahler’s Third Symphony
Autograph manuscript, 1896
Courtesy of The Morgan Library & Museum, New York

Movement Six
“What Loves Tells Me”

In the sixth and final movement of Gustav Mahler’s Third Symphony, he reaches the top rung on his ladder of consciousness. This glorious adagio is Mahler’s celebration of God’s perfect love.

James Lurie as the voice of Gustav Mahler
Paul Hecht as the voice of Friedrich Nietzsche
Laura Gragtmans as the voice of Natalie Bauer-Lechner
Robert Fass as the voice of Siegfried Lipiner
Billy Lyons as the voice of Arthur Schopenhauer
Gary Tiedemann as the voice of Gustav Theodor Fechner

Guests include:
• Carter Brey, Principal Cello, New York Philharmonic
• Bill Hudgins, Principal Clarinet, Boston Symphony Orchestra
• Caroline Kita, Washington University in St. Louis
• Ioannis Konstantakos, University of Athens, Greece
• Christopher Martin, Principal Trumpet, New York Philharmonic
• Marilyn McCoy, Columbia University, New York
• Kent Nagano, General Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera, and Chief Conductor of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra
• Joanna Neilly, Oxford University, England
• Michael Tilson Thomas, Music Director Laureate of the San Francisco Symphony, Conductor Laureate of the London Symphony Orchestra, and Artistic Director Laureate of the New World Symphony

Music used in Episode 6. All titles used with permission.

Symphony No. 3 in D Minor: VI. Langsam. Ruhevoll. Empfunden
By Gustav Mahler
Performed by the Gurzenich-Orchester Köln, conducted by Markus Stenz
Courtesy of Naxos of America, Inc.
Oehms (OC648)

Symphony No. 3 in D Minor: VI. Langsam. Ruhevoll. Empfunden
By Gustav Mahler
Performed by the Dusseldorf Symphony, conducted by Adam Fischer
Courtesy of Avi-Service for music and Deutschlandfunk
Avi-Service for music (CAvi8553399)

Symphony No. 3 in D Minor: I. Kraftig - Entschieden
By Gustav Mahler
Performed by the Gurzenich-Orchester Köln, conducted by Markus Stenz
Courtesy of Naxos of America, Inc.
Oehms (OC648)

Symphony No. 3 in D Minor: V. Lustig im Tempo und keck im Ausdruck
By Gustav Mahler
Performed by the New York Philharmonic Brass Quintet
Arranged for brass quintet by D.D. Jackson
Courtesy of Naxos of America, Inc.
Recorded by Ed Haber and James Yost at Reservoir Studios, New York, NY

“Ablösung im Summer” (“Changing of the Guard in Summer”)
By Gustav Mahler
Piano arrangement and embellishment
Written and performed by D.D. Jackson

“Das zerbrochene Ringlein” (“The broken little ring”)
By Friedrich Nietzsche
Performed by Jeroen van Veen, piano
Courtesy of Naxos of America, Inc.
Brilliant Classics (95492)

Heldenklage
By Friedrich Nietzsche
Performed by Jeroen van Veen, piano
Courtesy of Naxos of America, Inc.
Brilliant Classics (95492)

Symphony No. 11, “Ixion”
By Rued Langgaard
Performed by the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted Thomas Dausgaard
Courtesy of Naxos of America, Inc.
Dacapo (8.224182)