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Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn - Revelge (Reveille)
Mahler Foundation
English - March 19, 2021 18:00 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsMusic Commentary Music Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Revelge is the most intense and manic of the Wunderhorn settings, and also by far the most extended. It is a persistent march of a magnitude matching the great march movements of the symphonies. The speaker is a fallen drummer boy whose comrades pass him by on the march and leave him for dead. For most of the song, a persistent military rhythm in the trumpets is omnipresent, becoming obsessive in its insistence.
A listening guide of Des Knaben Wunderhorn - Revelge (Reveille) with Lew Smoley.