the fourth symphony — Pianoconcerto Forum

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the fourth... whose?

i am thinking of a curious and - naturally - accidental parallel: Beethoven Mahler.

it seems to me that each of the two quartets, more than all the other eight by the same author, deserves the adjective... adorable. ... coincidences.

Brahms's Fourth is certainly not 'adorable'... with its wonderful tone suspended between lyrical and epic

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I don't know Luca, but surely Mahler studied Brahms who in turn studied Beethoven

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because he felt like it....

formally it is a listening guide (no. 3) to Schubert's Fourth.

But Franco Serpa's text is much more: a brief and excellent excursus on the Schubert-Beethoven relationship in symphonic-musical terms