After Mahler

The music of Gustav Mahler repeatedly engages with Romantic notions of redemption. This is expressed in a range of gestures and procedures, shifting between affirmative fulfilment and pessimistic negation. In this groundbreaking study, Stephen Downes explores the relationship of this aspect of Mahler''s music to the output of Benjamin Britten, Kurt Weill and Hans Werner Henze. Their initial admira...