Description

Not Death in Venice, in which this piece of music plays a key role in Luchino Visconti's film adaptation of Thomas Mann's novella, but Life in The Grand Entrance Hall of a Villa. Gently but determinedly, like the music, man and woman approach the climax. The shimmering strings, played with contrasting clarity with the bow held close to the bridge, convey the beauty of the Adagio, the fourth movement of Mahler's Fifth Symphony, in this captivating performance.