Mahler Das Lied von der Erde – Von der Schönheit

The music of this movement is mostly soft and legato, meditating on the image of some 'young girls picking lotus flowers at the riverbank'. Later in the movement there is a louder, more articulated section in the brass as the young men ride by on their horses.

There is a long orchestral postlude to the sung passage, as the most beautiful of the young maidens looks longingly after the most handsome of the young men.

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A listening guide of Das Lied von der Erde – Von der Schönheit with Lew Smoley.