A Granada Production, U-Matic (NTSC) (2 copies), color (1989), 54:00.
Written and presented by Bamber Gascoigne
Production executive: Peter Stevens
Associate producer: Caroline Speed
Directed by Robin Lough
Produced by Tony Cash
Further credits below.
Time | Description |
0:00 | Austrian hills, folk festival in Tyrol |
1:30 | Ensemble performs Mahler's Symphony No. 4 in G Major, First Movement |
3:05 | Train station in Vienna, tourists and immigrants arriving in Vienna |
4:15 | Ensemble continues |
5:50 | More about Gustav Mahler, Hugo Wolf; narrator on location at Wolf's summer home |
7:30 | Singer and pianist perform a Wolf Lied |
8:55 | More about Wolf and his mental decline, Mahler's return to Vienna, anti-Semitism in Vienna. Old-fashioned train travels through the Austrian countryside. |
11:10 | Narrator on location at the Vienna Staatsoper |
12:05 | Secession building, built the year after Mahler arrived in Vienna |
13:20 | Otto Wagner buildings around Vienna: train station, home, Postsparkasse |
15:45 | Ensemble performs Mahler's symphony No. 5 in C-sharp Minor, Second Movement |
18:20 | Klimt paintings: The Kiss, Beethoven frieze. Photo of Mahler in garden party at Carl Moll's villa. Mahler's association and marriage with Alma. |
20:05 | Ensemble performs Mahler's Kindertotenlieder |
25:10 | "End of Part One" |
27:15 | "Part Two": Footage of Vienna in the early 20th century |
28:10 | Freud's office, narrator discusses beginnings of psychoanalysis, evidence of cultural anxiety in multiple art forms |
29:30 | Horse-and-carriage parade in the Prater, outdoor market, popularity of Die lustige Witwe |
30:30 | Paintings by Egon Schiele starkly contrast with Lehár's appealing operetta melodies |
31:50 | Discussion of Mahler's attempts to win Salomé for the Vienna Court Opera and his defeat at the hands of the censors |
33:00 | Music from Salomé, related paintings by Klimt, Franz von Stuck, Aubrey Beardsley |
34:35 | Discussion of café scene in Vienna, painting of Café Griensteidl. Narrator speaks on location at Café Central and discusses its patrons. |
36:15 | Narrator discusses Schoenberg's compositional style, sextet performs Verklärte Nacht |
40:15 | Schoenberg's paintings found little public acceptance. |
40:40 | Narrator discusses difficulties Schoenberg experienced with his public, Skandalconzert |
41:30 | Mahler's activities before his death, Alma's patronage of new music |
43:00 | Beginning of modernism in architecture, Adolf Loos's designs. Narrator compares a Loos house from 1912 with the contemporary Pierrot lunaire |
44:00 | Performance of "Mondestrunken" from Pierrot |
45:55 | Footage from royal wedding in Vienna, 1912 |
46:30 | Performance of "Der kranke Mond" from Pierrot |
49:10 | Kokoschka's painting "The Tempest" (1913), self-portrait of him with Alma Mahler |
49:50 | Café scene, narrator discusses Karl Kraus's career |
50:40 | Footage jusxtaposing WWI and the opening of the new Kaiser Wilhelm café in Vienna (both 1914) |
52:00 | Cemetery |
52:20 | Credits |
53:40 | End |
Credits
Felicity Lott, Soprano
Graham Johnson, Piano
Felicity Palmer, Soprano
Franz Schubert Quartet
Nash Ensemble