Song Of The Night

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Mahler's symphonies are a musical tasting menu made from all kinds of ingredients, an endless cavalcade of dishes in which the five basic tastes – sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami – blend in both familiar and strange ways without forgetting a visit to a Viennese café for Sacher cake or a country market for sausages. In Mahler's Seventh Symphony, Arnold Schönberg sensed the same steady attraction that guides the planets yet allows them to travel peacefully in their own paths.