Mahler revived the suite arrangement several times with the Philharmonic, and Alma tells us that he altered the harpsichord accompaniment each time, "according to his fancy".
In making his suite arrangement, Mahler was following a path taken by many other musicians who were equally driven to update or improve Bach's scores.
Mr. Litton, whose appointment is for three years, will conduct the final two weeks of this year's festival and will conclude the event with his concert suite arrangement of Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess".
New Yorkers will have a chance to hear Mahler's Bach suite arrangement in the space for which it was created, Carnegie Hall, on Wednesday evening, when it is performed by Roger Norrington and the Orchestra of St . Lukes.
The orchestra, under their regular Dutch guest Jan van Steen, were also in excellent form, which made it all the more surprising that the other two works in the programme – Talich's suite arrangement of Janácˇek's Cunning Little Vixen and Dvorak's New World Symphony – were given such thoroughly mediocre airings.
It was in this spirit that Mahler appears to have approached his Bach orchestral-suite arrangement.
In contrast to Motown's previously successful process of emphasizing an artist's single releases rather than their album, Gaye and fellow producer Ed Townsend followed a similar formula previously used on What's Going On, in which the album's songs flow together in a suite-form arrangement, opposing label CEO Berry Gordy's strong emphasis on hit single success.
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The suite of Schubert arrangements was a lovely idea, not least because it gave the Philharmonic audience an opportunity to hear the mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter in an important part of her repertory that listeners who do not frequent vocal recitals would have missed.
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