Symphony no. 4 in G / Adagio from Symphony no. 10

Album by Gustav Mahler & David Fiodorovich Oistrakh & Galina Vishnevskaya

Symphony No. 4 in G is the fourth symphony by Gustav Mahler, completed in 1900, and the Adagio from his Symphony No. 10 is a largely unfinished, posthumous movement dating from 1910–1911. Both pieces exemplify Mahler's late-Romantic orchestral style, characterised by expansive tonal language, rich and varied orchestral colour and a blending of symphonic and song-like elements, with the Fourth showing a comparatively transparent, lyrical approach within his symphonic output and the Tenth's Adagio pointing towards his late harmonic experimentation and introspective, fragmentary textures.