Music sale performs with style
Regarded by many as Gustav Mahler’s greatest song for voice and orchestra, ‘Ich bin der Weit abhanden gekommen’ was just one of many first-class performances featured in a 53-lot music sale conducted by Sotheby’s (25/20/12.5% buyer’s premium) on May 23.
The 14pp manuscript is Mahler’s full orchestral setting of Friedrich Rückert’s poem on the musings…