Harmonielehre: Part 2

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The second movement of Adams' Harmonielehre, subtitled The Anfortas Wound is a brooding Mahlerian mediation on Jung's ideas about medieval myth of the Fisher King and the wound that can never be healed; an idea with echoes of the sever writer's block Adams had been suffering with prior to writing Harmonielehre.

Once again, the piece is performed by the San Francisco Symphony under Edo de Waart.