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Likewise - I've never seen the film at all; I'd not even heard of it until I saw the occasional mentions on this very forum.
My exposure to the score comes mainly from the Suite that was included on the third Fielding/Bay Cities promo disc, and to be honest it wasn't really my cup of tea. Consequently, I didn't buy the recent full release I'm afraid....
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How do you feel about the film and the score from "The Gambler"?
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And yet not one word about Gustav Mahler, whose music is so important in "The Gambler" and which, I'm sure, we hear more of in this movie than the music of Fielding. Long a fan of Mahler and especially his 1st symphony, I was startled when I first saw this wrenching drama in 1974 to hear big chunks of that favorite symphony. I just put on my DVD of it to confirm that this WAS the movie that used so much of Mahler's 1st and it was. And while it was nice to see several actors who are no longer with us, it remains a grim story of a compulsive and self-destructive gambler throwing away an otherwise productive life and great family. But no mention here of Mahler, whose music has long been heard on film soundtracks like Visconti's "Death In Venice" and Karel Reisz's "The Gambler."
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Re: The video may not go into Mahler, but I assure you -- the liner notes for the Quartet release definitely do. 
I was referring to the lack of any mention of Mahler's music in that film and the focus here solely on Fielding -- if you saw "The Gambler" and weren't familiar with Mahler's 1st symphony, you'd think Fielding had done all of it.
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Re: "But all of Mahler's music is used in new adaptations by Fielding with different orchestrations."
Well, if that's true, you got me, because I was sure that they had just played actual performances from the symphony. It isn't like what Rick Wakeman did with chunks of Dvorák's 9th symphony for Ken Russell's mad "Crimes of Passion." And while we're on this subject, what about Bill Conti's use of one of the biggest themes from Tchaikovsky's violin concerto as HIS main theme in "The Right Stuff"? I think that THAT would be a good topic for a separate discussion, which I'm going to start right now. Please look for it.
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