Madam, - Thanks to Eileen Battersby for her foretaste of the fare being presented this season by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in the National Concert Hall in Dublin ("Mahler the Magnificent", The Irish Times, September 7th).
A small correction, however: lest any of your readers go running to the CD shops to buy Mahler's 10th symphony on the basis of it being featured in Visconti's film version of Mann's novella Death in Venice, may I take the opportunity to shout "wait"? It was, of course, the Adagietto from Mahler's 5th Symphony, not the 10th, which was featured in the film, along with bits of the 3rd Symphony.
I know how easy it is to make such a simple error in what was otherwise a very readable and informative article, having once, in a review in these very columns, unwittingly transposed Beethoven's so-called "Moonlight" sonata from C-sharp minor into C minor. - Yours, etc,
FERGUS JOHNSTON, Composer, Trader's Wharf, Dublin 8.