Mahler Cycle VIII

Continuing our journey through the music of the beloved Austrian symphonist, Gustav Mahler, we reach his towering Second Symphony. Its sensitive music works both as an agonized depiction of earthly tensions both within us and in the world, and as an expression of an ardent desire to access the deeper, metaphysical essence of existence. For Mahler, over and above its religious meanings, the Resurrection reveals itself primarily as the experience of an all-consuming Love...