Symphony No. 2 - Resurrection Archives

"Resurrection" (in German "Auferstehungs-symphonie"). The ink was barely dry on the score of his First Symphony in 1888 when Mahler ...

Transcript Mahler begins the first movement virtually in the same manner as he opened Der Spielmann from Das Klagende Lied ...

Transcript The grace and delicacy of the second movement seem Worlds Apart from the terrifying power and tragic character of ...

Transcript Three particular aspects of the scherzo movement should be mentioned at the outset. First, Mahler uses one of his ...

Transcript Mahler inserted early, one of the original wonder horn songs, as both a brief Intermezzo between the scherzo in ...

Transcript What kind of finale could possibly do justice? Not only to the oil inspiring words of the text, but ...

By Lew Smoley ...

Cyclical connections with earlier movements that appear in the final movement are more extensive and more subtly integrated into the ...

Transcript Mahler wrote elaborate programs for this Symphony long after he had finished it. These programs are posted on our ...

Based on the poem Todtenfeier by Adam Mickiewicz. With deeply serious and solemn expression. With this funeral march and the ...

Very leisurely. Never hurry. Two sections alternate in this idyllic movement, so different in style, atmosphere and scale from the ...

Scherzo bases on Gustav Mahlers' Lied 6: Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt (Des Knaben Wunderhorn, 1892-1898). See Arnold Bocklin (1827-1901) ...

Also in Des Knaben Wunderhorn, 12 songs (1892-1898) - Lied 11: Urlicht Primeval Light. Very solemn but simple (In the ...

At the same speed as the Scherzo. In a wild outburst. The Scherzo's "cry of despair" is recalled, then answered ...