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"The King of the Revolutionaries," Gustav Mahler was once called by Johannes Brahms; later, as the father figure, he saw the defector of the Second Viennese School around Schoenberg, Berg and Webern. Mahler's position at the point of transition between late romanticism and modernism in his second symphony, which he wrote between 1888 and 1894, is particularly clear. With opulent late-romantic sonorities, epic expansion and orchestral richness on the one hand, this symphony breaks down on the other with numerous conventions: its daring harmony and metric reaches the limits of what has been heard, its form with five asymmetrical movements,

Nacherwelt called the work "Nachstungssymphonie", but Mahler certainly would not have objected to the title: from the first movement, which he himself dubbed "funeral service" to a leisurely minuet in the second and an instrumental version of his own song "Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt "in the third movement, Mahler develops in this symphony a sometimes cynical, sometimes deeply evil, hereafter, up to the reflexive" Urlicht "(again a quote of one's own song) in the fourth and finally Klopstock's poem" The Resurrection "in the fifth movement. How Mahler's voluptuous and detailed orchestration, from the chaotic, gloomy celebration of the dead to the resplendent orchestral festival of the resurrection, can be confidently called the culmination of the history of symphonics.

Musicians:

Gianandrea Noseda
Orchestra E Coro Teatro Regio Torino

Selections:
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Symphony No. 2 in D Minor "Resurrection"
LP 1
Side A:
I. Allegro maestoso
Side B:
II. Andante moderato
III. In ruhig Fliessender Bewegung

LP 2
Side A:
IV. "Urlicht"
V. Im Tempo des Scherzo, Wild herausfahrend
Side B:
"Aufersteh'n"