- Recorded live at the Lucerne Festival, Summer 2003Culture and Convention Centre Lucerne, 21 August 2003Eteri Gvazava - sopranoAnna Larsson...
- History of Mahler Symphonies- Symphony 2. ... US premiere: December 8, 1908 in New York, Mahler conducting the New York Symphony and Oratorio Society.
- Mahler completed what would become the first movement of the symphony in 1888 as a single-movement symphonic poem called Totenfeier (Funeral Rites).
- Overview: Mahler 'Resurrection' Symphony 2. ... Mahler’s Symphonic Debut, Reaction & Pursuing Revisions. Premiere. Musical Structure.
- The ink was barely dry on the score of his First Symphony in 1888 when Mahler began to toy with the idea of a new large symphonic work in c...
- Mahler began sketching ideas for his second symphony almost directly after finishing his first symphony in 1888.
- Gustav Mahler Symphony 2. ... Unlike the Classical symphony, Mahler uses a five-movement form and has a performance time of nearly one and a half hours.
- Because of this programmatic content, the symphony is often referred to as the “Resurrection Symphony,” although this name is not Mahler’s own.
- In 1899, Mahler conveyed to Bauer-Lechner that he considered this discontinuity a fault in the symphony.
- Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, famously known as the “Resurrection” Symphony, is one of the most profound and ambitious works in the symphonic repertoire.