Today, we celebrate Mahler’s birthday! Experience a full performance of the composer’s Symphony No. 2, a work that contemplates life and death on a cosmic scale, opens with an inexorable funeral march, and culminates in an ecstatic hymn of resurrection—one of the greatest of all music climaxes: https://bit.ly/3aqaVS0 Leonard Bernstein leads the London Symphony Orchestra and Edinburgh Festival Chorus from the historic Ely Cathedral in this filmed performance, available on Carnegie Hall : carnegie

190K views · 367 reactions | Here's the last stunning minutes from the last movement of the Mahler's 2 in a recent wonderful rendition. Thanks to Young Talented Musicians! National Youth Choir of Great Britain Simon Bolívar Symphony Orchestra Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Watch the full symphony here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zHLu34BIAM&feature=youtu.be Get the El Sistema 40 - A Celebration here: https://amzn.to/2U35LPK | History of Music | Facebook

106K views · 796 shares | The last eight minutes of Mahler's Second Symphony with the astonishing London Symphony Chorus, soprano Christiane Karg, alto Anna Larsson and conductor Semyon Bychkov. Sit back, turn up your speakers, enjoy. The whole performance of the symphony, plus an introduction from backstage, is now available to watch on our YouTube channel for the next 90 days: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTjZ3o6K-BOlKv4hj_bPZrE4vOxqmMVey | London Symphony Orchestra | Facebook

#onthisday 1895 Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony premieres in Berlin Here's the last stunning minutes from the last movement of the Mahler's 2 in a recent wonderful rendition. National Youth Choir of Great Britain Simon Bolívar Symphony Orchestra Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Check the full symphony here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zHLu34BIAM&t=1s Get the Gustavo Dudamel: Discoveries - Ludwig van Beethoven (Composer), Leonard Bernstein (Composer), & 8 more Format: Audio CD here: https://amzn.to/2

77K views · 2.4K reactions | Mahler, who grew up near a military...