Mahler Symphony No. 2, 'Resurrection' - Bruno Walter, Columbia Symphony
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Partial notes of Bruno Walter;
It gives me deep satisfaction to accompany these records Gustav Mahler 's Second Symphony - in compliance with a request by Columbia Records - with Some comments. For more than 60 years I have lived with this work, have felt bound to it by strongest ties - musical and spiritual - and it has grown on me continuously.
In 1888 Mahler had finished his first symphony. In this audacious and vehement work he had given deeply stirring musical expression to a heart - rending personal experience. With the conclusion of that symphony, the 28 year old composer seems to out grown a self centered urge to tell in his music of the jubilations and torments of his own youthful heart. After his first symphonic venture - or perhaps through it - Mahler had risen to a stage of maturity at which he could envision the sublimity of his Second Symphony. The records in the boxed Set are in near mint condition and the box itself is very good plus.
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