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Simon Halsey on Gustav Mahler’s Second Symphony
Simon Rattle conducts Mahler’s Second Symphony
It was a concert with Gustav Mahler’s Second Symphony that inspired the 12-year-old Simon Rattle to become a conductor. Explaining his continued fascination with the work, Rattle said, “Mahler aimed to put the entire world into a symphony. And this world goes from the death rites of some hero through a memory of what life was in both its beauty and its horror and final redemption.” This recording documents a performance by Rattle from 2012.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle
Camilla Tilling
Bernarda Fink
Rundfunkchor Berlin
© 2012 Berlin Phil Media GmbH
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