Mahler’s Resurrection by Mahler, Od (2022/2022), Dirigent Franz Welser-Möst, Severance Hall, Cleveland, United States

Some pieces of music are so stirring, so electrifying that audiences are transfixed by their inherent emotional power. Mahler’s passionate and tempestuous Second Symphony – about humanity’s search for meaning in life and death — is such a work. Composed for a massive orchestra, choir, and soloists, it is riveting from its darkly ferocious opening to its exhilarating, ecstatic finale.