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Teodor Currentzis

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Mireia Barrera

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Auditorio Nacional de Musica

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Gustav Mahler’s Symphony №2, often referred to as ‘The Resurrection Symphony’, begins with a funeral. The composer wrote its first movement back in 1888 as a continuation of the Symphony №1: ‘I called the first movement “Todtenfeier” (Funeral Rites)…It is the hero of my D major symphony that I bear to his grave… Here too the question is asked: What did you live for? Why did you suffer? Is it all only a vast terrifying joke?’ The creation of the full five-part cycle took seven years. The composer explained the harmonious programme more than once in letters and even published it in the annotation to one of the performances of the symphony, but later withdrew it from public circulation. Meanwhile, the author’s instruction remained in the score, demanding that the titanic first movement be separated from all the rest by a five-minute gap of silence.

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