Mahler Sinfonie Nr. 2

Paavo Järvi Music Director
Mari Eriksmoen Sopran
Anna Lucia Richter Mezzosopran
Zürcher Sing-Akademie
Florian Helgath Einstudierung

Gustav Mahler Sinfonie Nr. 2 c-Moll «Auferstehungs-Sinfonie»

Our Mahler cycle is entering its fourth round! After Symphonies Nos. 5, 1 and 7, we are now performing and recording No. 2. It has become known as the "Resurrection Symphony", although this epithet does not come from Mahler himself. The work leads from a celebration of the dead through wistful, desperate and faithful memories to redemption. For Paavo Järvi, Mahler's Jewish origins play a central role in this work: "As famous as he was as a conductor and composer, he was always somehow an outsider in Vienna, which was quite anti-Semitic at the time," he says. With Symphony No. 2, Mahler wanted to signalise that he belonged after all - "but only so that they would leave him alone and he could be exactly what he wanted".