Mahler Symphonies Nos 1 2 3

Beginning with the First Symphony Bernstein reveals Mahlers position at the hinge of modernism while emphasizing his emotional extremism The uplifting Second Resurrection Symphony with which Bernstein had an especially long and close association is recorded here in a historic performance from 1973 set in the Romanesque splendor of Ely Cathedral In the Third Bernstein encompasses the symphonys spiritual panorama like no other conductor with the Vienna Philharmonic players alive to every nuance