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After successful releases of Mahler's Symphonies 1 & 4, this third volume is the culmination of the live recording series. Manfred Honeck, one of the best Mahler interpreters of our time, was born in Austria and cultivated his music basics in Vienna. With enthusiastic, dedicated support from the orchestra's musicians, he successfully presents this extraordinary symphony, leaving no one in the audience untouched.
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"Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony started life as a single-movement tone poem called Todtenfeier (Funeral Rites). Completed in 1888 one year before Richard Strauss' Death and Transfiguration it echoed the composer's vision of seeing himself lying dead in a funeral bier surrounded by flowers. ... Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo Vänskä have received praise for their previous Mahler recordings ('Vänskä and the orchestra are among the finest exponents...