Anyone grieving, in despair, without hope, at the end of their tether for any reason should be directed to this music, the most glorious, life-affirming of any music, Mahler's finest, for me. Music is God's greatest gift to mankind, other than love and life itself.

It baffles me that someone can 'hear' these sounds in their head, scribble them onto paper, then a group of people born a hundred years later can produce this from those sheets of paper.

This is about as close as one can get to feel reverence without being religious. Absolute masterpiece by Mahler and an electrifying performance by the orchestra, the chorus, and the conductor. Phenomenal camera work too. Five Stars, Truly a heavenly work of art !!!

Mahler's symphonies tell the stories of many things. They speak of love, of heartache, redemption, or even the universe itself. His music is thought of as prophetic of the 20th century, and it shows. The 2nd, 3rd, 8th, and 9th all tell this story: life, from beginning on through crisis, love, and death. When people ask me why I love his work so much, this is what I tell them.

It almost feels like this is the symphony to end all symphonies. Yet this is from early in his career. I don't think Mahler could ever replicate what he achieved here...

This is one of the most difficult choral pieces to pull off. You sit for an hour and then you start with singing as soft as humanly possible to as loud as humanly possible in the incredible climax to the piece. It's the only piece I've had to sing that was printed in the old treble clef for the tenors in the choir. It meant transposing down in your head a half step the whole way through. Easy enough for instrumentalists, very hard for singers!

In 1945 as a 9 years old I was in a choir in Buenos Aires Argentina and we sang with the Teatro Colon strings ensemble, a contralt and under the direction of Pedro Valenti Costa The Stabat Mater by Pergolessi In Radio Splendid! I wonder if there is a record of that and or a movie. Also would be great if Gustavo Dudamel could direct something like that. A training like that gave me a taste and love of good music! But everything is Music including all sort of popular expresions!

Absolutely astonishing, I have tears and goosebumps every time. The choir and orchestra are emotionally United as one angelic voice. Bravo!

0:40 I love the way Mahler has the soloist doubling the choir and then emerging out of it - he used the effect in other places including the 8th.

Mahler 2 is the epitome of all Western music. Mahler suffered the most tragic personal affronts, with the deaths of his children and the facing of his own mortality at a young age, and nevertheless wrote music that soared triumphantly to laugh in the face of death and discouragement, to exalt in the power of life. "Sterben bin ich um zu leben" (I will die in order to live") is perhaps the most powerful set of words ever conceived by a human, and this is the power that this music possesses.

Whenever I hear people comment about the intensity of Wagner, all I can think of is the 5th movement of Mahler's Second. I doubt there is a more moving and intense piece of music in the classical repetoire. Look at the faces of the two lead vocalists at the end...one is almost in tears. When this movement is performed properly it brings tears to the eyes. This version is wonderful!

Unglaublich euphorisch ❤

Dudamel brings a youthful freshness to everything he attempts. Magnificent.

I’m blown away! MAGNIFICENT!

Reading many comments compels me to confess that I came here after hearing Bradley Cooper name this song on the Colbert Questionnaire as one he would choose if forced to listen to only one song for the rest of his life. And I searched for "Mollers Resurrection". Haha! Man, this was awesome!

Absolutely "GlOURIOUS!"!!!!... Mahler had to have one heck of a vision when writing this most amazing work.

My favorite video of anything, ever. Miraculous.

This movement HAS everything that describes a human lifetime on earth. I cried a lot!! How amazing, painful , and hopeful!! Just beautiful! I admire the choir, the orchestra, the soloists and Dudamel for their incredible musical gift to all of us!! WOW!!

We performed this magnificent piece in 1966 with the Pittsburgh Symphony, Mendelssohn Choir. Exquisite beyond words. It's 2018 and we still get goosebumps when we hear it.

Just astounding.

HEAVENLY MUSIC

I was there and in tears at the end of this performance. Such music! Such playing of it!

A great performance. I particularly liked that the two soloists joined the chorus in the closing pages. Most other performances have the soloists just sitting down and not participating. Bravo Gustavo!

As a previous commenter has said, Abreu is dead and so is the excellent and inspiring El Sistema and its senior orchestra. I really hope the orchestra can be resurrected in another country, and that the national El Sistema can be reconstituted under a far superior President than the criminals running Venezuela right now. This Mahler performance is so ultimately inspiring and should stand as testimony of how excellence can be achieved in a poor country.

Im April 2019 sang ich als Chorist in der Berliner Philharmonie im Konzert eine Verschränkung von Mozart Requiem mit der 2. Sinfonie von Mahler, arrangiert von Wolfgang Roese /ORSO Orchestra & Choral Society. Obwohl ich keiner religiösen Gemeinschaft angehöre, bekomme ich beim Hören dieses Finales immer wieder Gänsehaut.

My favorite by him.

The greatest music ever made in human history has been in the pursuit of glorifying Jesus Christ. This is one of them.

Awesome video that kept the focus on the orchestra instead of lingering on the excellent conductor, Gustavo Dudamel. The Simon Bolivar Orchestra of Venezuela sounds fantastic as does the National Youth Choir of Great Britain performing in London's Royal Albert Hall.

One of the best conductor ever , Gustave Dudamel with his preference for great orchestras.Fantastic!!

Magnifique, Divin, Merveilleux: L'apothéose de la Beauté.

5.53 Watch the member of the orchestra wiping the tears from his eyes. Exactly.

It is a shame that this magnificent performance of this monumental masterpiece, due to contractual reasons (as far as I know), will not be released for commercial sale on DVD or CD. Shame on you BBC!

That tear at the end! ❤️

Maravillosa interpretación. Deusche Grammophone o BBC Proms deberían publicar en DVD esta joya del espiritu y del arte musical. Interpretes Venezolanos, Britanicos las dos solistas suecas, bajo la dirección de Dudamel, fundidos en el espiritu del Ser. Bravissimo.

¨I shall die to find life¨ God´s Glory

Majestically powerful.

If you love this music you really need to listen to Bruno Walter's 1960 Columbia Symphony version on Sony Classics. Walter was friends with Mahler and this was his second to last recorded symphony. This version newly blew me off my chair and Mildred Miller's mezzo is extraordinary!

The conductor here is great!

God has blessed this magnificent music !!!

my favourite bit is the crowd's eruption at the end!!

The double basses at 4:12 look like they are about to explode.

What is it about this piece that always brings me to tears. Exquisite.

I am speechless In tears

It had been twenty-eight years since I heard this work, when I found it on KZfaq. When I did, and put my headphones on to listen, I lost all sense of passing of time until I returned in the standing ovation at its end, face wet with tears and trembling uncontrollably. If this does not move you in the least, please check your pulse and see if you don't have large gauge IV access already- you may be in the process of being embalmed!

4:20 is unbearably wonderful. It invariably brings tears to my eyes.

Catch me weeping for 8 minutes straight

The Royal Albert Hall is the best place to hear Mahler. The pipe organ is just right. I have seen numerous Mahler concerts there. Pure magic! Thanks for posting.

Everything about this is perfect. Terrific soloists, magnificent orchestra and choir, and Gustavo Dudamel, who is quite superb. Mahler's OK, as well.

So deeply touching !!! Bravo !!!

Utterly breathtaking

Mahler writes the Music of the Gods. It's not human music. He shows God.

Gigantes de América Latina Venezuela.

Wonderful !

Wow, Wow, Wow Would love to go back in time and see this performance live

Absolutely fantastic!

Dudamel,il migliore di tutti bel dirigere la 2 sinfonia di Malher.straordinario.

If this does bring you to tears, you have a cold heart!

Que poder tiene la musica!!! ..

This is a gorgeous performance of a gorgeous piece! It requires attention, so not right for this occasion. I put it in because I think it is the last piece of live classical music that Larry heard--in the camper, played by the BSO at Tanglewood!

Such an amazing piece. It makes fly every time I listen to it. Mahler in all his beauty

I was at the performance of this amazing piece in the Proms season 2017 and it was a truly unforgettable experience.

Great Dudamel !!!!❤

3:10 = The best visual representation of the power of this, the most triumphant moment in any Mahler symphony (in my humble opinion, that is).

moved me to tears, glorious!!!

It’s always amazed me in these final bars who Mahler is able to achieve climax after climax without any apparent diminution of intensity.

Written by the hand of God. Using Gustav Mahler as his instrument.

Majestuoso!!!

wonderful!

Really fantastic, unbelievable achievement, bravo bravo

por un momento creia que arrancaba los reposabrazos de mi silla!!! da igual de donde seas cuando escuchas esta musica solo existe una conexion casi mistica del ser humano con el gran espiritu!

You're ABSOLUTELY RIGHT! Please, please post it ALL! That was magnificent!

Best piece of classical music ever written! Was lucky enough to hear this performed sublimely in King’s College Chapel in Cambridge by the university choir and orchestra. When lockdown rules allow this is top of my list to hear live again. Always moved to tears at the end ❤️

Richard Wagner... he smiles from above... and accompanies this masterpiece with his paternal gaze thinking... I haven't lived in vain!

Impressionante!!!

Great Orchestra indeed, Energetic.

Sublime.

cannot get any better than this...

This is legendary

Sublime,magnificent!

Magnificent!

beautiful Venezuelan symphonic orchestra

I don't forget this music, it's magnific.

wonderful.......

The power behind Mahler's music is truly inspiring and terrifying at the same time. This could be the music of a revolution, and I always think of it when I am inspired to write something, although, being a trombonist, I am biased toward the 3rd, 5th, and 8th symphonies :)

^^^this^^^ - the only music you'll ever need to listen to. Kindly listen to the whole piece. Outstanding.!!

magnificent!

Well if you don't feel "elevated" to soaring heights when you hear this Symphony's Finale, you never will. My favorite video recording of this work remains Staatskapelle Berlin directed by Pierre Boulez

and i do agree with NonInflatable's comment, as well as with prevalain. However, ALL here are musicians... whether vocalists, instrumentalists and of course conductor. my thanks to OQL for posting and sharing.

I know this clearly... as I am cremated, whether or not there is audience to hear this lovely ending I want it played as the doors close and the angry rush of the flames envelop me to consume the last of my mortality; as warm as the swaddling blankets I was wrapped in at birth. As the imperfect, weak mortal falls away I shall still remain in the silent memory of the One True God, awaiting His call. I know as sure as I know my own name I will rise to His call, in newness of Life; to be judged in His Presence. If I am found worthy of life everlasting I hope to serve Him beyond all memory of days, if not, I will rest in Oblivion's thrall to know no more. Merciful is He, Creator and Savior, to whom all souls belong! Death, what are you? need I even fear the silent enemy who cannot hold shut the dearest hopes of the heart or silence the voice of God?

>>----------------------------> "As if gazing upon a pond, the reflection is indulged, while the depth ignored." -E.S. Kensly Such is the world who praises the deeds of man, and shuns the depth of his creation. The meaning behind this music is what is glorious.

Glorious!

I can think of no dearer hope than that for the Resurrection to life Eternal, no greater triumph than Death defeated at last!

Breath-taking!

Amazing , wonderful and so meaningful for the young musicians of Venezuela , who represented , in London, may thousands of their colleagues who , I am sure , watched this with tears in heir eyes. Unfortunately, Abreu is dead and so is El Sistema , thanks to criminal politicians , like Maduro , present everywhere in the world , inept, immoral and ready to kill anything that is so beautiful , with their stupidity , ignorance and ego .

Zubin Mehra, la plus belle de toutes les interprétations, et les choeurs sont sublimes !

Une Ascension irrésistible de l'humain vers le Divin L'émotion intacte

Perhaps the most inspired and inspiring 5 1/2 minutes in all of music. Rapturous.

Breathtaking. I'm not sure if I'd choose it over the 8ths finale.

There are now several KZfaq postings of this work with much better sound quality. It's worth checking them out. This one sounds very muffled.

This will be the finale to my funeral.