This symphony never fails to send shivers down my spine. This is the type of music that makes men into gods. Mahler is not dead. He is immortal. His music will last forever, while men still have emotions.

There is no first exprience for Mahler's music. You can experience them as many times and it will be always as epic as the first time.

I love the conductor's little smile at 11:08, as if he's thinking "this is so epic and I'm in charge of it".

if i could time travel the first thing I'd do is to go attend all of Abbado's Mahler symphonies.

On first hearing this symphony it changed my life and since then 20 yrs ago I still hold fascination with Mahler. His music articulates what is inside of all of us - we hear, we understand it's about everything in Life.

I was privileged to work with Abbado for several years. This video reminds me just how great a conductor he was and is and always will be to those fortunate enough to experience his performances. His control, his passion, his sympathy, his amazing memory can never surely be surpassed.

This is the greatest music ever written but it is more meaningful if you can read the subtitles which are more inclined to bring tears.

Mahler gave a glimpse of how souls are brought into Heaven

Mahler sous la baguette du meilleur chef de tous les temps. Comme vous nous manquez maestro.

Einfach pure Gänsehaut, diese Musik! Was Mahler mit 28 Jahren komponierte! Unfassbar!

After listening to 200+ CDs on Mahler, I'd like to say Claudio Abbado's recordings in Lucerne are among my top. The exuberant energy, cool mind (never too hysterical) and subtlety he was trying to convey make these Mahler pieces even suitable for morning music. But, on the other side, this maneuvering also makes these pieces especially deep and moving (painful in Mahler's sense), because it makes it easier for people to feel the "emptiness" and "helpless repetition" or "tragedy" in human life.

most glorious finale of the resurrection I have ever heard... I hope to one day hear a performance of this calibre live...

I have lost track of the number of times I have come back to this recording...Reinhold Friedrich is really something! Excellent chorus too...wow. Mahler was a genius.

Watched this in class yesterday and started crying happy tears. I cannot stress enough how music impacts you but this piece does something amazing for me. What a beautiful piece, it is one of my favourites

I have to chime in, also. RIP, sir. You and your work will be missed. Earth was better because of you.

My favored is Mahler #2 s. Because of this, and because of the generous up-loaders, a great selection available to us of this great work, I have listened to all of them. Of course it is always a personal preference and impossible to say that this or that performance is the best. However, if Mahler would be alive, I am absolutely sure, he would prefer Abbado and this magnificent orchestra. Touches me to tears every time I play it from my DVD of this same performance.

What a beautiful balance and voice color match between the soprano and mezzo soloists, too.

I cannot begin to count how many times I've watched this incredible finale. Thank you for posting it.

Maestro Claudio Abbado is masterful, as usual. He excels at these big productions. Wonderful performance by all.

La più bella delle sinfonie di Mahler.Grande capolavoro.

L un des plus beaux morceaux de musiques classique composé!!

Maravillosa obra, es la primera ves que la escucho, y en un momento muy especial de mi vida, maravillosa, majestuosa, lleva al alma a resurgir de las cenizas...

If this does not move you...you have a hole in your soul!

HEAVENLY - DIVINE - PERFECT - ONLY GOD THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE WITH HIS HOLY SPIRIT CAN ISNPIRE THIS. SUPERB. MARVELOUS.. THANK YOU FOR SHARING.

His version of Mahler's 2nd was and is sublime- the best of all. He felt it so deeply and meaningfully and entirely, as I do. Claudio...you were a Master,,,truly. God bless you.

@OisirM Just home from a Mahler 2 with Sydney Symphony & Ashkenazy at the Opera House . It was fabulous but needed more. This is music for the soul and the world would be a better place if we could make everyone listen to it. Tears of joy.

@Atreus21 you are right...people who don't believe in Mahler simply haven't listened to Mahler

I'm weeping with joy.

Parece que nossa alma flutua no etéreo quando ouvimos essa linda sinfonia.

What a wonderful symphony. Just Beautiful.

good God, what did I stumble into? this was Wonderful !!

Just to let you know, God's symphony plays perpetually in heaven.

Resucitarás, si!!! Resucitarás 🥺

Absolutely stunning!

That is from heaven.

Simply magical !!

Mahler/Abbado, um presente para escutar sempre!

RIP Maestro Abbado. You will forever be remembered by all.

Bravo Maestro Abbado! Magnificent! What a musical triumph!

If I want to shed tears, I just listen to any of the great Symphonies by Gustav Mahler.

In my opinion....this is the greatest interpretation of M2.

„Sterben werd ich, um zu leben. Auferstehn, ja, auferstehn wirst du, mein Herz, in einem Nu!“ - God bless and keep my dear father who loved this music so much and had to die so early. You will rise „in einem Nu“!

Good solid Orchestra under Maestro ABBADO, superb performance and interpretation ,What great music considering the disturbed mind of Mahler ,Great conductor of the past, and we today reap the benefits

That cut off at the end was quite something by Maestro Abbado. Just awesome!

I cut what very few classical music teeth I have on the complete 9 symphonies of Mahler with Leonard Bernstein on vinyl in the late 60's/early 70s. Abbado is equally magnificent.. I've always said that if St Peter meets me at the Pearly Gates after I die and says he'll take me to meet god, I'd say, "OK, but could I first meet Mahler and Bernstein. God will still be there". ;-)

Truely this is one of those very rare pieces that can move you to tears.

Can't write easily, too much tears in my eyes...

These are the greatest moments in all the literature and the greatest of all performances!!! It doesn't get any better... except that if the sub-titles were turned on, the cognitive emotional impact of the material is greater if you are to experience the implications of the inevitable Ressurrection.

This is absolutely fantastic.

First time I was introduce Mahler is when I was coming home from work in mt car from Clifton, NJ, The draw again was stuck while it was drawn. we were stck for uver a hour. I had a FM converter. WQXR was paling Mahler's Third symphony, a new release with leonard Bernstein. I began a fan. Right after that a few days later I heard Bruno Walters, Mahler's symphony No.1. I was sold, this man was a twentieth century Genius.

In comparison to the God like brilliance of Mahler, the preceding commercial music reminds one of the degenerative aspects of our cultural circumstance. Thankyou Utube and the brilliant musical minds of this generation.

Maestro RIP

The late and much lamented Claudio Abbado was the late & lamented Leonard Bernstein's assistant at the NY Philharmonic. I like to think CA absorbed this work from LB -- they were the great masters of Mahler in my lifetime

Doesn't get ant better than this!!

Gracias por compartir este maravilloso extracto de la Simfonía N-2 de Mahler. Un elenco maravilloso conducido por el ya inmortal Claudio Abbado. Muchas gracias ,Dios le bendiga!!!!

Marvel, Fantastic, Wonderful ! It's DIVINE !!!

@gera1262 and I'm a staunch Christian and there's no reason why I can't have Mahler as my idol too. I read into the music my own feelings as many people do. Mahler's composition was not a selfish inward composition as he wrote for all of us to ENJOY it in whatever we choose.

I think Lenny & Klemperer 's Mahler 2 are great, but only Abbado's version is IMPRESSIVE. One of the best!

Quality upload,for quality music,many thanks.

RIP Maestro.

Bravo! R.I.P. Maestro.

While he was conducting this work, certainly the Maestro Abbado, following the order of the last verses, was truly preparing himself to live.

I love reading comments under videos like this, so many intelligent people who know how to put their thoughts into words politely and beautifully

You are absolutely right

Io c'ero....E posso dirvi che alla fine non potevo essere più felice di aver vissuto quest'esecuzione!

La personaldad de la voz de Larsson , wao!...suprema!! Un llamado a la entrega-!

The perfect Easter celebration.

what a choir

Perfect... Heavenly... Mahler... Gustav Mahler... Forever....

I'd love my life to end like this.

11:14 Houston....we have lift off!!!!

Soberbio, grandioso.

Abbado in Lucerne with Orfeon Donostiarra gives a outstanding and vibrant, intim, and majestuous Mahler’s 2!! It is among Boulez or Dudamel’s version my favourite !! Gest of Abbado is precise and celestial !

This gives me goosebumps. Absolutely amazing!

I finally found it! Legend of the gelactic heroes welcome

@OisirM Very well said. How fascinating that Mahler had the "premonition"(if u will) that it would be our time when his music was accepted and embraced.

Great.

Well, I wouldn't say "beats" -- that is a kind of crass way to put it. But Abbado understands Mahler like very few others. and I would agree that no one else besides Bernstein has ever pulled this kind of numinous quality out of the work at its ending. It won't make any sense unless it makes sense, but Abbado seems to be able to transduce musical sonorities into light. This is a glorious reading.

Magistralmente genial me embriague de música y melodía y sobretodo de sentimiento que llega a lo sublime ¡ME ENCANTO!

Ressuscitarei por Deus para Deus, eu, alcancado por ELE através de Jesus Cristo.

If you any SEMBLANCE of a soul.... and I don't care if you choose to call your higher power THE UNIVERSE... HOW can you not listen to this, as a classically trained musician... and NOT feel a spiritual connection of SOME sort. Unless YOU choose to 'play God.' This, through art exemplifies the fact that we are but children of the universe.... Who as decent , loving and caring human beings cannot be moved to tears by this genius???? If you feel nothing, I only have pity. You are stone.

beautiful

I’m not religious, there’s no supernatural god , we come from the very fabric of the universe , but when I hear Mahler there lies humanities heaven

I dont mean to quibble because Abbado is one of THE greatest Mahler interpreters of all, but I just wish in this performance that he had held that very final chord just a little longer for the sake of the grandeur the music represents.

Amazing !!!

A great performance ... such power controlled then unleashed...

Das Menschenwunder ist grenzenlos. Ebenso, der Schmerz der Liebe. Jedoch, wenn der Eine Puls uns findet erhebt er uns zum Gipfel der Eintracht. Müdigkeit und Hunger erblassen, die Sehnsucht vorbei, schließlich am Ziel, in der Gegenwart Gottes. This composition is one miracle this performance yet another, Gloriously, a sublime Power shines to combine them into ecstasy. I'm gratefully speechless.. as I should nm

No words. ~Chris Norfolk, VA

Imagine doing this at an American Football Stadium with a massive orchestra spanning the length of the ball field and the choir spanning the seating bowl from end zone to end zone behind the orchestra.

He is risen.

Immenso Mahler grandioso Abbado. Una commozione che resta, mescolandosi alla gioia pura vivificante, come imprigionata nel cuore favendo sgorgare un invendio di lacrime per molti minuti anche dopo il termine della meravigliosa esecuzione..Grazie.

Sin palabras.... Extraordinario!

The source is everything. All of life, is a fragment,when one accepts the totality of the experience, that life manifestation, is one with source. God, Allah, Jehovah,the great Spirit, et-cetera, et-cetera.

Prodigieux !!!

finally, an ending that i enjoyed as much as Klemperor. thanks for putting this up

soothing effect!!!

In my opinion, Abbado's interpretation it's perfect, Bernstein it's right, but Abbado it's in another world...

CLAUDIO - MAHLER SYMPHONY N. 2 - COMPLETE - IS ON MY PLAYLIST ON - M - THE ENTIRE PIECE ON VIDEO AS YOU WISH - I THINK. REGARDS FROM ANNA BRASIL.

bravo!

Always with the Mahler raising of the horns. -)