Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg / Audi Jugendchorakademie / Anja Bihlmaier

Gustav Mahler’s monumental symphonies mark both the peak and the end point of the Romantic symphonic tradition. In the Second, later given the nickname “Resurrection Symphony”, Mahler uses the human voice in a symphony for the first time in his output — as Ludwig van Beethoven did in his famous Ninth.