MahlerFest’s Artistic Director, Kenneth Woods, speaks with CPR Classical host David Ginder about Mahler’s Second Symphony, why you shouldn’t start dinner with desert, and why Beethoven’s music matters more than ever in our challenging times.

MahlerFest XXXIII was to conclude with a performance of Mahler 2, and we’ll be finishing 2020 Virtual Colorado MahlerFest with a webcast of this epic work.

Mahler’s Second Symphony
*Available for 24 hours only

MAHLER Symphony No. 2 in C-minor

The concert portion of Jason Starr‘s Of Love, Death and Beyond. 

• Neeme Järvi, conductor
• Susanne Mentzer, mezzo soprano
• Twyla Robinson, soprano
• Musicians from from the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Detroit and New Jersey Symphonies and the New York Choral Artists
• Synopsis and trailer are here
• A DVD of this performance is available with Jason’s movie in our store here

Kenneth Woods conducts Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony with the English Symphony Orchestra

Filmed live in Cadogan Hall, London in June 2019