When Andris Nelsons brought the Boston Symphony Orchestra to Berlin for a performance of Mahler’s Third earlier this year, it seemed to mark a turning point in his Mahler cycle. The excessive ambition and heightened shifts of mood of his earlier performances had, for the most part, been stripped away; what remained was insight, focus and, in the finest moments, the thrill of hearing a familiar work newly enlivened. Yet even that great performance offered only hints of the grandeur Mr Nelsons would bring to Mahler’s Second, which was not only the finest entry in his cycle but also perhaps the finest Mahler performance in Berlin since Zubin Mehta’s transcendent Ninth a few years ago. With the Berlin Philharmonic sounding as invigorated as they have this season and the lustrous sound of the MDR-Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Mr Nelsons’ vision of…
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