Mahler Symphony No. 6, Part 1

Mahler's 6th Symphony is one of his most complex and ambitious
pieces, though it retains a firmly classical structure
throughout. It has notorious performance problems such as the
order of the middle movements, and the symphony within a symphony
final movement. It is also one of Mahler's most emotionally
profound pieces, embracing life, death, and the struggles between
these two forces. In the first movement, Mahler sets up the
stakes for the battles to come and it's this movement we discuss
today.