“Oh man, watch out!”. Contrasts, confrontations and catharsis in Mahler’s path towards God through nature. A grandiloquent, transcendental message with a first movement that has a sparkling climax and a last one of heart-felt elevation and Wagnerian roots. “My time will come” Mahler would repeat like a mantra… and ours with him! “The art of our time in its deepest and most sacred form”, Thomas Mann said.