This amazing series is less a documentary and more a journey inside Mahler’s mind. Michael Tilson Thomas walks us through the places and memories that shaped the composer - the noise of his Bohemian childhood, the loneliness of being an outsider, the spiritual tension that runs through all his work. It’s beautifully filmed and full of those “aha” musical moments where MTT plays a fragment at the piano and then the orchestra bursts in to complete the thought. The result feels alive and personal, like you’re discovering Mahler’s world in real time. Plus the SF Symphony sounds phenomenal. By the end, you understand not just how Mahler wrote, but why - and it’s impossible to hear his music the same way again. And lucky for us, it’s all on youtube!