[AnAmericanMother]

Well, I'll give the 1st another shot. I'm older, too, it's been awhile since I listened to it.

But some of the Lieder send chills up my spine. "Der Arme Tambourg'selle" just for example

I took German for ten years so I'm used to morbid. There's a strong streak of that in almost any German poet.

[Publius]

I had 4 years of German.

"Revelge" is another deliciously morbid piece with that driving rhythm that stops for nothing, including death.

"Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen" is quoted in the 1st, and "Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt" forms the scherzo of the 2nd -- with an interruption for the End of the World Motif (used again twice in the finale).

The 5-movement of the 1st that I have is by Mehta conducting the Israel Phil from 1987 on EMI. It's not as good as Bernstein's 4-movement version from the Fifties, but it has that "missing" 2nd movement.