A lovely, soothing, gentle, romantic soundscape — perhaps it evokes this sense because he wrote this movement as a love letter to his wife (though I think at the time he had just met her)?
According to a letter his wife later wrote, Mahler also left a small poem with the symphony draft he shared with her in his quest to woo her:
Wie ich Dich liebe, Du meine Sonne,
ich kann mit Worten Dir's nicht sagen.
Nur meine Sehnsucht kann ich Dir klagen
und meine Liebe, meine Wonne!
In which way I love you, my sunbeam,
I cannot tell you with words.
Only my longing, my love and my bliss
can I with anguish declare.
There is that word again ... sehnsucht ... 🥰
Thank you very much for sharing this beautiful music 🤗💚☺