Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor (Live) Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Mariss Jansons

• Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911):
• 1Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor: I. Kräftig. Entschieden (Live)34:14
• 2Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor: II. Tempo di menuetto. Sehr mäßig (Live)09:48
• 3Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor: III. Comodo. Scherzando. Ohne Hast (Live)17:15
• 4Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor: IV. Sehr langsam. Misterioso (Live)09:21
• 5Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor: V. Lustig im Tempo und keck im Ausdruck (Live)04:21
• 6Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor: VI. Langsam. Ruhevoll. Empfunden (Live)22:32
• Total Runtime01:37:31

Info for Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor (Live)

Gustav Mahler's Third Symphony still ranks today as one of the greatest and most powerful creations of the Late Romantic period. The huge symphony, longer and more monumental than the others and containing texts from the collection of poems by Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim entitled “Des Knaben Wunderhorn”, was composed over a period of four years from 1892 to 1896, and especially during the summers of 1895 and 1896, which Mahler spent at the Attersee in Austria. Following performances of several individual movements of the symphony, the complete work was premiered on June 9, 1902, at the 38th “Tonkunstler Festival” in Krefeld. Mahler conducted the Stadtische Kapelle Krefeld and Cologne’s Gurzenich Orchestra at this exciting event. It was one of his greatest successes, and his contemporaries were deeply impressed. Between 1902 and 1907, the composer conducted his Third Symphony a further 15 times.

Of the six powerful movements, the slow fourth one requires not only a large orchestra but also a mezzo-soprano solo for a setting of the “Midnight Song” (“O Man! Take heed!”) from Friedrich Nietzsche's poetical-philosophical "Thus Spoke Zarathustra," while in the cheerful fifth movement the mezzo-soprano soloist is joined by a children’s choir and a female chorus for the song Es sungen drei Engel from "Des Knaben Wunderhorn". The symphony is a huge challenge for all its performers, and this concert recording of December 2010 has a prestigious line-up: Mariss Jansons with his Chor and Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Tolzer Knabenchor and the solo parts are sung by Nathalie Stutzmann.

Natalie Stutzmann, contralto
Tölzer Knabenchor
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Mariss Jansons, conductor

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