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Mahler's Third Symphony from the Amsterdam Concertgebouw

Klaus M盲kel盲 conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Mahler's epic Third Symphony, a work which recounts the story of the Creation through to a final ode to divine love.

Klaus M盲kel盲 conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Mahler's epic Third Symphony.

The great Dutch Orchestra is famed for its performances of the music of Gustav Mahler, a tradition going right back to the composer's own lifetime. Here, Klaus M盲kel盲, their youthful Chief Conductor Designate, adds his own stamp to that tradition with the Third Symphony, perhaps the most complete musical statements of Mahler's world view. With its "worldly tumult," of bird calls, rustic dances, off-stage post horn and military marches, its quotations from his Wunderhorn songs and his setting of Zarathustra's song "O Mensch" (O Man) from Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, its six movements recount nothing less than the story of the Creation through to a final ode to divine love. The final Adagio seems to exist outside of time: is this Mahler's vision of heaven?

Recorded at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam.

Introduced by Hannah French.

Mahler: Symphony no. 3 in D minor.

Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano)
National Children's Choir of Netherlands
Women of the Laurens Symphonic Choir

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Klaus M盲kel盲 (conductor)

Recorded Concertgebouw, Amsterdam on 17 Sept 2023

2 hours, 28 minutes

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Thu 11 Jan 2024 19:30
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 3 in D minor (6 movements)

    Librettist: Friedrich Nietzsche. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Klaus M盲kel盲. Singer: Jennifer Johnston. Choir: National Children's Choir of Netherlands. Choir: Women of the Laurens Symphonic Choir.

  • Pietro Locatelli

    Introduzione teatrale in D Major, Op. 4 No. 1

    Music Arranger: Jelte Althuis. Ensemble: Calefax Reed Quintet.
    • Hidden Gems.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 101.

  • William Brocklesby Wordsworth

    Piano Sonata in D minor, Op. 13

    Performer: Christopher Guild.
    • William Wordsworth: Complete Music for Solo Piano.
    • Toccata Classics.
    • 1-3.

  • Robert Schumann

    Vanitas vanitatum (5 Pieces in the Popular Style)

    Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Songs from the Arc of Life.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.

  • Michael William Balfe

    The Bohemian Girl (Overture)

    Orchestra: RT脡 National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • The Bohemian Girl.
    • Argo.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Thu 11 Jan 2024 19:30
    大象传媒 Radio 3