Mahler - Symphonie No. 3

Mahler - Symphonie No. 3

Due to its 95-minute duration, Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 3 is an imposing and mysterious work. This 2009 performance, directed by Christoph Eschenbach, includes the Orchestre de Paris and Choir of the Orchestre de Paris with Mihoko Fujimura (soprano). During the six parts of this wonderful symphony, Mahler expresses his musical vision of nature and mankind's place in it. Much like he did in his second symphony, Mahler incorporates some of his song cycle Des Knaben Wunderhorn. The fourth movement ends with a magnificent solo for alto, inspired by a poem by Friedrich Nietzsche, played here by Florence Quivar, and the fifth movement concludes with a male choir. The third symphony originally consisted of seven movements, but Mahler eventually chose to cut the seventh part, which he then used as the last movement for his fourth symphony.