Symphony No. 3

by Gustav Mahler

Symphony No. 3 cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1970
  • Label: Philips
  • Country: Austria
  • Length: 1:37:21
  • Community rating: 4.11/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This recording captures the sweeping, nature-inspired grandeur of Mahler's longest and most structurally massive symphony. Navigating enormous orchestral forces alongside vocal and choral interludes, the performance meticulously details the composer's transition from dark, primordial marches to divine, transcendent love. It remains a highly celebrated, definitive interpretation of late-Romantic excess and brilliance.

Genres

Descriptors: Modern, acoustic, orchestral, symphonic, long-form, majestic, melodic

Tracklist

  1. First Movement (Part I) - Kraftig: Entshieden (With Vigour And Decision) (28:43)
  2. First Movement (Part II) - Kraftig: Entshieden (5:01)
  3. Second Movement - Tempo Di Menuetto (9:41)
  4. Third Movement: Comodo, Scherzando, Ohne Hast (17:51)
  5. Fourth Movement: Sehr Langsam, Misterioso (8:46)
  6. Fifth Movement: Lustig Im Tempo Und Keck Im Ausdruck (4:19)
  7. Sixth Movement: Langsam, Ruhevoll, Empfunden (23:00)

Credits

  • Gustav Mahler - primary artist, composed by
  • University Of Utah Civic Chorale Woman's Voices - primary artist, chorus
  • Christina Krooskos - primary artist, contralto vocals
  • Maurice Abravanel - primary artist, conductor
  • Chuck McVicker - artwork
  • William Sullivan - bugle [post horn]
  • John Marlowe Nielsen - directed by
  • Newell Weight - directed by

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