Mahler: Symphony No. 3

Mahler's biggest symphony gets an appropriately meaty performance from unfamiliar forces. Exciting, but it wears its heart on its sleeve in the religioso treatment of the last movement. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2015, 3 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 30th Mar 2015
Catalogue No: AVI8553325
Label: Avi Music
Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

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Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, Part I

Work length34:59

Daniel Raiskin bad, Ewa Marciniec, Boys of the Mainzer Domchor, Ladies of the Domkantorei Mainz, Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie, Peter Moenkediek, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz

I. Kräftig. Entschieden

Track length34:59

Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, Part II

Work length1:06:22

Daniel Raiskin bad, Ewa Marciniec, Boys of the Mainzer Domchor, Ladies of the Domkantorei Mainz, Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie, Peter Moenkediek, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz

II. Tempo di menuetto. Sehr mässig

Track length9:48

III. Comodo. Scherzando. Ohne Hast

Track length17:27

IV. Sehr langsam. Misterioso

Track length9:27

V. Lustig im Tempo und keck im Ausdruck

Track length4:15

VI. Langsam. Ruhevoll. Empfunden

Track length25:25

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The composer who dared such open rivalry with God himself was also a brilliant conductor. “Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music”, Schelling once wrote, and Mahler applied this in his conducting style: music is architecture transposed into the dimension of time – moving, flowing architecture. Instead of merely tracing the outlines of fellow-artists’ musical blueprints with a schoolboyish hand, Mahler built forms based on the drawings of great musical architects. To Mahler, the actual process of constructing a musical form – its deployment along the axis of time – was infinitely more important than the ultimate goal, a perfectly formed crystal.

Therein lies Mahler’s most important contribution to the aesthetics and practice of conducting. He was the first to comprehend Wagner’s aversion to “crystalline form”. Instead, as a composer and as a conductor, he consistently applied the concept of form as process. Whenever he conducted his own symphonies, Mahler enjoyed the advantage of combining two roles into one: he acted as a musical architect and, at the same time, as a master builder who could immediately bring his construction project into fruition in the concert hall. Every bit as significant, however, were the decisive consequences Mahler drew from Wagner’s pronouncements on the future of the symphony and of instrumental music in general.

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August 2015

Mahler's biggest symphony gets an appropriately meaty performance from unfamiliar forces. Exciting, but it wears its heart on its sleeve in the religioso treatment of the last movement.

Mahler: Symphony No. 3

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