Mahler Symphonie Nr. 3 Live Bayerisches Staatsorchester & Zubin Metha

• Gustav Mahler (1860-1911): Symphonie Nr. 3, d-moll, Erste Abteilung, 1. Satz:
• 1 Kräftig. Entschieden 06:33
• 2 Langsam. Schwer 02:46
• 3 Tempo I 04:57
• 4 a tempo 05:25
• 5 Immer dasselbe Tempo (Marsch) 03:29
• 6 (Allegro Moderato) 05:12
• 7 Tempo I 04:55
• Symphonie Nr. 3, d-moll, Zweite Abteilung, 2. Satz
• 8 Tempo di Menuetto. Sehr mäßig 07:32
• 9 Ganz plötzlich gemächlich. Tempo di Menuetto 03:48
• Symphonie Nr. 3, d-moll, Zweite Abteilung, 3. Satz
• 10 Comodo. Scherzando. Ohne Hast 06:04
• 11 Comodo. Scherzando. Sehr gemächlich (Posthorn) 04:15
• 12 Comodo. Scherzando. Tempo I 03:04
• 13 Comodo. Scherzando. Wieder sehr gemächlich, beinahe langsam 04:01
• Symphonie Nr. 3, d-moll, Zweite Abteilung, 4. Satz
• 14 Sehr langsam. Misterioso. Durchaus ppp 08:42
• Symphonie Nr. 3, d-moll, Zweite Abteilung, 5. Satz
• 15 Lustig im Tempo und keck im Ausdruck 04:05
• Symphonie Nr. 3, d-moll, Zweite Abteilung, 6. Satz
• 16 Langsam. Ruhevoll. Empfunden 03:53
• 17 Nicht mehr so breit 03:08
• 18 Tempo I. Ruhevoll 03:50
• 19 a tempo (Etwas bewegter) 03:50
• 20 Tempo I 03:08
• 21 Langsam. Tempo I 07:02
• Total Runtime 01:39:39

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The end of a long journey – the road to the Vienna Musikverein. For some orchestras concert tours are part of their normal work schedule. However, for an opera orchestra a tour with symphonic programs is always something unusual. The Bavarian State Orchestra is considered to be one of the most significant of orchestras with the richest of traditions in the international opera world; playing as we do, in one of the most highly regarded opera houses in the world. What on an international scale is less known, is that in addition to our work in the orchestra pit, we have a long and outstanding tradition as a symphony orchestra, performing with the 'Society of the Musical Academy' (founded in 1811) in a similar way to the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, under our own roof in our own series of concerts; the 'Academy concerts' at the Bavarian State Opera.

The European tour 2004 was organised by the Bavarian State Orchestra itself; alone the last two concerts in the hall of the Vienna Musikverein being performed under the auspices of the Bavarian State Opera. The musicians had to sacrifice two weeks of their annual holiday from the beginning to the middle of September to play in ten different cities thirteen concerts with varying programs.

There is most probably no place more noble or rich in history for the closing night of a European tour such as this as the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein. Its acoustics are legendary, the history of the building is a veritable representation of European music history – think only of the scandal that there was when Mahler himself conducted performances of his own symphonies!

It was with all this in mind that we decided to record the concert in Vienna, thus enabling this period of intense music making to be secured for future reference.

'[…] a truthful recording… Mehta is in the majority in allowing this great movement to become an explosion of sound but little more… Of course there is more than one way to perform a great symphony, but there are the subtleties that can mark a great performance… Marjana Lipovsek […] is particularly powerful in its darkly expressive way… the offstage posthorn solo in the third movement is admirably played by Christian Bold…' (International MusicWeb)

Marjana Lipovsek, alto solo
Vienna Boys Choir
Women's Chorus of the Wiener Singverein
Bavarian State Orchestra
Markus Wolf, violin solo
Zubin Mehta, conductor

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