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The longest and perhaps most ambitious of Mahler’s symphonies, the premiere of the composer's third symphony received a 15-minute ovation during which Mahler was called to return to the conducting podium a dozen times, with a critic at the first performance describing the radiant love-infused finale as ‘perhaps the greatest adagio since Beethoven’. Indeed, Mahler told Sibelius that a symphony ‘must be like the world: it must embrace everything’ - and his 3rd Symphony certainly adheres to those principles with the ranks of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra swollen to house the complement of 8-horns that depict Pan's awakening. Marianne Crebassa joins the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Chorus, and the massed Tiffin Choirs, with conductor Gustavo Dudamel in this performance of Mahler's exquisite Symphony No. 3

Presented live from the Barbican Hall in London by Ian Skelly.

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 3

Marianne Crebassa (mezzo-soprano)
Tiffin Choirs
London Symphony Chorus
Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra
Gustavo Dudamel (condcutor)

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