Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
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Ladies of the Schweizer Kammerchor
(chorus master Fritz Nähf)
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Luzerner Knabenkantorei
(chorus master Eberhard Rex)
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Mariss Jansons
conductor
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Anna Larsson
contralto
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Symphony No. 3 in D minor
“For me ‘symphony’ means building a world with all the technical means available,” Mahler famously said when describing his compositional philosophy. And he reserved the highest level within this world for love. This is what the Third Symphony proclaims as it reconstructs the creative act: The inorganic cosmos becomes progressively enriched with living plants, animals that move and are guided by instinct, rational humanity, and celestial angels until, at the end, in the finale, love seals the great work, elevating it to a yet higher level. “But the love in question in this Symphony is of another kind that what you might imagine,” Mahler wrote in 1896 to his close friend Anna von Mildenburg. “I could almost title the finale ‘What God tells me’—indeed in the sense that God can be comprehended only as ‘love.’ Thus my work is a musical poem that embraces all stages of development as they ascend step by step. It begins with inanimate nature and works its way up to the love of God!”
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