Mahler’s Third

Live at the BBC Proms: The BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales, members of the Orchestre National de Bretagne, CBSO Children’s Chorus, Ryan Bancroft & Beth Taylor.

Presented by Alexandra Humphreys, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D minor

Beth Taylor (mezzo-soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
BBC National Chorus of Wales (upper voices)
CBSO Children’s Chorus
Members of Orchestre National de Bretagne
Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

‘A symphony should be like the world,’ Mahler said, ‘it should embrace everything.’ Nowhere does this vision come more powerfully to life than in his mighty Symphony No. 3, an intricate, joyful tapestry of man, nature, heaven. The work opens in heavy summer heat and closes in rapt tranquillity in a sublime finale, animated in between by marches, dances and birdsong. Ryan Bancroft brings together the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the Orchestre National de Bretagne, joined by the CBSO Children’s Chorus and BBC National Chorus of Wales and mezzo-soprano Beth Taylor.