Hitoshi Imai, Principal Horn of the NHK Symphony Orchestra, talks about discovering and playing Mahler’s longest symphony, and its theme of reverence for nature.
When Mahler wrote his Third Symphony, you couldn’t accuse him of lack of ambition. As well as making his usual demands for vast orchestral forces, Mahler intended to encapsulate the whole of creation within a single musical work. The result is a six-movement work that is gigantic in scale, especially the first movement, which takes over 40 minutes on its own.
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