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2024–25 Season

Yannick Conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 3

October 3 - October 5, 2024

Featured Artists

Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Conductor

Joyce DiDonato

Mezzo-Soprano

Philadelphia Symphonic Choir

Joe Miller

Director

Philadelphia Girls Choir

Nathan Wadley

Artistic Director

Philadelphia Boys Choir

Jeffrey R. Smith

Artistic Director

Immerse yourself in a magnificent celebration of life with Mahler's Third Symphony, a breathtaking hymn to nature that combines the power of an expansive orchestra, choirs, and Mahler's visionary soundscape, heralded as one of the greatest symphonies of all time.

Mahler’s Third Symphony is a hymn to nature, its six movements arranged in a progressive celebration of life, from the simplest creatures to the creator of the universe. Marshalling the forces of an expansive orchestra, soprano and alto choir, and children’s choir, this spectacular work envelops the listener in a gorgeous, multi-layered paradise of sound.

Voted one of the 10 greatest symphonies of all time in a BBC Music Magazine survey by conductors, it has remained a favorite of audiences as well. Mahler himself proclaimed it was “a work of such magnitude that it actually mirrors the whole world … something the like of which the world has never yet heard! In it the whole of nature finds a voice.”

Program

Mahler

Symphony No. 3

Additional Performance Information