Minnesota Boychoir

Jennifer Johnston, Minnesota Chorale, Minnesota Boychoir, Minnesota Orchestra & Osmo Vänskä – Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:44:03 minutes | 1,63 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo Vänskä bring us Gustav Mahler’s Third Symphony, an extraordinary work by any standards. Scored for extended Wagnerian woodwind and brass sections, posthorn, a large array of percussion, women’s chorus, alto soloist and boys’ choir, the symphony has a duration of over 100 minutes and is filled with extreme emotion, revealing what the composer wanted to say about his own connection with nature and humanity’s place in it: ‘My symphony will be something the world has never heard before! The whole of nature will have a voice in it…’ he wrote about this mammoth work.

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