Sir Simon Rattle conducts Mahler's Symphony No. 3 — With Magdalena Kožená

The 2024 Verbier Festival gets off to a running start with nothing less than the most monumental work in the symphonic repertoire: Mahler's Symphony No. 3, an earth-shaking six-movement paean to the transcendent beauty of nature and the ineffable joy of love. Sir Simon Rattle does the honors of leading the Verbier Festival Orchestra in this colossal undertaking, joined by marvelous mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená and two choirs for the famous vocal settings of the fourth and fifth movements, based on Nietzsche's Also sprach Zarathustra and the folk poems of Des Knaben Wunderhorn that also inspired Mahler's most famous song cycle.

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