Saturday night at 8 in an encore broadcast from Tanglewood, the American mezzo-soprano [Susan Graham] joins the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Tanglewood Festival Chorus in Mahler's Symphony No. 3, a musical microcosm of the natural world.(Emphasis added.)
Andris Nelsons is the conductor in this encore broadcast of the Tanglewood concert of Friday, August 24, 2018. On the BSO program detail page, along with links to program notes, there is this description:
Andris Nelsons leads the BSO, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and Boston Symphony Children's Choir in a performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 3, another work central to Bernstein's repertoire, with Susan Graham as mezzo-soprano soloist. A multi-faceted and emotionally wide-ranging work, the Third Symphony is notable for its length (the longest symphony in the standard repertoire), difficulty, and overwhelming cumulative impact. Across its nearly 100-minute duration, the broad musical canvas incorporates a full range of musical and emotional expression, moving through rousing fanfares, tender lyricism, and melancholy to the height of exaltation.It should make for interesting listening on WCRB at 8:00 p.m., Boston Time.
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