#3rd symphony

[strechanadi]

Mathieu Ganio

Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler

photo Laurent Philippe

[empirearchives]

Beethoven wrote his 3rd symphony about Napoleon and in the dedication he wrote: “to celebrate the memory of a great man.” :’)

[musicainextenso]

Hello, everyone! I’m rushing around, a day late for my installment here, thinking about how different the world is now than it was when we last met. Time feels meaningless. Here in the U.S., we are existing in what feels like an endless trauma loop. I’d like to be a good musicologist here for you all, but the truth is, I’m anxious and exhausted, waiting each day for the next blow to land. I suspect many of you who live in the same country as I do feel the same right now.

Is it so surprising, then, that the only piece of music that sprang to mind for me when asked to participate in our grand Beethoven event this week was the second movement of his glorious 3rd Symphony (”Eroica”), otherwise know as the “funeral march”? This was my favorite of his symphonies when I was growing up. I had no idea how appropriate this movement would feel so many years later. Though YouTube has labeled this recording as being performed by the Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra, I’m going to trust the maker of this fantastic graphical score that it’s actually the Bezdin Ensemble, under the direction of Adina Spire.

Symphony No.3 in E flat major, Eroica, Op. 55 :

II. Marcia funebre - Adagio assai

Please enjoy this tardy contribution to our season premiere event celebrating Beethoven, and be safe out there. - Melinda Beasi

[strechanadi]

Stephane Bullion, Eleonora Abbagnato, Karl Paquette

3rd symphony by Gustav Mahler

photo: Agathe Poupeney

[strechanadi]

Karl Paquette

Troisième Symphonie de Gustav Mahler 

photo: Laurent Philippe

[culturevulturette]

When we played this in my orchestra back in the day, the director met me at the door, holding his viola (I'm was a violinist who sometimes dabbled at viola) and said, "You're viola section leader today. Don't miss that exposed part in the 3rd movement." Kinda successfully sight reading this symphony and not blowing this movement out of pure raging terror was the pinnacle musical achievement of my life.

[dreamsister81]

Goreki: 3rd Symphony

[thenewobjective]

Colin Stetson ~ Sorrow: a reimagining of Gorecki's 3rd Symphony

Colin Stetson ~ Sorrow: a reimagining of Gorecki’s 3rd Symphony

Where were you in 1992?  Many of our readers weren’t born yet.  But older readers will remember the strange surge of Polish composer Henryk Górecki as his third symphony topped the classical charts, sold a million copies and crashed into the mainstream.  Even Górecki was surprised, as the symphony had been written in 1976.  But the seeds had already been sown, as this was an era in which people…

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