After successful releases of Mahler symphonies Nos.1 (EXCL-00026) and 4 (EXCL-00048), this is the third volume featuring the third symphony as one of the culminations of this live recording series. Mr.Honeck, one of the best interpreter of the composer in our time, born in Austria and cultivating his music basics in Vienna, finds this symphony as a history of the Creation composed by Mahler. With enthusiastic, dedicated support from the orchestra musicians, Mr.Honeck successfully depicts this extraordinary symphony leaving no one in the audience as well as with the CD untouched.

Manfred Honeck’s Thoughts on Mahler's Symphony No. 3
“Listening to Mahler's "Third" for the first time I was deeply impressed by the originality of the music. Today I am aware that there is much in this symphony that reminds me of my childhood, when I was allowed to spend my annual summer holidays on an idyllic Austrian Alp: the daily view of the impressive mountain tops, the lush green of the meadows, the breathtaking alpine flora, the way we used to fall asleep gently and naturally – there was no artificial light. Dozing off, once in a while one could hear brass band from an inn far away. These are never-to-be-forgotten reminiscences which I feel Mahler composed into the music. He does not miss any opportunity, at least not in the first three movements, to capture nature in both its boundless beauty and ferocity. Even the posthorn solo in the third movement, very sensitively played in our recording by the superb George Vosburgh, fits into the idyllic world of nature with its simplicity and its common touch.