Symphony no. 3

Album by Gustav Mahler & Christa Ludwig & Česká filharmonie & Pražský filharmonický sbor & Václav Neumann

Symphony No. 3 is the third symphony by Austrian composer Gustav Mahler, completed in 1896. Musically it employs a vast orchestral and vocal palette across six movements, combining late-Romantic chromaticism, folk-like melodies and nature-inspired motifs, and it occupies a pivotal place in Mahler's output as a step toward his later large-scale, philosophically oriented symphonies that influenced early 20th-century orchestral practice.