Susan Graham, mezzo-sopranoTanglewood performance of Mahler Symphony No. 3 – August 9, 2020 LiveEvents August 8, 2020 1114 BSO Encore Performances from Tanglewood presents Mahler Symphony No. 3 BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons has an affinity for the grandest, most ambitious symphonic repertoire. Here he leads a stunning performance of Mahler’s biggest and most varied work, the Third Symphony, the second piece in the symphonic trilogy using text from the folk-poetry collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn (“The Boy’s Magic Horn”). The wonderful Susan Graham is the mezzo-soprano soloist in the fourth and fifth movements; she is joined by women’s chorus and children’s chorus in the fifth-movement Wunderhorn setting “Es sungen drei Engel” (“Three angels were singing”). The symphony explores the relationship among nature, humankind, and the spirit through movements with such titles as “What the Wild Flowers Tell Me,” “What the Angels Tell Me,” and, in the extended, gorgeous finale, “What Love Tells Me.” Performance Details Hosted by Jamie Bernstein Boston Symphony Orchestra Andris Nelsons, conductor Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano Tanglewood Festival Chorus and Boston Symphony Children’s Choir, James Burton, conductor Recorded August 24, 2018 Available August 9, 2020 at 2:30pm through August 16. www.bso.org/tanglewood BSO Encore Performances from Tanglewood Video streamed full-length concerts on Sunday afternoons of the BSO and Tanglewood Festival Chorus chosen from Tanglewood’s vast archive of recorded performances. Each will be introduced by a celebrity host and performance by Andris Nelsons, Seiji Ozawa, John Williams, and Anne-Sophie Mutter, among others. Learn more about Tanglewood and the surrounding area