Israel Philharmonic Orchestra & Zubin Mehta | Mahler – III Symfonia by Mahler, Od (2019/2019), Dirigent Zubin Mehta, NFM (Narodowe Forum Muzyki), Wrocław, Poland

This concert will go down in history. The previous performance of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra at the Wratislavia Cantans festival went down in the history of Wrocław culture as the first concert of a guest orchestra at the National Forum of Music. The ensemble returns to play one of its last concerts conducted by Zubin Mehta as the permanent head of the orchestra. The phenomenal maestro retires in October. It will be a unique opportunity to hear one of the best orchestras in the world conducted by its legendary conductor. Third Symphonyhe is a full-blown Mahler, one that the audience loves. The orchestra itself consists of one hundred and fifteen people, plus a choir and a boys' choir - all together they form a great wall of sound. At the same time, Mahler is not gloomy and nostalgic, as in some later works, but a thirty-six-year-old full of admiration for nature. The third of his only nine completed symphonies, the music is as pleasant to listen to as the idyllic circumstances of its creation. The artist composed it during two holiday stays in the Alps at Lake Attersee. He was so enchanted by this place that he ordered to build a tiny wooden hut (it still exists today) in the meadow, from which he could see the water and the mountains. He stared at the storms tossing the lake, listened to the steady, calm waves, watchedThird Symphony , a hymn to the vitality and perfection of nature.