Type: Classical Concert
Location: Lucerne Festival Hall, Switzerland
Performed by: The Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Conductor: Claudio Abbado
Year: 2017

Claudio Abbado conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 at the Lucerne Festival, delivering a monumental performance with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, featuring top musicians Kolja Blacher, Sabine Meyer, Reinhold Friedrich, and Natalia Gutman. This symphony is a vast emotional journey, invoking nature and the cosmos, moving from primal power to serene transcendence. The second movement is delicate, while the finale offers spiritual peace, enhanced by the vocal elements in the third and final movements.