Gustav Mahler made animals the next step upward on his ladder of consciousness in the third movement of his Third Symphony. Summoning both humor and tragedy, he portrays the sounds of the forest, from sweetly singing nightingales to fearsome creatures.

Starring James Lurie as the voice of Gustav Mahler, Paul Hecht as the voice of Friedrich Nietzsche, Laura Gragtmans as the voice of Natalie Bauer-Lechner, Billy Lyons as the voice of Arthur Schopenhauer, and Gary Tiedemann as the voice of Gustav Theodor Fechner

Guests include Kent Nagano (General Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera, and Chief Conductor of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra ), Carter Brey (Principal Cello, New York Philharmonic), Bill Hudgins (Principal Clarinet, Boston Symphony Orchestra), Christopher Martin (Principal Trumpet, New York Philharmonic, Marilyn McCoy (Columbia University, New York), and Joanna Neilly (Oxford University, England).

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