International Concert Series 2019-20: Prague Symphony Orchestra, Conductor Pietari Inkin, Soloist Ester Pavlu, Mezzo-Soprano; Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral Choir, Cardiff Bach Choir, Swansea Bach Choir. As the last great Romantic symphonist, Mahler’s music is conceived on the grandest scale. Determined to express his view of the human condition, he claimed his “symphonies represent the contents of my entire life”. Regarded by some as one of the ten greatest symphonies of all time, Mahler’s epic Third Symphony is a sublime hymn to the natural world, its ambitious scale, launched by a barnstorming opening movement, unfolds with an accumulating emotional energy and culminates in a heaven-storming apotheosis.