During his festive inauguration as chief conductor of the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Marc Albrecht makes a statement of grand scale. Together with the choir and children’s choir of Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, he performs Gustav Mahler’s Third Symphony, a monumental masterpiece that begins tragically in the chaos of creation and ends in the infinite light of God. Along the way, Mahler explores the great questions surrounding humanity’s destiny and the primal forces of nature—themes that are also close to Albrecht’s heart. At his debut with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra in 2024, he conducted Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss, a work that—like Mahler’s Third Symphony—originated from the eponymous text by Friedrich Nietzsche. Marc Albrecht holds you captive from start to finish with this masterpiece.