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Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra along with Anna Larsson on their rendition of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 3 in D minor. The main work on the Third Symphony took place in the summers of 1895 and 1896. Two songs, “Ablösung im Sommer” (“Relief in Summer”) and “Das himmlische Leben” (“Life in Heaven”), provide source material for some of the symphony, and they go back to about 1890 and February 1892, respectively. Mahler made final revisions in May 1899.