Give Mahler a cheery nursery-rhyme ditty and he’ll turn it into the bleakest of gallows marches. Don’t believe us? Have a listen to the opening of the third movement of the First Symphony.

Whatever Mahler’s score says, it’s unusual in concert for this initial storminess to stick around through the symphony’s triptych of contrasting inner movements ... Op. 3, No. 3 — felt ...