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Mahler - Symphony No.8 | LPO LPO0052

Mahler - Symphony No.8

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Label: LPO

Cat No: LPO0052

Barcode: 0854990001529

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 28th February 2011

Gramophone Editor's Choice International Record Review Outstanding

Contents

Artists

Julia Varady (soprano)
Jane Eaglen (soprano)
Susan Bullock (soprano)
Trudeliese Schmidt (mezzo-soprano)
Jadwiga Rappe (mezzo-soprano)
Kenneth Riegel (tenor)
Eike Wilm Schulte (baritone)
Hans Sotin (bass)
London Symphony Chorus
Eton College Boys’ Choir
London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir

Conductor

Klaus Tennstedt

Works

Mahler, Gustav

Symphony no.8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'

Artists

Julia Varady (soprano)
Jane Eaglen (soprano)
Susan Bullock (soprano)
Trudeliese Schmidt (mezzo-soprano)
Jadwiga Rappe (mezzo-soprano)
Kenneth Riegel (tenor)
Eike Wilm Schulte (baritone)
Hans Sotin (bass)
London Symphony Chorus
Eton College Boys’ Choir
London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir

Conductor

Klaus Tennstedt

About

Popularly known as the ‘Symphony of a Thousand’, in this live recording of Mahler’s Symphony No.8 from 1991, over 528 singers and musicians are led in a vibrant, life-affirming performance by one of the greatest interpreters of Mahler’s music, Klaus Tennstedt.

The soloist line-up includes some of the most celebrated operatic singers of the twentieth century, including sopranos Júlia Várady and Susan Bullock and American tenor Kenneth Riegel.

This double disc CD features the combined choral forces of the London Philharmonic Choir and the London Symphony Chorus as well as 50 boys from Eton College Boys’ Choir.

Recorded live at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, London, on 21 January 1991.

It was an inspired a Mahler performance as Tennstedt has ever conducted, with an inevitability, a sense of spiritual grandeur and adventure, that renewed all one’s youthful faith in a work which one feared might have lost its power, thrill and surprise for ever’. - Daily Telegraph on the recorded live performance of Mahler Symphony No.8 in 1991.

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