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Mahler: Symphony No. 8

Polina Pasztircsák (soprano), Manuel Uhl (soprano), Fatma Said (soprano), Katrin Wundstram (mezzo-soprano), Katharina Magiera (contralto), Neal Cooper (tenor), Hanno Müller-Brachmann (baritone), Peter Rose (bass)

Choir of the Städtischer Musikverein, Philharmonischer Chor Bonn, Kartäuserkantorei...

Release Date: 1st Nov 2019
Catalogue No: AVI8553474
Label: Avi Music
Series: Adam Fischer Mahler Symphonies
Length: 77 minutes

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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'

Work length1:17:15

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Fatma Said (soloist), Katrin Wundsam (soloist), Polina Pstrichka (soloist), Manuela Uhl (soloist)
Düsseldorfer Symphoniker
Ádám Fischer

Part I: Hymnus Veni Creator. Spiritus Allegro impetuoso

Track length24:01

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Part II: Final. Scene of Goethe's Faust. Poco adagio - Più mosso

Track length53:14

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Mahler’s Eighth is a special challenge for all participants: in rehearsals, in performance, and, of course, when making a recording. The challenge lies in freeing the music from all of the technical and logistical problems that come with it. Whenever new possibilities emerged in music history (such as new musical instruments), composers tended to introduce the novelty quite frequently in the first phase to show its potential. A good example was the Mannheim School in the 1700s.

The crescendo had just been invented: musicians no longer had to play dynamics in “terraced levels”. Mannheim pieces from that period are thus brimming with crescendos: musicians reveled in the new possibilities. Mahler, later on, wanted to explore the possibilities of an orchestra of unprecedented size, particularly in the Eighth. The effects made possible by such an enlargement should not become an end in themselves. That is the special challenge we have faced. If on this recording we have over 500 people singing and playing together, that is only a means, not an end.………..

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Choir of the Städtischer Musikverein, Philharmonischer Chor Bonn, Kartäuserkantorei Köln, Youth Choir of the Clara-Schumann Musikschule, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Ádám Fischer

Mahler: Symphony No. 8

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