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Mahler's 'Symphony of a Thousand' makes for a monumental concert.
We’d better admit first up that you won’t be able to count a thousand musicians on the stage, but with eight wonderful soloists, several choirs joining us from all over Australia, and nearly 120 instrumentalists, you’ll be able to see how Mahler’s Eighth Symphony got its nickname.
This is inspired music. It transcends symphonic form to celebrate the “Creative Spirit” of its opening hymn and the redeeming power of love. Mahler said that it came to him as if it had been dictated, a creative outpouring over an astonishing two months. Imagine, he says, the whole universe beginning to sing and resound, and not mere human voices but planets and suns.
Of course, you don’t have to imagine – these performances of Mahler 8, the first in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall for nearly 20 years, will bring a musical universe to life before your eyes and ears.
Vladimir Ashkenazy conductor
Twyla Robinson* soprano
Marina Shaguch soprano
Sara Macliver soprano
Dagmar Pecková mezzo-soprano
Bernadette Cullen mezzo-soprano
Simon O’Neill tenor
Markus Eiche baritone
Martin Snell bass
Sydney Philharmonia Choirs
Adelaide Symphony Chorus
WASO Chorus
Sydney Children’s Choir
Gondwana Voices
Find out more about the Gondwana Voices and Sydney Children's Choir.
*Please note that Annalena Persson has had to withdraw from the concert; Twyla Robinson is taking her place.
Pre-concert talk by Peter Czornyj at 7.15pm in the Northern Foyer.
AUDIO PLAYER LISTING
Track 1 – MAHLER Symphony No.8: Part I Veni, creator spiritus (Come, O Spirit of creation)
Track 2 – MAHLER Symphony No.8: Part I Accende lumen sensibus (Kindle the light of our understanding)
Track 3 – MAHLER Symphony No.8: Part II introduction
Track 4 – MAHLER Symphony No.8: Part II Chorus mysticus (finale)
All tracks: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir with other German choirs, conducted by Rafael Kubelik
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 463 738-2
Audio kindly supplied by Universal Music.