Title: Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.8
Release year: 2016
Genre: Classical
Directed by: Ute Feudel
Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
Artist: Ricarda Merbeth, soprano (Magna Peccatrix), Juliane Banse, soprano (Una poenitentium), Anna Lucia Richter, soprano (Mater gloriosa), Sara Mingardo, contralto (Mulier Samaritana), Mihoko Fujimura, mezzo-soprano (Maria Aegyptiaca), Andreas Schager, tenor (Doctor Marianus), Peter Mattei, baritone (Pater ecstaticus), Samuel Youn, bass-baritone (Pater profundus); Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Latvian Radio Choir, Orfeón Donostiarra, Tölzer Knabenchor, Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Description:

Gustav Mahler's 8th Symphony breaks the boundaries of the symphonic form in the world-embracing gesture. Riccardo Chailly is one of the staunchest performers of this work, and therefore it seemed appropriate in many ways that he chose this work for his inaugural concert as Claudio Abbado's successor and new music director of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. The artistic statement was combined with a deeply personal conviction: it should be a "tribute to Claudio," the highly esteemed friend and colleague to whom Chailly, as he emphasizes, owes very much. On 12 August 2016, Claudio Abbado's unfinished Mahler cycle with the Lucerne The Festival of Orchestra was completed in the Mahler 8th, at the same time heralding in a new era in Lucerne.

Tracklist
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
• Symphony No. 8 in E-Flat Major 'Symphony of a Thousand'

Issued: United States | Accentus
Duration: 1:32:57