Philippe Jordan © Michael Poehn
Wiener Symphoniker / Jordan
Mahler: Symphonie Nr. 8
Thursday
7
November
2024
19:30 – ca. 21:00
Großer Saal
Performers
Wiener Symphoniker
Wiener Singverein, Chor
Einstudierung: Johannes Prinz
Wiener Singakademie
Einstudierung: Heinz Ferlesch
Wiener Sängerknaben
Einstudierung: Manuel Huber und Oliver Stech
Elisabeth Teige, Magna Peccatrix (Sopran)
Johanni van Oostrum, Una Poenitentium (Sopran)
Regula Mühlemann, Mater Gloriosa (Sopran)
Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Mulier Samaritana (Mezzosopran)
Noa Beinart, Maria Aegyptiaca (Alt)
Benjamin Bruns, Doctor Marianus (Tenor)
Christopher Maltman, Pater Ecstaticus (Bariton)
Tareq Nazmi, Pater Profundus (Bass)
Philippe Jordan, Dirigent
Programme
Gustav Mahler
Symphonie Nr. 8 Es-Dur in zwei Sätzen für großes Orchester, acht Solisten, zwei gemischte Chöre und Knabenchor (1906–1907)
Note
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Links
https://www.wienersingakademie.at
https://www.wienersymphoniker.at
https://christophermaltman.com
https://www.wienersaengerknaben.at
https://www.tareq-nazmi.com
https://regulamuehlemann.com
http://www.benjaminbruns.com
https://www.singverein.at
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
Powerful sound
Gustav Mahler's 8th Symphony is an exceptional work not only because of its large-scale scoring with three choirs, eight vocal soloists and an orchestra of well over a hundred instrumentalists, which earned it the nickname »Symphony of a Thousand«. It also impresses with an enormous variety of musical means and forms as well as the ingenious interplay between the two very different texts set to music - the hymn »Veni creator spiritus« and the final scene from Goethe's »Faust«.
Mahler himself considered the 8th Symphony, whose premiere in Munich in 1910 was a triumphant success as a composer and conductor, to be his most important work. »Imagine that the universe begins to sound and resound. It is no longer human voices, but planets and suns orbiting«, he wrote about the symphony to the conductor Willem Mengelberg.