Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E-flat Major

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Gürzenich Orchestra of Cologne
Barbara Haveman, soprano · Orla Boylan, soprano
Christiane Oelze, soprano · Anna Palimina, soprano
Petra Lang, mezzo soprano · Maria Radner, alto
Brandon Jovanovich, tenor · Hanno Müller-Brachmann, baritone
Günther Groissböck, bass

Girls and Boys of the Choirs at Cologne Cathedral
Choir of the Cologne Bach Society
Cologne Cathedral Choir · Cologne Carthusian Choir
Philharmonic Choir of the City of Bonn
Cologne Cathedral Vocal Ensemble
Markus Stenz, conductor

The world premiere of the Eighth Symphony of Gustav Mahler (1860 – 1911) on 12 September 1910 in Munich under the composer’s own direction was a triumph. As never before, the star conductor was also acknowledged by the public as a composer. The work had been composed four years prior to the premiere. “It is the largest that I have done so far. And so individual in content and form that one cannot write about it,” the director of the Vienna Court Opera reported in August 1906. OehmsClassics presents the SACD as a live recording of the concerts performed at the Cologne Philharmonie in September 2011.