℗ 2013 Decca Music Group Limited
Released | 2013 |
Duration | 1h 19m 47s |
Record Label | Decca Music Group |
Genre | Classical |
Mahler: Symphony No.8
Heather Harper, Lucia Popp, Arleen Augér, Yvonne Minton, Helen Watts, René Kollo, John Shirley-Quirk, Martti Talvela, Wiener Sängerknaben, Wiener Singverein, Wiener Staatsopernchor, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
Symphony No.8 in E flat - "Symphony of a Thousand" / Part One: Hymnus "Veni creator spiritus"
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1.1
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"Veni creator spiritus"
Gustav Mahler; Anonymous; Wiener Staatsopernchor; Wiener Singverein; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Sir Georg Solti |
1:26 | |||
1.2
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"Imple superna gratia"
Gustav Mahler; Anonymous; Heather Harper; Lucia Popp; Yvonne Minton; Helen Watts; René Kollo; John Shirley-Quirk; Martti Talvela; Wiener Singverein; Wiener Staatsopernchor; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Sir Georg Solti |
4:25 | |||
1.3
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"Infirma nostri corporis"
Gustav Mahler; Anonymous; Heather Harper; Lucia Popp; Yvonne Minton; Helen Watts; René Kollo; John Shirley-Quirk; Martti Talvela; Wiener Singverein; Wiener Staatsopernchor; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Sir Georg Solti |
6:21 | |||
1.4
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"Accende lumen sensibus"
Gustav Mahler; Anonymous; Heather Harper; Lucia Popp; Yvonne Minton; Helen Watts; René Kollo; John Shirley-Quirk; Martti Talvela; Wiener Sängerknaben; Wiener Singverein; Wiener Staatsopernchor; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Sir Georg Solti |
4:43 | |||
1.5
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"Veni, Creator...Da gaudiorum praemia"
Gustav Mahler; Anonymous; Heather Harper; Lucia Popp; Yvonne Minton; Helen Watts; René Kollo; John Shirley-Quirk; Martti Talvela; Wiener Singverein; Wiener Sängerknaben; Wiener Staatsopernchor; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Sir Georg Solti |
3:50 | |||
1.6
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"Gloria sit Patri Domino"
Gustav Mahler; Anonymous; Heather Harper; Lucia Popp; Helen Watts; Yvonne Minton; René Kollo; John Shirley-Quirk; Martti Talvela; Wiener Singverein; Wiener Sängerknaben; Wiener Staatsopernchor; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Sir Georg Solti |
2:37 | |||
Symphony No.8 in E flat - "Symphony of a Thousand" / Part Two: Final scene from Goethe's "Faust"
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1.7
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Poco adagio: "Waldung, sie schwankt heran"
Gustav Mahler; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Wiener Singverein; Wiener Staatsopernchor; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Sir Georg Solti |
14:16 | |||
1.8
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"Ewiger Wonnebrand"
Gustav Mahler; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; John Shirley-Quirk; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Sir Georg Solti |
1:35 | |||
1.9
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"Wie Felsenabgrund mir zu Füßen"
Gustav Mahler; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Martti Talvela; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Sir Georg Solti |
4:42 | |||
1.10
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"Gerettet ist das edle Glied"
Gustav Mahler; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Wiener Singverein; Wiener Staatsopernchor; Wiener Sängerknaben; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Sir Georg Solti |
3:03 | |||
1.11
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"Uns bleibt ein Erdenrest"
Gustav Mahler; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Yvonne Minton; René Kollo; Wiener Sängerknaben; Wiener Singverein; Wiener Staatsopernchor; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Sir Georg Solti |
2:59 | |||
1.12
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"Höchste Herrscherin der Welt"
Gustav Mahler; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Lucia Popp; René Kollo; Wiener Singverein; Wiener Staatsopernchor; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Sir Georg Solti |
8:08 | |||
1.13
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"Bei der Liebe, die den Fussen"
Gustav Mahler; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Heather Harper; Yvonne Minton; Helen Watts; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Sir Georg Solti |
4:54 | |||
1.14
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"Neige, neige, du Ohnegleiche"
Gustav Mahler; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Lucia Popp; Arleen Augér; Wiener Sängerknaben; Wiener Singverein; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Sir Georg Solti |
5:18 | |||
1.15
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"Blicket auf zum Retterblick"
Gustav Mahler; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; René Kollo; Wiener Singverein; Wiener Staatsopernchor; Wiener Sängerknaben; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Sir Georg Solti |
4:47 | |||
1.16
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"Alles Vergängliche"
Gustav Mahler; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Heather Harper; Lucia Popp; Yvonne Minton; Helen Watts; René Kollo; John Shirley-Quirk; Martti Talvela; Wiener Sängerknaben; Wiener Singverein; Wiener Staatsopernchor; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Sir Georg Solti |
6:43 |
"Solti's 'Symphony of a Thousand' is nothing short of electrifying, from the opening, explosive organ chord, full-blooded choral singing, an amazing soloist line-up and articulate, expressive orchestral playing. A grand occasion full of passion and tension. And it really is spectacularly recorded."
- BBC Music Magazine
"Now at last Mahler's 'Symphony of a Thousand' can be heard on record at something approaching its full, expansive stature. Here is a version from Solti which ... conveys the feeling of a great occasion ... so overwhelming is the build-up of tension."
- Gramophone
Sir Georg Solti heads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in this stunning and critically acclaimed performance of Mahler's Eight Symphony. The Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major by Gustav Mahler is one of the largest-scale choral works in the classical concert repertoire, requiring huge instrumental and vocal forces. This has earned it the subtitle, "Symphony of a Thousand", although the work is normally presented with far fewer than a thousand performers and the composer did not sanction that name.
The work was composed in a single inspired burst at his Maiernigg villa in southern Austria in the summer of 1906. The last of Mahler's works that was premiered in his lifetime, the symphony was a critical and popular success when he conducted the Munich Philharmonic in its first performance, in Munich, on 12 September 1910.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Decca Music Group Studio Masters
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -1.90 -4.61 to -0.37 | -22.79 -27.93 to -16.60 | -18.84 -24.20 to -13.00 | 12 10 to 15 | |
1 | "Veni creator spiritus" | -1.30 | -18.96 | -15.4 | 11 |
2 | "Imple superna gratia" | -1.52 | -23.49 | -19.7 | 12 |
3 | "Infirma nostri corporis" | -4.61 | -27.93 | -24.2 | 14 |
4 | "Accende lumen sensibus" | -0.93 | -18.49 | -15.3 | 12 |
5 | "Veni, Creator...Da gaudiorum praemia" | -0.82 | -19.87 | -16.1 | 11 |
6 | "Gloria sit Patri Domino" | -0.44 | -16.60 | -13.0 | 10 |
7 | Poco adagio: "Waldung, sie schwankt heran" | -2.83 | -25.37 | -19.3 | 13 |
8 | "Ewiger Wonnebrand" | -2.75 | -23.25 | -19.9 | 12 |
9 | "Wie Felsenabgrund mir zu Füßen" | -2.76 | -21.02 | -17.5 | 12 |
10 | "Gerettet ist das edle Glied" | -1.73 | -22.91 | -19.0 | 13 |
11 | "Uns bleibt ein Erdenrest" | -2.10 | -26.18 | -22.4 | 14 |
12 | "Höchste Herrscherin der Welt" | -3.22 | -26.79 | -22.5 | 14 |
13 | "Bei der Liebe, die den Fussen" | -0.98 | -27.35 | -23.7 | 15 |
14 | "Neige, neige, du Ohnegleiche" | -3.33 | -25.22 | -21.9 | 13 |
15 | "Blicket auf zum Retterblick" | -0.37 | -21.39 | -17.3 | 12 |
16 | "Alles Vergängliche" | -0.67 | -19.85 | -14.2 | 11 |