作曲者 | Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)・グスタフ・マーラー |
タイトル | Symphony No. 8 [合唱楽譜] |
サブタイトル | Symphony of a Thousand |
出版社 | Universal Edition(ユニヴァーサル・エディション) |
楽器編成 | for soli, boys' choir, 2 mixed choirs (SATB) and orchestra |
品番 | 9790008055577 |
編曲者 | Karl Heinz Fuessl |
出版番号 | UE2660A |
ISMN | 9790008055577 |
ISBN | 9783702426644 |
One hundred years after its premiere in Munich, Gustav Mahler's 8th Symphony is as technically challenging now as it ever was. That original performance featured a chorus of 850 singers with an orchestra of 171 musicians, leading to the Symphony of a Thousand epitaph of which the composer apparently disapproved. While the expanded orchestra is required by the score, the choral component can be sung by eight principals and a much smaller chorus. The combined choirs that came together on Saturday night as the Adelaide Festival Chorus numbered less than 500. Mahler's 8th is a two-part symphony that marries the sacred and the secular into a personal declaration of love for his wife. The music resonates with artistic anguish and spiritual yearning and its power can be truly moving. (Diana Carroll, March 2010)
1. Teil - Hymnus: Veni, creator spiritus · 2. Teil - Schlussszene aus "Faust"