Archive Week
Stephen Johnson presents another concert from the BBC Archives, voted for by Radio 3 listeners. This blisteringly impassioned performance of Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand from 1959 was a turning point in the great postwar Mahler revival. It also confirms Jascha Horenstein 's reputation as one of the noblest and most sensitive of all interpreters of Mahler. Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall , London, in March 1959.
Joyce Barker , Beryl Hatt and Agnes Giebel (sopranos), Kerstin Meyer (mezzo), Helen Watts (contralto), Kenneth Neate (tenor),
Alfred Orda (baritone), Arnold Van Mill (bass), BBC Chorus, BBC Choral Society, Goldsmith's Choral Union, Hampstead Choral Society,
Emanuel School Boys' Choir, Orpington Junior Singers, London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jascha Horenstein
Mahler Symphony No 8 (Symphony of a Thousand)