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Radio 3 in Concert: Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand from Hanover

Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand from Hanover

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 in Concert, Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand from Hanover

Ingo Metzmacher conducts the NDR Radio Philharmonic in Mahler's Symphony No. 8.

Massed forces fill the vast dome of the Kuppelsaal des Congress Centrums, Hanover, in a performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 8, conducted by Ingo Metzmacher.

'It is the best thing I have ever done,' said Mahler of his Eighth Symphony - for which tonight the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Ingo Metzmacher join forces with no fewer than eight choirs. One of the grandest symphonic statements of the repertoire, concluding with a dramatic setting of the mystical closing scene from Goethe's Faust, it's a work on a mammoth scale.

Presented by Fiona Talkington

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) - Symphony No. 8 in E flat ('Symphony of a Thousand')

Brit-Tone Müllertz, soprano
Manuela Uhl, soprano
Tuuli Takala, soprano
Anke Vongdung, contralto
Christina Bock, contralto
Michael Schade, tenor
Christoph Pohl, baritone
David Steffens, bass

Bachchor Hannover
Capella St. Crucis Hannover
Collegium Vocale Hannover
Johannes-Brahms-Chor Hannover
Norddeutscher Figuralchor Hannover
Junges Vokalensemble Hannover
Mädchenchor Hannover
Knabenchor Hannover

NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra 
Ingo Metzmacher, conductor

Concert recorded on 21.05.23 at the Kuppelsaal des Congress Centrums, Hannover.

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