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Aside from his sensational Wagner Ring cycle, if one recording in Georg Solti's catalog bears repeated reissues, it must be his truly legendary rendition of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in E flat major, "Symphony of a Thousand," a captivating performance that was unmatched in its day and one that still holds its own against later releases. This 1971 recording is especially worth considering because of its unequaled octet of singers -- sopranos Heather Harper, Lucia Popp, and Arleen Augér, contraltos Yvonne Minton and Helen Watts, tenor René Kollo, baritone John Shirley-Quirk, and bass Martti Talvela -- whose ecstatic voices are set against three great Viennese choirs and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra playing its absolute best. Such a confluence of talent under Solti's baton certainly makes this version desirable, but what makes it fascinating to hear is the stunning mastering, which brings out all of this magnificent recording's refined details, spatial depth, and dynamic power, making it an even more compelling listening experience than it was on vinyl. This extraordinary recording is not only highly recommended, it is mandatory for all serious Mahlerians.
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Symphony No. 8 in E-Flat Major "Symphony of a Thousand"/ Part I "Veni creator Spiritus" (Gustav Mahler)
Wiener Singverein - Wiener Staatsopernchor - Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Sir Georg Solti, Conductor - Gustav Mahler, Composer - Hrabanus Maurus, Author - David Harvey, Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Balance Engineer - Gordon Parry, Recording Engineer
℗ 1972 Decca Music Group Limited
Heather Harper, Soprano I (Magna Peccatrix) - Lucia Popp, Soprano II (Una Poenitentium) - Yvonne Minton, Mezzo-Soprano (Mulier Samaritana) - Helen Watts, Contralto (Maria Aegyptiac) - René Kollo, Tenor (Doctor Marianus) - John Shirley-Quirk, Baritone (Pater Ecstaticus) - Martti Talvela, Bass (Pater Profundus) - Wiener Singverein - Wiener Staatsopernchor - Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Sir Georg Solti, Conductor - Gustav Mahler, Composer - Hrabanus Maurus, Author - David Harvey, Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Balance Engineer - Gordon Parry, Recording Engineer
℗ 1972 Decca Music Group Limited
Heather Harper, Soprano I (Magna Peccatrix) - Lucia Popp, Soprano II (Una Poenitentium) - Yvonne Minton, Mezzo-Soprano (Mulier Samaritana) - Helen Watts, Contralto (Maria Aegyptiac) - René Kollo, Tenor (Doctor Marianus) - John Shirley-Quirk, Baritone (Pater Ecstaticus) - Martti Talvela, Bass (Pater Profundus) - Wiener Singverein - Wiener Staatsopernchor - Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Sir Georg Solti, Conductor - Gustav Mahler, Composer - Hrabanus Maurus, Author - David Harvey, Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Balance Engineer - Gordon Parry, Recording Engineer
℗ 1972 Decca Music Group Limited
Heather Harper, Soprano I (Magna Peccatrix) - Lucia Popp, Soprano II (Una Poenitentium) - Yvonne Minton, Mezzo-Soprano (Mulier Samaritana) - Helen Watts, Contralto (Maria Aegyptiac) - René Kollo, Tenor (Doctor Marianus) - John Shirley-Quirk, Baritone (Pater Ecstaticus) - Martti Talvela, Bass (Pater Profundus) - Wiener Sängerknaben - Wiener Singverein - Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Sir Georg Solti, Conductor - Gustav Mahler, Composer - Hrabanus Maurus, Author - David Harvey, Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Balance Engineer - Gordon Parry, Recording Engineer
℗ 1972 Decca Music Group Limited
Heather Harper, Soprano I (Magna Peccatrix) - Lucia Popp, Soprano II (Una Poenitentium) - Yvonne Minton, Mezzo-Soprano (Mulier Samaritana) - Helen Watts, Contralto (Maria Aegyptiac) - René Kollo, Tenor (Doctor Marianus) - John Shirley-Quirk, Baritone (Pater Ecstaticus) - Martti Talvela, Bass (Pater Profundus) - Wiener Sängerknaben - Wiener Singverein - Wiener Staatsopernchor - Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Sir Georg Solti, Conductor - Gustav Mahler, Composer - Hrabanus Maurus, Author - David Harvey, Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Balance Engineer - Gordon Parry, Recording Engineer
℗ 1972 Decca Music Group Limited
Heather Harper, Soprano I (Magna Peccatrix) - Lucia Popp, Soprano II (Una Poenitentium) - Yvonne Minton, Mezzo-Soprano (Mulier Samaritana) - Helen Watts, Contralto (Maria Aegyptiac) - René Kollo, Tenor (Doctor Marianus) - John Shirley-Quirk, Baritone (Pater Ecstaticus) - Martti Talvela, Bass (Pater Profundus) - Wiener Sängerknaben - Wiener Singverein - Wiener Staatsopernchor - Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Sir Georg Solti, Conductor - Gustav Mahler, Composer - Hrabanus Maurus, Author - David Harvey, Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Balance Engineer - Gordon Parry, Recording Engineer
℗ 1972 Decca Music Group Limited
Symphony No. 8 in E-Flat Major "Symphony of a Thousand"/ Part II : Final Scene from Goethe's "Faust" (Gustav Mahler)
Wiener Singverein - Wiener Staatsopernchor - Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Sir Georg Solti, Conductor - Gustav Mahler, Composer - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Author - David Harvey, Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Balance Engineer - Gordon Parry, Recording Engineer
℗ 1972 Decca Music Group Limited
John Shirley-Quirk, Baritone (Pater Ecstaticus) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Sir Georg Solti, Conductor - Gustav Mahler, Composer - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Author - David Harvey, Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Balance Engineer - Gordon Parry, Recording Engineer
℗ 1972 Decca Music Group Limited
Martti Talvela, Bass (Pater Profundus) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Sir Georg Solti, Conductor - Gustav Mahler, Composer - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Author - David Harvey, Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Balance Engineer - Gordon Parry, Recording Engineer
℗ 1972 Decca Music Group Limited
Wiener Sängerknaben - Wiener Singverein - Wiener Staatsopernchor - Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Sir Georg Solti, Conductor - Gustav Mahler, Composer - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Author - David Harvey, Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Balance Engineer - Gordon Parry, Recording Engineer
℗ 1972 Decca Music Group Limited
Yvonne Minton, Mezzo-Soprano (Mulier Samaritana) - René Kollo, Tenor (Doctor Marianus) - Wiener Sängerknaben - Wiener Singverein - Wiener Staatsopernchor - Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Sir Georg Solti, Conductor - Gustav Mahler, Composer - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Author - David Harvey, Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Balance Engineer - Gordon Parry, Recording Engineer
℗ 1972 Decca Music Group Limited
Lucia Popp, Soprano II (Una Poenitentium) - René Kollo, Tenor (Doctor Marianus) - Wiener Singverein - Wiener Staatsopernchor - Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Sir Georg Solti, Conductor - Gustav Mahler, Composer - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Author - David Harvey, Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Balance Engineer - Gordon Parry, Recording Engineer
℗ 1972 Decca Music Group Limited
Heather Harper, Soprano I (Magna Peccatrix) - Yvonne Minton, Mezzo-Soprano (Mulier Samaritana) - Helen Watts, Contralto (Maria Aegyptiac) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Sir Georg Solti, Conductor - Gustav Mahler, Composer - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Author - David Harvey, Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Balance Engineer - Gordon Parry, Recording Engineer
℗ 1972 Decca Music Group Limited
Lucia Popp, Soprano II (Una Poenitentium) - Arleen Auger, Soprano III (Mater Gloriosa) - Wiener Sängerknaben - Wiener Singverein - Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Sir Georg Solti, Conductor - Gustav Mahler, Composer - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Author - David Harvey, Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Balance Engineer - Gordon Parry, Recording Engineer
℗ 1972 Decca Music Group Limited
René Kollo, Tenor (Doctor Marianus) - Wiener Sängerknaben - Wiener Singverein - Wiener Staatsopernchor - Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Sir Georg Solti, Conductor - Gustav Mahler, Composer - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Author - David Harvey, Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Balance Engineer - Gordon Parry, Recording Engineer
℗ 1972 Decca Music Group Limited
Heather Harper, Soprano I (Magna Peccatrix) - Lucia Popp, Soprano II (Una Poenitentium) - Yvonne Minton, Mezzo-Soprano (Mulier Samaritana) - Helen Watts, Contralto (Maria Aegyptiac) - René Kollo, Tenor (Doctor Marianus) - John Shirley-Quirk, Baritone (Pater Ecstaticus) - Martti Talvela, Bass (Pater Profundus) - Wiener Sängerknaben - Wiener Singverein - Wiener Staatsopernchor - Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Sir Georg Solti, Conductor - Gustav Mahler, Composer - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Author - David Harvey, Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Balance Engineer - Gordon Parry, Recording Engineer
℗ 1972 Decca Music Group Limited
Album review
Aside from his sensational Wagner Ring cycle, if one recording in Georg Solti's catalog bears repeated reissues, it must be his truly legendary rendition of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in E flat major, "Symphony of a Thousand," a captivating performance that was unmatched in its day and one that still holds its own against later releases. This 1971 recording is especially worth considering because of its unequaled octet of singers -- sopranos Heather Harper, Lucia Popp, and Arleen Augér, contraltos Yvonne Minton and Helen Watts, tenor René Kollo, baritone John Shirley-Quirk, and bass Martti Talvela -- whose ecstatic voices are set against three great Viennese choirs and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra playing its absolute best. Such a confluence of talent under Solti's baton certainly makes this version desirable, but what makes it fascinating to hear is the stunning mastering, which brings out all of this magnificent recording's refined details, spatial depth, and dynamic power, making it an even more compelling listening experience than it was on vinyl. This extraordinary recording is not only highly recommended, it is mandatory for all serious Mahlerians.
© TiVo
Details of original recording : Recorded in the Sofiensaal, Vienna (Austria), in August & September 1971
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 16 track(s)
- Total length: 01:19:38
- Main artist: Georg Solti
- Composer: Gustav Mahler
- Label: Decca Music Group Ltd.
- Area: Autriche
- Genre: Classical
- Period: Post-romantic Music
© 2013 Decca Music Group Limited ℗ 2013 Decca Music Group Limited
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