Composers: Mahler
Compositions: Symphony No 8
Performers: Angela Meade, Erin Wall, Lisette Oropesa s, Elizabeth Bishop, Mihoko Fujimura ca, Anthony Dean Griffey t, Markus Werba bar, John Relyea b, Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Catalogue Number: DG 4837871

From the very beginning, Mahler’s most grandiose conception was always going to attract entrepreneurs and extroverts. Impresario Emil Gutmann, who organised the premiere of Symphony No 8 in Munich’s New Music Festival Hall dubbed it the “Symphony of a Thousand,” a name that has stuck ever since. Sitting in the audience on that occasion in September 1910 was another showman, the young Leopold Stokowski....