Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - Mahler: Symphony No. 8 (Live at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, May 2025) (2025) [24/96]

Future chief conductor Klaus Mäkelä is already conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra, and tonight they’ll perform Mahler’s monumental Eighth Symphony together, joined by no less than four choirs.

Klaus Mäkelä has been artistic partner of the Concertgebouw Orchestra since 2022 and will become chief conductor in 2027. Earlier in this festival, he already conducted the First Symphony, today the Eighth. The Concertgebouw Orchestra shares the stage with no fewer than four vocal ensembles: the National Radio Choir, Laurens Symphonic, the Choeur de l'Orchestre de Paris and the National Children's Choir.
Mahler's Symphony No. 8

Mahler wrote to his friend Willem Mengelberg that his Eighth Symphony was his greatest work ever. 'All the other symphonies were anticipating this.' Moreover, he experienced it as if the piece of music was dictated to him in a vision. In two monumental movements, Mahler says he sings of the entire universe. 'There are no longer human voices sounding. They are planets and suns, revolving in their orbits.' Practically speaking, it is also a rather voluminous work. Mahler did often need very many performers, and in this Mahler's 'symphony of a thousand', there are close to four hundred. Or more: in 1912, Mengelberg conducted a version with two thousand musicians and singers.

TRACKLIST

1. Netherlands Radio Choir - I. Veni, creator spiritus (Live at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, May 2025)
2. Hailey Clark - II. Imple superna gratia (Live at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, May 2025)
3. Hailey Clark - III. Infirma nostri corporis I – IV. Tempo I. Allegro, etwas hastig (Live at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, May 2025)
4. Hailey Clark - V. Infirma nostri corporis II (Live at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, May 2025)
5. Hailey Clark - VI. Accende lumen sensibus (Live at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, May 2025)
6. Hailey Clark - VII. Qui Paraclitus diceris (Live at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, May 2025)
7. Hailey Clark - VIII. Gloria sit Patri Domino (Live at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, May 2025)
8. Netherlands Radio Choir - I. Poco adagio (Live at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, May 2025)
9. Netherlands Radio Choir - II. Più mosso. Allegro moderato (Live at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, May 2025)
10. Netherlands Radio Choir - III. Waldung, sie schwankt heran (Live at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, May 2025)
11. Michael Nagy - IV. Ewiger Wonnebrand (Live at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, May 2025)
12. Tareq Nazmi - V. Wie Felsenabgrund mir zu Füssen (Live at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, May 2025)
13. Netherlands Radio Choir - VI. Gerettet ist das edle Glied (Live at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, May 2025)
14. Netherlands Radio Choir - VII. Jene Rosen, aus den Händen (Live at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, May 2025)
15. Netherlands Radio Choir - VIII. Uns bleibt ein Erdenrest (Live at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, May 2025)
16. Giorgio Berrugi - IX. Ich spür' soeben – X. Höchste Herrscherin der Welt (Live at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, May 2025)
17. Netherlands Radio Choir - XI. Dir, der Unberührbaren (Live at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, May 2025)
18. Hailey Clark - XII. Bei der Liebe, die den Fussen – XIII. Neige, neige, du Ohnegleiche (Live at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, May 2025)
19. Golda Schultz - XIV. Er überwächst uns schon – XVa. Komm! hebe dich zu höhern Sphären (Live at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, May 2025)
20. Giorgio Berrugi - XVb. Blicket auf zum Retterblick (Live at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, May 2025)
21. Hailey Clark - XVI. Alles Vergängliche (Live at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, May 2025)



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