Andris Nelsons conducts Mahler Symphony No. 8

Name: Andris Nelsons conducts Mahler Symphony No. 8
Start: 2024-10-04T20:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-04T22:30:00-04:00
Location: Symphony Hall Boston

Schedule

Fri Oct 04 2024 at 08:00 pm to 10:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Symphony Hall Boston | Boston, MA

Andris Nelsons, conductor
Latonia Moore, soprano 1
Christine Goerke, soprano 2
Ying Fang, soprano 3
Mihoko Fujimura, mezzo-soprano 1
Gerhild Romberger, mezzo-soprano 2
Andreas Schager, tenor
Michael Nagy, baritone
Ryan Speedo Green, bass-baritone
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
James Burton, conductor
Boys of the St. Paul’s Choir School
Brandon Straub, Music Director
MAHLER Symphony No. 8
Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, the so-called “Symphony of a Thousand” for eight soloists, large chorus, children’s chorus, organ, and orchestra, was the composer’s most ambitious work philosophically as well as musically. In this oratorio-like work, Mahler pairs a vast setting of the hymn “Veni, creator spiritus” with the redemptive final scene of Goethe’s Faust, striving for the widest possible scope of spiritual optimism.