Soloist: Anger, Ain

Soloist: Coote, Alice

Soloist: Hellekant, Charlotte

Soloist: Nagy, Michael

Soloist: Richter, Anna Lucia

Soloist: Schukoff, Nikolai

Soloist: Tynan, Ailish

Soloist: Wall, Erin

Choir: Czech Philharmonic Choir, Brno

Choir: Limburger Cathedral Boys Choir

Ensemble: Europa Chor Akademie

Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Jarvi, Paavo

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Composer: Mahler, Gustav

Symphony No. 7 in E minor

Symphony No. 8 in E flat major, "Symphony of a Thousand"

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Date of Concert: 2013

Festival: Rheingau Musik Festival

Playing Time: 02:43:52

Television Director: Ciniselli, Michael

Catalogue Number: 729508

UPC: 814337012953

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In many ways Gustav Mahler's Seventh and Eighth Symphonies are the most unusual works that the late Romantic composer ever wrote. The Seventh was the last in a series of middle-period pieces that were purely instruments in character. Two movements headed Nachtmusik and the remarkable writing for a guitar and mandolin help to create a sequence of darkly Romantic visions. And even within Mahler's markedly eclectic output, the Eighth Symphony enjoys the status of an exotic outsider thanks not only to its two-movement form combining an early medieval hymn and the final scene from Goethe's Faust but also to the vast forces for which it is scored, earning it the title of Symphony of a Thousand