Yesterday I listened to Georg Friedrich Handel’s Messiah.
Today I am listening to Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 in E-flat Major, Sinfonie der Tausend.
Where else can you sing in English, Latin, and German, all in two days? At home, of course 🙂
It’s just a bit disconcerting when you’re wearing headphones, singing “Veni, creator spiritus”, and your wife pops around the corner to see what you’re doing. Which she just did.
Alles Vergängliche
Ist nur ein Gleichnis;
Das Ewig Weibliche
Zieht uns hinan.
Good night all.
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YMMV, but I might suggest Boulez’s recording of the Eighth which was released last year.
I’ve been looking for a Bruno Walter recording for years, if one even exists. That would be essentially once removed from the baton of the Master.
If I had a time machine that would take me back to Munich on September 12, 1910, along with some modern recording equipment, ah…
Arkivmusic doesn’t show any recordings for 3, 6,7 or 8 so there probably was never a commercial release. Maybe there’s a pirate version floating around But I think the sonics would kill it. I have his recording of the 9th with the VPO, and the difference between recording equipment back in 1938 versus now really shows up on it–good as a historical curiousity but nothing more. And that goes triple for the Eighth, which almost demands Surround Sound.