LPO-0038
MAHLER SYMPHONY NO. 6 Klaus Tennstedt conductor
Mahler once remarked to Sibelius ‘a symphony must be like the world, it must embrace everything.’ His Sixth Symphony is a salient and personal statement, containing musical depictions of his wife and children. It reaches a tragic conclusion in the Finale representing ‘the hero, on whom fall three blows of fate, the last of which fells him as a tree is felled.’ Klaus Tennstedt’s interpretations of Mahler during his celebrated partnership with the London Philharmonic Orchestra bear testimony to the way Mahler composed his life. 20
KURT MASUR
KLAUS TENNSTEDT
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LPO-0052
MAHLER SYMPHONY NO. 8 Klaus Tennstedt conductor Júlia Várady, Jane Eaglen, Susan Bullock soprano, Trudeliese Schmidt, Jadwiga Rappé alto, Kenneth Riegel tenor, Eike Wilm Schulte baritone, Hans Sotin bass London Philharmonic Choir, London Symphony Chorus
Mahler wrote his Eighth Symphony in the summer of 1906, a time that Mahler’s wife Alma remembered as their ‘last summer of peace and beauty and content’. Uniting the text of the hymn Veni, Creator Spiritus with the final scene of Goethe’s Faust, Mahler created the gigantic musical edifice that came to be known as the ‘Symphony of a Thousand’ conducted here by one of the 20th century’s greatest Mahler interpreters, Klaus Tennstedt. A BBC recording