Symphony No. 8 In Full Score Review

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(More customer reviews)This is the complete unabridged score for full orchestra, choirs and soloists. Presented in 256 pages with accompanying text and translation, glossary, and instruments and voices, this would be the conductor's copy.

The opening organ chord fills the air with such tremendous expectancy that one senses that this is a piece of music quite unlike any other. As the music unfolds and the choir make their entrance into the foray, I am suddenly conscious in a way I have never noticed before, as if I'm about to embark on a journey into unknown and unfamiliar regions of my mind. The first movement appears to describe death of the glorious kind, and for those twenty six minutes I am transported to a world that would embrace the very nature of Heavenly arrival.

Following the score while listening to the actual sound, and one is liable to get lost in the technicalities, especially since the choirs are not always singing the same thing at the same time. Sometimes they sing words and phrases that are unexpected. Best to forget the manuscript and just listen to the music. It is, after all, what Mahler would have wanted.

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Superb authoritative edition of massive, complex "Symphony of a Thousand." Powerful synthesis of motet, dramatic cantata, oratorio, song cycle and symphony, scored for an ensemble of orchestra, eight solo voices, a double chorus, a boys' choir and organ. Unabridged republication of the edition published by Izdatel'stvo "Muzyka," Moscow, 1976. Translation of texts. Glossary.

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