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Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 8 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly) poster

Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 8 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly)

France

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The highlight of the International Mahler Festival in Leipzig in May 2011 was the final performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 – the so called “Symphony of a Thousand”. Riccardo Chailly commanded almost five hundred musicians in this monumental Mahler symphony, a work which the composer regarded as his Opus Summum.

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