Mahler’s “8th Symphony” and Mozart’s “39th Symphony”

Tuesday, March 2: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast (CSO 21-10)

Solti Conducts Mahler 8

Conductor: Sir Georg Solti; Mozart: Symphony No. 39 in E-flat Major, K. 543

Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E-flat Major (Symphony of a Thousand)

Sir Georg Solti, conductor; Heather Harper, soprano; Lucia Popp, soprano; Arleen Augér, soprano; Yvonne Minton, contralto; Helen Watts, contralto; René Kollo, tenor; John Shirley-Quirk, baritone; Martti Talvela, bass; Wiener Staatsopernchor (Norman Balatsch, director); Wiener Singverein (Helmut Froschauer, director); Wiener Sängerknaben