Mahler’s “8th Symphony” is featured on the “New York Philharmonic This Week”, tonight at 7:00

Tonight at 7:00 on the Evening Concert on FM 90.9 it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week”, now heard regularly Monday nights at 7:00. This week it’s Mahler’s “8th Symphony” which Mahler described as “the whole universe beginning to ring and resound. It’s no longer human voices, but circling planets and suns."

Monday November 20: “The New York Philharmonic This Week” [TNYPTW] (NYP 18-08)

TNYPTW is now heard on Monday nights at 7:00 p.m.

[This is program #8 in a 10-part Mahler-fest from the Philharmonic’s archives]

Mahler: Symphony No. 8.  

Christine Brewer, soprano; Nancy Gustafson, soprano; Jeanine De Bique,

Soprano; Mary Phillips, mezzo-soprano; Nancy Maultsby, mezzo-soprano; Anthony Dean Griffey, tenor;

Wolfgang Schöne, bass; Jason Grant, bass-baritone; New York Choral Artists; The Dessoff Symphonic

Choir; Brooklyn Youth Chorus; Lorin Maazel, Conductor

*credit goes to the writer of the liner notes to the Sony Classical recording (SM3K 47581) Mahler: 8th Symphony. NY Phil./Bernstein.....