I have adored the 8th once I first heard Solti on Decca in the late 70s and over the years heard every recording but I don't think I have ever witnessed a more joyous performance. Soloists are faultless corus were belting particularly special to have the Vienna boys choir singing the 8th they owned it. Maestro showed us that you can conduct the 8th with a barely concealed smile and a twinkle in his eye, it was clear to everyone he was enjoying every precious moment. GLORIOUS ❤

I don't think I'll ever tire of this amazing composition, and this performance is yet another spell binding concert. One the best I have watched is with Sir Simon Rattle conducting at the Proms in London in 2002. What makes it so special for me is that the musicians are from the UK National Youth Orchestra and the huge chorus is truly international. This wonderful concert is also on KZfaq and well worth watching.

This is the work of a true genius. It amuses me when critics and journalists refer to it as self-indulgent. My response is "What did you create?" Sad to see the late Erin Wall among the soloists. She was a remarkable talent.

Mahler's music is Heavenly!!!

Yes, please issue a CD or a DVD/BluRay of this performance. The world needs it.

Unglaubliches Konzert!! War eine Ehre im Chor singen zu dürfen!

It is a magnificent performance, exceptionally well played, sung, and recorded with a massively grandiose ending (the pure orchestral tutti part)^ I REALLY like it that Welser Most takes endings of the both Parts slowly, a slower than usual. Let's hope VPO will release the tape officially.

Assolutamente strepitosi tutti .Che meraviglia. Grazie

Great. It's my first Mahler 8... At first I felt something like seasickness, but now I get energy from the finale part.

Whatever capacity a performance for each one’s soul. Mahler seems to have a direct connection to cosmic reality.

strange to hold off the applause for so long

RIP Erin Wall 🌹🌹🌹

Morgen darf ich das live hören

Thanks for uploading

The HERCULEAN , TITANIC , ALL ENCOMPASSING , MULTI -UNIVERSE EVERYWHERE , EVERYPLACE AT THE SAME TIME SCOPE OF THIS PERFORMANCE IS MIND-BOGGLING !!!

If you are an experienced singer: If you get the chance to be part of a performance of Mahler-8 - do it! You will forever remember it. Not many opportunitiies for "advanced non-professionals" but they are there. It is intense work studying it & you must have musical experience and some voice building lessens but not necessarily be a full-on professional. One of the best singing experiences I've been part of. Folks, be inspired & do it!

The performers deserved a better audience.

Sublime

This is another performance where you can hear the organ (I am a budding organist). Usually the large orchestra drowns out the organ, but if you know what to listen for you can hear the organ. This is a top notch performance of my favorite Mahler symphony. The ending is a bit slow, and where is the offstage brass? Little things, I guess. But otherwise a fine performance. Bravo!!!

At 1:17: 10 the 2nd Soprano has a very important solo and yet the camera is trained on the conductor instead. Oops!

At 1:20:13 It looks like the conductor is close to tears.

Compared to all those ill-famed, but still 'legendary' conductors, the conductor of this recording is illustrious. Thank toy for the REAL music!

peter mattei SWOON

1:34 begins

This is a great orchestral performance of Mahler's Eight Symphony. Just an aside... Why do all classical music soloists look like they're constipated? Just asking...

What happened to the trumpet? well.. I couldn't believe that they are "Wiener Philharmoniker"

1:18:12

素晴らしい❗️ウェルザーメストは嘗てのベームやセルの様な新しい巨匠になると確信していますー耳の良さは抜群でしょうし、オーケストラバランスも抜群だが(オーケストラに傷はあるが(笑))、まだまだ先に行きそう。モダンな色彩、音色の柔らかさとパンチの共存が面白い❗️このマーラー良いなあ❗️ーソリストは、例えばバーンスタインのそれと比べると本当に昨今の声楽家のトップのレベルダウンが露呈して残念だがー特にドイツ系の寒さはこの演奏に限らないが。

1:18:30 That moment is always awkward as one section ends and another begins, Only Robert Shaw made it work ! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jrGanLt039Oon58.html 11:12

37:13 bassoonist enters early

Any time this is played, it is a big event- unfortunately, my opinion of this conductor is that he took the ending waaaaay to slow and the brass was muffled. Nevertheless, still a tear jerker

This performance is amazing. But Mahler's music reminds me a little of schizophrenia

Why restrain the applause at the end. Conductor should have released the audience with an immediate drop of the arms...it killed the energy of the audience. And the performers deserved that "roar"; that release of the audience emotion. This is not a soft ending . It is a grand finish FFFF...and it is the wrong application of the release of the audience...such a beautiful performance (fabulous soloists) and All Chori had great depth of sound..........only to be "marred" at the end...Watch Barenboim hold the end of Die Gotterdamerung 2013 15 seconds...and appropriately so for that ending of the Ring. This was very disappointing

Maybe in another century there will be women in the 1st violin section in Vienna. 2 centuries, maybe women in the brass section. Great orchestra but what an incredibly reactionary heritage. This orchestra employed unrepentant Nazis into the 1970s.

This Tenor scoops more than a Baskin Robbins on a hot summer day in Times Square. Tasteless and poor singing on his part.

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