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Although nobody expects protests at Seattle Symphony’s historic performance of Valentin Silvestrov’s Symphony No. 8 this week, its scheduled world premiere sparked significant dissent — from the ...

After the pulsating Seventh Symphony, Ludwig van Beethoven gave audiences something very different. The lighthearted Symphony No. 8 looks back to a simpler time in European life with music full of ...

No piece in the classical canon creates a sense of occasion like Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, of which the Boston Symphony Orchestra gave the first of three performances on Friday. The frequency with ...

With its huge orchestral complement, eight vocal soloists, and massed choral forces spilling over the stage, Mahler’s mighty Eighth Symphony is trotted out only when a grand statement must be made.

Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus. On Sept. 12, 1910, Gustav Mahler introduced Symphony No. 8 -- a massive, hulking work featuring an enormous double chorus and the ...

The Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra performs Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 8. The extraordinary gravity of the Eighth marks a new high in conductor Alain Altinoglu undertaking of the complete ...

The Beethoven 9 as we explore the world of Beethoven through the lens of his symphonies with renowned classical biographer Jan Swafford. Each month is dedicated to a different symphony. Each week ...

Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, known as “Symphony of a Thousand,” is glory amplified. Written for huge orchestra, massive chorus and eight vocal soloists, it is a hymn of ascension to a higher level of ...

In their final performances of the season, BSO offers Shostakovitch’s response to tyranny and H+H delivers beauty, mischief, and fun. As the Boston Symphony Orchestra and music director Andris Nelsons ...