Mahler: Symphony No 8 – review

London Symphony Chorus/London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra/Tennstedt(LPO, two CDs)If there was ever any doubt that Klaus Tennstedt was a conductor for whom the recording studio was a rather confining space, and whose inspirational qualities blossomed in the freedom of the concert hall, this account of Mahler's Eighth, one of three symphonies that Tennstedt conducted at the Royal Festival Hall in January 1991, shows him at his finest. There have been more refined, and more shapely accounts of...

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