Òpera del Liceu – Mahler 8

Gustav Mahler Symphony no.8, conductor Josep Pons

In 1906, Gustav Mahler described his Eighth Symphony as his most ambitious creation to date in both content and form. According to Mahler, the symphony was revealed to him as a blazing vision, with a unique structure: from beginning to end, everything is sung, with human voices as essential instruments. The work merges two distinct texts in different languages: the medieval hymn Veni creator spiritus and the final scene of Goethe’s Faust, which explores and expresses a shared idea of redemption through the grace of love.