The Epic Symphony

Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera Yannick Nezet-Seguin leads the Met Orchestra and Chorus, the Met Children's Chorus and a host of The Met's most talented singers, through a rousing performances of Gustav Mahler's stunningly epic Eighth Symphony. Dubbed the 'Symphony Of A Thousand', it's one of the largest-scale chorale works in the classical repertoire because of its required orchestral and vocal force, and surely the greatest in ambition of all of Mahler's works. 

After a period of writer's block, this colossal piece was feverishly composed in a single eight-week burst of inspiration and completed in the Summer of 1906. Inspired by and encompassing the 9th century Latin hymn 'Veni, Creator Spiritus' as well as Goethe's Faust, the work's uplifting message speaks of redemption, and the love between the composer and his wife Alma, set to a rousing symphonic spectacle like no other.