{"id":98495,"date":"2026-11-09T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T10:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=98495"},"modified":"2026-11-09T18:32:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T10:32:00","slug":"review-mahlers-symphony-no-8-dazzles-hong-kong-under-tarmo-peltokoskis-baton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=98495","title":{"rendered":"Review | Mahler\u2019s Symphony No 8 dazzles Hong Kong under Tarmo Peltokoski\u2019s baton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/11\/09\/7d28722b-d4d0-4c6e-a8a2-a71f76bf60be_8fd2e57a.jpg?itok=Hs9RzMFE&amp;v=1794215882\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Describing his life-affirming Symphony No 8, composer Gustav Mahler told lyricist and writer Richard Specht in 1906 that he had completed the huge score in a feverish two months.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIt was like a lightning vision \u2013 I saw the whole piece immediately before my eyes and only needed to write it down, as though it were being dictated to me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Representing a paradigm shift in his symphonic style and sung from beginning to end, Mahler\u2019s epic eighth in E-flat major was unprecedented, fusing two poems in two different languages: a Latin hymn and a scene from the second part of Goethe\u2019s <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Faust<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/arts\/article\/3373772\/mahlers-symphony-no-8-dazzles-hong-kong-under-tarmo-peltokoskis-baton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Describing his life-affirming Symphony No 8, composer Gustav Mahler told lyricist and writer Richard Specht in 1906 that he had completed the huge score in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[32530,13295,3569,5231,32495,32529,28,18158,13102],"class_list":["post-98495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-baton","tag-dazzles","tag-hong","tag-kong","tag-mahlers","tag-peltokoskis","tag-review","tag-symphony","tag-tarmo","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}