Hall�/ BBC Philharmonic Bridgewater Hall Manchester

Mahler stoical his generously staggering Eighth Symphony, Symphony of a Thousand, in a white feverishness of impulse and it valid to be the biggest success of his career. For most it will be the prominence of Manchesters Mahler cycle, with Sir Mark Elder conducting the huge forces of 121 instrumentalists, drawn singly from both the Hall� and the BBC Philharmonic, and around 300 singers (members of 3 Hall� choirs assimilated by the CBSO Chorus from Birmingham). Tickets sole out faster than those for the Hall�s gig with the stone rope Elbow last summer and so good was the beating of those who practical as well late that scarcely 1500 tickets were sole for the last rehearsal. This low-pitched collaboration, make-up the Bridgewater Hall for usually the third tour of the work in the city, was a Manchester eventuality similar to no other, hotly anticipated, and, in the event, riveting.

The harmony is in dual parts, the initial formed on the Pentecostal strain "Veni, Creator Spiritus", and the second the end of Goethes Faust, Part II. The plea Mahler set in mixing Latin and German, dedicated and physical and an measureless volume of receptive to advice with watchful cognisance is enormous. It was met by Elders meticulously rebuilt reading, the instrumentalists" minute comment and the thrillingly executed grant from ranks of rarely trained choristers and eight positive outspoken soloists.

From the electrifying opening part, with the abounding textures, to the intimate, intense spiritualism and on glow consummate of the second section, Elder treated with colour the work as the show Mahler never wrote. Balance is all here, and the considerable choice of vocalists blended in to the web of sensuous orchestral receptive to advice whilst conveying as most characterisation as their tools allowed.

The harmony was preceded with a new work, a gorgeous invention on the strange 9th-century intone "Veni, Creator Spiritus" by the organist of Notre Dame, Olivier Latry. Images from the content for Whit were engagingly with pictures with swirling low-pitched sounds conjuring rushing winds, blood, glow and an eclipsing sun, surfaced with astronomical grace, as Latry total specialist personification with fantastically resourceful organ colouring.

Broadcast on Radio 3 on twenty-four May, 7pm

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