For years the late Gary Bertini’s 1984-91 Cologne Radio Mahler cycle had a shadowy catalogue existence ... level of first-desk refinement and chamber-like sensitivity to the composer’s extraordinary ...
From a vast and mysterious opera rehearsal stage (Gustav Mahler's "home away from home" for much of his life), San Francisco Symphony Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) introduces us to ...
Ladies and gentlemen, we present Gustav Mahler ... syncopated rhythm was a musical depiction of the composer’s own unsteady heart beat. Mahler, you tear our heart into little pieces and reshape ...
FORT WORTH — The Fort Worth Symphony ’s insistence on playing the American national anthem before every concert seemed ...
An amateur composer, she was worshiped by some for her beauty and hated by others because of her cruelty. She surrounded herself with the most remarkable men of her time—Gustav Mahler ...
When those pages are by Gustav Mahler, that’s a fine balance to strike. The Austrian composer drew on his expertise as a conductor when crafting his orchestral parts, writing additional ...
With Amsterdam’s Mahler Festival 2025 coming up, James Jolly reports from the Concertgebouw, and finds out about the city’s ...
In the final weekend of the Mahler Grooves Festival ... Alma was a composer in her own right whose career took a back seat at Gustav’s request. At a particularly rocky moment in their ...