I had secretly hoped that Bernstein might have re-thought his basic tempo for the opening movement. Overall, he puts almost two minutes on his 1967 CBS recording (reissued on CD in 1986), the whole ...

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 ...

Give Mahler a cheery nursery-rhyme ditty and he’ll turn it into the bleakest of gallows marches. Don’t believe us? Have a listen to the opening of the third movement of the First Symphony.

Every conductor has to negotiate between the natural tendencies of an orchestra and the actual notes on the page. When those pages are by Gustav Mahler, that’s a fine balance to strike.

No matter, the exhilaration was contagious. The Intercity Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles, conducted by Charles Dickerson III, took on the huge assignment of the first and last movements from Mahler’s ...

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s 2025-26 season will include two particularly ambitious programs, Puccini’s Madame Butterfly and Gustav Mahler’s gigantic Eighth ... s big C.B. Fisk organ is getting no ...