Springfield Symphony Orchestra concerts devoted to one piece are rare. Conductor and music director Peter Stafford Wilson didn’t hesitate to schedule one this season with Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No.

The Clevelanders, so crystalline and affectionate in a work like Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales (DG, 2/99), turned disquietingly faceless in Mahler's Seventh (DG, 6/96). And yet their account ...

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.

Flush from the success of its predecessor, the superlative Symphony No 4 ... in each movement with different characteristics.

March 1, 2025 Six local student orchestras — high schoolers along with college and conservatory musicians — performed movements from Symphonies Nos. 1, 3 and 4 ... Mahler’s most agitated ...