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 ...