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 ...
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.
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 ...
But back briefly to the symphony to acknowledge the CD remastering of Horenstein's live Stockholm performance (or rather performances) from 1966—of specialist interest to any who cherished his ...
The 2015/16 season opens and closes with Gustav Mahler’s first and last symphonies. Although the Tenth Symphony was never completed, the musicologist Deryck Cooke created his first performing ...
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.