One of the greatest works about grief and loss— literally about facing death—is Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 9, which the composer never heard, dying at age 50. The Philadelphia Orchestra, with ...

There’s just one work, but Mahler’s mighty Symphony No 3 is a stand-alone masterpiece. Famously, Mahler told Sibelius that a symphony ‘must be like the world: it must embrace everything’. And what a ...