Meet the winner of the Houston Symphony’s first Young Composer Competition, and hear the music of tomorrow with a performance of the winning piece. Then, Mahler’s titanic Symphony No. 1 takes ...
JoAnn Falletta conducts the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in six songs by Alma Mahler with lyric soprano Andrea Bickford and ...
Mahler's first is one of the most thrilling symphonies - but it suffered a long time from an identity crisis. This is a work that went through many revisions before Mahler arrived at the version we ...
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Mahler’s First Symphony unfolds with the elemental sounds of nature, foot-stomping folk dances and a stormy but ultimately heroic finale. Conductor Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider opens with the symphony's ...
This symphony was the one to which Mahler attached the greatest importance – he conducted more performances himself of this than he did of any of his other, later works. Originally it had five ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There has to be a reason for a new Mahler cycle, when so many exceptional recordings have appeared in recent ...
The fourth movement springs suddenly, like a lightening bolt from a dark cloud. It is simply the cry of a deeply wounded heart. Audiences in Gustav Mahler's time didn't know what to make of his music.
When Gustav Mahler said a symphony "must be like the world. It must embrace everything," I suppose he meant embracing accordions, too. Gustav Mahler's sprawling Ninth Symphony is a 90-minute journey ...