In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Mahler’s birth and just one month short of his own 85th birthday, composer-conductor Pierre Boulez marked his forty-five-year collaboration with the ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Gustavo Dudamel and Mahler’s First Symphony have a long relationship.

Part of his cycle of works by Mahler, Vänskä’s stoic approach pays dividends in the composer’s unfinished work, with unswerving instrumental detail Over the last 60 years there have been at least ...

Gary Bertini’s 1984-91 Cologne Radio Mahler cycle is the most consistently satisfying on disc, in terms of its lovingly idiomatic and world-class performances, plus robust, realistic engineering that ...

Paavo Järvi leads the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in concert. Some people come to classical music for a good soul-soothing, while others come to it for its ability to surprise and delight. What I ...

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 version ...

The full emotional range of Mahler’s Symphony No 9… perfectly emulated by the interpretive movements of a cat. All Mahler superfans will know that one of his Adagios can elicit a huge range of ...

It begins innocently enough, with sleigh bells. On Friday at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Gustavo Dudamel will conduct Mahler’s most classical, least angst-ridden symphony, the Fourth, which opens with ...

The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony under the direction of David Bernard will present Mahler's Ninth, his final completed symphony, in a milestone release celebrating the orchestra’s 25th anniversary.

Musicians talk about the challenges they face as they prepare to perform a piece from the orchestral repertoire. In this programme Lowri Blake meets the young musicians of the National Youth Orchestra ...