SAN FRANCISCO — Mahler lovers know the feeling: When a performance of one of his symphonies takes flight, there is the sense of touring exotic realms. You think you’ve heard and seen everything in one ...

Jonathan Nott has three symphonies left to go to complete his Mahler survey with the Bamberg orchestra. If it's been a somewhat uneven musical journey so far, the Seventh Symphony presents one of the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. THE opportunity of hearing a live performance of Mahler's Seventh Symphony just a week after the Sixth is a rare privilege and one never ...

Conducting Mahler’s Symphony No 7 was for me the scariest project of all. Listening to historical recordings of this piece 20 or even 30 years ago did not inspire me to think I wanted to conduct it.

THE London Symphony Orchestra’s principal guest conductor Gianandrea Noseda was on a dual purpose visit to the Barbican Centre last week. Before getting down to the strenuous business of an evening’s ...

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Conductor Emeritus Pierre Boulez will replace Music Director Riccardo Muti as conductor for the THIRTEEN Great Performances broadcast on Wednesday, October 27 at 9 p.m. ET ...

Jansons vs Jansons? Oslo vs Munich? You might think there were enough versions on the market of this most quintessential of Mahler symphonies, without two more ...

Caricature of Gustav Mahler. Conducts his Symphony no. 1 From" Illustriertes Wiener Extrablatt". 25th of November 1900. The thing that triggers the creative mind doesn’t have to be high-flown or ...

On its international tours the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra has enthralled audiences with its high-energy playing. Recordings, though, are more problematic, even when they are live, like this ...

Now in his mid-80s, Michael Gielen used to make regular guest appearances in London with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducting his own pieces and a range of other contemporary music, as well as ...

After Zinman’s superb recording of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony comes this. Mahler thought it was his best work, but most people – many famous conductors included – are baffled by it. When compared with ...