Or were these all premonitions? The "hammer-blows of fate" from the 6th Symphony seemed to be meant for Mahler himself when, in the summer of 1907, his much-loved daughter died of diptheria during ...

On the 100-year anniversary of the death of Joseph Anton Bruckner, Pierre Boulez conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker in their interpretation of Bruckner's "Symphony No. 8." A complex masterpiece ...

Gerard Schwarz, who made his debut with the orchestra in January 2023, returns to lead the orchestra in this performance.

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 ...

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For Mahler symphonies always were a means of interpreting the most convoluted philosophical problems that couldnt be resolved verbally The ambitious structure of the fivepart Fifth Symphony spans ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Sir Andrew Davis conducts the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's performance of Gustav Mahler's last ...

A whopping 62 Grammy Awards attest to the quality of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Founded in 1891, it was famously under the musical direction of Georg Solti from 1969 to 1991, and then from ...

I remember my music teacher telling me at age fifteen that Mahler was "dark, tough to understand, an indisputable master," If we were fortunate we came to the First or Fourth Symphony first ...

Moortele, Steven Vande 2006. Julian Horton, Bruckner's Symphonies. Analysis, Reception and Cultural Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). x + 280pp ...