Mahler symphony

The shimmering string harmonics at the opening of Gustav Mahler?s First Symphony bring to mind the suspended breath of spring, and will have signalled even to the very first audiences that a new symphonic era was being…

The subject of this book is the semantics of symphonic music from Beethoven to Mahler. Of fundamental importance is the realization that this music is imbued with non-musical, literary, philosophical and religious ideas.…

As a team, Osmo Vänskä and his Minnesota Orchestra began their collaboration with BIS in 2004, launching a Beethoven Symphony cycle that made reviewers worldwide sit up and take notice: ?a modern reference edition? was…

Try to imagine the whole universe beginning to ring and resound. There are no more human voices, only planets and suns revolving in their orbits, wrote Gustav Mahler to his friend Willem Mengelberg, after completing the…

In Gustav Mahler's first four symphonies many of the themes originate in his own settings of folk poems from the collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy's Magic Horn). A case in point, Symphony No.?4 is built around a…

This is a new installment in the new series "SWR Century Classics".Tthe recording gives testimony of Norrington?s specific ?Stuttgart Sound? and contains one of the best known symphonies by Gustav Mahler. The re-release…

Live performance of Gustav Mahler's 'Symphony No.6' at the 2006 Lucerne Festival. Claudio Abbado conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, which includes soloists such as violinist Kolja Blacher, cellist Natalia Gutman…