The year 1911 was ill-fated for the composer Gustav Mahler. At the age of 50, he was diagnosed with a heart condition in New York and returned to Europe to seek medical attention. But treatment in a ...

The advantages of running a truly excellent symphony orchestra include the relative ease with which one can get great and in-demand conductors. One of the advantages of great and popular conductors ...

This distinguished coupling has already been available at bargain price so its appearance in The Originals livery comes as something of a surprise. That said, the packaging is first-rate and the notes ...

The symphonies of Mahler, if they're played well enough to sound like Mahler, are a kind of spectacle -- of grand natural spaces, human glory, that vague thing we like to think of as transcendence, or ...

Last week the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s program consisted entirely of Mahler’s “Symphony No. 6” (1906), a monumental work that literally ends with three massive hammer hits, which, for Mahler, were ...

Yet Dudamel's stats can still be staggering. He told me recently he was 11 when he played his first Mahler symphony and 16 when he took the podium to conduct Mahler. "My first big piece was Mahler's ...