This was arguably the most prestigious job in the music world, at the end of the 19th century. MTT is discovered in a lavish suite at the Bristol Hotel, where Mahler stayed for his first few ...

Nicolas Mahler is a gifted humourist and a master of the quick sketch: his protagonists’ stories unravel ad absurdum against banal and Kafkaesque backdrops full of comedy reeking of oppression and ...

Both monumental works were perfectly matched in their brashness and sensitivity, helmed and rendered with great panache by ...

The fantastic new world of sound which Mahler was no doubt imagining is of course beyond conjecture, but I believe I have divined his ‘essential’ orchestration to within about 80 percent.

The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony has announced its 2024-2025 season, including five programs led by Music Director David ...

This, of course, is what creates Mahler’s characteristic din: a musical world full of conflict that frequently comes together ...

In this study Thomas Peattie offers a new account of Mahler's symphonies by considering the composer's reinvention of the genre in light of his career as a conductor and more broadly in terms of his ...

Mahler must have felt like D.H. Lawrence, who said, "Give me mystery and let the world live again for me." His religion was the imperishable struggle of life, indivisibly mingled with a passionate ...