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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From a vast and mysterious opera rehearsal stage (Gustav Mahler's "home away from home" for much of his life), San Francisco Symphony Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) introduces us to ...

Each of his works is a quest for truth ... This really is the greatest job in the world. Donald Runnicles will conduct Mahler’s Tenth Symphony on Thursday 24 September in Glasgow, 25 September ...

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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.

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 ...