The German composer and conductor Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) wrote Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) during the tumultuous and difficult final years of his life. Politics… Mahler is a ...

In 1917, Gustav Mahler suffered a series of hardships: the death of his four-year-old daughter, the loss of his post as director of the Vienna Court Opera, and the diagnosis of a serious heart ...

Songs and symphonies from Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra, concluding with a vision of “heavenly life” ...

In the mid-20th century, Gustav Mahler, after a period of semi-neglect, started to become one of the canonical composers of our time. It makes perfect sense. Mahler foreshadowed 20th-century angst; he ...

“How did I end up in this extremity called my life?” asks The Mother (Ellen Lauren), one of the three central characters in the “Song of the Earth,” a new reimagining of Gustav Mahler’s “Song of the ...

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) proudly presents two Songs of the Earth in one programme on 27 & 28 April in the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall. Alongside Mahler's famous ...

Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, 'Songs of a Wayfarer' Montreal Symphony Orchestra Kent Nagano, Conductor Gustav Mahler, Composer Christian Gerhaher, Baritone Kindertotenlieder Montreal Symphony ...

Composer Marc Neikrug watches a rehearsal for the Philadelphia debut of his chamber opera ‘’A Song by Mahler’’ at the Kimmel Center. (Emma Lee/WHYY) The singer chastises their paramour for loving for ...

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 the ...

In 1910, when Viennese composer Gustav Mahler took leave from his rehearsals in Munich to visit Sigmund Freud in Leyden, Holland, he certainly had a lot to talk about. Mahler had grown up in an ...