Let me say straight away that Vänskä is temperamentally far better suited to the pristine, childlike world of the Fourth Symphony than he was to the epic Second (3/19). There are many aspects of this ...

Mahler came to regard the Fourth Symphony as the closing work in a quartet of works, although there are still seeds of it left in the Fifth Symphony. The music in the Fourth is all derived from the ...

From September 29 through October 2, Esa-Pekka Salonen will lead the San Francisco Symphony in performances of Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony, the "Resurrection," that are sure to be as safe a ticket ...

The University of Wyoming Symphony Orchestra will end its season with Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts concert hall. “Within the vast ...

"In the heyday of George Szell's tenure as its chief conductor," declared Gramophone, "The Cleveland Orchestra had few if any peers among the world's great orchestras." Coinciding with the orchestra's ...

Attractive selections from operas composed during the first decade of the twentieth century—two moving arias sung by moonstruck heroines and a kaleidoscopic dance—set the scene for Mahler’s gentlest ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The third of Chailly’s live Mahler DVDs with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra has the same abundant virtues as the ...