Gerard Schwarz decided not to seek a contract extension this year, but that didn't stop him from tackling Mahler's 8th Symphony. With 2008 slipping away in a few days, James Bash and I take tu… more →
The Gathering NoteSeesaw wrote 3 days ago: By David Schiff in The Nation Saturated with lachrymose melodies, dirgelike rhythms and the ghastly, … more →
davidpickett wrote 3 days ago: EMI have issued a new recording of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony with the Berlin Philharmonic orche … more →
pensum wrote 3 days ago: Infirma nostri corporis (article on Mahler) … more →
davidpickett wrote 1 week ago: Daniel Barenboim talks about Gustav Mahler The conductor Daniel Barenboim has given an interview abo … more →
davidpickett wrote 2 weeks ago: Hans Schliessmann: Mahler Conducting in Vienna I have spent a lot of time over the past ten years pr … more →
fttintern wrote 2 weeks ago: Good and Good for You: It’s Beethoven’s 5th Symphony – in Japanese?! Watch th … more →
davidpickett wrote 3 weeks ago: The hut in Toblach in which Gustav Mahler composed his Ninth Symphony A long time ago, before I real … more →
davidpickett wrote 4 weeks ago: Gustav Mahler 1898 “My time will come!” This is an often-quoted remark of the composer G … more →
Tel wrote 1 month ago: Classical Music Lounge Dateline May 27, 1906. Gustav Mahler conducts the first performance of his Sy … more →
trailerpilot wrote 1 month ago: With an engaging, young new director at the helm, a giant showpiece facility just opened downtown, a … more →
stockyturtle wrote 1 month ago: This is a topic first introduced to me by one of my college professors in a Gustav Mahler seminar. … more →
drammapermusica wrote 2 months ago: Kathleen Ferrier In addition to being Earth Day, April 22nd is also the birthday of the great Englis … more →
pica10 wrote 2 months ago: The Ninth Symphony is the last work, that Mahler has finished. Like „Das Lied von der Erde”, M … more →
pica10 wrote 2 months ago: The Eight Symphony , also called „Die Symphonie der Tausend”, reckons with four-part double ch … more →
pica10 wrote 2 months ago: The Seventh brings the liberation from the mental agony of the Sixth Symphony. Here, no struggles we … more →
pica10 wrote 2 months ago: The programmatic content of this symphony can be described as the struggle for existence of the want … more →
pica10 wrote 3 months ago: Initially, the first movement was called „Die Welt als ewige Jetztzeit” and is so a pendant to … more →
pica10 wrote 3 months ago: In 1895/96, Mahler composed the symphony in D Minor with alto solo, women’s and boys’ ch … more →
steinskog wrote 3 months ago: [Som jeg tidligere har skrevet om flere ganger hender det at jeg skriver musikkommentarer i Bergens … more →