Yet Hänssler’s relatively uneconomical 13-disc layout ultimately yields to EMI’s generously packed and sensibly programmed 11 discs. For cost, convenience, and quality, there’s no better Mahler deal ...

What is technical perfection if you don't have anything meaningful to say?It was something Pyotr Tchaikovsky mused about in 1888 when setting to work on what would become his famed Symphony No 5.Flush ...

Give Mahler a cheery nursery-rhyme ditty and he’ll turn it into the bleakest of gallows marches. Don’t believe us? Have a listen to the opening of the third movement of the First Symphony.

Or were these all premonitions? The "hammer-blows of fate" from the 6th Symphony seemed to be meant for Mahler himself when, in the summer of 1907, his much-loved daughter died of diptheria during ...

The 2015/16 season opens and closes with Gustav Mahler’s first and last symphonies. Although the Tenth Symphony was never completed, the musicologist Deryck Cooke created his first performing ...

County Symphony continues its 77th season with a community collaboration as the Symphony presents its annual concert on the campus of Goshen College. Mahler No. 2, The Resurrection, at 4 p.m. Sunday ...

Rattle was a figure in the hall’s development, using his influence to campaign and raise the necessity for a new hall after the orchestra’s previous performance venue – Birmingham’s Town Hall – had ...