Gustav Mahler died in 1911 of bacterial endocarditis, an inflammation of the valves of an already weakened heart. But perhaps his heart was also broken in the more poetic sense. A year before, the ...

Turn back the clock 100 years to this day. Syracuse was cloaked in 4 inches of snow. Conductor and composer Gustav Mahler and the New York Philharmonic stepped off the train after having performed in ...

Möst's direction brought out nuanced performances from soloists including cellist Mark Kosower and concertmaster Joel Link at ...

Mahler plays Mahler: The Welte-Mignon Piano Rolls (Yvonne Kenny, soprano; Claudine Carlson, mezzo-soprano; Golden Legacy/Pickwick). The four piano rolls Gustav Mahler “recorded” for the Welte-Mignon ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Now we know why Gustav Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony No. 2 is the Cleveland Orchestra’s season opener. Hint: It isn’t just because music director Franz Welser-Most admires the ...

The works of the composer Gustav Mahler (1860–1911) are among the most often played in many orchestras’ repertoire. This was not the case during his lifetime, however, when he was much more popular as ...

Conductor Ivan Fischer, center, mezzo-soprano Anna Lucia Richter, left, and soprano Christiane Karg, acknowledge the audience's applause after performing Mahler's Symphony nr. 2 with the Budapest ...

Gustav Mahler, in his younger days, was a vegetarian. There's a story, recounted by one of his biographers, about how the composer was teased by fellow musicians in a restaurant when he refused meat, ...

With the exception of a few songs and song cycles, the symphony as a musical form was the be all and end all for Gustav Mahler. He composed no concertos, hardly any chamber music, and though he was an ...

KALISTE, CZECH REPUBLIC — I slept very well in the house where Gustav Mahler was born, waking in the morning to the bright sound of chirping birds in the trees outside my window. Once a shop and ...

Paavo Järvi leads the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in concert. Some people come to classical music for a good soul-soothing, while others come to it for its ability to surprise and delight. What I ...

AMSTERDAM — When Klaus Mäkelä climbed the Concertgebouw podium and turned to the audience at the orchestra’s third Gustav Mahler Festival in 105 years, the conductor could see the writing on the wall.