Gustav Mahler's bleak Sixth Symphony (1903-05) has known its share of strange bedfellows -- at its 1947 American premiere by the New York Philharmonic it was paired, at the insistence of the ...

On April 15, 2025, The Philadelphia Orchestra, under the direction of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, presented Gustav Mahler’s Sixth Symphony at Carnegie Hall in a performance defined by its precision, ...

A ferocious march sets the stage for Mahler’s tragic and intensely moving Sixth Symphony. In the monumental finale, Mahler wrote three symbolic hammerblows of destiny – then deleted one in morbid fear ...

Striding off with a brisk, almost impatient tempo in the opening Allegro, Russian conductor Valery Gergiev puts momentum at the leading edge of his Mahler Symphony No. 6 performance with the London ...

For the first time in more than a decade, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra performs one of the most powerful symphonic works ever written: Gustav Mahler’s monumental Sixth Symphony. The 80-minute ...

Moody and mythical in its epic contours, it is pervaded by doom, struggle and suffering, with fleeting doses of sweetness and optimism repeatedly trampled underfoot. While its traditional ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. For a warm-up, Sir Andrew Davis and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra supported pianist Jonathan Biss in his reading of Mozart's Concerto ...

Playing Mahler’s Symphony No 6 is like riding a shaggy monster, but conductor Gustavo Dudamel guided the magnificent Los Angeles Philharmonic through the lurching ups and downs with passion and ...

Forget Lollapalooza and all the rest. The hottest festival ticket happens just once a generation, if not once a lifetime. That would be the Mahler Festival, a musical G20 summit of sorts celebrating ...

Gustav Mahler (1860–1911), the “composer of the fin de siècle,” believed that “a symphony must be like a world that ...