SAN FRANCISCO — Mahler lovers know the feeling: When a performance of one of his symphonies takes flight, there is the sense of touring exotic realms. You think you’ve heard and seen everything in one ...

On its international tours the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra has enthralled audiences with its high-energy playing. Recordings, though, are more problematic, even when they are live, like this ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. THE opportunity of hearing a live performance of Mahler's Seventh Symphony just a week after the Sixth is a rare privilege and one never ...

Conducting Mahler’s Symphony No 7 was for me the scariest project of all. Listening to historical recordings of this piece 20 or even 30 years ago did not inspire me to think I wanted to conduct it.

THE London Symphony Orchestra’s principal guest conductor Gianandrea Noseda was on a dual purpose visit to the Barbican Centre last week. Before getting down to the strenuous business of an evening’s ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the 35 years since it was founded the Budapest Festival Orchestra has only had one music director. Iván ...

It had to end this way. Mezzo soprano Kelley O’Connor, who has collaborated with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Robert Spano frequently over the past two decades, was there. So too was a ...

ProMusica Chamber Orchestra will open 2026 at the Southern Theatre with a program that features soprano Camilla Tilling, for ...

After Zinman’s superb recording of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony comes this. Mahler thought it was his best work, but most people – many famous conductors included – are baffled by it. When compared with ...

Caricature of Gustav Mahler. Conducts his Symphony no. 1 From" Illustriertes Wiener Extrablatt". 25th of November 1900. The thing that triggers the creative mind doesn’t have to be high-flown or ...