Mahler's colossal eighth symphony, literally a Symphony of a Thousand, was yet more proof that he was one of the most ambitious and visionary composers of the romantic era. There’s a supreme ...

The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra will close its 50th anniversary season and Andreas Delfs' last performance with the MSO with one of the giants of all symphonies -- Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8. The ...

With its huge orchestral complement, eight vocal soloists, and massed choral forces spilling over the stage, Mahler’s mighty Eighth Symphony is trotted out only when a grand statement must be made.

In the Seventh Symphony, Mahler was pursuing strategies of discontinuity – harmonically, polyphonically and schematically – notably in the last movement. So with this mastery of turning on a dime ...

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When the BSO performs the piece with the TFC and the boys of the St. Paul’s Choir School this weekend, the total number of performers will be around 300 “It is the greatest thing I have done thus far, ...

Mahler's astonishing 'Symphony of a Thousand' was born after a lot of soul-searching and self-doubt. There's a supreme confidence in much of Mahler's music — it sounds like he was a man who was ...

'A gift to the whole nation” is how Mahler described his Eighth Symphony. It’s a surprising sentiment. The Austro-Hungarian Empire never inspired warm feelings in Mahler, and, as anti-semitism in ...

A compact disc is such a tiny thing, and Mahler's Eighth Symphony, better known as the Symphony of a Thousand, is so very big: There's something almost absurd about listening to it in a living room.