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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

AMSTERDAM — At the Royal Concertgebouw, one of Europe’s most storied concert halls, Marina Mahler couldn’t stop eavesdropping on the rehearsal happening just yards away. She occasionally stopped ...

Jonathan Nott has three symphonies left to go to complete his Mahler survey with the Bamberg orchestra. If it's been a somewhat uneven musical journey so far, the Seventh Symphony presents one of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Now in his mid-80s, Michael Gielen used to make regular guest appearances in London with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducting his own pieces and a range of other contemporary music, as well as ...