There were only two pieces on the San Diego Symphony’s program for the second weekend of the first season in the newly renovated Jacobs Music Center. But one of them was Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The works of the composer Gustav Mahler (1860–1911) are among the most often played in many orchestras' repertoire. This was not ...

Mahler's song "Ging heut' morgens" later appeared as a purely instrumental theme in his Symphony No. 1 (Thomas Hampson, baritone). Gustav Mahler died 97 years ago today — May 18, 1911. Today, he's ...

Imagine hearing a voice so remarkable that you remember it 14 years later. San Diego Symphony Music Director Rafael Payare was the principal horn player for Venezuela’s Simón Bolívar Symphony ...

From September 29 through October 2, Esa-Pekka Salonen will lead the San Francisco Symphony in performances of Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony, the "Resurrection," that are sure to be as safe a ticket ...

Ranging across metaphysics, comedy, grief and love, Mahler’s songs for voice and piano are works of exquisite delicacy that offer fascinating glimpses into his grand symphonic works, writes pianist ...

The last Sunday of June, Michael Tilson Thomas was to conduct Mahler’s colossal Eighth Symphony, known as “Symphony of a Thousand,” in San Francisco. Hundreds of performers, highlighted by a ...

Berlin Philharmonic/Harding/Nelsons/ Dudamel/Nézet-Séguin/Petrenko/Rattle/ Haitink/Abbado (Berliner Philharmoniker, 10 CDs & 4 Blu-ray Discs, or download) This ...

Mahler's first is one of the most thrilling symphonies - but it suffered a long time from an identity crisis. This is a work that went through many revisions before Mahler arrived at the version we ...