It’s typically bold of Mark Elder to choose the Ninth as his first Mahler recording with the Hallé. Totally convincing versions of the last symphony that Mahler lived to complete are real rarities – ...

Pairing Sibelius’s elliptical Symphony No. 7 and Shostakovich’s epic Symphony No. 4 was an inspired move. But the maximalist Mahler No. 9 was less so.

All conductors doing Mahler’s Ninth are in awe of the score to some degree. There is something so universal and powerful there – it makes you feel little at times. Both Das Lied von der Erde and the ...

Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, the last work he completed and his most personal, does and does not go gentle into the good night. He wrote it following the death of his young daughter and after learning of ...

Here we have something very special, and a good deal more than ‘just another Mahler Ninth’. ‘Just another Mahler Ninth’! What am I saying? It wasn’t too many years ago that Bruno Walter was the sole ...

The Department of Music’s University Symphony Orchestra aptly finished off the winter season with Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 9, a work steeped in life-and-death themes. Under the baton of Conductor ...

Who is best suited to play Gershwin — a concert pianist or a jazz pianist? Kirill Gerstein has his own answer. He is a classical performer with highly-praised recordings of Liszt, Tchaikovsky and ...

1 Review: BBC PROMS: MAHLER'S FIRST BY HEART, Royal Albert Hall 2 Review: BBC PROMS: RACHMANINOV’S ‘PAGANINI’ VARIATIONS, Royal Albert Hall 3 Review: BBC PROMS: ROSSINI'S 'STABAT MATER', Royal Albert ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. So far, in his Mahler symphonies sequence, he has kept to the numerical order; now, at the end, he ...

Peter Oundjian conducts the final Mahler performances of his tenure with one of the most achingly romantic of all symphonies: Mahler’s Ninth. Mahler’s last completed work, it bids farewell to ...