Latest News: Classical, Mahler (composer)
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Interview,
Joseph Middleton on Mahler 7th August 2023The pianist discusses his mission to record all of Mahler's songs in the versions for voice and piano (which launched at the end of last month on Signum Classics) and recounts how 'there was never a grand plan for this to be my job'...
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Recording of the Week,
Igor Levit's Tristan 16th September 2022Hans Werner Henze's brilliant, baffling set of ‘Preludes for piano, electronic tapes and orchestra’ sits at the heart of this Wagner-inspired recital, which also includes music by Liszt and Mahler via Ronald Stevenson.
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Interview,
Semyon Bychkov on Mahler 6th April 2022In advance of the first instalment of his Mahler cycle with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra on Pentatone, the conductor reflects on 'a lifetime of exploring and loving this music' - and why he believes that 'all Czech people are born musicians'...
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Interview,
Long Yu on The Song of the Earth 17th August 2021The conductor of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra talks about his new recording, pairing Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with a newly-commissioned setting by Xiaogang Ye of the original Chinese poems on which it was based.
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Recording of the Week,
Osmo Vänskä conducts Mahler's Tenth Symphony 5th March 2021The Minnesota Orchestra and their Music Director give a tumultuous, emotional account of Mahler's final, unfinished symphony, in the performing version by Deryck Cooke.
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Recording of the Week,
Mahler from Christiane Karg, Malcolm Martineau - and Gustav Mahler 23rd October 2020The German soprano and her regular recital-partner beguile in the Rückert-Lieder and songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn and Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit, whilst the composer himself makes an appearance (via a 1905 piano-roll) for ‘Das himmlische Leben’.
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Recording of the Week,
Osmo Vänskä conducts Mahler's Fourth Symphony 27th December 2019Joined by soprano Carolyn Sampson, Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra continue their Mahler cycle with an exquisitely-detailed performance of the Fourth Symphony.
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Recording of the Week,
Les Siècles perform Mahler's symphonic poem, Titan 10th May 2019François-Xavier Roth and his period-instrument orchestra perform Mahler's "tone poem in the form of a symphony in two parts and five movements", an early version of his First Symphony.
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Recording of the Week,
Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra launch a Mahler cycle with Symphony No. 5 21st July 2017James enjoys the opening instalment of Osmo Vänskä's new Mahler cycle - the ever-popular Symphony No. 5.
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Recording of the Week,
Jonas Kaufmann takes on Das Lied von der Erde - all of it! 7th April 2017Katherine listens to the great German tenor's ambitious project - the whole of Mahler's mighty orchestral song-cycle.
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Recording of the Week,
Bernard Haitink conducts Mahler's Third Symphony 6th January 2017Katherine listens to Bernard Haitink's new recording of Mahler's Symphony No. 3 with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
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Recording of the Week,
Münchner Philharmoniker launch their own label with music by Bruckner and Mahler 30th September 2016James introduces the Münchner Philharmoniker's new label with a double-bill of stirring Romantic masterworks conducted by Valery Gergiev.
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Recording of the Week,
Mahler from Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra 18th May 2015David listens to Iván Fischer's new account of Mahler's elegiac Ninth Symphony, with the Budapest Festival Orchestra.
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Favourites,
Gustav Mahler James rifles through the huge amount of outstanding Mahler performances on disc, and offers his selection of the very best.
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Recording of the Week,
Mahler and Berg from Boulez 11th March 2013Anna Prohaska is on mesmerising form in Berg’s Lulu-Suite, whilst the veteran conductor’s trademark attention to detail and balance pays huge dividends in Mahler’s early cantata Das klagende Lied, featuring outstanding contributions from Johan Botha, Anna Larsson and Dorothea Röschmann.
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Recording of the Week,
Mahler Symphony No. 1 from Iván Fischer 13th August 2012The Hungarian conductor and his Budapest orchestra bring a wonderfully rustic, unrefined flavour to Mahler’s völkisch central movements, in an interpretation which benefits from Fischer’s ear for balance and attention to the smallest details of orchestration.
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Recording of the Week,
Bruckner and Mahler from Haitink and Pappano 14th November 2011Haitink conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony, whilst Pappano and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia tackle Mahler’s Sixth in their first-ever recording of the composer’s music together.
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Recording of the Week,
Gergiev and the LSO conclude their Mahler cycle 5th September 2011The Russian conductor’s painstaking attention to tiny issues of orchestral balance and uncharacteristic willingness to allow the music breathing-space make for a tremendously moving Ninth Symphony.
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Recording of the Week,
Rattle and Gergiev on Mahler 3rd March 2008 -
Recording of the Week,
New Mahler 8 from Pierre Boulez 22nd October 2007A ‘challenging and enlightening’ account of the ‘Symphony of a Thousand’. with the Staatskapelle Berlin and soloists including Erin Wall, Johan Botha and Robert Holl.