If any music could break your heart, it would be the opening minutes of Mahler’s overwhelming Symphony No. 9. Composed after the death of his daughter, and the diagnosis of his own fatal heart disease ...

For conductor Peter Oundjian, Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 remains the “ultimate expression of one of the greatest geniuses of classical music.” On Friday, the Yale School of Music’s Philharmonia — led by ...

The rich, romantic sound of the strings emanating from Music Hall’s stage was extraordinary as Jesús López-Cobos led the final movement of Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 with the Cincinnati Symphony ...

Can you hear your heart right now? We often forget that it is there, beating restlessly and constantly, that we will stop existing when it ceases to make a sound. Gustav Mahler probably thought about ...

There’s someone crying, another…whimpering? But that’s it. The Meyerson is a vacuum. There’s an odd mood coursing through the rows of seats, a breathless silence, total and creaky. It hangs in the air ...

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Under the direction of Josep Caballé-Domenech, the musicians of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic and its audiences were challenged to grow. And grow they did, musically and culturally. But the time ...

Listeners will have their own pantheon of classic Mahler Ninth recordings but here is one that demands to be heard. Why then has it taken so long to reach us? Unsubdued coughs threatened to mask its ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. So far, in his Mahler symphonies sequence, he has kept to the numerical order; now, at the end, he has taken on the last in the series, ...

The distinctive sound of The Hallé orchestra is now reaching out well beyond its familiar English repertoire on disc. There are times in this live performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 when one might ...