Even if that line made famous by Rita’s flatmate Trish in the film version of Educating Rita is meant to satirise the pretentiousness of the intellectual class, the life-affirming nature of Gustav ...

Symphony No. 7 Gustav Mahler, Composer Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Zdenek Macal, Conductor Audiophiles unfamiliar with the luminous sound Exton has been achieving in Prague’s Rudolfinum should ...

Mahler: Symphony No. 7: San Francisco Symphony; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor. SFS Media. $22.95. Facing the most daunting challenge in their Mahler cycle, Michael Tilson Thomas and the San ...

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 ...

The Music Center has not lit Walt Disney Concert Hall in yellow and blue, the colors of the Ukrainian flag, as has become a practice with concert halls in many cities, including Washington, D.C., and ...

One of the great achievements of the Michael Tilson Thomas era at the San Francisco Symphony has been the orchestra’s deep dive into the music of Gustav Mahler. From 2001 to 2010, the conductor and ...

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 ...

Nott’s opening movement – always controversial in terms of its tempo relationships – seems to carry a heavy burden of curiosity. The second idea is enervatingly slow to the point of feeling totally ...