Gustav Mahler Archive

Gustav Mahler’s Second Symphony began as a single-movement tone poem called Todtenfeier(‘Funeral Rites’). Completed in 1888 – one year before Richard Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration –it echoed the composer’s vision of seeing himself lying dead …

This is a recording of the amazing Symphony #2 by Gustav Mahler, with Barbara Kilduff (soprano), Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano), the National Choir ‘Rinat’, The Tel Aviv Philharmonic Choir, the Ihud Choir, and The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, …

My most vivid memory of the Mahler Third comes from a performance that I witnessed at the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado many years ago. The Festival Orchestra was conducted by James Levine, and I …

For any lover of classical music, the name “Mahler” is evocative of orchestral color, broad, sweeping symphonic brushstrokes and the culmination of the romantic symphony. However, Mahler wrote with equal mastery in another genre: It …

Scheduled for release at the end of August, this is a recording conducted by Sir Simon Rattle of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth). The featured singers are Magdalena Kožená and …