While I have been a devoted Mahler fan for many years, I have not been able to penetrate the secrets of this work. On one hand, I enjoy the movements titled “Night Music”, but on …
As the last completed symphony that Mahler wrote, the Ninth has often been heard by audiences as the moving farewell from a composer conscious of his own mortality. This interpretation is of course easily justifiable, …
During his brief lifetime, composer Gustav Mahler had an important connecrion with Holland and with the Dutch orchestras that premiered his works. As such, several conductors created the tradition of how these important works are to …
I am not interested in the number of recordings out there in the market place of Mahler’s 5th. It seems as though this particular recording might have a special place among all the others… Mahler’s …
This recording brings together Baritone Florian Boesch and Malcolm Martineau, who is widely recognized as one of today’s leading piano accompanists. The recording opens with Schumann’s Op. 39, Liederkreis, settings of Joseph von Eichedorff’s poems, …