Gustav Mahler archive

Watch Measures Of Affection: Five Musical Love Letters
February 14, 2013 – For ages composers have written love letters, but not with words on paper. Their language is music.

Read And RuPaul Is From Poulenc
January 4, 2013 – Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon, from Deceptive Cadence.

Watch How Slow Can You Go?
August 20, 2012 – It's good to take it easy during these dog days of summer. But how slow is too slow?

Read Magdalena Kozena's Labor of 'Love And Longing'
August 7, 2012 – The mezzo-soprano's mastery of expression in a wide variety of music shines on her new album.

Read Kathleen Ferrier: A Voice Not Forgotten
May 15, 2012 – A new 14-CD set marks the centenary of the great English singer's birth.

Listen Mahler For The People: The L.A. Philharmonic In Caracas KUSC
March 1, 2012 – The L.A. musicians played for thousands and saw Venezuela's "El Sistema" music education up close. KUSC

Read The Berlin Philharmonic At Carnegie Hall WQXR
February 24, 2012 – Simon Rattle leads a performance of Mahler's immense and searching Second Symphony. WQXR

Read Top Classical Albums Of 2011
December 8, 2011 – From modernism to Mendelssohn and the massive sound of Mahler, a wide-ranging top 10 list.

Watch Which Composer Is The Biggest Badass?
June 27, 2011 – An idle query on Twitter ignites a fun debate.

Read Around The Classical Internet: June 10, 2011
June 10, 2011 – A dissolved orchestra, handsomely paid CEOs and a viola melee: all the classical news fit to link.

Read Around The Classical Internet: May 20, 2011
May 20, 2011 – Tussling in Philadelphia, springing for music, remembering Mahler and much more.

Watch Philadelphia Orchestra Close to Bankruptcy? APM
April 15, 2011 – The 111-year-old orchestra may decide Saturday morning to reorganize under Chapter 11 bankruptcy. APM

Watch Milk Duds And Dudamel: The L.A. Philharmonic Hits The Multiplexes
January 6, 2011 – Will Gustavo Dudamel's dynamic conducting pay off in live concerts transmitted to movie theaters?

Read First Listen: Mahler, 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn' WGBH
December 12, 2010 – Hear baritone Thomas Hampson's new recording of Gustav Mahler's 'Wunderhorn' songs in its entirety. WGBH

Watch Best Musical Moments Of 2010: Joyce DiDonato's Matchless Mahler
December 7, 2010 – The popular mezzo-soprano discovers the depths of humanity in Mahler's Second Symphony.