Mahler’s First Symphony unfolds with the elemental sounds of nature, foot-stomping folk dances and a stormy but ultimately heroic finale. Conductor Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider opens with the symphony's ...

Mahler's first is one of the most thrilling symphonies - but it suffered a long time from an identity crisis. This is a work that went through many revisions before Mahler arrived at the version we ...

After an emotional experience playing Mahler’s first symphony in a youth orchestra, Bienen graduate student Taichi Fukumura will soon perform the piece again — but this time, from the other side of ...

His friend Mahler called him a genius, but there’s little in this recording – fine though it is – of Rott’s first symphony to persuade us of that Examples of composers who did not live long enough to ...

Mahler's Symphony No. 1 in D went through many variations before arriving at the version we know today. Originally composed between late 1887 and March 1888 the work was badly received at its premiere ...

Renowned Finnish conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste leads Mahler’s thunderous and blazingly theatrical First Symphony, a thrilling showcase for the Houston Symphony’s virtuosity and expressive power.

The fourth movement springs suddenly, like a lightening bolt from a dark cloud. It is simply the cry of a deeply wounded heart. Audiences in Gustav Mahler's time didn't know what to make of his music.

Mahler's song "Ging heut' morgens" later appeared as a purely instrumental theme in his Symphony No. 1 (Thomas Hampson, baritone). Gustav Mahler died 97 years ago today — May 18, 1911. Today, he's ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There has to be a reason for a new Mahler cycle, when so many exceptional recordings have appeared in recent ...

Stephen Johnson gets inside Mahler's first symphony to try and discover its true meaning among the folksongs, military fanfares, and sounds of nature that abound in his score.