Gustav Mahler's bleak Sixth Symphony (1903-05) has known its share of strange bedfellows -- at its 1947 American premiere by the New York Philharmonic it was paired, at the insistence of the ...

On April 15, 2025, The Philadelphia Orchestra, under the direction of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, presented Gustav Mahler’s Sixth Symphony at Carnegie Hall in a performance defined by its precision, ...

A ferocious march sets the stage for Mahler’s tragic and intensely moving Sixth Symphony. In the monumental finale, Mahler wrote three symbolic hammerblows of destiny – then deleted one in morbid fear ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Chailly’s latest Mahler DVD was filmed in Leipzig in 2012, with an intelligent podium discussion as part of the ...

In its thoroughly unflashy way, David Zinman's Mahler cycle, which is appearing chronologically, continues to achieve a remarkably high standard. His view of the Sixth never wears its heart on its ...

For the first time in more than a decade, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra performs one of the most powerful symphonic works ever written: Gustav Mahler’s monumental Sixth Symphony. The 80-minute ...

Playing Mahler’s Symphony No 6 is like riding a shaggy monster, but conductor Gustavo Dudamel guided the magnificent Los Angeles Philharmonic through the lurching ups and downs with passion 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 ...

Striding off with a brisk, almost impatient tempo in the opening Allegro, Russian conductor Valery Gergiev puts momentum at the leading edge of his Mahler Symphony No. 6 performance with the London ...