Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Sunday, Jan. 8. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times) Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, the last work he completed and ...

For conductor Peter Oundjian, Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 remains the “ultimate expression of one of the greatest geniuses of classical music.” On Friday, the Yale School of Music’s Philharmonia — led by ...

If any music could break your heart, it would be the opening minutes of Mahler’s overwhelming Symphony No. 9. Composed after the death of his daughter, and the diagnosis of his own fatal heart disease ...

The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony under the direction of David Bernard will present Mahler's Ninth, his final completed symphony, in a milestone release celebrating the orchestra’s 25th anniversary.

The rich, romantic sound of the strings emanating from Music Hall’s stage was extraordinary as Jesús López-Cobos led the final movement of Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 with the Cincinnati Symphony ...

There’s someone crying, another…whimpering? But that’s it. The Meyerson is a vacuum. There’s an odd mood coursing through the rows of seats, a breathless silence, total and creaky. It hangs in the air ...

Yet the fascination comes from outside, from the music’s time and place. And for various reasons Markus Stenz's performance, in front of a surprising number of unoccupied seats in Cardiff’s St.David’s ...

Those are no. 9 (it was also recorded, in 2014) and no. 5 – and now, in his final season as music director, he’s begun with the former and will end with the latter, both recalling memorable ...

Can you hear your heart right now? We often forget that it is there, beating restlessly and constantly, that we will stop existing when it ceases to make a sound. Gustav Mahler probably thought about ...

Years ago, I was in Carnegie Hall for a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 (“Resurrection”). At the end, the audience stood and applauded. That included me and a friend of mine, a young conductor.

Mandle Cheung, a 78-year-old amateur conductor, led a performance of Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony over the objections of some musicians. By Javier C. Hernández Thomas Oliemans came to New York to ...