Earlier this month in Glasgow, Scotland, I heard the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performing Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, whose initial falling motive in G minor, known the world over, is termed ...
The Mahler Third is the longest symphony, at least in the standard repertoire. But we should not make too much of length: it is one of the greatest works of music we have. Is it your favorite Mahler ...
It delivered in terms of masterful conducting, effortless in every gear change, and in all those sonorities which must have seemed outrageously novel in 1896; when the playing’s as good as the ...
On February 7 at Carnegie Hall, the Budapest Festival Orchestra offered a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 that did not merely impress — it recalibrated expectations. Under the direction of Ádám ...