Gustav Mahler's 7th Symphony, first performed in 1908 under the baton of the composer in Prague, is felt by many to be a colorful vision of a night-time journey. The symphony (or at least the first ...

Simon Rattle and the BRSO’s account of Mahler’s tricky seventh symphony is direct and vivid. Though it was launched without a great deal of fanfare, five years before he took over as the Bavarian ...

Even if that line made famous by Rita’s flatmate Trish in the film version of Educating Rita is meant to satirise the pretentiousness of the intellectual class, the life-affirming nature of Gustav ...

Mahler's Symphony No. 7 was premiered in 1908 in Prague, when the composer conducted the work himself, as part of a celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of the coronation of Emperor Franz Joseph.

Stephen Johnson for Building a Library surveys available recordings of Mahler's Symphony No. 7 and makes a recommendation. For much of the last century, Mahler's Seventh Symphony was considered a dud, ...

Gustav Mahler's Komponierhäuschen (composition hut) in Steinbach am Attersee." When Late-Romantic Austrian composer Gustav Mahler completed his First Symphony in 1888, he called it "Titan," thinking ...

Regretfully this latest take on Mahler’s most challenging symphony really doesn’t add up for me. The opening bars alone are a clear indication of how and why it will fall short. The sound, the ...

Symphony No. 7 Gustav Mahler, Composer Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Zdenek Macal, Conductor Audiophiles unfamiliar with the luminous sound Exton has been achieving in Prague’s Rudolfinum should ...