This month, the Los Angeles Philharmonic welcomes back music and artistic director Gustavo Dudamel to Walt Disney Concert Hall, leading three different performances featuring Romantic and ...

The CSO is the only American orchestra in an Amsterdam event that is like the Coachella of the classical world. What is the fuss all about? The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is one of the world’s great ...

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CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A symphony with a parental warning will be performed in Cincinnati. The lyrics of the two of the most infamous rappers will be blended with classical music. Gustav Mahler was one ...

Dimitri Mitropoulos led the New York Philharmonic in the 1950s, before Leonard Bernstein took on the post. Like Bernstein, Mitropoulos did much to secure Mahler’s postwar reputation, and part of the ...

One pleasant perk of being an orchestra conductor is that you get applause simply for showing up. Audiences have been cheering Gustavo Dudamel ever since he was a teenager, so he may have been ...

Mahler's vast Symphony No 3 is his longest and most ungainly on paper, but on record it’s one of the easiest to get right. At least I can't think of many dud performances. This huge, six-movement work ...

It was with a sense of anticipation that I arrived at the Jacobs Music Center on Friday, October 4. Not only was Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 my favorite piece of music, once upon a time, I had ...

Several of this week’s classical picks include multiple performances, so you can choose whatever fits your schedule. – Wednesday boasts three interesting and unusual concerts, all at 7:30, beginning ...

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.

Gustav Mahler’s wife, Alma, worried her husband would curse their family by finishing his song cycle, “Kindertotenlieder.” Unfortunately, her fears came true. The Austrian composer and conductor was ...

Apple Music Classical has the hi-res streaming files that audiophiles demand, plus an editorial team that’s not afraid to suggest which recordings are the best places to start with an individual ...