There are aspects of Ozawa's Fourth that I enjoyed greatly. He would seem to be temperamentally better suited to this particular piece, to what Deryck Cooke described as its ''neo-rococo'' ...
Ladies and gentlemen, we present Gustav ... and say: “no use looking up there, that’s all been composed by me.” But that’s Mahler for you. And let’s be fair, his Third Symphony ...
From a vast and mysterious opera rehearsal stage (Gustav Mahler's "home away from home" for much of his life), San Francisco Symphony Music ... grotesque – no matter what, MTT suggests ...
Or were these all premonitions? The "hammer-blows of fate" from the 6th Symphony seemed to be meant for Mahler himself when, in the summer of 1907, his much-loved daughter died of diptheria during ...