Bernstein was the first conductor to record the complete Mahler Symphonies and it was largely thanks to Bernstein’s advocacy that Mahler became regarded as one of the all-time greats.

Have a listen to the opening of the third movement of the First Symphony ... the first movement. Mahler knew he had a heart condition by this point and Leonard Bernstein (who was a great conductor ...

Needless to say, he does a Bernstein here, lengthening the final note from a quaver to an extended crotchet. Ives is now well and truly Ives. The super-homespun Third Symphony is not writ large (a ...

Mahler, who was Jewish by birth, had turned to Christianity as a way of being accepted by the increasingly antisemitic Viennese cultural elite. The epic final moments of the symphony rank among the ...

The renowned conductor Herbert Blomstedt has led the Philharmonia Orchestra in a performance of Mahler’s mighty Ninth Symphony. At 97 years old ... in a recent performance with the Philharmonia ...