Herbert Blomstedt on Gustav Mahler
“Mahler must have been a great man” Do you remember the first time you heard Mahler’s music? Blomstedt: I think so. It was the 1st Symphony and I didn’t like it particularly. I was 14 or 15 and I...
View ArticleGustav Mahler at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris
The new Gustav Mahler exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay opened this week in Paris. The exhibition shows a fascinating collection of material from the archives of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in...
View ArticleMahler Interview Transcripts Now Online
We have just published the transcripts of several more Mahler interviews, so that they are now nearly all online. Read the full interviews with Riccardo Chailly, Herbert Blomstedt, Manfred Honeck,...
View ArticleIn Search of Mahler
Watch Gavin Plumley’s new film following in the footsteps of Mahler. Read more at the Entartete Musik Blog
View Article100 years ago tomorrow
In advance of the 100th anniversary of Mahler’s death tomorrow, here are a few pointers to activities, concerts and reports to be found across the internet. The German Theatre Museum is showing the...
View ArticleGustav Mahler – 100 years after his death
Gustav Mahler’s grave in Vienna today, 100 years after his death. Floral tributes were made by the New York Philharmonic, the City of Vienna and Universal Edition, among others.
View Article30,000 video views
Our first Mahler interview to appear on this blog was with Daniel Barenboim, back in June 2009. Since then, we’re proud to say that all 27 videos have now been viewed a total of more than 30,000 times....
View ArticleVideo Streams from the Leipzig Mahler Festival
Arte Live Web’s video streams from the Leipzig Mahler Festival are online for some time still. Watch full concert recordings of the London Symphony Orchestra, The Gewandhaus Orchestra, the...
View ArticleAlan Gilbert on Gustav Mahler
“In New York he was kind of giving up” Do you remember the first time you heard Mahler’s music? Gilbert: I couldn’t swear that it was the first time I heard his music, but my first memory of Mahler is...
View ArticleClaudio Abbado Interview mit der FAZ
In einem seiner seltenen Interviews sprach Claudio Abbado mit Julia Spinola über seine lebenslange Auseinandersetzung mit der Musik Gustav Mahlers. Das Interview erschien in der FAZ vom 9.7.2011 (Was...
View ArticleClaudio Abbado on Gustav Mahler
Claudio Abbado talks to Universal Edition about the music of Gustav Mahler. Video language: German (with English subtitles). This interview is included in our new book Gustav Mahler: The Conductors’...
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