“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 – a hymn to Nature – is a work of genius. It’s an epic ...

True, French EMI partly made amends by bringing out Symphonies Nos 1‑5 in a budget ... or the Second’s Finale’s fleeting inaccuracies, but these are nitpicks in face of so much excellence elsewhere.

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 ...

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 ...