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UNCOVERED: Mahler | History Defined

Forget vinyl v digital debates, this kind of musical ‘authenticity’ brings real rewards

Period instruments are miles away from retro affectation, and as two Proms this week will show, can actually bring historical music up to the moment

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Simply the best? Is the Berlin Philharmonic really better than all the rest?

The orchestra – at the Proms this week – is hailed as among the best in the world, if not the best. For my money, that’s quite possibly right, but why?

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'A real privilege': Christ Church Camerata's Newcastle Music Festival finale

Mahler's titanic first symphony is rarely heard live. Here's why.

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Should a tech tycoon be able to pay his way into conducting a world-class orchestra? And should they really sell tickets?

Elon Musk may be able to buy a trip to Mars, but when the super wealthy pay to be conductors – as Canadian tech entrepreneur Mandle Cheung is doing – it makes a mockery of a meritocracy in classical music

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Beyond the body: Wayne McGregor stretches the definition of dance at this year’s Venice Dance Biennale

With the British dance legend at the helm, this year’s themes ranged from quantum gravity to slightly muted geopolitics

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Mahler: Songs of Youth and Awakening album review – exuberance and intensity from fine cast of singers

This collection of songs that the composer wrote as a young man is full of interest and emotion. Pianist Joseph Middleton brings sensitive support and an array of illustrative colours

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The Mahler Experiment review – physical drama comes at a musical cost in choreographed symphony

Tom Morris’s staged take on Mahler’s first symphony is valiantly performed by Stephanie Childress and Sinfonia Smith Square, but the result feels more like R&D than a finished product

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From shiveringly vivid Mahler to the eclectic Hermes Experiment: our top classical recordings of 2025

Opera may be conspicuous by its absence, but the brilliance of Berlin Philharmonic’s Schoenberg and the exceptional South Korean Yunchan Lim gave us plenty to sink our teeth into this year

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Royal Concertgebouw / Mäkelä review – Proms showcase legendary orchestra and its star signing

The masterly Amsterdam ensemble were at the Proms for two concerts with their Chief Conductor Designate Klaus Mäkelä. In works by Berio, Mahler, Mozart, Prokofiev and Bartók there was dazzling playing and immaculate attention to detail

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BBCSO/Lintu review – there’s a good reason these Boulez and Mahler works aren’t often performed

Despite eye-catching percussion and deluxe orchestral playing, these strange, overlong pieces are for die-hards only

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Pioneering period instrument performances: Five key Roger Norrington recordings

Five essential recordings by the trailblazing conductor who has died aged 91

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Penarth chamber music festival review – scaled-down Mahler’s Fourth Symphony emerges as if newly minted

The joy and anarchy of Mahler were brilliantly captured, alongside wild Shostakovich and mellow Brahms

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Mahler 8 at the Multitudes festival: 'five stars, if not for the screensaver visuals'

4/5 The London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Edward Gardner, excel at Mahler’s 8th but the experimental video accompaniment was only partially successful

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Aurora Orchestra/Collon review – reduced Mahler still packs a punch

A chamber reduction of Das Lied von der Erde formed the centrepiece of this spring-themed concert

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The week in classical: BBCSO Total Immersion: Pierre Boulez; RLPO/ Hindoyan: Mahler Symphony No 3; Joyce DiDonato and Maxim Emelyanychev – review

An invigorating all-day tribute to the maverick French composer-conductor felt like the end of an era. Plus, heartfelt Mahler and a star mezzo’s Winterreise

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On my radar: Raja Shehadeh’s cultural highlights

The Palestinian writer and campaigner on Mahler, Gaza, Edinburgh – and the peace of his West Bank garden

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Mahler Symphony No 3 album review – slightly sub-par outing for ‘least hysterical’ work

Curiously the Czech Philharmonic, ideally placed as an interpreter of Mahler, don’t achieve the necessary ecstatic intensity here

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Czech Phil/Bychkov review – fiendish Mozart duo contrasts with gargantuan Mahler

The Labèque sisters gave an uncannily composite performance of Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos, then chief conductor Semyon Bychkov took the Czech Philharmonic through a mighty rendering of Mahler’s Fifth

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Mahler: Symphony No7 album review – sheer brilliance: this is one of the finest Mahler 7’s on disc

Simon Rattle and the BRSO’s account of Mahler’s tricky seventh symphony is direct and vivid.

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LSO/Harding/Trifonov review – nuanced and individual Schumann, then propulsive Mahler

Making a much-anticipated London appearance, Daniil Trifonov balanced lyricism and vigour in Schumann. Daniel Harding’s well-judged account of Mahler 7 caught the symphony’s sense of impending disintegration

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Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra/Dudamel review – epic Mahler is exhilarating but overwhelming

Gustavo Dudamel drove the massed ranks of the Venezuelan orchestra with ferocious energy, but it was all too much too soon

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Philharmonia/Blomstedt review – the collective performance of a lifetime

The 97-year-old conductor led the Philharmonia – on exceptional form – in one of the finest performances of Mahler’s epic Ninth Symphony one is likely to hear.

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LSO/Tilson Thomas review – emotional depth as Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony gleams

The London Symphony Orchestra’s Conductor Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas celebrated his 80th birthday with an authoritative but restrained account of Mahler’s Second with soloists Alice Coote and Siobhan Stagg

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Hallé/Wong review – new chapter begins with muted Mahler

Kahchun Wong starts his tenure as the Manchester orchestra’s principal conductor with Mahler’s first and a suite from Britten’s Prince of the Pagodas

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The week in classical: Eugene Onegin; Last Night of the Proms; Mahler: Symphony No 2 ‘Resurrection’ – review

Plucky Northern Ireland Opera triumphs with elegant, homegrown Tchaikovsky; Stephen Hough and Angel Blue rise above the pomp; and biblical car park Mahler

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