For Mahler, symphonies always were a means of interpreting the most convoluted philosophical problems that couldn’t be resolved verbally. The ambitious structure of the five-part Fifth Symphony ...

“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 ...

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 ...