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The final song seemed to last both an eternity and no time at all.

A surprise "artist" gatecrashes the Festival's closing concert

Even in a flawed performance, The Song of the Earth fills the hearer with its life-affirming carpe diem message.

Stuart Skelton and Sarah Connolly were the stars of the evening, lifting the performance to a new level in what Leonard Bernstein called Mahler’s “greatest symphony”.

What can multimedia wizardry add to Mahler's masterpiece? 

Rattle and the LSO give hundreds of moments of individual brilliance in this most symphonic of song cycles, but with both soloists giving grounds for reservation.

Das Lied von der Erde may have been down-sized but it lost none of its stature in the Aurora Orchestra’s performance of a chamber arrangement of Mahler’s great song-symphony.

The music of Sibelius and Mahler may seem worlds apart, but this concert by the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, celebrating Finland's centenary, proved that opposites can attract.

At Carnegie Hall the MET orchestra proves that, temporarily rudderless, it's still a top ensemble

James Conlon led the CSO in Schubert’s Unfinished symphony and Mahler’s Das Lied von der Lied.  Mixed fortunes were had for the singers in the latter, but Conlon and the orchestra provided probing performances throughout.

Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra lit up Zurich’s historic Tonhalle with a stellar double-bill of Mendelssohn and Mahler.

  Michelle DeYoung and Paul Groves were the soloists in Mahler’s late “symphony with solo voices.” The concert opened with a classically balanced reading of Schubert’s “Unfinished” symphony.

Superb Schubert followed by some altogether more mysterious and disorientating Mahler makes for a Sunday night treat at the Royal Festival Hall with the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Josep Pons. 

Bernard Haitink’s musical insight and interpretative genius continues to mature like a vintage Château Pétrus.

American violinist Joshua Bell updates a tradition with class and panache in the Czech Philharmonic's season opener.

A strange combination of a Berlioz overture, a commemorative work and Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with the Hallé, Sir Mark Elder, Alice Coote, Gregory Kunde and Leonard Elschenbroich.

Alan Gilbert conducts Sibelius and Mahler at the helm of the New York Philharmonic. 

Michael Tilson Thomas, leading the San Francisco Symphony in an invigorating performance of works by both Schubert and Mahler, emphasized the idea of repetition as an evolution rather than a lie.

San Francisco Symphony presents Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde in all its glory. The addition of Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony filled out the program, but seemed very much an afterthought.

Both Mahler and Schoenberg found musical inspiration through poetry, and the fruit of their efforts yielded two of the most fascinating pieces of music in the canon.

In Rotterdam, Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a gracefully contoured Beethoven Sixth Symphony and, together with fabulous vocal and instrumental soloists, reaches core-deep into Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde.

Wednesday night’s concert saw the London Symphony Orchestra with principal guest conductor Daniel Harding in what seemed a slightly odd programme, pairing Schubert’s Fifth with Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde.

What do Schubert’s Third Symphony and Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde have in common? Not a whole lot, which is why it came across as rather puzzling that the two pieces should be programmed together. Yet, in the Oslo Philharmonic’s September 6 and 8 concerts, they were. The result was a mixed bag of two wildly different works, written almost a century apart.Schubert’s Symphony no.

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra clearly wore its heart on its sleeves in naming the opening concert for the 2011/12 season “Heaven and Earth”. There could be no mistake in matching the works to the title. Saturday’s performance showcased the versatility and maturity of the orchestra in handling sharply divergent artistic intentions. When they wrote their Symphony No.

Twice in a week we have enjoyed ideal concert experiences in which all the elements came together; Mozart at Wigmore Hall and this at Cadogan Hall.

In einem bewegenden Konzert präsentiert das Orchester Werke Schuberts und Mahlers, deren Tonsprache gemeinsame Wurzeln im Lied hat.

Retour sur un concert aux forts échos politiques contemporains et conçu comme une manifeste pour la paix.

Aktuelle und ehemalige Stipendiaten zeigen den Erfolg des Internationalen Opernstudios Berlin auf.

Das Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks führten Schumanns „Rheinische" und Mahlers Lied von der Erde unter der Leitung von Sir Simon Rattle im Münchner Herkulessaal auf.

Remplaçant Robin Ticciati au pied levé, le chef allemand Hartmut Haenchen a su transformer la contrainte acoustique en force, le temps d’un Chant de la Terre dont la plasticité souveraine, la perpétuelle vacillation atteignaient au sublime.

La Sinfónica de Galicia fue la gran triunfadora de la noche con una combinación magistral de fuerza y sensibilidad. 

Difficile de trouver association de plus haut standing que celle des Wiener Philharmoniker, du Chant de la Terre et du ténor allemand Jonas Kaufmann, assumant à lui seul les six parties du chef-d’œuvre. Remplaçant Daniele Gatti, le chef anglais Jonathan Nott a cherché à équivoquer la prud’homie du sérail viennois par un violent serrage de ceinture.

La venue de l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Rotterdam au Théâtre des Champs-Elysées est depuis plusieurs années l’un des événements parmi les plus attendus de la saison symphonique parisienne. Encore une fois, un grand moment musical fut au rendez-vous.

Haydn und Mahler am Zürcher Opernhaus: Es fehlte wohl etwas die Abgeklärtheit in Mahlers schöner, ergreifender Musik, der Sinn für deren Poesie — irgendwie sprang der Funke nicht über.