Mahler

Famed composer Gustav Mahler reflects on the tragedies of his life and failing marriage while traveling by train.

Conducting Mahler

Documents the interpretations of Gustav Mahler's compositions by conductors Bernard Haitink, Riccardo Chailly, Riccardo Muti, Claudio Abbado, and Simon Rattle, who detail the special relationship they have with Mahler's

Mahler on the Couch

Alma Mahler's affair with the young architect Walter Gropius sets in motion a marital drama that forces her husband Gustav Mahler to seek advice from Sigmund Freud.

Vision Mahler

The musical performance of Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony is interactively connected with the visual interpretation of the piece. The arrangement of the visualization concentrates on what the music expresses and the emo

What Mahler Tells Us

An experimental short-film in Super 8 where six directors adapted each 1 minute of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 3, bringing their own unique interpretations and styles over the symphony's movements: "Pan Awakes, Summer M

Mahler 8.

Mahler's 8th is one of the greatest orchestral and choral works in the classical repertoire and is rarely performed. The work has been called the 'Symphony of a Thousand', and requires eight soloists and several choirs,

Mahler 8

GUSTAV MAHLER (1860-1911) Symphony No. 8 - 'Sinfonie der Tausend' (1906) Part 1: Hymus: Veni, Creator Spiritus Part 2: Slotscène uit Goethes 'Faust' Live concert registration December 9, 2017 Muziekgebouw Frits Phil

The Peculiar Abilities of Mr. Mahler

A missing person case involving a child in 1987 East Germany attracts the attention of an investigator rumored to possess supernatural powers.

Mahler and the Millionaire

A documentary featuring the making of the July 1987 recording of Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony conducted by magazine publisher Gilbert Kaplan, who developed a passion for this piece of music at an early age and has con

Bernstein | Mahler Lieder

Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal

"Four Ways to Say Farewell" is a personal introduction to Mahler and his Ninth Symphony, during which Leonard Bernstein is seen and heard rehearsing the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Filmed in 1971, this rehearsal was d

Keeping Score: Mahler Legacy

Examining Mahler's creative flowering, from the 1890's to his untimely death at the age of 51, in 1911, including Symphonies 5 through 10, the Rückert songs and the "Song of the Earth". The episode also charts Mahler's m

Keeping Score: Mahler Origins

Focusing on Mahler's birth, conflicted childhood and early influences in the backwoods of Bohemia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, through his student days in Vienna and early song-writing to his emerging tri

Mahler: Symphony No. 5

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 spans from the Funeral Mar

Variations of a Theme by Gustav Mahler

Documentary short about the title composer, born in what was called "Czechoslovakia" when the film was made.

Mahler: Symphony No. 9

Mahler Symphony No.9 - Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra - Claudio Abbado

Mahler in New York

A sweeping, symphonic journey follows the final, transformative years of one of Europe’s most influential composers who fled Vienna’s rising antisemitism to discover startling artistic rebirth in Manhattan. From 1907 to

Teodor Currentzis conducts Brahms and Mahler

At Berlin’s Funkhaus, virtuoso pianist Alexandre Kantorow and star soprano Regula Mühlemann dazzle in this stunning program featuring Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 alongside Teodor Currentzis

The Gustav Mahler Celebration

A special and historic place, carefully chosen for the anniversary concert for Gustav Mahler, is the small Czech town of Kaliste. It was here that Mahler was born 150 years ago and here, in the breathtaking beauty, tranq

Mahler: Symphony No. 7 (Chailly)

Riccardo Chailly conducts the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No. 7, recorded live at the Gewandhaus in February and March 2014. The performance emphasizes the symphony's dramatic contrasts without reso