They included conductors (Otto Klemperer and Bruno Walter), composers (notably Arnold Schoenberg) and writers (Thomas Mann), ...

In the final weekend of the Mahler Grooves Festival, Gustavo Dudamel explores the tumultuous relationship of Gustav and Alma Mahler through their music. Their marriage was, at best, “complex ...

Colin Burrow and Clare Bucknell look at Jane Austen's use of the words 'interest' and 'interesting' and the significance of women reading in her novels in this extract from their podcast series 'On ...

Sometimes it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that, given the BPYO’s extraordinary talent level and their supposedly youthful ...

And then he hits you with the Adagietto from his Fifth Symphony. It’s Mahler’s love song to his wife Alma. As the composer himself wrote in a letter to Alma: “How much I love you ...

Hearing Mahler’s symphonies for the first time ... his relationship with his wife Alma, the birth and tragic death of his children, and his own failing health. And, if we are open to these ...

They included conductors (Otto Klemperer and Bruno Walter), composers (notably Arnold Schoenberg) and writers (Thomas Mann), as well as Mahler’s widow, composer Alma Mahler, and their daughter ...