The Fifth was almost the last Mahler symphony I came to grips with. I always found it peculiarly difficult. I first heard it when my father went to America in the early 1960s and came back with a copy ...

Mahler is famous for the way in which he stretched classical music to its limits, especially in the hour-long Symphony No. 5 composed between 1901 and 1902. Principally, this happened through his huge ...

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Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 is a work of intense emotions and huge orchestral scope that proves a challenge to even the greatest orchestras and conductors. "Nobody understands it... I wish I could conduct ...