Have a listen to the opening of the third movement of the First Symphony ... the first movement. Mahler knew he had a heart condition by this point and Leonard Bernstein (who was a great conductor ...

From a vast and mysterious opera rehearsal stage (Gustav Mahler's "home away from home" for much of his life), San Francisco Symphony Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) introduces us to ...

Leonard Bernstein – or Lenny as he was affectionately known – was born ‘Louis Bernstein’ in Massachusetts in 1918. His family weren’t particularly musical so it wasn’t until an ...

I had secretly hoped that Bernstein ... briefly to the symphony to acknowledge the CD remastering of Horenstein's live Stockholm performance (or rather performances) from 1966—of specialist interest ...