The full transcripts of our Mahler interviews with Jonathan Nott and Kent Nagano are now available.

As part of his own celebration of the Mahler anniversary years, Christoph Eschenbach has published high quality videos of his current series of Mahler concerts with the Orchestre de Paris. Symphonies 1, 2, 6 and 8 are already online. The films, directed by François Goetghebeur, are a collaboration with the Orchestre de Paris and Medici TV.

The next performance is the Ninth Symphony on the 15th June.

See also our interview with Christoph Eschenbach on Mahler’s music.

“Mahler was in control of losing control.”

Do you remember when you heard Gustav Mahler’s music for the first time?

Oramo: When I heard Gustav Mahler’s music for the first time – I have to confess that I can’t remember when it would have been. I went to concerts with my Dad quite often when I was little, and especially when my Mum was playing, she is a pianist. But Mahler’s music – I suppose it could have been when Igor Markevitch was conducting in Helsinki. And I seem to remember that my mother played Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto with him, and then there was Mahler’s Symphony No. 1. It could have been that.

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The Aurora Orchestra has announced the British première of Klaus Simon’s arrangement of Mahler’s 1st Symphony for chamber orchestra.

The performance takes place at this year’s Oundle Festival in England on 16 July.