The Chicago Mahlerites

Essays and Reviews

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Essays
The Newly Discovered Source for Mahler's First Symphony: Issues of Context
by James L. Zychowicz and Susan M. Filler

Reconciling Life and Death: The Ninth Symphony of Gustav Mahler
by Teng-Leong Chew (also a CD review)

Die drei Pintos Reconsidered: Some Thoughts on Mahler's Opera
by James L. Zychowicz

Tracking the Literary Metamorphosis in Das Lied von der Erde
by Teng-Leong Chew

Das Lied von der Erde: The Literary Changes
by Teng-Leong Chew

Gustav Mahler's Unknown Scherzo in C Minor and Presto in F Major
by Susan M. Filler

A Literary Link between Mahler's Early Poetry and Symphony No. 2
by Jan Hoeper

Performing Versions of the Tenth Symphony
by Teng-Leong Chew

Mahler's Third Symphony
by Susan M. Filler

Veni Creator Spiritus and Gustav Mahler's Eighth Symphony
by Salvatore Calomino

To the Age its Art, to Art its Freedom
by Lynne Chang

Emil Orlik and Gustav Mahler: A Meeting of Minds
by Jan Hoeper

"Pan Awakes": Parables, Parody, and Paradox
by Jan Hoeper

Depictions of Anchorites in Mahler's Eighth Symphony
by Salvatore Calomino

MahlerFest XVIII
by Mitch Friedfeld

Presence: Mahler and New Music
by Grant Nebel

Mahler Through the Wrong End of the Telescope
by John David Lamb

When Das Lied von der Erde  Is Not Good Enough...
by Teng-Leong Chew

DVD Reviews
"What the Universe Tells Me
Documentary of Mahler's Third Symphony
Produced by Jason Starr
by Tess Crebbin

CD Reviews
Bruckner: Symphony No. 6
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Georg Tintner, conductor
by Teng-Leong Chew

Bruckner: Symphony No.6
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Riccardo Chailly, conductor
by Teng-Leong Chew

Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection"
Saito Kinen Orchestra/Seiji Ozawa
by Bill Drewett

William Bolcom: Songs of Innocence and Experience
University of Michigan School of Music Symphony Orchestra & University Musical Society
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
by Grant Nebel

Weber/Mahler: Die drie Pintos
Wexford Festival Orchestra
National Philharmonic Orchestra of Belarus
Paolo Arrivabeni, conductor
by Mark DeVoto

Book Reviews
An Affinity with Gustav Mahler
by Teng-Leong Chew

Lost to the World Authored by Tom Adler
by Teng-Leong Chew

The Second Golden Age of the Viennese Symphony: Brahms, Bruckner, Dvořák, Mahler, and Selected Contemporaries.
The Symphonic Repertoire, volume 4. Authored by A. Peter Brown
by Susan M. Filler

Gustav Mahler: Briefe und Musikautographen aus den Moldenhauer-Archiven in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek.
[Gustav Mahler: Letters and Musical Autographs from the Moldenhauer Archives in the Bavarian State Library]
Authored by Günther Weiß, Sigrid von Moisy, Hartmut Schaefer
by Steven D. Coburn

Po Stopách Gustava Mahlera v Čechách a na Moravé.
[In Gustav Mahler’s Footsteps in Bohemia and Moravia.]
The Symphonic Repertoire, volume 4  Authored by A. Peter Brown
by Susan M. Filler

Gustav Mahler: Letters to His Wife.
Edited by Henry-Louis de La Grange and Günther Weiss
In Collaboration with Knud Martner
First Complete Edition; translated by Anthony Beaumont
by Teng-Leong Chew

Gustav Mahler: A Life in Crisis.
by Stuart Feder
by Borna Bonakdarpour

Gustav Mahler and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra Tour America
by Mary Wagner
by Teng-Leong Chew

Movie Reviews

Dracula: Pages of a Virgin's Diary
by Petra Fey

Concert Reviews

Mahler: Symphony No. 5
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Riccardo Chailly, conductor
by Bill Drewett

Mahler: Symphony No. 6 (October, 1998)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Christoph Eschenbach, conductor
by Teng-Leong Chew
by Bill Drewett

Mahler: Symphony No.1 (November, 1999)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Mariss Jansons, conductor
by Ed Svoboda

Mahler: Symphony No. 4 (November, 1999)
Janice Watson, soprano
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly, conductor
by Bill Drewett

Mahler: Symphony No. 7 (September, 2000)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra - "Mahler and Modernism in America" Concert Series
Daniel Barenboim, conductor
by Charles Anthony Amenta III

Mahler: Symphony No. 9 (January 2001)
Saito-Kinen Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa, conductor
by Teng-Leong Chew


Mahler: Symphony No. 2 (November 2001)

Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano

Christine Brewer, soprano

Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus

Pierre Boulez, conductor

by Teng-Leong Chew

by Bill Drewett


Mahler: Symphony No. 10 (October 4, 2003)
Rudolf Barshai completion: U. S. Premiere
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra/Rudolf Barshai, conductor
by Teng-Leong Chew
 

Mahler: Symphony No. 3 (October 19, 2006)
Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano
Women of the Chicago Symphony Chorus
Chicago Children's Choir
Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Bernard Haitink, conductor
by Teng-Leong Chew


Mahler Cycle in Berlin (Spring, 2007)
Staatskapelle Berlin
by Mark Berry