Mahlerfest Blog
Kenneth Woods on the Great Mahler 1 Debate
On the 19th of May, Colorado MahlerFest will give the world premiere of the new Critical Edition of Mahler’s First Symphony being...
Kenneth Woods on the Great Mahler 1 Debate
On the 19th of May, Colorado MahlerFest will give the world premiere of the new Critical Edition of Mahler’s First Symphony being published by Breitkopf & Härtel. It is the first attempt...
Colorado MahlerFest to Present World Premiere o...
26 March 2019 – For Immediate Release “The Colorado MahlerFest in and around the city of Boulder is one...
Colorado MahlerFest to Present World Premiere o...
26 March 2019 – For Immediate Release “The Colorado MahlerFest in and around the city of Boulder is one of the boldest musical initiatives of modern times… a byword...
Conductor's Welcome (2019)
What is it about MahlerFest? When I came to Boulder for my first festival in 2016, I really didn’t know...
Conductor's Welcome (2019)
What is it about MahlerFest? When I came to Boulder for my first festival in 2016, I really didn’t know what to expect. At the end, my wife asked “so,...
Kenneth Woods on Beethoven (arr. Mahler) String...
Beethoven (arr. Mahler)- String Quartet in F minor, op. 95 “Serioso” We often think of Beethoven as having three basic...
Kenneth Woods on Beethoven (arr. Mahler) String...
Beethoven (arr. Mahler)- String Quartet in F minor, op. 95 “Serioso” We often think of Beethoven as having three basic styles, or stylistic periods, that he went through in his...
Recovery and Renewal- The Threads and Themes of...
— By Kenneth woods Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde is a work that ends with the beginning of a journey....
Recovery and Renewal- The Threads and Themes of...
— By Kenneth woods Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde is a work that ends with the beginning of a journey. Across the first five movements, and through much of the...
Unfinished/Unheard- The ideas and themes behind...
— By Kenneth Woods In the 100+ years since his death, Mahler’s 10th Symphony has become possibly the most famous,...
Unfinished/Unheard- The ideas and themes behind...
— By Kenneth Woods In the 100+ years since his death, Mahler’s 10th Symphony has become possibly the most famous, perhaps even infamous, unfinished work of art in Western civilisation....
Visiting Composer David Matthews on Mahler 10
2017 Visiting Composer David Matthews and his brother Colin played a key role in the preparation of the final versions of Deryck...
Visiting Composer David Matthews on Mahler 10
2017 Visiting Composer David Matthews and his brother Colin played a key role in the preparation of the final versions of Deryck Cooke’s Performing Version of Mahler’s Tenth Symphony. Below is an...
Guest Blog: Colin Matthews "Tempo Relationships...
Tempo Relationships in the Adagio of Mahler’s Tenth Symphony; and two wrong notes — Colin Matthews (Originally published in The...
Guest Blog: Colin Matthews "Tempo Relationships...
Tempo Relationships in the Adagio of Mahler’s Tenth Symphony; and two wrong notes — Colin Matthews (Originally published in The Musical Times) There are many things that are misunderstood about...
What is it about Mahler's Seventh Symphony?
Mahler was a very busy conductor and composed only in the summers, in the mountains. He began to compose the...
What is it about Mahler's Seventh Symphony?
Mahler was a very busy conductor and composed only in the summers, in the mountains. He began to compose the two middle movements of his seventh, which he called Nachtmusiken...