The Mahler Experiment

This experiment explores the unique qualities of Mahler’s writing, in which the interplay between voices and sections of the orchestra is conversational, almost dramatic, as if he heard the different instruments as people, living the experience of the symphony. You will hear Mahler’s masterpiece in changing surround-sound, finding yourself at the very heart of the music as its vast sonic world unfolds. From the hazy glow of the opening to the fer...