MTT Conducts Mahler 5

Featuring many of his most rapturous melodies—the “Adagietto” is a love poem for his young bride Alma—the Fifth Symphony finds Mahler at his most joyous and life-affirming. It’s the ideal vehicle for Music Director Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas, whose decades-long devotion to the Austrian visionary yielded the acclaimed Mahler recording project on SFS Media. In Schoenberg’s Five Pieces for Orchestra, offbeat instrumental combinations and collisi...