Gustav Mahler. The Conductors' Interviews (English version)

Contents

• Reinhold Kubik: “The company does its work in grand style”
• Claudio Abbado: “Mahler is the bridge to the modern art”
• Daniel Barenboim: “I began to conduct Mahler out of spite”
• Herbert Blomstedt: “Mahler must have been a great man”
• Pierre Boulez: One cannot refer to the biography to explain the music”
• Riccardo Chailly: “Mahler's ‘First’ was the great emotion of my youth”
• Christoph von Dohnányi: “Mahler composed inwardly"
• Gustavo Dudamel: “Wow, Mahler!“
• Christoph Eschenbach: “Mahler is certainly the greatest symphonist ever”
• Daniele Gatti: “Mahler should be performed simply and humbly”
• Valery Gergiev: “Mahler's ‘Seventh’ made me sleepless”
• Michael Gielen: “Bernstein turned Mahler into kitsch”
• Alan Gilbert: “In New York he was kind of giving up”
• Bernard Haitink: “I always found Mahler alarming“
• Manfred Honeck: “The rubato is essential when conducting Mahler”
• Mariss Jansons: “With Mahler you have to give everything”
• Lorin Maazel: “I would never have asked him anything“
• Zubin Mehta: “I would love to ask him a thousand questions“
• Ingo Metzmacher: “Mahler is my point of reference“
• Kent Nagano: “Mahler was a pioneer - not only a radical“
• Andris Nelsons: “Mahler wanted to show the world: I have a problem!”
• Jonathan Nott: “Frozen for eternity in death”
• Sakari Oramo: “Mahler controls chaos”
• Sir Antonio Pappano: “Mahler wanted to live, that's the whole point!”
• Josep Pons: “Mahler is more contemporary now than in 1910”
• Sir Simon Rattle: “Mahler is the reason why I'm a conductor today”
• Esa-Pekka Salonen: “Mahler embraced everything that exists”
• Michael Tilson Thomas: “Jump! Cut! Bang!”
• Franz Welser-Möst: “Mahler was like an earthquake for me”
• David Zinman: “Mahler is a universe in itself”
• Conductor's biographies
• Gustav Mahler – short biography