Mahler Festival Broadcast: Mahler 6

This week, experience the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the 2025 Mahler Festival in Amsterdam, as Jaap van Zweden leads Mahler’s Symphony No. 6. The broadcast opens with Michael Tilson Thomas conducting Charles Ives’s The Unanswered Question, featuring former CSO Principal Trumpet Adolph Herseth. Also heard on the program is Sir Georg Solti leading Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer, with soprano Yvonne Minton.

Broadcast available through May 14, 2028.

Ives The Unanswered Question
Adolph Herseth trumpet
Michael Tilson Thomas conductor
1986 (CBS)

Mahler Songs of a Wayfarer
Yvonne Minton soprano
Sir Georg Solti conductor
1970 (London)

Mahler Symphony No. 6
Jaap van Zweden conductor
May 2025

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