Mahler Festival Broadcast: Mahler 7

This week on CSOradio, Jaap van Zweden leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s Seventh Symphony, recorded live at the 2025 Mahler Festival in Amsterdam. Opening the broadcast, Claudio Abbado conducts Mahler’s Rückert Lieder, featuring Hanna Schwarz. The program concludes with a 1930 RCA recording of Karl Goldmark’s Ballet Music from The Queen of Sheba, under the baton of second music director Frederick Stock.

Broadcast available through May 15, 2028.

Gustav Mahler Rückert Lieder
Hanna Schwarz mezzo-soprano
Claudio Abbado conductor
1981 (Deutsche Grammophon)

Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 7
Jaap van Zweden conductor
May 2025

Karl Goldmark Ballet Music from The Queen of Sheba
Frederick Stock conductor
1930 (RCA)

Production
Brian Wise producer
Charlie Post audio engineer
Karel Bruggeman audio engineer
Taco van der Werf audio engineer
Lisa Simeone host

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This broadcast was produced by Brian Wise with assistance from Jiwon Sun, Frank Villella, and Logan Goulart. The recording engineers in Amsterdam were Karel Bruggeman and Taco van der Werf. The series engineer is Charlie Post. Vanessa Moss is the Executive Producer, and Lisa Simeon is the series host. 

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