Mahler Festival Broadcast: Mahler 7

This week, hear Jaap van Zweden lead the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s Symphony No. 7, recorded live at the 2025 Mahler Festival in Amsterdam. Opening the broadcast, Claudio Abbado conducts the CSO in Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder, featuring mezzo-soprano 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 Frederick Stock.

Broadcast available through May 15, 2028.

Mahler Rückert Lieder
Hanna Schwarz mezzo-soprano
Claudio Abbado conductor
1981 (DGG)

Mahler Symphony No. 7
Jaap van Zweden conductor
May 2025

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

25-51

CSOradio
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