Richard Osbome documents the Vienna Philharmonic's
150 years of music-making in 12 programmes. 3: Enter Mahler
The radical impact made by Gustav Mahler on Vienna's Court Opera and Philharmonic Concerts between 1897 and 1907 is chronicled in a programme that includes extracts from Fidelio and Cost fan tutte, as well as part of Leonard Bernstein 's recording of Beethoven's String
Quartet in C sharp minor, Op 131 and at
4.09 Rafael Kubelik 's famous 1954 mono recording of Mahler's Symphony No 1. Records