Stephen Johnson explores Mahler's settings of the collection of German folk poetry, Des Knaben Wunderhorn.

Music lovers describe the part that Mahler's beautiful Adagietto from his Fifth Symphony has played in their lives. From March 2011. Show more

James Jolly talks to Norman Lebrecht and Jeremy Barham about Mahler's conversion from Judaism to Christianity, spirituality and the social context of the Resurrection Symphony. Show more

The Fifth Symphony is the urgent work of a composer starting a new adventure, charged with new musical possibilities and a new love, expressed with tenderness in its Adagietto. Show more

Mahler's 'song-symphony' explores themes of darkness and radiance. With Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Gregory Kunde (tenor) and the Hallé conducted by Sir Mark Elder.

Played by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Donald Runnicles

Sir Mark Elder conducts the National Youth Orch in Mahler's Symphony No. 9.

Christopher Cook and Julian Johnson discuss Mahler's Fifth Symphony, with particular focus on the famous Adagietto and the composer's relationship with his wife Alma. Show more

An orchestral showpiece of shifting moods and intense emotions Show more

The Sixth was the most personal and biographical of Mahler's symphonies to date. Show more

Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in Mahler's radical Seventh Symphony.