When Leonard Bernstein died last October, the most important project he left unfinished was his second recording of the complete symphonies of Gustav Mahler. The project was for Deutsche Grammophon ...

Was there ever a more perfect musical match than composer Gustav Mahler and conductor Leonard Bernstein? Mahler's symphonies -- with their giddy fits of nostalgia, their fevered visions of a radiant ...

Leonard Bernstein’s way with orchestras that wouldn’t give him what he wanted was usually imploring, even beseeching. He was disappointed—the musicians were not so much failing him, the conductor, as ...