UE Mahler Interview with Alan Gilbert

New York Philharmonic conductor Alan Gilbert talks to Universal Edition about the music of Gustav Mahler.
This interview is included in our new book Gustav Mahler: The Conductors' Interviews
Edited by Wolfgang Schaufler
www.universaledition.com/mahle...

[@301250]

Such an effacing, humble person as can be gauged from the way he speaks, but what knowledge he possesses!

[@JPFalcononor]

There are two questions I wish all of these conductors were asked...
1. What order do you place the two middle movements of the Sixth Symphony and why? (my preference is scherzo-adagio)
2. What is your opinion of the performance version of the Tenth Symphony and do or will you ever program it? (Rattle, thank goodness is an advocate of it, but I do wonder what some of these other conductors think.)

[@michaeldunn355]

I am only just starting to get to know Gilbert...first heard him conducting the Brahms Violin Concerto with young Japanese Pixie whose name I have forgotten...it was great!

[@MrUggamugga]

I can't believe you are conducting these pieces either.