This week, experience the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the 2025 Mahler Festival in Amsterdam, as Jaap van Zweden leads Mahler’s Symphony No. 6. The broadcast opens with Michael Tilson Thomas conducting Charles Ives’s The Unanswered Question, featuring former CSO Principal Trumpet Adolph Herseth. Also heard on the program is Sir Georg Solti leading Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer, with soprano Yvonne Minton.
Mahler Festival Broadcast (Mahler 6)
Jaap van Zweden leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's Sixth at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. (Photo: Todd Rosenberg Photography)
Playlist
Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Adoph Herseth, trumpet
CBS (1986)
Gustav Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer
Yvonne Minton, soprano; Sir Georg Solti, conductor
1970 (London)
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 6
Jaap van Zweden, conductor
May 2025
