This week on CSO radio, Jaap van Zweden leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s Seventh Symphony, recorded live at the 2025 Mahler Festival in Amsterdam. Opening the broadcast, Claudio Abbado conducts Mahler’s Rückert Lieder, featuring Hanna Schwarz. The program concludes with a 1930 RCA recording of Karl Goldmark’s Ballet Music from The Queen of Sheba, under the baton of second music director Frederick Stock.
Mahler Festival Broadcast: Mahler 7
Jaap van Zweden leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's Sixth at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. (Photo: Todd Rosenberg Photography)
Playlist
Gustav Mahler: Rückert Lieder
Hanna Schwarz, mezzo-soprano; Claudio Abbado, conductor
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 7
Jaap van Zweden, conductor
Karl Goldmark: Ballet Music from The Queen of Sheba
Frederick Stock, conductor
