PAST EVENTS
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3 September 2023,  Members of GMS UK were pleased to travel to Manchester from Wrexham, Worcester, Sheffield, London and Lichfield to support the European Doctors’ Orchestra as they performed Mahler Symphony No. 3 at the Bridgewater Hall. We enjoyed not only the pre-concert Symposium where doctors discussed Mahler, Malady and Music, and the excellent performance by this amateur orchestra of Mahler’s longest symphony, but also we enjoyed speaking to many Mahler fans in the foyer.

The GMS UK AGM and Birthday Dinner took place on Friday 7 July 2023, celebrating 163 years since Gustav Mahler’s birth.We were delighted to welcome so many members with friends to the Brasserie Blanc on the Southbank in London and to hear our Guest Speaker Professor Jeremy Barham, Reader in Music at the University of Surrey.Professor Barham’s After Dinner talk was on “Mahler on the Screen”. We were reminded of TV adverts heard long ago and film scores over many years, whose music may not have been familiar to us then but that we now recognise as Mahler’s Symphony no. 6, or no. 3 or of course the Adagietto from no. 5. The Birthday Dinner, always a special event in our annual calendar, combined business (the AGM) with good food, good company, a stimulating talk and of course the prosecco toast, to our absent Guest of Honour Gustav Mahler, as we cut his birthday cake. Thank you to everyone who joined us. We look forward to seeing you again next year!

24 May 2023, The Delphine Trio and Friends. Pianist Roelof Temmingh skilfully arranged works by Mahler, Zemlinksy and Beethoven for piano, clarinet, violin and cello. The programme included Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder, where Magdalenna Krstevska’s clarinet replaced the cor anglais, complementing the deep tenor voice of Zwakele Tshabalala perfectly. The interplay between Maja Horvat’s violin and Jobine Siekman’s cello was wonderful, and the piano echoed Mahler’s use of the harp in other works of a similar and later period. A superb evening of live music!

25 March 2023, Fulham Symphony Orchestra - Mahler Symphony no 10, conductor Marc Dooley. Representatives of GMS UK were glad to attend the concert given by this amateur orchestra as one of our members plays in the woodwind section.

19 March 2023, Classical Sheffield - Mahler Symphony no 2. GMS UK supported this finale concert of the Classical Sheffield festival, given by the amateur musicians of the Hallam Sinfonia, Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra, Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus and Hallam Choral Society. The professional, Sheffield-born, soloists were Ella Taylor soprano and Anna Harvey mezzo-soprano, with conductor George Morten.

Here’s to more Mahler performances in future in Sheffield - and throughout Yorkshire!

18 February 2023, ‘Mahler’s World’ - Baritone Simon Wallfisch and composer-pianist Iain Farrington gave a recital in Oxford of Lieder by Mahler, Korngold, Brahms, Janáček and Dvorak. GMS UK Chair Anthony Raumann introduced the concert and he later interviewed Iain Farrington.

Late 2022, CD recording of Das Lied von der Erde with Claudia Huckle contralto, Nicky Spence tenor and Justin Brown piano.

Recorded and produced by Champs Hill Records, August 2021.

GMS UK was proud to sponsor the artists as they used the Lockdown to study, rehearse and record Mahler’s little known, but fully worked-out, piano version of Das Lied von der Erde.

GMS UK members were offered the CD at a discounted rate. We are very glad to have it in our home library!

In a 2016 BBC Music Magazine article Claudia Huckle was named as one of the ‘Rising Stars’, describing her as ‘a young singer with remarkable depth and richness to her voice. She produces surprising power even in her low chest voice and has a very warm, rounded sound …’

Mahler’s Symphony No. 5

On Sunday, 29 January 2023 GMS UK Vice President Gavin Plumley delivered a Study Day on this symphony. Gavin, the distinguished writer, broadcaster and specialist in Central European art, music and culture, alerted us not to be misled by the apparent victory, love or joy in this symphony.

Mahler in London

On 27 Nov 2022, architect Keith James Clarke and actor Richard Burnip presented ‘Mahler in London’. They shared the places where Mahler visited, worked or stayed from June-July 1892 during his only visit to London. We heard about, and heard from, the people he knew and the letters he wrote during his short conducting season at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.

This was the first time we had met in person since the Lockdown. It was great to meet face to face again!

Our thanks to Keith and Richard and to GMS UK members who travelled from Worcestershire, Hertfordshire and all parts of Greater London to join us.

Saturday 26 November 2022
Sutton Symphony Orchestra performed Mahler’s Symphony no. 5 in Cheam, Surrey.

GMS UK is always happy to hear of performances of Mahler’s music by amateur orchestras. Well done to all the musicians!

Tuesday 17 August 2022, live performance at Opera Holland Park, London
Das Lied von der Erde
Fifth Door Ensemble performed a chamber version of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, conducted by Thomas Blunt with mezzo soprano Jennifer Johnston and tenor Charne Rochford.

Thursday 7 July 2022 on Zoom
Annual General Meeting and Birthday Celebration
Do we need another Mahler Catalogue?
Presented by Dr Paul Banks

Wednesday 1 December 2021 on Zoom
The Two Gustavs
Presented by Gavin Plumley

Tuesday 17 August 2021
Part sponsored a concert at Opera Holland Park in London

Das Lied von der Erde

Wednesday 7 July 2021 on Zoom
AGM and Birthday Event

Zoom Lecture Wednesday 26 May 2021, 7.00pm
Hans Winterberg: A Musical Detective Story
Guest speaker: Dr Michael Haas

Wednesday 14 April 2021, 7.00 pm on Zoom
Mahler and the Russians
Guest speaker: David Nice

Monday 26 October 2020 - On-line
Mahler 's faith and how it influenced his work
Presented by Norman Lebrecht

Tuesday 7 July 2020
Annual Mahler Birthday Dinner & AGM online.
Guest speaker: Michael White

Thursday 27 February 2020
Lancaster Hall Hotel
35 Craven Terrace, London W2 3EL
Mahler - Affairs of the Heart
Presented by Michael Trimble

Tuesday 28 January 2020
Lancaster Hall Hotel
35 Craven Terrace, London W2 3EL
Combined Music Societies Dinner
Hosted by the Wagner Society

Tuesday 5 November 2019
Lancaster Hall Hotel
Mahler Piano Arrangements
Presented by Iain Farringdon

Friday 27 September 2019
Annual Inter-Society Quiz

Wednesday 8 July 2019
Denise's Restaurant,
79 Southampton Row,
London WC1B 4ET
Annual Birthday Dinner and AGM
Guest speaker: Katy Hamilton

Tuesday 14 May 2019
London
Mahler and Schoenberg
Presented by Michael Haas

Sunday 24 February 2019
London
Symphonic Studies - Mahler’s Fourth Symphony
Presented by Gavin Plumley

Thursday 15 January 2019
London
Combined Music Societies Dinner
Presented by the Richard Strauss Society

3 November 2018
live event in Birmingham

“Ecstasy”

A study day and talk by Mary Sharratt based on her book about Alma Mahler.

3 March 2018 – live event at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
A talk by Colin Matthews on his contribution to the creation of a performance version of Mahler's 10th Symphony (Cooke)

Plus a recital of arranged Mahler songs by the Prima Wind Quintet

18 March 2017 – live event in Birmingham
Mahler – the Mind and the Music

Presented by Professor Peter Franklin

Plus a showing of the film “Mahler on the Couch”