Embrace Everything - The World of Gustav Mahler

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The Embrace Everything podcast series is an exploration and celebration of the music of Gustav Mahler. Throughout his life Mahler insisted that music had to, literally, embrace everything. This makes his compositions unusually rich in what they offer both audience and musicians. It’s often delightfully quirky one moment and then deeply tragic the next. Mahler did not shy away from introducing the most low-brow, commonplace musical tune alongside the most radiantly sublime words in all of spiritual literature. Gustav Mahler meant what he said: music has to embrace everything.

Each season of the series explores a different Mahler symphony. The series already includes more than 100 interviews with leading conductors, music scholars, and orchestral musicians—all of whom have extensive first-hand experience with the music, offering an abundance of insights into just what makes Mahler’s music so unique. Additionally, comments from Mahler and his contemporaries are read by actors throughout the programs. Each episode explores how Mahler drew not just from the world of music but from the other arts, from the world of nature, and from life itself. Anything that attracted Mahler’s attention was liable to find its way into the music. How did he do this? That’s something each episode investigates.

Interviews thus far include members of the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic, and the London Symphony Orchestra.

Embrace Everything has topped podcast charts around the world. The series reached #1 on the Apple Music Commentary, Music History, or Music charts in more than 25 countries and has won 15 international awards in the last three years.

Season 1 - Mahler's First Symphony

Season 1 focuses on Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 in D major (1888), taking listeners back to the work’s origins in the street songs, folk tunes and bugle calls of Mahler’s childhood. Each episode is devoted to a movement of the symphony.

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Starring James Lurie as the voice of Gustav Mahler and Laura Gragtmans as the voice of Natalie Bauer-Lechner.

Guests include conductors Kent Nagano and Michael Tilson Thomas; principal musicians of the Boston Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam; and scholars from Columbia University, the University of Chicago, Washington University in St. Louis, Los Angeles City College and the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.

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EPISODE LINKS:

Season 1: www.theworldofgustavmahler.org/season1.html

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Movement One – Isn’t This a Splendid World? (S1, Ep.1)

Gustav Mahler’s First Symphony is the story of a young man beginning his journey through life. In fact, it is Mahler himself, looking at the world with wide-eyed wonder. Originally, he titled the first movement “Spring Without End,” for its depiction of the joys of nature.

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Starring:

*JAMES LURIE as the voice of Gustav Mahler

*LAURA GRAGTMANS as the voice of Natalie Bauer-Lechner

Guests include:

*MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS – Conductor (San Francisco Symphony, New World Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra)

*KENT NAGANO – Conductor (Hamburg State Opera and Philharmonic, Montreal Symphony Orchestra)

*WILLIAM HUDGINS - Principal Clarinet, Boston Symphony Orchestra

*MARILYN McCOY - Columbia University

*CAROLINE KITA - Washington University in St. Louis

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EPISODE LINKS:

Season 1, Episode 1: www.theworldofgustavmahler.org/episode1.html

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Movement Two – All Music Proceeds from the Dance (S1, Ep.2)

In the second movement of his First Symphony, Gustav Mahler draws upon the dance music of his youth. As his mood becomes more exuberant, so too, does the music.

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Starring:

*JAMES LURIE as the voice of Gustav Mahler

*LAURA GRAGTMANS as the voice of Natalie Bauer-Lechner

Guests include:

*MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS – Conductor (San Francisco Symphony, New World Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra)

*KENT NAGANO – Conductor (Hamburg State Opera and Philharmonic, Montreal Symphony Orchestra)

*MARILYN McCOY - Columbia University

*PHILIP V. BOHLMAN - University of Chicago

*CHRISTIAN GLANZ - University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna

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EPISODE LINKS:

Season 1, Episode 2: www.theworldofgustavmahler.org/episode2.html

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Movement Three – The Huntsman’s Funeral (S1, Ep.3)

Colorado Mahlerfest 39 is coming up! May 13 to 17 in Boulder, Colorado.

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Early audiences found the third movement of Gustav Mahler’s First Symphony grotesque, macabre and unsettling. Inspired by an engraving entitled “The Huntsman’s Funeral,” Mahler juxtaposes death with humor, incorporating a popular children's melody—a brilliant touch that still delights and spooks audiences today.

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Starring:

*JAMES LURIE as the voice of Gustav Mahler

*LAURA GRAGTMANS as the voice of Natalie Bauer-Lechner

Guests include:

*WILLIAM HUDGINS - Principal Clarinet, Boston Symphony Orchestra

*DOMINIC SELDIS - Principal Bass, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam

*MARILYN McCOY - Columbia University

*PHILIP V. BOHLMAN - University of Chicago

*CHRISTIAN GLANZ - University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna

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EPISODE LINKS:

Season 1, Episode 3: www.theworldofgustavmahler.org/episode3.html

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Movement Four – The Battle of Fate (S1, Ep.4)

Gustav Mahler originally titled his First Symphony “Titan,” because of the mighty struggle between his hero and fate, a monumental battle that reaches its climax in the fourth movement.

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Starring:

*JAMES LURIE as the voice of Gustav Mahler

*LAURA GRAGTMANS as the voice of Natalie Bauer-Lechner

Guests include:

*MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS – Conductor (San Francisco Symphony, New World Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra)

*WILLIAM HUDGINS - Principal Clarinet, Boston Symphony Orchestra

*JENNIFER MONTONE - Principal Horn, Philadelphia Orchestra

*MARILYN McCOY - Columbia University

*CHRISTINE LEE GENGARO - Los Angeles City College

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EPISODE LINKS:

Season 1, Episode 4: www.theworldofgustavmahler.org/episode4.html

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Season 2 – Rise Again - Mahler's Second Symphony

Season 2 focuses on Mahler’s Second Symphony in C minor (1888-1894), delving into Mahler’s gigantic musical exploration of life, death, and what lies beyond. Each episode is devoted to a movement of the symphony.

Winner of a Gold Award at the 2022 New York Festivals Radio Awards and a 2022 Signal Award.

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Starring James Lurie as the voice of Gustav Mahler, Laura Gragtmans as the voice of Natalie Bauer-Lechner and Robert Fass as the voice of Siegfried Lipiner.

Guests include conductors Kent Nagano and Michael Tilson Thomas; principal musicians of the New York Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra; and scholars from Columbia University, Washington University in St. Louis, Los Angeles City College, and Oxford University in England.

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EPISODE LINKS:

Season 2: www.theworldofgustavmahler.org/season2.html

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Movement One – A Burning Denunciation of the Creator (S2, Ep.1)

Mahler’s Second Symphony begins with the funeral for the hero of his First Symphony. The dramatic music rages with sorrow and anger...but also hope, for life after death.

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Starring:

*JAMES LURIE as the voice of Gustav Mahler

Guests include:

*KENT NAGANO – Conductor (Hamburg State Opera and Philharmonic, Montreal Symphony Orchestra)

*CARTER BREY - Principal Cello, New York Philharmonic

*AUSTIN HOWLE - Principal Tuba, Montreal Symphony Orchestra

*MATTHEW McDONALD - Principal Bass, Berlin Philharmonic

*MICHAEL SACHS - Principal Trumpet, Cleveland Orchestra

*CAROLINE KITA - Washington University in St. Louis

*MARILYN McCOY - Columbia University, New York

*JOANNA NEILLY - Oxford University, England

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EPISODE LINKS:

Season 2, Episode 1: www.theworldofgustavmahler.org/s2e1.html

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Movement Two – A Sunbeam into Your Soul (S2, Ep.2)

For his Second Symphony, Mahler created a second movement he described as a memory, “a ray of sunlight, pure and cloudless, out of the hero’s life.” The music is bittersweet.

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Starring:

*JAMES LURIE as the voice of Gustav Mahler

Guests include:

*MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS – Conductor (San Francisco Symphony, New World Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra)

*CARTER BREY - Principal Cello, New York Philharmonic

*MATTHEW AUCOIN - Composer/Conductor

*D.D. JACKSON - Jazz Pianist/Composer

*MARILYN McCOY - Columbia University, New York

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EPISODE LINKS:

Season 2, Episode 2: www.theworldofgustavmahler.org/s2e2.html

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Movement Three – Never Did a Sermon So Please the Fish (S2, Ep.3)

Colorado Mahlerfest 39 is coming up! May 13 to 17 in Boulder, Colorado.

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In the summer of 1893, Mahler wrote a song, entitled “St. Anthony of Padua’s Sermon to the Fish.” It turned out so well, he incorporated melodies from it into the third movement of his Second Symphony.

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Starring:

*JAMES LURIE as the voice of Gustav Mahler

*LAURA GRAGTMANS as the voice of Natalie Bauer-Lechner

*ROBERT FASS as the voice of Siegfried Lipiner

Guests include:

*KENT NAGANO – Conductor (Hamburg State Opera and Philharmonic, Montreal Symphony Orchestra)

*CARTER BREY - Principal Cello, New York Philharmonic

*MATT AUCOIN - Composer/Conductor

*MARILYN McCOY - Columbia University, New York

*JOANNA NEILLY - Oxford University, England

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EPISODE LINKS:

Season 2, Episode 3: www.theworldofgustavmahler.org/s2e3.html

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Movement Four – O Little Red Rose (S2, Ep.4)

The fourth movement of Mahler’s Second Symphony is a delicate song for mezzo-soprano and orchestra. It’s a turning point in the symphony, where the protagonist’s spiritual wisdom blossoms.

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Starring:

*JAMES LURIE as the voice of Gustav Mahler

*LAURA GRAGTMANS as the voice of Natalie Bauer-Lechner

*ROBERT FASS as the voice of Siegfried Lipiner

Guests include:

*CARTER BREY - Principal Cello, New York Philharmonic

*MICHAEL SACHS - Principal Trumpet, Cleveland Orchestra

*MARILYN McCOY - Columbia University, New York

*JOANNA NEILLY - Oxford University, England

*CHRISTINE LEE GENGARO - Los Angeles City College, California

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EPISODE LINKS:

Season 2, Episode 4: www.theworldofgustavmahler.org/s2e4.html

Embrace Everything Website: www.theworldofgustavmahler.org

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