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Embrace Everything - The World of Gustav Mahler

Embrace Everything - The World of Gustav Mahler

By: Aaron Cohen
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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.

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Episodes
  • Season 1 - Mahler's First Symphony

    Season 1 - Mahler's First Symphony
    Jun 10 2020

    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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    Support us on PATREON:

    https://www.patreon.com/u91819874/membership

    See the new EMBRACE EVERYTHING MUG on our website:

    https://www.theworldofgustavmahler.org/donate.html

    For a tax-deductible one-time contribution, support us on FRACTURED ATLAS:

    https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/embrace-everything-the-world-of-gustav-mahler

    Consider joining the FRIENDS OF MAHLER CIRCLE with a gift of $5,000 or more. Donors at this level get a dinner in New York City with host Aaron Cohen and actor James Lurie (the voice of Mahler). Contact us at support@theworldofgustavmahler.org and we’ll send further details.

    Contributions of any size are appreciated.

    For more information, contact us at support@theworldofgustavmahler.org

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    EPISODE LINKS:

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

    Embrace Everything Website: www.theworldofgustavmahler.org

    EMBRACE EVERYTHING SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theworldofgustavmahler

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theworldofgustavmahler/

    X: https://x.com/worldofmahler

    Bluesky :https://bsky.app/profile/worldofmahler.bsky.social

    BONUS CONTENT:

    https://www.theworldofgustavmahler.org/extras.html

    PODCAST LINKS:

    Apple Podcasts: apple.co/3YU4tWn

    Spotify: spoti.fi/3TjHfb7
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    2 mins
  • Movement One – Isn’t This a Splendid World? (S1, Ep.1)

    Movement One – Isn’t This a Splendid World? (S1, Ep.1)
    Jul 7 2020

    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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    Support us on PATREON:

    https://www.patreon.com/u91819874/membership

    See the new EMBRACE EVERYTHING MUG on our website:

    https://www.theworldofgustavmahler.org/donate.html

    For a tax-deductible one-time contribution, support us on FRACTURED ATLAS:

    https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/embrace-everything-the-world-of-gustav-mahler

    Consider joining the FRIENDS OF MAHLER CIRCLE with a gift of $5,000 or more. Donors at this level get a dinner in New York City with host Aaron Cohen and actor James Lurie (the voice of Mahler). Contact us at support@theworldofgustavmahler.org and we’ll send further details.

    Contributions of any size are appreciated.

    For more information, contact us at support@theworldofgustavmahler.org

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    EPISODE LINKS:

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

    Embrace Everything Website: www.theworldofgustavmahler.org

    EMBRACE EVERYTHING SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theworldofgustavmahler

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theworldofgustavmahler/

    X: https://x.com/worldofmahler

    Bluesky :https://bsky.app/profile/worldofmahler.bsky.social

    BONUS CONTENT:

    https://www.theworldofgustavmahler.org/extras.html

    PODCAST LINKS:

    Apple Podcasts: apple.co/3YU4tWn

    Spotify: spoti.fi/3TjHfb7
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    22 mins
  • Movement Two – All Music Proceeds from the Dance (S1, Ep.2)

    Movement Two – All Music Proceeds from the Dance (S1, Ep.2)
    Jul 7 2020

    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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    Support us on PATREON:

    https://www.patreon.com/u91819874/membership

    See the new EMBRACE EVERYTHING MUG on our website:

    https://www.theworldofgustavmahler.org/donate.html

    For a tax-deductible one-time contribution, support us on FRACTURED ATLAS:

    https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/embrace-everything-the-world-of-gustav-mahler

    Consider joining the FRIENDS OF MAHLER CIRCLE with a gift of $5,000 or more. Donors at this level get a dinner in New York City with host Aaron Cohen and actor James Lurie (the voice of Mahler). Contact us at support@theworldofgustavmahler.org and we’ll send further details.

    Contributions of any size are appreciated.

    For more information, contact us at support@theworldofgustavmahler.org

    *****

    EPISODE LINKS:

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

    Embrace Everything Website: www.theworldofgustavmahler.org

    EMBRACE EVERYTHING SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theworldofgustavmahler

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theworldofgustavmahler/

    X: https://x.com/worldofmahler

    Bluesky :https://bsky.app/profile/worldofmahler.bsky.social

    BONUS CONTENT:

    https://www.theworldofgustavmahler.org/extras.html

    PODCAST LINKS:

    Apple Podcasts: apple.co/3YU4tWn

    Spotify: spoti.fi/3TjHfb7
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    18 mins
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This first season with the Titan is just fenomenal! It was a great idea to let the music play along the text. Mahler was truly a composer ahead of his time and you can contemplate life itself hearing his symphonies. I hope you continue to the next (and my favorite) symphony, Resurection.

Great endeavor!

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I listened to this before going to see mahlers second symphony live. It was extremely helpful to understand what was happening throughout the performance. Highly recommended!

As informative as it is Amazing!

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I was hooked on the work of Gustav Mahler in the late 1980s when a friend suggested I listen to anything by him. So I purchased a recording of the second symphony on a whim. Ever since, I have consumed every bit of Mahler history I could get my hands, eyes, and ears on. But nothing has compared to the sumptuous complexity and depth of this podcast series.
Even if you have been immersed in Gustav Mahler history like I have, you will learn something new. And if you’ve never heard his music, please, just listen to any of these podcasts; if it doesn’t simply attract you with its power and beauty, it’ll hit your left brain hard.

One of the best music history experiences

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