Günter Haumer (baritone)
Oliver Davies (piano)

Drawing on contemporaneous letters and diaries, this recital looks at the difficult relationship Mahler had with Vienna and its great musical institutions, its critics and its musical fraternity. In particular, the programme explores (with musical examples) his relationships with an astonishingly diverse group of composers all of whom lived in Vienna at that time, his passionate relationship with Alma and the suppression of her creative gift, and finally, his mentoring of young Schoenberg and his ongoing rivalry with Richard Strauss.