The Piano Player: Classical Tear-Jerkers presents 20 emotive pieces of classical music, designed to tug at the heart-strings, specially arranged for intermediate solo piano. Contents include Un bel di vedremo" from Madama Butterfly by Puccini and Dido's Lament by Purcell. The striking cover features Edward Bawden's colour linocut Aesop's Fables: The Ant and the Grasshopper, 1970, and a 4-page pullout provides the full artwork as a beautiful collectible. The Piano Player series includes six wonderful collections of some of the greatest classical music ever written, specially arranged for the intermediate pianist, each with its own collectible pull-out poster of the stunning Edward Bawden cover artwork. "

Complex symphony integrates on a truly grand scale the musical ideas, forms and media that dominated the composer's creative life. A two-part work, the symphony is scored for orchestra, eight solo voices, double chorus, boys' choir and organ. A monumental masterpiece, affordably priced for students, performers and Mahler admirers.

Gustav Mahler spent 14 years exploring the musical potential of German folk poetry, and this volume comprises some of his most significant work. It features authoritative editions of his settings of five poems by Friedrich Rückert, known as the Rückert Lieder: "Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder" (Look not, love, on my work unended); "Ich atmet einen linden Duft" (I breathed the breath of blossoms red); "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen" (O garish world, long since thou hast lost me); "Um Mitternacht" (At midnight hour); and "Liebst du um Schonheit" (Lovst thou but beauty). A pair of songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youth's Miraculous Horn) are also featured: "Revelge" (The dead drummer) and "Der Tamboursg'sell" (The drummer-boy).

Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin in this 2010 performance of Mahler's Ninth Symphony.

One of the composer's most popular, accessible works, the 7th has neither a "program" or folk-song theme. It is a purely instrumental composition, both hopeful and romantic in feeling. Reprinted from the authoritative German edition of 1909. List of instruments. Glossary of German terms.

Collection of ballets making up the Gala des Étoiles of 2015. David Coleman conducts the Teatro alla Scala in performances of, amongst others, 'La Rose Malade' by Gustav Mahler, 'The Dying Swan' by Camille Saint-Saëns and Aram Khatchaturian's 'Spartacus'.

Paavo Järvi conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in these performances of Mahler's Symphonies Nos. 9 and 10, recorded in 2009 and 2008, respectively.

Paavo Järvi conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in these performances of Mahler's Symphonies Nos. 5 and 6, recorded in 2011 and 2013, respectively, at the Rheingau Musik Festival.

Paavo Järvi conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in these performances of Gustav Mahler's works. The performances featured are Mahler's Symphony No. 1, recorded in 2010, and Symphony No. 2, recorded in 2012.

Riccardo Chailly leads the Gewandhausorchester in this performance of Mahler's Fourth Symphony, recorded in Leipzig.

Pierre Boulez conducts the Cleveland Orchestra in this Mahler-only concert recorded at Ohio's Severance Hall. Alongside the Adagio from the unfinished tenth symphony, soloists Magdalena Kozená and Christian Gerhaher sing 12 songs from 'Des knaben Wunderhorn'.