In 1989, Dr. Stark-Voit heard Mr. Hampson perform in a Mahler festival in Kassel, Germany, she said recently.

It was the final night of the Concertgebouw's two-week Mahler festival.

During recent weeks, the Concertgebouw observed the centenary of the Mengelberg connection by recreating a comprehensive Mahler festival that he presented here in 1920, nine years after Mahler's death.

Essentially, the orchestras in the Mahler festival worked under generous tour conditions, with one rehearsal, sometimes two, per program, having performed the works at home in the not distant past.

In May 2011, Chailly organised an international Mahler festival in Leipzig, adding that composer to the city's pantheon of Bach, Wagner and Mendelssohn.

His efforts came to fruition this season in a Mahler festival that surveyed Mahler's entire output in 17 concerts at the Chatelet.

This Mahler festival was a wonderful opportunity, but we were never asked, and we were never told that the director had said that we had no Mahler tradition anymore.

The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra launches its Mahler festival.

Judging by the hundreds of people who converged on Boulder for a Mahler festival over the weekend, his place in the pantheon of musical genius is assured.

A Mahler festival a few years back, with symphonies presented night after night, had the remarkable effect of making the individual works, even the most gargantuan, seem shorter.