Live at the Concertgebouw: '...This week in Live at the Concertgebouw : Gustav Mahler’s symphony number four, nicknamed ‘Das Himmlische Leben – Heaven’s Life. It is a work with a unique purity, lightness and transparency. The enchanting slay bells take us to his inner child, to his dreams of angels, fairy tales, angst and pure, divine love. This child-like symphony needed a different orchestra: no dark tuba, no heavy trombones, no large arsenal of massive brass. A chamber orchestra in fact, where the clarinets act as mock trumpets, the solo violin tunes his strings sharper in order to scare us and the lightness of the whole orchestra lifts us up to his lovely, childish vision of paradise...' [RNW-host Hans Haffmans]

part 1

part 2

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Ivan Fischer
Miah Persson, soprano
Jacques Meertens, clarinet

Franz Schubert: Symphony no. 3
Franz Schubert / Carl Reinecke: Der Hirt auf dem Felsen
Gustav Mahler: Symphony no. 4

additional programming:
Franz Schubert: String Quartet in D minor, D 810 (orch. Gustav Mahler),
1st mvt. (Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam / Lev Markiz)