Staatskapelle Berlin

Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage (Seating Chart)
Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 8 PM

Program

Program Notes

Meet the Artists

“[Röschmann’s] silvery soprano, clear and ethereally pretty on top, has a startling quality of voluptuousness.”—New York Times

Following the cosmic vastness of Mahler’s Third Symphony, the Fourth Symphony occupies a very different world—one filled with songful, intimate music. Here Mahler’s spiritual journey takes the listener from everyday life to heavenly bliss, as told by an angel with a decidedly childlike perspective. The program opens with selections from Mahler’s song cycle, Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youth’s Magic Horn), some of whose melodies and ideas provided inspiration for his early symphonies.

Program Details

Pre-concert talk starts at 7:00 PM in Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage with Ara Guzelimian, Provost and Dean, The Juilliard School.

Staatskapelle Berlin
Pierre Boulez, Conductor
Dorothea Röschmann, Soprano

MAHLER	Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn ·· Rheinlegendchen ·· Das irdische Leben ·· Verlor’ne Müh ·· Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen ·· Wer hat das Liedlein erdacht? ·· Lob des hohen Verstandes
MAHLER	Symphony No. 4
Perspectives: Daniel Barenboim

Mahler: The Symphonies in Sequence

Gustav Mahler once famously declared, “the symphony must be like the world, it must embrace everything.” In this introduction to Mahler’s symphonies, trace his lifelong creative path from the exuberant Romanticism of his First Symphony to the haunted music of his last.

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