Conductor: Iván Fischer Mahler: Totenfeier Richard Strauss: Wiegenlied, op. 41, No. 1 Richard Strauss: Waldseligkeit, op. 49, No. 1 Richard Strauss: Ich wollt’ ein Sträußlein binden, op. 68, No. 2 Richard Strauss: Morgen!, op. 27, No. 4 Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G major Gustav Mahler was already planning his next symphony while still composing his Symphony No. 1. He wrote Totenfeier at the same time of completing the symphony in 1888. He later made it the opening movement of his Symph...ony No. 2 but to this day, the work tends to be performed as an independent piece. Although Mahler was happy to talk about his music, when he composed his Fourth Symphony he felt that titles tended more to mislead than help. As he said, he invented “beautiful titles” but would not reveal them because they would be misunderstood. Those of the first two movements have subsequently resurfaced: “The World as eternal present” and “Friend Death – strike up”. Some music historians interpret the work as a journey to the Elysium fields in which the friendly figure of death accompanies us from the present to eternity. The third slow movement seems to continue this journey to the final resting place where every wish is granted. The fourth movement, which is a verse from the Des Knaben Wunderhorn collection set for soprano voice seems to confirm the concept. Mahler said of his symphony, premiered in Munich in 1901, that its determining character is “the pure blue of the sky”. We see it cloudy from time to time, but even then its blueness is unchanged. Swedish soprano Miah Persson is one of the leading figures of her generation. She first exploded into the international music scene with a concert given with Pierre Boulez and the Vienna Philharmonic at the Salzburg Festival where she also debuted as an opera singer. In 2005, she made her debut at London’s Covent Garden in The Marriage of Figaro and in 2006, sang Fiordiligi in Iván Fischer’s highly successful performance of Cosi fan tutte. In the 2007/2008 season she will appear also in Switzerland, Austria, France and Belgium with the Budapest Festival Orchestra.
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