Markus Werba made his big breakthrough in a production of The Magic Flute at the Salzburg Festival. Since then, he has played Papageno in dozens of opera houses to great acclaim. He has charted an impressive career as both a concert and lieder singer, with his performance in Haydn's The Creation at the Aix-en-Provence Festival earning him plaudits worldwide. Gábor Csalog started playing the piano at the age of seven. By 11, he had been accepted to a course for outstandingly talented young music...ians at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. Csalog later continued his studies in the United States, studying under György Sebők at the University of Indiana. In 1996, he began recording all of Chopin's piano works. András Kemenes graduated from the Budapest Academy of music in 1982 having been taught by Pál Kadosa, Ferenc Rados and György Kurtág. He is currently teaching the piano at the Liszt Academy. He regularly performs with Gábor Csalog and their repertoire includes works for four hands by Mozart, Schubert and Schumann. Even when writing his Symphony No. 4, Mahler had already decided that the titles assigned to each movement were misleading and unhelpful. Yet the first two movements kept their titles nonetheless: ”The world as ever present” and ”Our friend the reaper begins”. This has prompted some music historians to interpret the work as a reference to the journey to the Elysian Fields. The third, slow movement seems set to continue this journey to a final resting place, but the fourth, a musical interpretation of the poem Das Himmlische Leben (The Heavenly Life), drawn from a collection of folk literature and originally scored for orchestra and a soprano, appears to support this higher concept. Mahler said of the piece, premièred in 1901, that its defining motif was “the clear blue of the sky”: it is sometimes obscured, but its blueness never changes. The piano arrangement for four hands was made by Austrian composer and publisher Josef Venantius von Wöss, who lived from 1864 to 1943. Mahler began composing the first version of Songs of a Wayfarer with piano accompaniment aged 23. Many musical elements of the song cycle also appear in Mahler's other works, including two movements of his Symphony No. 1. The song texts were compiled by Mahler himself from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youth's Magic Horn), a collection of anonymous German folk poems. Not long after completing the Des Knaben Wunderhorn song cycle, Mahler turned to the romantic poems of Friedrich Rückert. In addition to the five songs of Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children), he wrote a further five Rückert-Lieder in 1901 and 1902. Of these, four will be heard at tonight's concert: At Midnight; If You Love for Beauty; Do Not Look at my Songs; and I am Lost to the World. Presented by: Budapest Festival Orchestra, Palace of Arts
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