Mahler’s Fourth Symphony Will Be Performed in the Zaryadye Hall

February 14, 2023 | Zaryadye Concert Hall 
20:00
Soloist – Anna Aglatova, soprano
Conductor – Vladimir Spivakov
Mahler. Symphony No. 4 in G major

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The National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia will take part in the concert cycle at the Zaryadye Hall which is presenting during the season all symphonies by Gustav Mahler – “the Last of the Mohicans” of the Austro-German romantic symphonism. Each symphony is played by one of the best metropolitan or regional orchestra.

With the very first NPR's seasons Vladimir Spivakov introduced into the repertoire of the orchestra Gustav Mahler's music, considering it to be a measure of performing mastery. In the Zaryadye Hall the maestro will direct the Fourth Symphony, the work with an original concept and a philosophical Finale based on the song “Das himmlische Leben” from the “Des Knaben Wunderhorn“ cycle of folk songs and ballades.

The song epitomizes a naive dream of famished country children longing for Heaven to eat at last to satiety. The sunny poetry of the dream colours many pages of the Fourth Symphony. However the joy is illusive and ephemeral as the earthly life brings to the poor only grief and poverty, and only death gives solace. Hence a strange humor of the song where the enthusiasm of vain hopes is mingled with the motifs of anguish and desperate grin. Mahler said himself that the seeming cloudlessness of the music hides “something terrifying and horrible for us”.

The soprano part in the Finale of the Fourth Symphony will be sung by the Bolshoi star Anna Aglatova having the voice of rare beauty and a phenomenal dramatic talent.

Before the concert at 19:00, musicologist Maria Raku will deliver a lecture about the Fourth Symphony.

 

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