4. Sinfoniekonzert - Paradies Finden by Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, Mahler, dom. 08 ene 2023, De (2023/2023), Director Corinna Niemeyer, Industriekathedrale Alte Schmelz, Sankt Ingbert, Alemania

In the course of his life, Sergej Rachmaninoff interrupted his compositional work several times, his biography is marked by the political upheavals of the 20th century. The existence of the Fourth Piano Concerto is all the more astonishing, after Rachmaninoff had not composed a single work for six years and was mainly earning his living as a pianist in exile in New York. The strangeness of New York is reflected in the sound of the rarely played 4th Piano Concerto: echoes of jazz, above all numerous changes in rhythm, tell of a changed Rachmaninoff, who was torn between his Russian homeland and the New World. A common thread in Gustav Mahler's oeuvre is the collection of folk songs »Des Knaben Wunderhorn«, an occupation that culminates in the bright, almost childlike and always enigmatic 4th Symphony. The descriptions of a paradise run through the symphony, but musically they are always shaded with doubts and cracks.