Name: 7th Subscription Concert
Start: 1972-05-06T00:00:00.000Z
End: 1972-05-08T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Musikverein

Organization

Conductor

Leonard Bernstein

Soprano

Edith Mathis

Orchestra

Wiener Philharmoniker

Musikverein

7th Subscription Concert

Vienna

Austria

The Austrian composer and conductor Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) brought the traditional genre of the symphony into the 20th century. Today his works form the standard repertoire of every major orchestra. Like its predecessors, the Fourth Symphony also combines symphonic orchestral sound with singing: the fourth movement contains a soprano solo on a poem from "Des Knaben Wunderhorn".

Leonard Bernstein was the first conductor to record all of Gustav Mahler's symphonies not only on disc but also on video. The recordings, made between 1971 and 1985, are not only a unique musical document, but also contributed to a new understanding of Mahler's work.
"All Mahler symphonies, all Mahler works by the way, are full of extremes. Extremes in dynamics, in tempo, in emotional meaning. If the music is bare, then it is very bare; if it is dense and powerful, it is denser and more powerful than the Götterdämmerung as a whole; when it suffers, it suffers as has never been suffered in music." (Leonard Bernstein)

This recording was made in May 1972 in the Vienna Musikvereinssaal.

Mahler, Symphony no. 4 G-Dur: Concert Various

Public

Concert

Approved

Production booklet

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