Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Sylvia McNair & Bernard Haitink

Mahler - Symphony No. 4

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Video Director: Barrie Gavin - Artist: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Sylvia McNair & Bernard Haitink - Soloist: Sylvia McNair - Producer: Hans-Peter Birke-Malzer & Bernd Hellthaler - Conductor: Bernard Haitink - Remixer: Günther Griewisch - Composer: Gustav Mahler - Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Schauspielhaus, Berlin | 63 min | 1992 | TV-G

Mahler - Symphony No. 4

Bernard Haitink conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in a rendition of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 in the Schauspielhaus in Berlin, in 1992. Soloist is soprano Sylvia McNair. Mahler composed his Fourth Symphony in 1899 and 1900, and it premiered in Munich, in 1901. The work incorporates the song "Das himmlische Leben" ("The Heavenly Life"), which Mahler had already composed in 1892. The song presents a child's vision of heaven and is sung by a soprano in the final fourth movements, though the melodic lines are already recognizable in the first three movements.

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