Programme
Unsuk Chin
›Puzzles and Games‹ for Soprano and Orchestra from the opera ›Alice in Wonderland‹
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 4 in G major
Artists
About the concert
»No original feeling … nothing but technical skill, calculation and inner deceit, a sickly, ill-tasting Supermusic«, an outraged critic wrote of the premiere of Mahler’s Fourth in Munich in 1901. Today we speak of a masterpiece. One can love or hate Mahler’s symphonies: some suffer vicariously with them, understanding their loneliness and loving their melancholy. Others find them outré, self-indulgent, hysterical. In the Fourth, it’s all not so bad. »We revel in heavenly pleasures«, it says at the end.