Name: 4th Symphony Concert
Start: 2025-01-29T19:30:00
Location: Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden

Steven Osborne

Leo McFall

Alyona Rostovskaya

Staatstheater Wiesbaden

Other times shimmer through the works in this program. In a wide variety of forms, the compositions seek to engage with heritage and tradition, to deal creatively with past styles and eras. Both Gustav Mahler’s 4th Symphony from 1901 and Thomas Adès’ Couperin Studies from 2006 allow new sound worlds to grow out of old. Adès built a framework around three harpsichord movements by the Baroque composer Couperin, which adds new effects to the basic structure and lets the orchestra dance with the fragments of the original. Mahler’s Fourth says goodbye to the romantic pathos of the past 19th century. On the one hand, it seems almost classical, but on the other hand it looks to the future: to Mahler’s late works, which are breaking into the modern era. Here, cheerful idyll lies close to the abyss. Everything is geared towards the finale with a poem from “Des Knaben Wunderhorn”, whose delicate lines are made for the soprano Alyona Rostovskaya from the opera ensemble of the Wiesbaden State Theater.