Mahler 4
Two children; four eyes raised to heaven. In Samuel Barber’s Knoxville (Summer of 1915), one of these children is enjoying an idyllic evening in the southern United States. Surrounded by the sounds of coaches, passers-by and the occasional car, the boy’s thoughts drift to his beloved family and he falls asleep praying for their safety. At around the same time, another child hears the sounds of an imagined heaven in Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, a vision of an equally imagined past drifting slowly towards a looming industrial age. Honorary Conductor Edo de Waart conducts, with soprano Carolyn Sampson beside him.
Programme
Barber Knoxville: Summer of 1915, opus 24
Mahler Symphony No. 4 in G major
Performers
Edo de Waart
conductor
