Ibermúsica Presents: Musicaeterna Orchestra
About the Event
Teodor Currentzis and his band, the acclaimed MusicAeterna, will be part of the Ibermúsica cycle that includes a programme dedicated to Gustav Mahler in which we will be able to travel through the lied Das Himmlische Leben (The Celestial Life) included in Des Knaben Wunderhorn and which would serve Gustav Mahler as a starting point for composing the work that concludes his first symphonic period, Symphony No. 4. 1.
Das Himmlische Leben was originally part of a series of five Humorsques, written in 1892 in Hamburg. The text describes a child's vision of heaven, a theme that deeply impacted Mahler.
The Jewish conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein exceptionally describes the mystical background of Das Himmslische Leben in conversation with José Luis Pérez de Arteaga, quoted in his book Mahler (2007): 'The vision of the resurrection: why was it so attractive to Mahler? Because the Hebrew teaching promises nothing to man, there is nothing after life Moses never spoke of a heavenly kingdom, only said: 'You must keep the commandments of the divine law. And God will love you if you do. But there is no reward, nothing else is going to happen, we don't guarantee you anything: you're dead, period… that's the fundamental difference, the enormous difference between Judaism and Christianity, in the promise of the heavenly paradise. And Mahler deeply loved that childlike feeling, which is in the songs of the Knaben Wunderhorn, in the Himmlisches Leben, the celestial life expressed as the end of the Fourth Symphony.
Program
Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn (selection)
soloists: Florian Boesch and Anna Lucía Richter
Mahler Symphony No. 4
soloist: Anna Lucia Richter
Cast / Production
Interpreters
MusicAeterna Orchestra
Title: Teodor Currentzis
Sun: Florian Boesch and Anna Lucia Richter
