Russian soprano Sofia Fomina joins the London Philharmonic Orchestra in this live performance of Mahler’s vision of Heaven, his Fourth Symphony, under the baton of Principal Conductor Vladimir Jurowski.
Mahler composed this symphony between June 1899 and April 1901 and conducted the first performance on November 25, 1901, in Munich. The score calls for a soprano solo (in the fourth movement) and an orchestra consisting of four flutes and two piccolos, three oboes and english horn, three clarinets, E-flat clarinet and bass clarinet, three bassoons and contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, timpani, bass drum, triangle, sleigh bells, glockenspiel, cymbals, tam-tam, harp, and strings.
Here is Claudio Abbado conducting the Symphony #4 by Gustav Mahler:
