Encounters Season I Fourth Symphony by Gustav Mahler

“When the man, amazed but confused, asks what all this means, the child answers, such is the heavenly life.” Gustav MahlerIn the key of G major, the Quarter Mahler's work was composed between July 1899 and August 1900. Its creation took him quite a while: the fourth movement The Himmlish Life (The Heavenly Life) is one of the lieder from the collection of Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy's Magic Horn) written in 1892. For Maestro Roca, this symphony is the most classical of all the composer's symphonies, retaining proportions close to the symphonies of Haydn and Mozart. “We are going to perform it in a chamber arrangement, which makes the intimate or chamber-like nature of the work much more evident,” explains the director.

The work has a vision of innocence, because it is expressed through the eyes of a child, especially in the last movement that speaks of Heavenly life; the Quarter It is a work that immerses the listener in an atmosphere of immense peace and serenity. It is a symphony that invites us to look at the world from the innocent, naive and unsuspecting perspective of a child.