Christiane Karg | Håkan Hardenberger | Concertgebouworkest | Jukka-Pekka Saraste

Mahler | Widmann
Portrait Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Angelic sounds: at the end of Gustav Mahler's Fourth Symphony, Christiane Karg sings a soprano solo as bright as a bell about "Heavenly Life" and Håkan Hardenberger, singing virtuosically on the trumpet, sets off in search of paradise:

Towards Paradise is the title of Jörg Widmann's trumpet concerto, which struggles for beauty and whose acclaimed premiere interpreter Hardenberger makes it shine. And Jukka-Pekka Saraste now explores it with the sonorous Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. This orchestra with a great Gustav Mahler tradition has a special approach to his eerily light, magically ironic fourth symphony.