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Concertgebouw Orchestra Mahler Symphony No.4 Haitink Schafer

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Gustav Mahler Symphony No.4, 4th movement Das Himmlische Leben, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, Christinne Schafer

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  • I have been looking for very long for a Mahler fourth with a satisfying fourth movement. This is definitely my favorite so far. Christine Schäfer is great...!

  • Great performance. I love Christine Schaefer, especially as Lulu, but in this she is too worldly and not really apt for a child's vision of heaven. Mahler requested an expression of innocence, without irony. I don't think this is innocence, but experience.

    Edith Mathis (on yt)for Bernstein is the real deal!

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  • Visit Bernstein and Mathis with Wiener Philharmoniker!

  • @doktordrakator Check out Heather Harper's if you haven't already.

    Recorded later in her career, it's detailed, simple and simultaneously opulent.

  • I do agree with the fact that her performance does not truly reflect the naïveté of a child's vision of heaven, but I have to say that her tender tone especially in the last verse of this movement is soooo there. Gave me goosebumps!

  • She is very good. However, Judith Raskin, Georg Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra are still the standard by which all others should be measured. As I see it, even with the improved sonics, it's still not as good. Raskin & Szell performed magic....not another Mahler 4th like it.

  • I was there at the concert ... and I have to admit I more liked the performance years earlier with this most eminent singer Roberta Alexander. A warmer and girlier voice.

  • @MarcusHK1  ........ I agree. After listening to a radio broadcast of Schaefer with the BPO & Simon Rattle, I should say that her performance was sublime! With the slightest inflections which was totally right for singing about slaughtering animals. Ms Schaefer is truly a wonderful singer!!

  • @sbor2020 I think she has improved in her later version with Christoph Eschenbach and the Orchestre de Paris (also available on YT).

  • @doktordrakator You probably are right, but I still love this performance. .

  • 5:03 to the end is just great =´ )

  • Oh, que c'est beau ! Christine Schäfer est solaire, l'orchestre est divin. Bravo et mille mercis.

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