Christiane Karg | Håkan Hardenberger | Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | Andris Nelsons

Angelic sounds: at the end of Gustav Mahler's Fourth Symphony, Christiane Karg sings a bell-like soprano solo about »Himmlische Leben« (heavenly life), and Håkan Hardenberger, a virtuoso trumpet player, sets out in search of paradise:

Towards Paradise is the title Jörg Widmann gave to his trumpet concerto, which strives for beauty and is brought to life by Hardenberger, the acclaimed performer of its premiere. And Andris Nelsons, who launched the expansive work as conductor in 2021, now explores it with the sonorous Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. This orchestra, with its great Gustav Mahler tradition, has a special approach to his eerily light, enchantingly ironic Fourth Symphony.

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