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Gustav Mahler - 4th Symphony, 4th movement (soprano and piano) with score “Das himmlische Leben“ Performed by Helen Neeves (soprano) and Iain Farrington (arranger/piano) Published by Aria Editions Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) started composition on his Fourth Symphony in the summer of 1899, finishing the short score the following year while staying on the Wörthersee in Austria. Mahler himself conducted the work's premiere in Munich in November 1901. The symphony's final movement is a song written and orchestrated in 1892, using a text from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn' (The Boy's Magic Horn), the collection of folk-songs made by Achim von Amim and Clemens Brentano and published in the first decade of the nineteenth century. The vocal line is presented here as in the original, with the piano accompaniment closely based on Mahler's 1892 setting for piano. This movement was recorded by Mahle
