Iván Fischer: Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 4

Iván Fischer, Music Director of the Budapest Festival Orchestra, walks us through the symphonies of Gustav Mahler. He shares his thoughts and feelings about each work, answering your questions and listening to his recording of these masterpieces.
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[@michaelagonzalez]

I will see Mahler's 4th this Saturday with the San Francisco Symphony and will enjoy it more having heard your thoughts. Thank you for the notes.

[@62cceballos]

Uau! I’m a fan of Mahler (excuse me, I’m writing from Colombia, not a perfect english), and your fourth is the must beautiful music I’ve ever heard. I love all the symphonies (not much the eight), and enjoy different versions. This video is a great discovery! I revisit my first feelings when I heard your version…thank you! Pd. I have and love all your interpretations of this symphonies! Again, thank you for the feelings

[@jimyoung9262]

One of my favorite conductors. Thank you!

[@kimberlysalico-diehl4847]

Thank you for this, Maestro!

[@ricduca]

Maestro Fischer. You are great, so much feeling in your explanations, so warm, so clear and so nice. I am musician, have played this symphony more than once, it is one of my favourites if not the most, I know it very well. Anyway I enjoy listening to you, It is a big pleasure. Thank you for that

[@markdavidsonjewell]

Wonderful introduction, thank you!

[@taro0610]

from Japan. I really like Mahler and wanted to listen to all of his works, but unfortunately, I often listen to the first, second, third, fifth, and sixth symphonies, and I never had the chance to listen to the fourth. . After that, I didn't have much of a chance to listen to it after the seventh song. This video of yours is really great and was enough to motivate me to listen to the fourth part. This is despite the fact that I can always subscribe to listen to them. Mahler's music is very memorable. That's why I hear Mahler in my ears even when no music is actually playing. For example, in the fourth movement of Mahler's Second Symphony, there is a brass chorale after the song. It's very beautiful and calm. The beginning of the fourth movement of Symphony No. 1. Intense music that sounds like thunder. Symphony No. 6 is a march. A major key chord on a brass instrument changes monotonously by lowering the third note by a semitone. I feel tickled when I listen to this. As you can see, Mahler's music is beautiful, full of diverse expressions, gentleness, and childishness, but I hear that Mahler himself was very nervous and angry. Mendelssohn also had this characteristic. Does a person's outward personality not necessarily match their inner personality, or do they match and become the way they are?

[@OmarFernandesAly]

Thank you very much maestro for this didatic video clearly explaining the wonderful music of Mahler!

[@nonretrogradable]

Thank you for doing this!

[@brbapappa]

I'm excited to enjoy this in three weeks at De Doelen in Rotterdam.

[@gerbs139]

Perhaps not childish, but most definitely child-like.

[@jeffreykalb9752]

He was trying to say this without having the distinction in English to rely upon.

[@lj291261]

Fischer is an awful conductor of Mahler's masterpieces as he frequently ignores the composer's notes on tempi. What a horrible choice by the RCO! 🤮👎

[@ricduca]

I do not agree. Yours is a lack of respect

[@jeffreykalb9752]

So you want us to recognize your superior taste?