Symphonie No. 4

Album by Gustav Mahler & Edith Mathis & Berliner Philharmoniker & Herbert von Karajan

Symphony No. 4 is the fourth symphony by Austrian composer Gustav Mahler, completed in 1900 and first performed in 1901. The work, scored for orchestra with a concluding movement that sets a poetic text for soprano, blends late-Romantic orchestration, transparent chamber-like textures and moments of folk-influenced melody, and occupies a more compact, lighter-charactered place within Mahler's output between his expansive middle symphonies and his later, more austere works.