“Mahler sometimes glimpsed the face of his own mother “smiling through her tears”— the face of a woman who had been able to “solve and forgive all suffering by love”.
But what was Mahler trying to express in his new work? Nothing but the 'uniform blue' of the sky, in all its manifold nuances, the blue that attracts and fascinates human beings, while at the same time unsettling them with its very purity."
~ Henry-Louis de La Grange
World premiere: November 25, 1901, Munich, Margarete Michalek (soprano) with the Kaim Orchestra conducted by the composer.
~ Henry-Louis de La Grange
World premiere: November 25, 1901, Munich, Margarete Michalek (soprano) with the Kaim Orchestra conducted by the composer.
