Patricia Kopatchinskaja plays Bartók, Gustavo Gimeno conducts Mahler 4

Mahler's Symphony No. 4 and Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 1

Does a child or a young woman sing of heavenly life in Mahler's Fourth Symphony ? The attention to cooking in the text is no longer a clue these days. It is, in any case, the counterpart to the child who starves to death in the Wunderhorn song "Das irdische Leben," which is why conductor Leonard Bernstein often used a boy soprano in the Fourth . Without a doubt, a young woman floated before Bartók's mind while composing his First Violin Concerto : the beautiful violin student Stefi Geyer, with whom he was in love.

Patricia Kopatchinskaja solos with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra

Always barefoot on stage, always full of energy, never the same: Patricia Kopatchinskaja is one of a kind. The Moldavian violinist captivates the audience at every concert, her musical ideas reaching the edge. If you don't listen closely enough, you'll lose her. In this concert, she performs Bartók's virtuoso First Violin Concerto with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gustavo Gimeno. The press called his conducting a masterclass in balancing control and excitement.