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Symphony No. 4 : Mahler: Symphony No. 4: IV. Wir geniessen die Himmlischen Freuden. Sehr behaglich: a. Sehr behaglich

by Christiane Karg

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About "Symphony No. 4 : Mahler: Symphony No. 4: IV. Wir geniessen die Himmlischen Freuden. Sehr behaglich: a. Sehr behaglich" by Christiane Karg

Mahler's child's vision of heaven opens with Karg's seraphic calm, a lullaby of milk and honey. But 'Sehr behaglich' is a trap: the cozy surface barely conceals a creeping dissonance, the knowledge that paradise is only a dream from which we wake.