Konstantin Ingenpas; Francesca Vacca; Zsigmond Kara; Thomas Wypior; Cedric Trappmann; Ayami Okamura; Minja Spasic; Nikolaus Franz; Julia Parusch; Johanneke Haverkate; Friedemann Jorns; Max Gundermann; Gyorgy Meszaros - Welt & Traum

And all, all was welI again! / [ ... ] Love and pain / and world and dream! So ends the fourth of Gustav Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, settings of texts the composer had partly taken from the collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn (the lad's magic horn), recompiling and extending them. Inspired by Franz Schubert's Wilhelm Muller song cycles, the brief cycle depicts the sorrowful tale of a lover who as a journeyman is no less than the Romantic wanderer. As with Schubert, Mahler's protagonist transcends his crisis, the conclusion pointing in the sense of an eternity that is to be expected (Christian Gerhaher) to his redemption. But first he passes through various relay -stations that are part dream Iike vision, part earthbound reality.