4 is a 73-minute studio album on which Mahler's Fourth and his song cycle Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen are performed by Frederica von Stade and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Yoel Levi.

David S. Gutman reviewed the album in Gramophone in July 1999, comparing it with recordings of the symphony conducted by Lorin Maazel,[3] Colin Davis[4] and Claudio Abbado[5] - the latter also featuring von Stade as soloist - and with a recording of Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen that von Stade had made with Andrew Davis.

[6] Von Stade's contribution to the symphony's fourth movement - separated from the third by a puzzling, extended pause - was, he thought, "slightly disappointing".

The "bubbly Arcadia" of "Ging heut Morgen über's Feld" no longer had the same conviction as the "heart-rending" final bars of "Ich hab' ein glühend Messer".

On the other hand, there was not a note in her performance that sounded exaggerated, and "even when the pitch is ever so slightly suspect or the tone no longer quite so lustrous, she remains wistful, touching and ardent".