Alan Gilbert conducts Mahler's 5th Symphony: "Trauermarsch" (Part 1)

[kimm0130]

His music is OK, but I cannot see that he really understand Mahler's despair in Sym 5. The conductor might analyze the score well, but he didn't feel Mahler's real emotion in the score.

[kotetsu131]

This is really just an excellent performance of the opening solo, so German sounding and phrasing is spot on. They should make us all use rotary trumpets for the German romantic composers, it's really just always sounds so much better to my ears.

[RafaelValdiviaa]

O trompetista é muito bom maravilhoso ..... gostaria de ter aulas com um profissional desse porte !!!!!

[Dan474834]

The New York Philharmonic went from Mahler (Outstanding) to Bernstein (Genius), to Maazel (Not Bad) to Gilbert (Not Good).

Please... You could at least try to bring Simon Rattle in?

[AWiddit]

that dude's embouchure looks bauss as fuck

[mhenrikse]

Great trumpet solo! A good argument for using a rotary valve.

[JoseGuimaraesJr]

that was great, however the opening trumpet solo had some intonation issues :(

[AWiddit]

@JoseGuimaraesJr ha piss off

[Eumirnp]

magical, relax... love it!!!!...

[benjaminsurber]

@designersunglasses1 They're just Rotary valve trumpets. The sound is a little more mellow than the valve trumpet. I honestly like the sound of them better than the valve trumpet, but they're crazy expensive. There is a video on here of Allison Balsom playing a rotary valve piccolo trumpet and it sounds very nice if you ever find it, she's playing an oboe concerto. Just in case you want to see more of the rotary valves in action :).

[SchwarzeDose21]

@benjaminsurber just watch videos of german/austrian orchestras... (Berliner Philharmoniker/Winer Philharmoniker Lucerne festival orch. Gewandhausorchester, hr-sinfonieorchester... etc.)

[benjaminsurber]

@SchwarzeDose21 Oh yeah, Berlin is probably the best to listen to in my opinion. Gabor Tarkovi is an amazing trumpet player.

[TheMrRuleman]

they are rotary valves and chicago symphony is not overrated at all you have no clue what your talking about i guess

[GregHales]

Not bad...not edge or obnoxious like the Chicago Symphony....more musical than the overrated Chicago Symphony.

[PINCHUNO]

@GregHales overrated?? are you serious?

[steven4570]

@GregHales Chicago Symphony overrated? are you out of your mind?

[flashton23]

@GregHales I must ask...why is it that you constantly take shots at such a prestigious group? To me, it sounds like a sports fan who is ripping on the team that spurned them in the playoffs a year ago. Is there an underlying reason you dislike the Chicago Symphony?

[thissignupisretarded]

Those are rotary valve Trumpets. There are no Cornets in this video.

[SchwarzeDose21]

:D in der tat.

auf b ist es auch eindeutig besser.

Die beste für mich ist aber die mit Reinhold Friedrich und dem Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Perfektion.

Monette mag ich nicht, aber das ist Geschmackssache. Kennst du Rico Kühn?

[now5230]

did they mic that snare drum or is he just really playing that loud?

[Aleve909]

LOL @ OBOE PLAYERS. :)

[nathanost]

love the horns at 0:57

[degreghouse]

@nathanost love the trumpet at 0:04... :D

[nathanost]

@degreghouse yeah he did a great job. I actually play trumpet haha but I love the sound of a good french horn

[degreghouse]

@nathanost :D me too...

[greenerroee]

@degreghouse its a cornet

[degreghouse]

@greenerroee hmmm... arent these german trumpets? im from switzerland and in my country we say german trumpets... but... no idea... maybe cornets. so if theyre cornets... sorry :D

[BuRnInGxMaGiC]

@nathanost i love horns period.

lol :)

[Mahlerialiszt]

I am contiinually amazed at the consistently high quality fo the German radio orchestras. I remind my American friends that the Berlin Phil is not the only good orchestra in Germany. In fact, I have yet to hear a recording by any German orchestra that was not at least pretty good.

[AbsoluteZ3R0]

I feel like every time I find a video of the first movement of this symphony that I really like, it gets removed.

[Trompeter1971]

Da hast Du Recht... Was die Thein angeht, ich habe eine auf der Frankfurter Musikmesse angespielt und war nicht sehr begeistert. Aber das ist vielleicht auch Gewöhnungssache. Es ist schon sehr unterschiedlich, welcher Sound auf den verschiedenen Trompeten machbar ist, hängt ja auch viel von Mensur, Bohrung, Blechstärke und Schalltrichterdurchmesser ab. Sicherlich sollte man dann auch noch körperlich den fetten Klang verursachen können ;-)

[SchwarzeDose21]

@Trompeter1971 Ob ers jetzt auf thein spielt oder sonst was ist egal, ;) tatsache er spielts auf einer C-trompete (ok, geschmackssache) aber: Das Teil stimmt nicht :D vor allem um 0:16 rum. schade. aber er ist gut.

[Trompeter1971]

@SchwarzeDose21 Weiß nicht, ob es an der Trompete liegt, Du hast recht, er korrigiert die Intonation nach, z.B. auch bei 0:20 / 0:21 zu hören. Die beste Aufnahme ist für mich die von Mireia Farres mit dem Barcelona Symphony Orchestra auf einer Monette, so ein fetter, tiefer Sound, unglaublich. Ich persönlich würde eine B-Trompete bevorzugen, weil die C tendenziell heller klingt. Und 1/2/3 am Anfang mit Trigger ist nicht der glücklichste Griff, da muß das folgende Intervall ja in die Hose gehen.

[Trompeter1971]

Auf was für einer Trompete spielt denn der Berwaerts ? Ist das eine Thein ? Klingt echt genial das Teil.

[maxloveselectro]

@Trompeter1971 Ich vermute auch, dass es eine Thein ist, auch wenn die Trompete wohl den aller geringsten Teil an dem fetten Sound ausmacht.

Keine Trompete klingt von alleine gut ;)...

[brassturbation]

Trumpet player has the beefiest sound ever!! Awesome!! :)

[flowforms]

whoopee! great stuff