Mahler 9th Symphony (1/9); 1st movement; Bernstein

[arnikloes]

The hardest song i ever listen and play in the orchestra, but not for my play....

[maximbernardo]

Maybe I'm too old to post something here (25 and getting younger :)... But I had too share this with you.

The ninth of Mahler tells me of the realm of spiritual... when the physical form returns "Home". I have never crossed an artist, a creator of such capacity not only to "know" such truth but also convey this truth threw music. It is a true bliss. The beautiful clip "Journey to the Edge of the Universe" (by "sooner14) sychronised very well with this great piece

[istotallyready]

Mahler 9 breaks my heart.

[miiwiiplay]

guy's im still an embryo and this music is the shit.

[wsxedcrfv20908]

This music touched me, too! So I called the cops.

[pepperzmintz]

young people should listen to more of these beautiful music not just the usual mainstream less-than-pleasant-disturbing-­lyrical songs about God knows what.

and get this, I'm only 16. Hate me all you want.

[antisubs12]

Back in my day we didn't have them damnedable cellular phones and no one interrupted our symphony

[burningnero]

Really classy guys. Someone so young wants to express their love for the music and you guys act so impolite, makes me think you were the culprits in the recent cell phone disturbance of the NY Philharmonic's playing of this.

[GaraLuiMartin]

@burningnero Well said.

[deecee10000]

I remember when this song first came out. . .I believe I was celebrating my 50th. birthday. I just happened to turn on the radio and out flowed this beautiful little melody. "Mahler" said the dj, "Mahler's 9th".

[TheDMD42396]

i wanna hear the remix featuring LIL WAYNE

[dex21797]

y is everyone like hating on the kid with the top comment, hes only saying wats on her mind..

[dimdimmerwit]

rogue ringtone person should be shot

[gnuumyn]

thumbs up if you were brought here by the Rogue Ringtone story

[tnovak3]

@gnuumyn I was.Before that never even heard of Mahler.Shame,I know

[ranwnye]

Hey, I'm 60 and it touches me.

[0casteloencantado0]

can someone tell me where the heartbeat is?

[danielregan1]

@0casteloencantado0 It's the opening cello line - the dotted crotchet + quaver, at 00:02 basically until the harp comes in at 00:12.

Wonderous music.

[mrlevina2]

There is some fad 'I'm only this age and I like this'... It's stupid-ignorant. It came about when people began to divide everything into categories, 'this is for teenagers, this for children'. 'This is cool and this is for the old'. People were convinced that it was true. In less stupid times, we listened to classical music at age 1, it was normal. Of course that was in Europe. But even Europe has become stupid-ignorant now. You're a 14 year old who needs no categories or limits to be set for y

[atthecorner]

one of my  favourite pieces of music!

[CateSoprano]

this is so much more than music..

[Gargantupimp]

Mahler really tries to hard

[maxabeles]

This music really touches me. And I'm only 2 years old.

[MVT44]

@maxabeles Your reading and language abilities are off the chart for being just a toddler.

[rossryden]

At times in life music finds us in the right place at the right time and for that moment life is surreal. God bless the minds of those before me who paved a way of beautiful art. I've lived a life which I do not pretend to understand, but this, this wonderful piece of music finds me in a way that helps to understand its so worth living.

[noahclewis]

This past june I played this in prague, vienna, and bratislava and it was the most amazing experience in my entire life!

[JulianQuintero100]

I absolutely love this movement. It bears all the beauty of the universe, it brings glory to God, thank you Gustav Mahler for giving the world this unique music.

[rick1306]

Simply beautiful, very moving and you can feel the emotions and struggle he was going through at the time he wrote this. Thank you for uploading this.

[djguyincanada]

Mahler..........there are no words in German, English or any other known language in the universe including binary code to describe the beauty of his work...

[IZachDallen]

@djguyincanada And that's why it's in music :)

[bassbass99able]

Mahler is the equivalent of eating cheesecake for 50 minuets.

[DiscipleofZoom]

Beautiful piece of music.

[DiscipleofZoom]

Beautiful piece of music.

[hoiho96]

I'm 14 too and I simply LOVE Mahler's music.

I especially love the Ninth since I was 11: my father bought Abbado's DG set of Mahler symphonies and I fell in love with this symphony.

I bought then Karajan's recording and both Berstein's DG recordings: this version with the RCO is superb, but his previous version with the BPO remains for me something special!!

Thank you Mahlerite for your videos!!!!

Thomas

[bassbass99able]

"I'M only 14" JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU ARROGANT BITCH

[genericusername337]

@bassbass99able lol that's rude but yeah i agree - i'm getting sick of them expecting people to marvel at them for it

[lovingee1]

I love great classical music but can't get excited over this - I will take Mozart and Wagner any day over this. But, I sure am EXCITED watching this GORGEOUS conductor! WOW!!!

Barbara Todres

NYC

[borivilli]

The first movement has to be one of the most majestic movement ever composed.

[Zaidemeit]

Beethoven's only rival.  One word: Sublime.

[murphy456]

@Zaidemeit I agree Beethovens only rival

[vampirexion]

Beautiful music...I love all types of music and this type has to be one of my favorite. And get this- I am only 14.

[mahlerite]

@vampirexion

It's really neat to know that someone that young gets something valuable from this work.

[liebemusikvideo]

@mahlerite irony for lunchtime :-) in 15 century, in age of 14, he would be already a papa..

[freshhh1994]

@vampirexion

Shut your arrogant trap. Nobody cares how old you are.

[freshhh1994]

@TwinTwangSD

Nope, not with his personality.

[freshhh1994]

@TwinTwangSD

I doubt that anyone would be thinking about getting laid while listening to Mahler.

[gr0mithtimon]

@vampirexion

What do you want? A medal?

[vampirexion]

@gr0mithtimon And what is it you want? To be king of sarcasm? Dear, you're not even close.

[lewichan]

@vampirexion I also listend to classical music from a very young age. The only one in my class :)

[Nomekiller]

@vampirexion I get it. Then you have to be super sophisticated because you´re just fourteen? Don´t get me wrong, its nice that you like the music but its a little ridiculous to brag about it. :)

[bertiethetoupee4]

@vampirexion Not to undermine your enjoyment but I weep at the sublime majesty of this music and I'm a foetus.

[maxabeles]

@bertiethetoupee4 haha you win, bastard.

[Marvelouscortex]

For all those who gesture at heaven as the source I know its figurative BUT

The music came from - if you will - Mahler's mother birth canal. And if there is majesty to be found it is a process called neoteny (neo - new; tenacious - holding) retention of highly juvenile features eg the big bulbous brain (which oft has trouble getting out). Neoteny brings in its train an explosive growth of nerve cells - > result: what we are hearing and why - heaven can't compete. This view (in) not deflationary.

[sparsematrix]

@Marvelouscortex Doesn't explain why you like it. More to the point: why it is sublime. You are describing the hardware, not its purpose. Angst, unfulfillable longing and sublimity has no place in the natural order. They are purely human, and they are not explainable by bundles of nerve cells any more than Windows or YouTube is explainable by a bundle of 1's and 0's.

[gundam0051]

speechless at 2:49

[quinto34]

I think it was Adorno, who wrote people hate Mahler because he reminds people who have made peace with the world, of what they have to exorcise.

This music stil gives me the creeps..

[MrHindley7]

This is sheer joy , wonderful .

[pointreyes6]

Mahler's weirdest sounding symphony in my view. very strange, long melodies in the 1st movement. A very strange, highly imaginitive mind created them.

[eadgbeguitarcdefgabc]

i dont believe it is possible for a human to compose this . but then again , when was mahler ever human ?

[bbsunshine11]

My ears are in heaven....wonderful!!

[FilmRomMusDrawingWar]

I was relatively late when I heard Mahler. On Radio 3 Belgrade in 1998. ore 1999. It was in the ciclus great performers: 1st movement of the 10th (Bernstein), 3 Ruckert lieder (Walter-Ferrier) & 1st symphony (Haitink). I never thought that classicall music can emanate such level of expression. For me it was great joy and painfull suffering with Mahler. Especially with dark adagios. Probably I will never feel Mahler so intensly like in those days. Great post.

[MasonIFTW]

44 000 views is no where the amout this music deserves

[hmmanna]

anyone here for ypo seating auditions?

[beladen]

Tingles course through me listening to this, I had never even heard of Mahler until I started reading "Somewhere in Time". I am now converted to this seemingly forgotten master of music.

[superbemaison]

Wonderful!

My father used to listen to Mahler for hours and hours and was trying to get me to share his love for Mahler.But at the time I was 14 and was discovering Beethoven at the piano!!!Mahler can only be appreciated when you are over 50 and after having loved all 'usual-music'.Nowadays Mahler is my favourite!!!!!Reading his biography(by Lagrange) made me love him better still!!!!

[BrucknerMotet]

4:00 - it's nearly impossible to cut snippets out this magnificent first movement which takes themes and builds on and transforms them with such lush illustration. But but if I only had one snippet while marooned on a desert island, it'd be the one starting at four minutes and twelve seconds and lasting for around 60 seconds thereafter. I'm always taken by the gracefulness of this snippet, as if mere sound could serve as coinage to bribe the ferryman. A most dignified crossing of the waters.

[666heavymetal666]

@BrucknerMotet what a great way of putting it.

[chaoticplay10]

those motifs boy.... that makes it truly special

[chopzart]

I don't know what to say about this, seriously. How's this written by a human? It makes me want to scream but I can't.

[smakant71]

tiefste musik, höhe punkt in der geschichte der geist, danke, maestro

[TheIsraDave]

This and Mahler 3:6 are the best pieces of music I've ever heard.

[TheIsraDave]

A CAT scan of my soul

[wkhhh]

Mahler changed my life.

[superbemaison]

@wkhhh

Same here!!!!!

[uzuki222]

What can I say? I am literally speechless...if only these emotions could be made into words or some amazing musical creation...if only...

[jhv48]

The ninth symphony:  de profundis of sick Mahler, tired, betrayed by her wife with

Walter Gropius. Splendid.

[o00joe]

who is principal trumpet on this??

[revorrah]

If the quote "A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything," is true, I bet it'd be fun to assign themes to sections (ex. hate, joy, sex, despair, jealousy). That would definitely be a daunting task for any musicologist.

[davemja]

Sublime, intensely moving, and perhaps his most beautiful piece of music.

[aswallom]

Concerning the rather rabid declaration that somehow all Mahler's symphonies are a depiction of his "physiological and mental diseases" I might point out that although his real life problems are reflected to a degree in his symphonies, they make up a rather small fraction of the total sum of the musical content expressed therein. If you want to see a composer depicting his life see R. Strauss' Symphonia Domestica (a day in the life) and the Opera Intermezzo (based again on family mishaps).

[aswallom]

And even then those are just two works; most of Strauss is rather detached from his personal life. Mahler may be more consistently writing from a relatively self-conscious perspective, but he never comes close to the level of total identification with the musical content: "I am these symphonies and these symphonies are me" as opposed to "I put some of myself into every symphony."

[aswallom]

On a final note, the only element of the 9th that seems particularly personal is the motif of the irregular rhythm, which seems reasonable to assume is inspired by his heart arrhythmia, complications from which would eventually lead to his death; nevertheless, it is NOT the actual rhythm of his heart beat. The knowledge of this potentially fatal condition may have inspired him to create an irregular rhythm of his own, perhaps to symbolize the approach of death based on personal associations.

[aswallom]

Final final note: If Mahler intended the 9th to be predominately a meditation on death, as many have suggested, I must point out that conerns about death are not 'mental diseases' either. Mahler was obsessed with death all his life (understandable when you realize that by age 30 all but 4 of his 14 siblings were dead, one of them by suicide, as well as both parents), and finding out that you have a potentially fatal heart condition can only deepen that concern.

[OrisLover]

I agee with your statement...I feel Mr. Mauler is no only able to convey his psycholocical ills or physical maladies but his joyous acheivements as well. His music acts as a journel...and those who can pick up on his insights are welcomed into his circle and those who can't, well--they're not welcome.

[sabiik]

fevkalade,büyüleyici tınılar...

[aurorasborealis]

"Oh call back yesterdays, bid time return." Shakespeare + Mahler + Matheson = Beauty.

[ferrerpla]

Las interpretaciones de Bernstein sobre Mahler son realmente buenas.

[jesusjuanpablo]

Simon Rattle named this symphony "What dead tells me"

[FaithIsAnnoyed]

One of the greatest pieces of music ever writte.

[mahler151]

Going to be seeing this live soon, and absolutely can't wait!

[samirfouad1]

Note: to all the above, wait til you get to Mahler;s 10th symphony - especially the adagio movement.

Music from another world and Mahler died before completing this astounding symphony.

[MarcoMartini81]

I'm a musician but I haven't a classical training. When I listen to this work, I think I had to attend to an accademy of music...It's just heavenly and infernal at the same time, it's pure emotion made music...

[GuitarOddysey]

it's frustrating, though also illuminating that our primitive sound recording technology is unable to properly capture the intensity and grandeur of this masterpiece...

[happyfew]

Thank you for uploading this wonderfull piece of music.

[Danman917]

Is this real? Did a human being actually write this or did the composition fall out of heaven?

[japanesesweet]

I like the way you can`t listen to each movement complete as it gives us an historical perspective on the way you'd have heard the piece had you bought it on 78s.Please keep it as it is.

I once read that Karajan banned Bernstein from conducting the BPO- -surely this is rubbish as he made a recording of this symphony with the BPO!

[tzhuff]

i still remember my dad buying this at the local record store when i was in middle school. i was well versed in copland and tchaikovsky, but nothing really prepared me for this and i wasn't really able to process or understand it until i had lost a favorite cousin and left my first love. i even got to see the local orchestra play it around the time this was released in the mid-late '80s. still makes me cry to listen to this version. bernstein had just lost his wife. concertgebouw is on fire.

[mahlerite]

It's one of the most poignant recordings I've ever heard. Sometimes listening to it, specifically the first and last movements, causes a kind of overdose of pathos in me, and I don't quite want to continue hearing it. I have to be in a precise mood and equipped with some fortitude.

[reindeergirl200]

@mahlerite,

We're twins! My Dad, too! He was Bach rather than Tchaikovsky, still ... .

[brett1051]

@tzhuff

I love how you mention Copland I hear it.Peace

brett

[mynameisandycostello]

Dear Mahlerite,

Could you please make this into a playlist so that one could listen to it continuously, instead of clicking on each new clip? Thank you so much for posting this.

-Andy

[mahlerite]

Andy--

The playlist is now featured on my channel's webpage. Best regards.

--David

[umbrellano]

I was drinking tea when the climax dissolved around 3:30...

[FreieStadtElbing]

ahh mahler ,the one and only genius that put his gastric problems into music, exposing even his loud farts in front of the audience,not to mention the dramatically rapid turns of stomachal food breaking processes

[umbrellano]

Thank God I'm listening to the second movement...now I can laugh more.

[FreieStadtElbing]

dear umbrella girl,realise the entire mahlerian symphony cycle is a history of his mental and physiological diseases...

[umbrellano]

But that is what's so amazing about them. Trust me, it gets better. Go hear the rest.

[empoleon9999]

Dear, FreieStadtElbing, learn to spell realize and when you do, you can pretend to be an intellectual who understands music. And even then, people who know anything about music will differentiate you as a fake. Quit the facade and go comment somewhere else about Mahler's "physiological diseases." If you can't hear the obvious genius and intensity of Mahler from this recording, you don't know the first thing about music.

[FreieStadtElbing]

dear cretin,

now i do realize you`re a spelling master and even after years of training under your magnificence i wouldn`t have the chance to be a moron like you...

[advisorC101]

Dear Freie,

What kind of a weakling tries to form an argument from something as insignificant as spelling mistakes?

[empoleon9999]

@advisorC101 Sorry, that was me who started the argument about spelling, but that was just and insult added to the argument that I started off of his comment saying that this masterpiece was a history of his "mental and physiological" diseases.

[advisorC101]

I wouldn't go as far as saying that as I am not really familiar with this composer, but I like it as I am into the Romantic style myself.

But I was merely addresing the techniques you employed for your argument.

[empoleon9999]

@advisorC101 I never said that you aren't familiar with Mahler. I said that FreieStadtElbing was being idiotic, saying that Mahler put his "gastral problems to music" and that this whole cycle was a history of his "physiological and mental diseases."

[advisorC101]

Empoleon, I think my english is more than good enough to let me I know exactly what you were saying.

I was simply stating my own perspective, that does not allow me to form a credible prognosis of this.

[empoleon9999]

Oh, I misunderstood. I apologize. I'm not completely familiar with Mahler either, but I deduced my own perspective to his comment based on what I know.

[empoleon9999]

@FreieStadtElbing Yep, I'm the cretin. I was insulting your spelling because you were pretending to be an intellectual. My main point was that you either have some form of retardation, in which case I'm sorry, or that you are a troll. Either way, your comment about this piece being about Mahler's "mental and physiological" diseases is way out of line, and it doesn't even make sense. Frankly, I think that you're just a disagreeable idiot.

[FreieStadtElbing]

empeleon

if i`m a disagreeable idiot then you`re a mahlerist-my antipode....

and be proud to have one!

[FreieStadtElbing]

and besides,the parallel i made still has infinitelly more sense than your babbling...

[empoleon9999]

@FreieStadtElbing Sigh. Saying that Mahler has "physiological and mental diseases" makes an iota of sense? That's not babbling? Saying that he put his "gastral problems into his music" isn't babbling? Saying I should be proud to have you as an antipode? I worry for you.

[DoubleDutchBust]

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[nulesan65]

Sublime. Simplemente sublime. Amo a Mahler.

[sammerro]

thx for upload, mahlerite.

Yesterday i was in Lutosławski's Philharmonic in wroclaw (poland) where the symphony was played (directed by Jacek Kasprzyk) and it was just great.

[mahlerite]

I'm happy to oblige :)

Hearing this work live certainly would leave an indelible impression on my mind. I bet it was mesmerizing and ethereal.

[iroveashe]

2 weeks ago I went to see it live, it was so good it was scary. Next day I found out the conductor, Pedro Ignacio Calderon, had worked with Bernstein for a year.

[jbgreen77]

I sometimes play this when I'm sad as if I need to reinforce my sadness

[THEMGOROTH75]

OOOOOHH!!!EEEEPIC!!!EEEPIC!!

[dxhaloxc]

cathartic

[milettina]

very beatiful :D

[prismsmiles]

Beautiful

[aztecamita]

thank you for posting! :) you are improving humanity! :D