Although I like Zubin Mehta's tempi best, I really admire this version. Boulez lets the orchestra play and seems to simply do what is necessary to manage the orchestral sound, balance and timing... and the orchestra sounds great (especially the trumpets)!
I have to agree with the guy who knocked Dudamel. I intensely dislike Dudamel's reading of Mahler. His interpretations are hideously bloated caricatures of the great man's music and make me feel ill whenever I hear them. Boulez's, on the other hand, are never excessive. Mahler's music is intense and impassioned enough without the conductor weeping and wailing and gnashing his teeth all over it. Unlike Dudamel, Boulez sticks to what's in the score and lets the music speak for itself .
@BrainiacFingers: You're spot on concerning Boulez. I'ver performed Mahler before, and the annotations are incredibly detailed. Just follow the score with little interpretation and it will be amazing. No one before or since had command of an orchestra or orchestration like Mahler.
Il croit qu'elles, l'orchestre, ne wok seulement pour le public, mais nécessite aussi l'itlsefs mucisian.Peut-être pour cela qu'il est parfois incompris.
i suspect the intensity may be more to do with the orchestra and less to do with the maestro. if an orchestra doesn't want to keep a lid on it, then it won't, regardless of the perfunctory nature of the conductor. another reason is that the engineers haven't gotten their hands on this clip.
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This tempo is too fast most of the time and the interpretation is rather academic. Even though it was a rehearsal and Pierre Boulez is a great artist, Christoph Eschenbach understands the essence and timing of Mahler more than any other conductor I have ever heard. For the real soul of Mahler's music, listen to Eschenbach!
Je me souviens le concert au Carnegie Hall à New York. Je pense le presentation était marveilleux. Le orchestre ont joué avec passion et intensité, spontanéité, vivacité, virtuosité;
Grande Maestro! Now THIS is a conductor, and how! Please, you slavish, flag waving supporters of Gustavo Dudamel, PLEASE listen to this master and then tell me if you think Dudamel is so superior? This is the greatest thing Mahler ever gave us; it's entitled "What Love Tells Me."
While Dudamel is not necessarily superior, he is definitely one of the great ones. I am not a slavish, flag-waving supporter, but I am very fond of his conducting.
Dudamel, as far as I know, has not released a recording of Mahler 3, so we really can't compare the two.
I do agree that this is among Mahler's best works, however, but I think your derogatory remarks to Dudamel were uncalled for and unfounded.
god bless you for recording this and posting. i was there, recorded it (audio only) and them my hardrive crashed and i lost it all. how awesome was the 1st movt wtbn solo!!!
Although I like Zubin Mehta's tempi best, I really admire this version. Boulez lets the orchestra play and seems to simply do what is necessary to manage the orchestral sound, balance and timing... and the orchestra sounds great (especially the trumpets)!
martytrombone 1 year ago
I was there for the performance. It was a magical concert and a unforgettable surprise. Thank Mahler, Boulez and orchestra!
PabloSainzVillegas 1 year ago
Boulez and Abbado have given us the best Mahler 3rds.
amadeuswebern 1 year ago
Dudamel is too young for mahler......
sexmotor65 1 year ago
I have to agree with the guy who knocked Dudamel. I intensely dislike Dudamel's reading of Mahler. His interpretations are hideously bloated caricatures of the great man's music and make me feel ill whenever I hear them. Boulez's, on the other hand, are never excessive. Mahler's music is intense and impassioned enough without the conductor weeping and wailing and gnashing his teeth all over it. Unlike Dudamel, Boulez sticks to what's in the score and lets the music speak for itself .
BrainiacFingers 1 year ago 5
@BrainiacFingers: You're spot on concerning Boulez. I'ver performed Mahler before, and the annotations are incredibly detailed. Just follow the score with little interpretation and it will be amazing. No one before or since had command of an orchestra or orchestration like Mahler.
Mahlerialiszt 1 year ago
@Mahlerialiszt Except Richard Strauss!
shlomzion 1 year ago
dont know why, but i can only listen at night to the unspeakables of mahler...
vanillacokemz 1 year ago
Il croit qu'elles, l'orchestre, ne wok seulement pour le public, mais nécessite aussi l'itlsefs mucisian.Peut-être pour cela qu'il est parfois incompris.
Brukuthus 1 year ago
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gorlaxxx 1 year ago
I saw Boulez conduct this symphony with the CSO in (I think) 1995. It was most awesome.
Thanks for this clip!
gorlaxxx 1 year ago
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haha... the principal second violinist is really going for it on his minute-long final note. 7:15 in.
AquaSulus 1 year ago
haha... the principal second violinist is really going for it on his minute-long final note. 7:15 in.
AquaSulus 1 year ago
Wowzy. I sure do love finding new videos of the last ten minutes of this glorious symphony.
mahlermahlermahler1 2 years ago
wow, the trumpet solo is amazing around 3:00
anthonya13 2 years ago 4
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una mierda mu gorda pal puto bulez
hispaniconumen 2 years ago
i suspect the intensity may be more to do with the orchestra and less to do with the maestro. if an orchestra doesn't want to keep a lid on it, then it won't, regardless of the perfunctory nature of the conductor. another reason is that the engineers haven't gotten their hands on this clip.
tzhuff 2 years ago
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This tempo is too fast most of the time and the interpretation is rather academic. Even though it was a rehearsal and Pierre Boulez is a great artist, Christoph Eschenbach understands the essence and timing of Mahler more than any other conductor I have ever heard. For the real soul of Mahler's music, listen to Eschenbach!
briandelsignore 3 years ago
Je me souviens le concert au Carnegie Hall à New York. Je pense le presentation était marveilleux. Le orchestre ont joué avec passion et intensité, spontanéité, vivacité, virtuosité;
Une Interprétation parfaite!!!!!!!!!!!
Werner510 3 years ago
Grande Maestro! Now THIS is a conductor, and how! Please, you slavish, flag waving supporters of Gustavo Dudamel, PLEASE listen to this master and then tell me if you think Dudamel is so superior? This is the greatest thing Mahler ever gave us; it's entitled "What Love Tells Me."
billyguns2 3 years ago 9
Steady on!
atomicmrpelly 3 years ago
While Dudamel is not necessarily superior, he is definitely one of the great ones. I am not a slavish, flag-waving supporter, but I am very fond of his conducting.
Dudamel, as far as I know, has not released a recording of Mahler 3, so we really can't compare the two.
I do agree that this is among Mahler's best works, however, but I think your derogatory remarks to Dudamel were uncalled for and unfounded.
kongming819 2 years ago 3
Boulez at his best.
He *can* be passionate and lyrical as this demonstrates.
Ocassionally these qualities completely elude him eg.the DG recrding of Messiaen`s Chronocromie.
japanesesweet 3 years ago 2
god bless you for recording this and posting. i was there, recorded it (audio only) and them my hardrive crashed and i lost it all. how awesome was the 1st movt wtbn solo!!!
BallSack9000 3 years ago
Now, who can dare to say that Boulez isn't a passionate and lyrical conductor?
alambic1911 3 years ago 5
An incredible movement from a symphony containing the whole universe
2sjh1 3 years ago 10