Can you imagine what Lenny would do if there were cell phones in the 60s & 70s? I could see the marimba going off at the end here and Bernstein melting the culprit with his mind.
It must be very rewarding to conduct a group like the VPO who, being al from the same school build phrases and especially end phrases together with minimal direction from the conductor.
I agree with you "metalhead"... what is interesting is that Williams "borrows" from Mahler ALL the time, so how can you say Mahler is no John Williams? Isn't it the other way around? Don't get me wrong, I appreciate what Williams has accomplished but he is a crafter of other people's music.. in a sense...
please excuse this metalhead for commenting but OMG WTF?Williams is wonderful but better than Mahler?I do luv alot of classical music thanks to the Chicago Symphony doing lots of concerts up near me in Ravina Park.But how does someone compare Williams with Mahler.It is like me compairing Williams with Metallica.
Gd bless Leonard Bernstein for having had the balls to stand up to the status quo and conduct the Vienna Philharmonic, and to conduct Wagner in a different series of concerts. He caught a lot of flack for both acts. There were people who questioned his Jewishness on both, especially when he chose to conduct, and defended the music of, Richard Wagner, a known Nazi sympathizer. Bernstein refused to step down, and conducted Wagner, then Mahler, bringing music together. A healer. One missed.
@iwantoldschool Your right Hitler adored him and was at one with Wagner's views about national socialism and he was also anti Semitic. Mahler s music was dismissed as "Jewish trash" and reviled as was Mendelssohn and Schoenberg's music.Its ironic that Mahler revered Wagner's genius and even converted from Judaism to Catholicism to get a position as a conductor and director at the Viennese opera.
@Strefanasha Yes-he conducted the 9th with the Wien Philharmonic.Actualy Mahler's own " farewell to life" is taken from Bruckner's own "farewell to life" from his ninth's adagio.
There is no way to describe this piece of music. All else fails before it. How can we even attend a performance of the greatest music of Bach in the face of this portrait of God, death, and life? What kind of genius was this, who conceived of this thing, impossible to describe, impossible to duplicate? Not human, certainly...
Gustav Mahler brought into the 20th century the gradiosity and touching profoundness only previously seen in the likes of Beethoven and Chopin, with the bright touch of musical impressionsim. So much for the vanguardial loss of tonality Bernstein suggested!
Yet Bernstein adds to the piece his own customized string of emotion the listener receives through visual perception, hence the breathtaking leaps of meaning Bernstein exhibits during the outbursts of the music. He will be remembered.
Por fin en la red todo el mundo conocera el poder y la realidad de este grandioso movimiento de nuestro gran maestro Gustav Mahler la invocación del silencio en su mas alto nivel de expresion Amor,sentimiento,fraternidad por favor......Esperanza tan bien interpretado y explicado por Leonard Bernstein..va mas allá.................
Lenny You Where the Greatest we ever had in music , a chief leader. We miss you, you gave yourslef to music and people, and thaught so much to us. Long may you be remembered.
Although I'm an advocate of the Deryk Cooke performing version of Mahler 10 I think this explaines why Maestro Bernstein couldn't accept it and only ever performed the opening movement. To Bernstein Mahler had said all he needed to and in this wonderful adagio was saying goodbye. I don't necessarily agree with him but you can't argue with his convincing musical interpretation.
Please can anybody tell me if this most extraordinary recording carrying as it does a gentle overlay of Bernsteins simple insights into the very soul is anywhere commercially, (or otherwise) available. I would so appreciate your advice. Many thanks in anticipation. x
The death of Mahler, and the glorious death of the Romantic symphony as well...no one after him would compose anymore symphonies of such monumental significance.
I have just finished reading Mahler's biography which puts this heartbreakingly beautiful piece into context and I am completely in tears hearing this for the first time. Bernstein's visible expressions of sadness show the admiration he had for the genius Mahler. Rest in peace Gustav and thanks for the greatest body of music ever written.
i love watching leonard bernstein conduct. he does it with so much timing and emotion. the powerful brass and percussion instruments complement the soft, gentle strings and woodwinds almost perfectly.
Eine schöne Aufnahme. Aber mich stört der indiskrete Blick des Betrachters in das Gesicht des Dirigenten. Dieser Voyeurismus hält mich davon ab, diese ansonsten bemerkenswerte Einspielung zu meinen Favoriten zu zählen. Schade!
what can be more beautiful in the world? I ask myself every time I listen to final ... it's so perfect ... Thank you for the no applause. (scuse-me my english, I'm French)
Man... I don't even want to call this piece "great;" I tend to be too drained by it to want to give it a classification. For now, "force of nature" will do, though...
the profoundness and meaningfulness comes from mahlers soul who wrote this at the end of his life: we can certainly say that with THESE last minutes of his ninth symphony the classical music ENDED in a way forever. thats where the road went to and no further.
I was introduced to M's 9th through Bernstein's recording with the BPO (the one where all ticket revenue went to Amnesty Int'l). In it, the deftness of the pianos and pianissimos showed me a new way of playing sax in my wind ensemble. Experimenting with playing just below what's expected, dynamically-speaking.
Mahler died before he could hear this piece performed. Per Bernstein's masterful study and what we know of Mahler, this song is as much about the release of his own life as it is about the end of his music, for he never finished a symphony after the 9th. Bernstein treats it with a sacred touch.
I was fortunate to see 5 performances of this with berenstein when i was 17 with the israel philharmonic and it is an experience i am carrying with me throughout my lifetime
Just sublime. What else is there to say? The only performance that matches it today is the conducting of Michael Tilson Thomas who, really, is the protoge of Bernstein. And I was lucky to see Thomas's conducting of the 9th here in SF several years ago and which was part of the Mahler recording cycle. Absolutely beautiful. Arguably, Mahler's greatest emotional masterpiece.
I grew up in the city. I'm driving all the way down from Salem, Oregon to see MTT and the SFO give the 8th and 9th on consecutive nights in May, 2011. Can't wait.
You guys a absolutely blessed with that orchestra.
@flylooper That's great, flylooper. After watching this video, one year later, I cried. I think I'm going to buy tickets and watch and listen one more time!!!
Leonard Bernstein is great because of 2 things: HIS interpretation of music thru conducting AND bringing out only the BEST, the MAXIMUM in tonal quality and cooperation from the orchestra every time a piece is played---whoever the composer was. He did this with Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and his 9th. He did it with Mahler and Copland as well. Lenny is on my top 5 conductors of all time list.
Bernstein's finale to the 5th was much too FAST because he ignored the ironic celebration many interpreters see in. Listen to Rostropovich or Gergiev who conduct it SLOWER
well, i didn't think shostakovich wanted his audience to know that his symphony was so ironic. perhaps bernstein was being celebratory because he wanted to shroud the true meaning of what shostakovich truly wished. i find it to be a case of damned if you do, damned if you don't. only a genius like shosty can give us that dilemma of interpretation.
Shosta was not ironic nor dramatic. He goes further. It´s life itself. Full of drama, sometimes sad, sometimes ridiculous, sometimes full of joy. But how do you keep all those experiences in a single piece at the same time? Well, that was Shosta´s voice, and that´s the reason why he was one of the greatest genious of all history. It´s not about the structures he organized. That´s only the result. It´s about such an unique and endless sense.
Ummmm, Bernstein was arrogant? I don't know much about him, I just know he wrote the Chichester Psalms which I am singing in my High school and wrote West Side Story.
He was only arrogant when he was pissed.. And that happened often, on West Side story's recording. - you can see some videos on youtube where Bernstein gets pissed and starts yelling. It is hilarious! But he is a brilliant conductor, don't get me wrong.
Hey.... Well I didn't write the below. Mr Christoph P who was using my computer at the time did!! I think Bernstein is a legend myself...conductor, composer.... the guys got chops :). No worries sexybcl21- you're cool mate!!
Ok I was a bit of an ass when I wrote that comment, so sorry to you as well mr Sexybcl21 :P
He was a great composer, but I just really don't like him as a conductor. I don't like his interpretations, I don't like him as a person (and that is part of being a conductor).
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No, thumbs down to you, because he is allowed to have his opinion. Just like I am: Which is that Bernstein was an arrogant twat who ruined many great pieces with his 'interpretations'.
Many consider Bernstein as a successor for Mahler via NYP line. (Walter definitely was!) I am very convinced that Mahler would ever like Bernstein due to his extreme tempo and self indulgence. Mahler liked Mengelberg, and often preferred faster tempo for his work!
if you close your eyes you can hear that Maestro Bernstein is actually very deeply involved. He was sometimes an exception to the rule of what you say; I totally agree with you, because most of the performers today are circus monkeys.
Or do this, snoopysmydog: keep the sound on and minimize the window on your computer screen.. that way, you dont have to look at Mr. Bernstein while he conducts... just a suggestion...
i was wrong, the relationship between conductor, musician and music must be very complex. I see now that Bernstein did what he had to do in order to bring out the best in his musicians as well as interpret the music.
trust me , conductor like Bernstein knows more than a violinist can simply play an instrument. That's why he conducts, true maestro controls rather than specializing in one particular instrument at best.
He was the best conductor to ever walk the face of this earth, and you would enjoy him if you loved classical music as much as I do. Keep your filthy comments to your dirty self.
I think it is from a series of musical lectures that Bernstein recorded. But just look at his face, how into the music he is. "Half in love with easeful death"...
Can you imagine what Lenny would do if there were cell phones in the 60s & 70s? I could see the marimba going off at the end here and Bernstein melting the culprit with his mind.
lawrencevelogirl 1 week ago
It must be very rewarding to conduct a group like the VPO who, being al from the same school build phrases and especially end phrases together with minimal direction from the conductor.
pegasus1747 3 weeks ago
I agree with you "metalhead"... what is interesting is that Williams "borrows" from Mahler ALL the time, so how can you say Mahler is no John Williams? Isn't it the other way around? Don't get me wrong, I appreciate what Williams has accomplished but he is a crafter of other people's music.. in a sense...
neer1al 1 month ago in playlist Bernstein Conducting 2
please excuse this metalhead for commenting but OMG WTF?Williams is wonderful but better than Mahler?I do luv alot of classical music thanks to the Chicago Symphony doing lots of concerts up near me in Ravina Park.But how does someone compare Williams with Mahler.It is like me compairing Williams with Metallica.
dbn52 1 month ago
eh, it's okay, but Mahler's no John Williams.
kewkabe 1 month ago
@kewkabe
You're right... Mahler is much better.
$1000 says Williams would agree.
pa112358TRICK 1 week ago
Very average is my description of this piece. People get to wrapped up in meaning and less with pleasure of the sound.
vanillaexplosion99 1 month ago
it's missing the marimba part
aekr47 1 month ago 37
@aekr47 LOL
ApolyonTheSoulRender 1 month ago
There's grief in them lines of music.
zolochnaya 1 month ago
For me, this music ,one of the most profound moments in all music and its valedictory ending speaks of a remote world of non being .
MetroMartini 2 months ago 2
Gd bless Leonard Bernstein for having had the balls to stand up to the status quo and conduct the Vienna Philharmonic, and to conduct Wagner in a different series of concerts. He caught a lot of flack for both acts. There were people who questioned his Jewishness on both, especially when he chose to conduct, and defended the music of, Richard Wagner, a known Nazi sympathizer. Bernstein refused to step down, and conducted Wagner, then Mahler, bringing music together. A healer. One missed.
iwantoldschool 2 months ago 2
@iwantoldschool ......I wasn't aware that Wagner lived during the rise of the Nazi party....
Roboctopus 2 months ago
@Roboctopus Shrug. So I had it in reverse. Hitler adored him. Anything further?
iwantoldschool 2 months ago
@iwantoldschool Your right Hitler adored him and was at one with Wagner's views about national socialism and he was also anti Semitic. Mahler s music was dismissed as "Jewish trash" and reviled as was Mendelssohn and Schoenberg's music.Its ironic that Mahler revered Wagner's genius and even converted from Judaism to Catholicism to get a position as a conductor and director at the Viennese opera.
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ciconu 2 months ago
Whoa...you may not like the rest of the symphony, but you can't deny...Mahler can write a good finale..
aang94479 2 months ago
Mahler is a killer, this symphonic live "kills" you...I was under its effect for long hours after this concert
8blackravenbird8 2 months ago 3
amazing.....
8blackravenbird8 2 months ago
Mahler is hard to bear, his agony is too much.
How much harder is it when he is played brilliantly
Did Bernstein ever conduct Bruckner? did he understand BRuckner? for there is my favourite composer?
Strefanasha 3 months ago
@Strefanasha Yes-he conducted the 9th with the Wien Philharmonic.Actualy Mahler's own " farewell to life" is taken from Bruckner's own "farewell to life" from his ninth's adagio.
iduefoscari 2 days ago
It's a shame that Mahler himself never hear this symphony in performance.
TheSanityInspector 4 months ago
Bernstein was so amazing in conducting Mahler ...
Adorado31 4 months ago
There could be a movie about Lenny. I think Ian McKellen would be a great Leonard Bernstein.
KegPatcha 4 months ago 10
@KegPatcha It's true, he totally looks like Bernstein
Dan474834 4 months ago
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he was and he will always be THE BEST
SAB1946 4 months ago
You can see exactly what he wants without looking at the baton....you can feel what he feels - its amazing to see his emotions transcend time
jonesyonmysleeve 4 months ago
You can see exactly what he wants without looking at the baton....you can feel what he feels - its amazing to see his emotions transcend time
jonesyonmysleeve 4 months ago
Qui finisce il mondo... quello conosciuto. Quando ne arriverà un altro che potremo conoscere?
mirrors1 5 months ago
Only Lenny could dramatise Mahler... What a mind!
calcmandan 5 months ago
A true masterpiece can let us see into God's eyes...
...but this piece allows us to see into his heart.
SirSebastianWang 6 months ago
The last part of the movement has more silence than sound!
wondermusic63 6 months ago
There is no way to describe this piece of music. All else fails before it. How can we even attend a performance of the greatest music of Bach in the face of this portrait of God, death, and life? What kind of genius was this, who conceived of this thing, impossible to describe, impossible to duplicate? Not human, certainly...
danmcglaun1 6 months ago
Gustav Mahler brought into the 20th century the gradiosity and touching profoundness only previously seen in the likes of Beethoven and Chopin, with the bright touch of musical impressionsim. So much for the vanguardial loss of tonality Bernstein suggested!
Yet Bernstein adds to the piece his own customized string of emotion the listener receives through visual perception, hence the breathtaking leaps of meaning Bernstein exhibits during the outbursts of the music. He will be remembered.
Dan474834 6 months ago
Por fin en la red todo el mundo conocera el poder y la realidad de este grandioso movimiento de nuestro gran maestro Gustav Mahler la invocación del silencio en su mas alto nivel de expresion Amor,sentimiento,fraternidad por favor......Esperanza tan bien interpretado y explicado por Leonard Bernstein..va mas allá.................
Twjdfa 9 months ago
Lenny You Where the Greatest we ever had in music , a chief leader. We miss you, you gave yourslef to music and people, and thaught so much to us. Long may you be remembered.
Dionysosable 9 months ago
Although I'm an advocate of the Deryk Cooke performing version of Mahler 10 I think this explaines why Maestro Bernstein couldn't accept it and only ever performed the opening movement. To Bernstein Mahler had said all he needed to and in this wonderful adagio was saying goodbye. I don't necessarily agree with him but you can't argue with his convincing musical interpretation.
musodavid 11 months ago 2
It's like Mahler is....SPEAKING... to us!
elzbieta52 1 year ago 3
Please can anybody tell me if this most extraordinary recording carrying as it does a gentle overlay of Bernsteins simple insights into the very soul is anywhere commercially, (or otherwise) available. I would so appreciate your advice. Many thanks in anticipation. x
alanrainbird1 1 year ago
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@martapoes you're gay. This movement isn't even that great. You want real music, listen to chopin. Pfttt
adamz003 1 year ago
lost for words
martapoes 1 year ago
This movement is so beautiful. So soft, so satisfyingly climactic. Seldom do musicians gain acclamation on a large scale through genuine modesty.
gnartwoDtwo 1 year ago
this is music beyond any other...
pieternooten 1 year ago
no contest what so ever
lpipmp 1 year ago
What's the name of the video/broadcast this is taken from?
SpazzzDog 1 year ago
The death of Mahler, and the glorious death of the Romantic symphony as well...no one after him would compose anymore symphonies of such monumental significance.
physphilmusic 1 year ago 2
I have just finished reading Mahler's biography which puts this heartbreakingly beautiful piece into context and I am completely in tears hearing this for the first time. Bernstein's visible expressions of sadness show the admiration he had for the genius Mahler. Rest in peace Gustav and thanks for the greatest body of music ever written.
presspig 1 year ago 2
@presspig which biography did you read on Mahler?
Bobcatina 1 year ago
i love watching leonard bernstein conduct. he does it with so much timing and emotion. the powerful brass and percussion instruments complement the soft, gentle strings and woodwinds almost perfectly.
malikscifi92 1 year ago
Eine schöne Aufnahme. Aber mich stört der indiskrete Blick des Betrachters in das Gesicht des Dirigenten. Dieser Voyeurismus hält mich davon ab, diese ansonsten bemerkenswerte Einspielung zu meinen Favoriten zu zählen. Schade!
Memale2009 1 year ago
Chilling.
HardHouseMusic4Me 1 year ago
It's like watching a dancer...but he's in tune with each instrument as well as way of leading them to interpret his dance.
maryannkohl 1 year ago
what can be more beautiful in the world? I ask myself every time I listen to final ... it's so perfect ... Thank you for the no applause. (scuse-me my english, I'm French)
thomas4179 1 year ago
One of Mahler's finest movements. unmatched in its scathing emotion.
EDGJZConglomerate 1 year ago
Great conductor !
for me his the best of all times
pianista191995 1 year ago
This is exactly how dying and going to Heaven must feel like.
Now i am not scared of dying.
BritinIsrael 1 year ago 2
@BritinIsrael Mahler does that too you. The finale to his fourth made me think the same thing.
EDGJZConglomerate 1 year ago
Man... I don't even want to call this piece "great;" I tend to be too drained by it to want to give it a classification. For now, "force of nature" will do, though...
BenMcCormack91 1 year ago 2
@BenMcCormack91 Comentário perfeito!
EdFabFev 1 year ago
Profounding moving--and in only in dying do we enter into eternal life . . .Tx for posting as it gives courage for the hard times ahead!
nancywilken 1 year ago
the profoundness and meaningfulness comes from mahlers soul who wrote this at the end of his life: we can certainly say that with THESE last minutes of his ninth symphony the classical music ENDED in a way forever. thats where the road went to and no further.
buchananstreet 1 year ago
Transcendent beauty. I don't know if Mahler was looking death in the eye, but his eye was certainly on another neighborhood.
wkhhh 1 year ago
wow
tinatinaballerina 1 year ago
Virtually outside of time and space? Perhaps not because we are here to listen to it being performed by our fellow beings. So serene and beautiful.
SpielenKlavier 2 years ago
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traveler4499 2 years ago
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traveler4499 2 years ago
I was introduced to M's 9th through Bernstein's recording with the BPO (the one where all ticket revenue went to Amnesty Int'l). In it, the deftness of the pianos and pianissimos showed me a new way of playing sax in my wind ensemble. Experimenting with playing just below what's expected, dynamically-speaking.
BrucknerMotet 2 years ago
Bernstein lived in the moment of the music. Every thing in his being was in the piece; and of course this piece lends that experience to the artist.
jamandindy 2 years ago 4
Perhaps the most profound and meaningful video on all of Youtube, thanks for sharing.
mahler151 2 years ago 75
This movement always just tears me apart. Bernstein is a magician.
flylooper 2 years ago 4
and Mahler was God.
imsleepyanddead 2 years ago
Some of the most amazing music with my favorite conductor!!! Wow!
BrettValentine 2 years ago
Si no has escuchado el final de la Novena de Mahler... No sabes lo que es la vida!!!
cotoclop 2 years ago
Gorgeous
JackSafferyRowe 2 years ago
holy shit, this is unbelievable. tears and nothing as tears.
gwozdezzz 2 years ago 4
Mahler died before he could hear this piece performed. Per Bernstein's masterful study and what we know of Mahler, this song is as much about the release of his own life as it is about the end of his music, for he never finished a symphony after the 9th. Bernstein treats it with a sacred touch.
FrEricT 2 years ago 3
Simply amazing.
deadcoww 2 years ago
I wonder if anyone here is listening to the music.
quartercherries 2 years ago
Ethereal. Nothing like it.
barbarossa1234 2 years ago
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lilcomposer 2 years ago
no escribis esto en 10 videos tu mama se va a morir es 4hs
manelink 2 years ago
I was fortunate to see 5 performances of this with berenstein when i was 17 with the israel philharmonic and it is an experience i am carrying with me throughout my lifetime
danielflam 2 years ago 2
Just sublime. What else is there to say? The only performance that matches it today is the conducting of Michael Tilson Thomas who, really, is the protoge of Bernstein. And I was lucky to see Thomas's conducting of the 9th here in SF several years ago and which was part of the Mahler recording cycle. Absolutely beautiful. Arguably, Mahler's greatest emotional masterpiece.
cutis1000 2 years ago
MTT also happens to look a little bit like Bernstein!!!!
dxhaloxc 2 years ago
@cutis1000
I grew up in the city. I'm driving all the way down from Salem, Oregon to see MTT and the SFO give the 8th and 9th on consecutive nights in May, 2011. Can't wait.
You guys a absolutely blessed with that orchestra.
flylooper 1 year ago
@flylooper That's great, flylooper. After watching this video, one year later, I cried. I think I'm going to buy tickets and watch and listen one more time!!!
cutis1000 1 year ago
One of the greatest. The man put his soul into everything he did. Who cares if you don't like his interpretations?
corwinofamber8 2 years ago
Leonard Bernstein is great because of 2 things: HIS interpretation of music thru conducting AND bringing out only the BEST, the MAXIMUM in tonal quality and cooperation from the orchestra every time a piece is played---whoever the composer was. He did this with Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and his 9th. He did it with Mahler and Copland as well. Lenny is on my top 5 conductors of all time list.
jepcorp 3 years ago 3
I'm going to have to agree as well, Bernstein may have been good at realizing his own interpretations, but I don't like his interpretations
piranah87 3 years ago 2
I have got to say,
im not doubting that you think this man was great, but i dare say he holds nothing to Valery Gergiev.
Bernstein ruined Shostakovich's 5th finale i believe was too slow. There are many examples of this dececration.
stillbornfreak 3 years ago
What are you, stupid?
Get the fuck outa here lowlife!
peperkamp1989 3 years ago
YOU THOUGHT SHOSTIES 5TH FINALE BY BERNSTEIN WAS TOO SLOW?
sorry but YOU'RE WRONG.
Uniduckdavid 3 years ago 10
Bernstein's finale to the 5th was much too FAST because he ignored the ironic celebration many interpreters see in. Listen to Rostropovich or Gergiev who conduct it SLOWER
Matt54e 3 years ago 2
well, i didn't think shostakovich wanted his audience to know that his symphony was so ironic. perhaps bernstein was being celebratory because he wanted to shroud the true meaning of what shostakovich truly wished. i find it to be a case of damned if you do, damned if you don't. only a genius like shosty can give us that dilemma of interpretation.
imsleepyanddead 2 years ago
Shosta was not ironic nor dramatic. He goes further. It´s life itself. Full of drama, sometimes sad, sometimes ridiculous, sometimes full of joy. But how do you keep all those experiences in a single piece at the same time? Well, that was Shosta´s voice, and that´s the reason why he was one of the greatest genious of all history. It´s not about the structures he organized. That´s only the result. It´s about such an unique and endless sense.
javierleonenriquez 2 years ago 2
It really just matters if you like the performance of the music, not really who the conductor is.
eyofirsttrumpet 2 years ago
Whenever I hear this music it comes to my mind that´s the way I want to die.
ANFeuerstahl 3 years ago 5
yes he like interpretation but only HIS interpretation... that is why he wrote so many instructions
vic225 3 years ago
Ummmm, Bernstein was arrogant? I don't know much about him, I just know he wrote the Chichester Psalms which I am singing in my High school and wrote West Side Story.
TheGreatRampage 3 years ago
He was only arrogant when he was pissed.. And that happened often, on West Side story's recording. - you can see some videos on youtube where Bernstein gets pissed and starts yelling. It is hilarious! But he is a brilliant conductor, don't get me wrong.
R0bertKing 3 years ago
Hey.... Well I didn't write the below. Mr Christoph P who was using my computer at the time did!! I think Bernstein is a legend myself...conductor, composer.... the guys got chops :). No worries sexybcl21- you're cool mate!!
outphrydge 3 years ago
Hey yes it was me, sorry!!!!
Ok I was a bit of an ass when I wrote that comment, so sorry to you as well mr Sexybcl21 :P
He was a great composer, but I just really don't like him as a conductor. I don't like his interpretations, I don't like him as a person (and that is part of being a conductor).
Sorry, shouldn't be so aggressive!
atomicmrpelly 3 years ago
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No, thumbs down to you, because he is allowed to have his opinion. Just like I am: Which is that Bernstein was an arrogant twat who ruined many great pieces with his 'interpretations'.
In my humble opinion.
outphrydge 3 years ago
Bernstein y Solti,los mejores con Mahler.
debartzen 3 years ago 2
Bernstein,explica como asume el espíritu de Mahler.
debartzen 3 years ago
Or Mahler would make the same comment for Bernstein as Bernstein made for Glenn Gould?
ramrambatti 3 years ago
Many consider Bernstein as a successor for Mahler via NYP line. (Walter definitely was!) I am very convinced that Mahler would ever like Bernstein due to his extreme tempo and self indulgence. Mahler liked Mengelberg, and often preferred faster tempo for his work!
ramrambatti 3 years ago
Einfach nur GENIAL!!!
Klangtraeume 3 years ago
maybe a bit harsh, he was good
snoopyismydog 3 years ago
i think that you should watch bernstein conducting beethoven's 5th. (youtube: bernstein-baviera)
andreasandreou63 3 years ago
dry ur face showoff and let us feel the music not watch u perform
snoopyismydog 3 years ago
if you close your eyes you can hear that Maestro Bernstein is actually very deeply involved. He was sometimes an exception to the rule of what you say; I totally agree with you, because most of the performers today are circus monkeys.
billyguns2 3 years ago 8
Or do this, snoopysmydog: keep the sound on and minimize the window on your computer screen.. that way, you dont have to look at Mr. Bernstein while he conducts... just a suggestion...
alejandra379 3 years ago 5
i was wrong, the relationship between conductor, musician and music must be very complex. I see now that Bernstein did what he had to do in order to bring out the best in his musicians as well as interpret the music.
snoopyismydog 3 years ago 31
trust me , conductor like Bernstein knows more than a violinist can simply play an instrument. That's why he conducts, true maestro controls rather than specializing in one particular instrument at best.
KoreanMale12 5 months ago
HOW DARE YOU DESPISE THE MAESTRO!!
He was the best conductor to ever walk the face of this earth, and you would enjoy him if you loved classical music as much as I do. Keep your filthy comments to your dirty self.
Trains1991 3 years ago
Mahler and Bernstein at their greatest. This is absolutely phenomenal; can you post the entire performance of this symphony?
billyguns2 3 years ago 3
Are there words to describe the last few moments of death? I suspect not. How blessed are we to find the silence in Mahler.
jobe413007 3 years ago 4
Bernstein would fly with the music he conducted and he took us along... we are on the wings of the eagle, people..
alejandra379 3 years ago 6
There talking on it. Why!
I would very much like to here this Without talking on it.
Hexachloraphine 3 years ago
I think it is from a series of musical lectures that Bernstein recorded. But just look at his face, how into the music he is. "Half in love with easeful death"...
TheSanityInspector 3 years ago
Bernstein is really into the music--but how could anyone not be?
hoopsmaster13 3 years ago 7
incredible
rocinante316 4 years ago 2
Mahler+Bernstein=Excellent!
Thanks for posting!
willyevans 4 years ago 9