Gustav Mahler - Symphonie No. 6 (9/9)

[gpeddino]

Curiously, the silence after the end made the piece even more moving.

[rbagsh]

@gpeddino totally! saw the 6th last night in philly and 2secs after the last note, some jerk 3 rows back screams BRAVO. i sure would have preferred a second to breathe.

[windstorm1000]

where s the hammer? they better not used a bass drum--not the same thing!!

[windstorm1000]

Maestro Abbado looks so old--he was a swinging Italian guy in the 80's!!

[FreeMySoles]

Now I'm stuck. What do you follow this with? More Mahler? Anything cheerful would seem blasphemous, anything mournful would suffer by comparison. I'll just have to stay with the Sound of Silence for a while, until ordinary living resumes...

[felixfjimenezmendez]

First time I saw the video I was really moved and impressed by the silence following the most tragic ending in a Mahler (or whoever) symphony... it highlights the high spirit and quality in Mahler's music as well as the recognition to a supreme performance by Maestro Abbado and LFO. It really touches my heart!

[Lufttraktor]

uncool



[Miganiya]

Well, thank you very much for the upload.

[rjr1967]

Silence is both the prerequisite of music, and the state to which it most fittingly aspires.

[SchwarzeDose21]

4:44 he nearly laughes :D

[Trompeter1971]

Einfach nur sensationell und bestimmt für die Ewigkeit.

Nur der dritte Trompeter war wohl etwas aufgeregt oder hätte beim Cis' noch eine Verlängerung für seinen dritten Ventilzug gebraucht trotz triggern ;-) (0:05) Sorry, ist aber einfach aufgefallen, weil es gleich am Anfang der Sequenz kam...

Abbado weiß am Ende, daß er etwas Außergewöhnliches geleistet hat.

Schwer zu toppen.

[Trompeter1971]

okay, es war das E' bei 9 nach 161, aber die chromatischen Töne danach klingen auch ganz schön schräg... da zeigt sich mal wieder, daß tiefe Lage spielen gar nicht so einfach ist.

[rojot]

excelente version....pero por que suprimieron el HAMMER en el minuto 1:55.....

[cardinalssaints]

that silence at the end is unbelievably beautiful

[marcap1000]

WONDERFUL. THE BEST MUSIC, THE SILENCE.....THANKS

[SC2larry]

Wow.....a performance that is going to stay for ages on..... what a dead silence right in the end of the symphony! The most tragic symphony in the whole repertoire!!!Really thanks for posting!!!!

[commodore666]

I do agree about the silence. It was the same after the Mahler 3 in 2007. I was lucky to be at both concerts, and I can tell you that the atmosphere was pure magic!

[mahlermahlermahler1]

My lord. That silence was 40 seconds long. INcredible!

[Verityseo]

what an intelligent, sophisticated audience here-- i hate majority of them screaming bravo right after the tragic ending. let the music sink in before yelling out!

[KillNoPsych]

Thank you, this is a good comment. I second that.

[sabadabaduz]

Totally agree. Maybe the first time the audience displayed that kind of behaviour after a performance was when Mahler conducted Bruckner's Te Deum (in Leipzig I think). Mahler wrote to Bruckner that the audience's silence was the greatest success for a musical piece possible. In fact most Bruckner performances today are followed by a moment of silence still (not in Japan of course...) If Mahler had attended this very performance we see here, he would have been very, very satisfied.

[KillNoPsych]

Wie kommt man nur zu einer solch verqueren Ideologie? Aus Aberwitz? Vermutlich.