Mahler - Myung-Whun Chung - Symphony No.9 Mvt.4 1/3

[scmc28]

I don't know much about Mahler's music, but the string sound is awesome. It is as if a huge and luminous castle is being built by the string sound alone.

It is hard to imagine what it was like to listen to this music when it was first played, since it seems to have been adopted by lots of filmmusic. That may be the fate of every art work. Despite a specific context against which it is created, it cannot but be reinterpreted endlessly. "The Absence of Fact in Art"? Does it stop there?

[corean3polar]

fantastic orchestra. breathtaking.

[TheFrancescaViolin]

1:55 is so incredible.

[FabioCostaMusic]

This is the right way to divide bowings in Mahler. Lots, lots and lots of bow. And I love Chung Myung-Whun.

[BMperc22]

what a masterpiece .... amazing ! i'm crying everytime i hear this

[cieobt2]

From Oxford Music Online: "On the podium, much of his technique is reminiscent of Karajan." Yes, very much so.

Music knows no barriers, cultural or comic.

[mrmack2067]

this is beautiful

[BrucknerMotet]

5:25 - I love the way Mahler leads off here with a simple (but hauntingly beautiful) motif on the violin and repeats it four times beginning at five minutes and fifty-two minutes, making sure that each repeat is orchestrated each time with new feeling, leading to what you think is a fifth repeat but which is really the intro (with french horn) to the passage that lasts from six minutes twenty seconds all the way to seven minutes and nineteen seconds when M-W cannot help but shake with approval.

[BrucknerMotet]

1:58 - watch through to the moment at two minutes and twenty seconds when M-W nods his head in vigorous approval of the timing and dynamic control being executed by the string section. He's obviously pleased with the way the strings handled the thrilling build-up to that simple and lovely french horn melody.

[kiasmus]

Myung-Whun Chung is a great artist. And Mahler... Well, Mahler was sent to us by God to make life less miserable.

[kildesamling]

I just heard this symphony in the Stockholm Konserthus, and it was the most intense music experience I have had since my teens. The performance, by Malmö symfoniorkester conducted by Leif Segerstam, was brilliant. It took me several minutes afterwards t be able to speak coherently. I will take every opportunity to hear it again!

[scarletovergods]

lol so many yo-yo mas there :P

[Morfee]

I'm going to see Mark Elder and the Halle play this in may 2010, can only hope it's in the same league as this performance.

[kyjan1026]

sometimes he seems like karajan in his baton of course mae-chung met and worked with karajan while he was in sarrbruken ,german...this is very enthusiastic performance.

romatic korean conductor maestro chung

good posting

[Macdown22]

sarrbruken = saarbrücken.

[nypianist171]

one of the greatest korean conductor.

[steadyjimmy]

3:19 - simply sublime.

[cstamitz]

Superlative Mahler played by a huge and extremely talented orchestra. Without a doubt , one of the most passionate pieces of music ever written.

[ConductorInChief]

He was chosen to succeed Giulini. Unless in your opinion Giulini is a bad conductor? Maestro Chung also won the Arturo Toscanini Conducting Competition. Well unless in your opinion that the judges are bad conductors?

[TheTruth006]

Anyone hear at 1:40 the motif used by Jerry Goldsmith for Star Trek:The Motion Picture.

[bpewien]

In which particular context? Of course there could be some similarities, but that's not uncommon. Especially in the filmmusic sector ;-)

[gxtthebest]

Come on you guys please stop bickering...and just listen and watch this great performance

[kupaval]

The sensibility of MyungWhun Chung and the great technic of Tokyo Orchestra

[kupaval]

culture flows like a river.

korean conducts Mahler and japanese plays.

this is cultute...some western idiots..

[RaoulShade]

Myung-Whun Chung and the Tokyo Orchestra are possibly the best for Mahlers Ninth Symphony, profound and ethereal music. Mahler would be proud of them.

[yttrium55]

Be sure to listen to Horenstein(better on BBC Live than Vox), Bernstein(old CBS), Boulez(DG), and, of course, Klemperer(on EMI).

[imagenkv]

this is amazing..I am so proud of him as a Korean. simply the best

[nepssis]

I heard that Japs adore western classical music. Big plus for Japs :)

[98294295]

Your comment is too rude to Japanese people!!

[nepssis]

Why rude? It was a compliment!

[NeverEnoughGore]

It's OK, Western Europe has its apes as well as its Mahlers. As if you can call classical music 'Western' in this day and age. Sure it originated in Europe, but today it's a global thing - orchestras in every major city, conductors and composers from every country. It's like saying football is an English sport! Ignore his small-minded comment. Guess where 98294295 gets his TV, his car, his games console, his washing machine, his DVD player, etc. from: Japan! God bless Japan.

[goyoubear]

it's just purely ignorant because your statement is like western classical music is the only form of great music.....

[nepssis]

It's your problem if you think I ment that! But, I didn't.

[ohkyjan]

Actually, he studied with Karajan for 1 year when he was young and worked in German. Now he is a principal for Seoul Philharmonic, Korea. One of the best romantic conductor~!

[intelpl]

God, it's one of the most awesome performance I've ever heard (including Solti's recording and Bernstein's). Thanks for posting.

[TedMichaelMorgan]

Indeed, fine interpretation. Thank you for posting.

[Hexachloraphine]

This may have the edge, but if you like this approach you should purchase Claudio Abbado live 2002 Berliner philharm Deutsche Grammophon recording,very simmilar...at least in regards to this movement.

[michaels7]

to complete the message, Maestro Horenstein is fine. Bruno Walter also brings a slow, refelctive feel to this symphony on his American version (sony) with amazing stereo sound, unlike the mono vox recording.

[michaels7]

Yes maesto Chung's movements are similar to Karajan. A great version of this piece exists on a vox cd with the Vienna Symphony and Maestro

[J0wi1ey]

Mahler, for me, actually delights the senses, such expressive music. It's joy to close your eyes and feel this wonderful sound.

[rarecellos]

His hand gestures are kind of Karajan-like.

[TedMichaelMorgan]

They are, indeed. Good observation.

[dicksonflying]

A farewell to Mahler.

[DisneyAbridged]

i love mahler...

[repdal10]

So beautiful and gorgeous! I'm playing this for an audition and this is the best rendition I've heard of it so far. This is as close to heaven as you could get.

[jpowering]

quite beautifull melodic or melodramatic piece

But perhaps sentimental hyperbole or nonsense

If your going to just end it you don't have to sentimentally whine about it

[Hexachloraphine]

This is an incredible interpretation.

speechles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[LucaYune]

thank God Ive found this

[melrose2121]

I'm in tears! This was wonderful!

[MoreThanHeroez]

I love this piece so much because it almost can't decide if it wants to be major or minor. So many modulations. It's fantastic.

[hoopsmaster13]

The best piece ever written...

[gustavyeung]

I like the portamento of the solo viola.

This is the piece of music that one should meditate at.

[TheSanityInspector]

Gorgeous, just gorgeous...I'm glad no one is here with me, watching me blink back tears.

[twiggymunchkin]

<3 <3 <3

[pyrogenia]

What a loverly melody it is!..

[suggello]

hi,I love this symphony!

THANK YOU

[zuckerkrank]

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