Karajan - Mahler symphony no.5 (IV) - Adagietto. Sehr Langsam (1 of 2)

[5701birchroad]

Breathtakingly beautiful.

[hethat]

hethpet: Sorry we can´t hear this then ;)

[ah2m67yt]

يا إلهي, My God

[hethat]

As i wrote when i first found this treasure on YouTube: This is for my funeral!

[hethpet]

@hethat mine too xx



[randomprimate]

anybody listening hear this last night at the cleveland orchestra?

[MJusticeLibre]

10 dislike? WTF?

[kochel331]

Alma, who cheated on him.

[rkari120]

Me Gustav.

[lacherrybomb]

<3

[KrfNYC2]

Maxwell sent me here.

[zizmusic]

How the hell can anyone dislike this?! REALLY!

[Gheorgyi]

Someone who could direct and interpretate this piece in such a way really was a musician to his core. This performance, and that of Albinoni's "adagio", induce that wonderful feeling, a "joyful melancholy" (it may sound as an absurd, but it isn't). Who can remember his having enrolled the NSDAP and blame him for it??!!! Even talented musicians have to make a living during and under a totalitarian régime. It can be forgotten, he can easily be forgiven for that. Please don't misunderstand me.

[TatianaBazan]

Amazing

[aquamoon22]

so gorgeous- speaks directly to the heart!!!

[TheZinatne]

It is caught from RACHMANINOV!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[S500Mercedesa]

this is the most beautiful muzique I have ever heard about love...it expresses all:) complete love.

[S500Mercedesa]

superb...so sensitive...when words do not count...muzique sais it all...

[iwnabaproducer]

First music by Mahler I ever heard when I was a teenager attending the ballet. It sparked a life-long love of this magnificent composer.

[57wijnand]

Perfect performance!



[Siizloor]

Amazing

[henripche]

I generally consider Mahler a pretty overrated composer (well, in my home country of the Netherlands they speak of him as if he were a god) with a rather puny oeuvre when all is said and done. However, this piece is of transcendental beauty.

[nndlchModi]

@henripche Transcendent beauty, not transcendental. Transcendental beauty: no sense here.

[henripche]

@nndlchModi Well, dictionarydotcom disagrees, but I guess you're right that, stylistically, transcendent is the better choice. Thanks for pointing it out :P

[nndlchModi]

@henripche I didn t mean to make any stylistically comment and it is irrelevant what the cited dictionary says. The fact is that there is a huge difference between the 2 words."Transcendent", in the context used by you, would mean "out of this world" or something like that, which is correct. On the other hand, "transcendental" refers nowadays -a sense inherited from Kant which changed an earlier sense used in the Middle Ages - to the conditions of possibility of knowledge in general.

[nndlchModi]

@nndlchModi As you can see, it does not make any sense. At best you can say maybe that it has to do with the conditions of possibility of music or of artistic beauty. That it would be nonetheless also incorrect, because the possibility of music in general cannot be brought about by a certain item of the domain music, in this particular case Mahler s adagietto. Stay true!

[henripche]

@nndlchModi So instead of using a dictionary to check whether I have the right word, I should brush up on my philosophy? Interesting...

[nndlchModi]

@henripche well, dictionaries are only compilations of senses already in use. They don t have therefore the last word.

[EiGH7BA11]

@nndlchModi Every word in every book ever is plagarized. The dictionary is copyrighted!

[KrfNYC2]

@EiGH7BA11 What about Dr. Seuss?

[henripche]

@nndlchModi well yes, but it depends on your background which meaning of a word springs to mind when you hear it. you're into philosophy, so you thought about Kant. if you were into math, maybe you would have thought about tangents and sines. to be honest, i didn't really give too much thought into which group of people i was targeting. just those with internet access to look up whatever might not be clear, that's all...

[luishipolito]

Esta é mais bela e mais conhecida composição de Gustav Mahler e tema do filme Morte em Veneza de Luchino Visconti, baseado na obra de Thomas Mann!!!

[PuertoPoland]

death in venice... biutiful song for a biutiful film

[dhavebur]

Goosebumps. Piel de gallina. Thanks Mahler.

[schneider876]

Hello my name is rafael and i live in Brasil !

The CHANNEL Berlin Philarmonic notices sent ywo in my account letting my channel in bad condition for i have posted a symphony 7 and 9 COMPLETE with Karajan conduction ,

if they do not have this material not cet others because i´m puttig you send this to say they blocked me and that's how they return the love from fans

it did not money but by the love of music , THEY DID THIS WITH SEVERAL PEOPLE

Thank you for your attention !

[CarryFlag8]

Morricone must have been his student :)

so beautiful

[309914838]

Esta é a musica que vai ser tocado quando for cremado.

[bocaladybrkr]

I swear the most beautiful piece of music ever written...SO LOVE<3<3***

[eugecello]

bellísima

[TheFredenucci]

KARAJAN MAESTRO MERAVIGLIOSO AMICIZIA RAYMOND

[grayboy432004]

Cry Iwas an emotional wreck.

[hethat]

My English is far too bad to describe what i feel when i hear this.... Gustav Mahler/ Herbert von Karajan and Berliner Philarmonics... oh no... can´t explain my admiration.

[daimen6]

@hethat try this: mindblowing

[paulostroff99]

Lovely music.TY The LeonardoSaez for posting.

[voce29]

Zum sterben schoen!!

[johnpribula]

If this piece doesn't move you, you are not human.

[ddrmetal]

Thumbs up if this made you cry !

[morroida9966]

@ddrmetal this totaly makes me cry every time i listen, this piece is genius, beautifull

[dewangen]

ist wahrscheinlich eines der einzigen gefuehltraechtigen ausschnitte aus der mahler-Synphony von Karajan

[TIK5C]

Cette oeuvre est une partie de l'illustration musicale des sons et lumières de la magnifique cathédrale d'Amiens......avec Ravel , Debussy , Vivaldi , Allegri , Perrotin.....il aurait été indécent de mettre les projecteurs et le bazar de JM Jarre.....

[mikis365]

magic music!

[hufemeve]

Mahler takes the listeners to this endless road of agony & ecstasy at the same time where the sounds transport the imagination to a place where cannot be located- just feelings barely can make sense of what the author desires to express- its up to the listener to decode his testament of love .....

[SalMessina1]

Quando ascolti Mahler seguilo e lasciati trasportare oltre gli spazi dell'infinito!

Stupenda composizione!

Sublime esecuzione!

Grazie :)

[PeteTheSnowDog1]

If a doctor told me that I had 15 minutes left to live, I would immediately put this on as the last thing that I would ever hear. This practically reduces me to tears !!

[AVANTMUSIC133]

@PeteTheSnowDog1

I'd play the david foster record i have with lubbock if i only had 15 minutes and/or some mahavishnu as well. but if i wanted to feel poignancy and get teary eyes then yes, i'd play this. That's some scenerio. i wonder what others would play if they only had 15 minutes to live.

[laurelhys]

@AVANTMUSIC133 this and Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" and the finale from Janacek's "Sinfionetta" with the huge extended brass section

[muttley641]

Pure Passion!

[changjiang001]

This movement is Mahler's love letter to his beloved wife Alma.

[LordMgls]

@changjiang001 fu*king wife! he died of her!

[dtolbiac]

@LordMgls

No, he died of a heart disease !

[LordMgls]

@dtolbiac do you think in paradise people have heart attacks?

[mahler151]

@dtolbiac

Actually, he died of Streptococcus.

[dtolbiac]

@mahler151

Everybody knows that Gustav Mahler died of the secondary effects of the fatal heart disease diagnosed in 1907.

That's all for me : it has not any interest.

[TheXptachh]

THE OPENING for the genius film "Death in Venice" shall always be an unsurpassed alloy of both the Music and the Scene.

I thank the OP.

[HonestMan395]

This music was used as the Background for a film called "Death in Venice".

I've never seen a film where the music so meshed with the mood of the film.

It's well worth a look.

[FilmComposeRaHoppe]

I'm playing this on the piano right now but on piano you can't manage to do it that perfectly, I think.

[Arkenu2003]

It is shocking, how deep music can be...

[tustybadger]

Karajan is THE bossman.

[skat3rkid15]

this is an amazing song but really whats with the picture at 7:09.

[siempremarisol]

BEAUTIFUL

[maryse170]

Quand je suis triste cette musique je la met continuellement ,tristesse et pureté

beauté j'en frémit c'est beau elle me bouleverse

Quelle joie d'écouter ce sublime morceau, de l'amour dans ce monde si perverse

Bravo

[hellangelassia]

I had to stop and listen. Where was this melancholic melody all my life? I am in love with it...

[MrVreco]

adorable

[ginanhara]

No hay palabras para describir lo sublime de esta música. Invade todo mi ser; traspasa mi corazón y conmueve mi espíritu.

[pmdopamine]

I am always so taken by this piece with Karajan. The cello part really keeps the music rolling and lively. Thank you for posting it.

[Margaridonho]

Aprendi a amar esta música quando, ainda jovem, vi "A Morte em Veneza" de Luchino Visconti, baseado em obra homônima de Thomas Mann. E não me canso de ouvi-la, já chegando perto dos 60... É, para mim, a música de uma vida.

[Margaridonho]

Aprendi a amar esta música quando, ainda jovem, vi "A Morte em Veneza" de Luchino Visconti, baseado em obra homônima de Thomas Mann. E não me canso de ouvi-la, já chegando perto dos 60...

[flylooper]

You really have to hand it to Von Karajan and the BP. They were a hell of a combination. I've listened to this movement by a dozen different orchestras and this is about as good as it gets.

What's so interesting to me is all the posters here just love this piece, yet Mahler was roundly panned by his critics for years that this was trite, overly syrupy, and devoid of creative expression (!!!). A hundred years later our ears simply accept this piece for what it is: genius.

[prettyxthings]

why the pics of Alma? She was trash.

[fozziebear2009]

@prettyxthings lol

[hodgeeees]

Are you serious?! The place you chose to "cut" this video in two is at the best part! At the end of the long, drawn out phrase, Mahler builds this tension and the video cuts right before the release. He does this with, what I believe to be, the best musical representation of a "sigh." The violins slide down to resolve the cadence and it does sound like a sigh. lol. The music says what we're all thinking. "How relaxing."

[Kornasteniker]

Best Interpretation ever of this peace :)

[treurwilg1963]

mijn favoriet nummer negen voor Klara's top honderd.

morgen of overmorgen te beluisteren op radio Klara

[LohengrinT]

comes close to the Mitropoulos version but does not even hold a candle to it

[electrostatic1]

Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák, and Gustav Mahler.

The Golden Age of Bohemian Music, and so many people now don't even know their names...

[ChrisBColombes]

Une version & il y en a beaucoup qui est un sommet. cette oeuvre démontre que la réconciliation est possible dans cette humanité

[lovejazz42]

I do not think the human race deserves such beauty.

That's all I got to say.

[ThatRachGirl]

@mlcnotes second part is at /watch?v=C4UsRC7szco

[RedSoxWSAgain]

@mlcnotes (1 of 2) numnuts

[oceanse11]

@mlcnotes Song?!?!?!

[BiosTheo]

This is, honestly, the best movement in this symphony. And one of his best movements of ALL his symphonies, without doubt. It soars into the heavens reaching up to grasp all the wanton emotion and brings it crashing back down upon the listener. Such beauty.

[johnmic64]

Masterpiece

[madeleine031]

wat een emotie!

madeleineO31

[wayo002]

One of the greatest interpretations is Loren Maazel's 1983 recording. But this one is just as beautiful. Does anyone know if he intended this for Alma, his wife? Just wondering.

[mahler151]

@wayo002 The legend goes that Mahler sent her the draft of this movement as a marriage proposal.

However, Alma was known to alter stories about her husband to turn them in her favor and make them more romantic.

[squirrelboiii]

i fell in love...

[improvvisamente1]

oh boy....cut in the point where the miracle occurs...that's a shame...however this is one of the best versions, definitely.

[geofftyoung]

1 person has absolutely no sense of aesthetics.

[Gargantupimp]

@geofftyoung i thumbs this down just because of your moronic comment

[randomuserguy]

I want this at my funeral.

[INTERPK]

Kaworu gets the best music...

[ydraki]

It's a given that with this symphony Mahler's creativity reaches new highs, but Karajan's conducting is so remarkably non-invasive, attending to every single nerve of this extraordinary masterpiece.

[12theory]

this is so beautiful... forreal..

[SpittinGlitter]

No one delivered the complete Truth of a piece quite like Karajan. Occasionally, Sir Adrian Boult, but always, Karajan. Some conductors love the score. Karajan loved building a world of sound and telling a story. It made all the difference.

[MrsGuitback2]

Certainly a beautiful piece, but his is quite possibly the finest interpretation of this piece that I've heard.

[Lalumia4]

This is definitely better than the Bernstein interpretation!

[cciyanet]

Es verdad, la magia que puede tener la buena musica, gracias por enviarme cielito, ahora puedo sentir la profundidad de tu alma, asi como yo tambien puedo descubrir lo profundo que es la vida, gracias por la musicaaa

[crisolare]

descubrí esta música a los 9 años,viendo la película "muerte en venecia" desde entonces forma parte de mí,otras melodías maravillosas me emocionan,pero cuando escucho esto es como cuando me oigo respirar,llorar o reír....

[grizzlyganymede]

The Adagietto was used as the theme in Death In Venice, starring Dirk Bogarde - in the 1970s I think. Hauntingly beautiful and my first introduction to the piece. Loved it then and still do

[grizzlyganymede]

Used as the theme from Death In Venice starring Dirk Bogarde - in the 1970s I think. Hauntingly beautiful and my first introduction to the piece.  Loved it then and still do

[Amazonkaify]

beautiful music! G'adore !

[wackedout787]

Anyone else's heart feel very heavy and very light at the same time? Inexpressible beauty.

[adolfoa1961]

@wackedout787 I think Mahler perfectly describes what a soul feels, anyone of us, when we are in love.

Love is something have much to do with a big pain and sorrow also with mixed dreaming and idealization (for more that silly and hipocrites phycologists want to boycott to trash this).

If there is no fear of losing , this is not love, if there is not pain either

[nicopuwd]

If you like progressive rock you can listen to a reinterpretation of this adagietto in the song : Aquarium from PIN-UP WENT DOWN.

[keiji4956]

for yukino

Thank you very much for uploading.Karajan is the emperer ・・・・I realy feel.

[yangsta72]

mahler 5 is already one the most wellwritten symphonies ever, but this movement is pure genious, and only someone as brilliant as mahler could compose this masterpiece

[Empotrado]

Las cosas que consigue Mahler...! ¡como es capaz de emocionar a tantas personas de tan diferente condición!

[Valoe7]

This is really just beautiful.

[JulianQuintero100]

Este movimiento es un regalo de Dios para la humanidad, Dios uso a Mahler para expresar su amor

[Berdjum]

Pour ceux qui ont entendu plusieurs interpréyations de cet adagietto .. désolé, mais Karajan est d'un pathos et d'une recherche d'effet .. avec ses grands dégoulis orchestraux qui m'empechent de jouir pleinement de l'écoute de ce chef d'oeuvre musical ... quel drageur que ce Karajan ! quel baratineur musical ! mais n'est ce pas ce que le public recherche à plus de 90 % ?

[pixiecat08]

In my opinion, this is the most beautiful piece of music ever written.

[wambui37]

@pixiecat08 -it is a very nice music, but I find the third sentence from his symphony Nr.4 still much nicer

[clucaspik]

@wambui37 Very nice music - and the moon launch was a nice puttering around town.

[wambui37]

@clucaspik inteligent Comment

[MrAlgykcho]

@pixiecat08 better says; one of the most beautiful piece of music.. such as 2 movement of Mozart 23 piano concerto, 2 movement of Bruckner sym. N0.7 &etc..

[waterpink]

je ne sais pas d'ou ca vient mais c'est  assez beau

[abchangk]

OH HEAVENS, this movement is always the highlight for me in this piece. MAHLER was a genius making these melodies, and harmonies. and i love that the 1st violins aren't always the ones that keeps the melody throughout the peice. lovely cello soli. beautiful viola entrances. just so BEAUTIFUL

[LordMgls]

@abchangk You WRITE just like KANT

[masatogalaxy]

カラヤンの中でも超好きな曲の一つです。

本当に透き通るような感覚が何とも言えません。

[keiji4956]

@masatogalaxy そうですね。この名曲をカラヤンならどうだろうかと、、、、まさ­に帝王。

[billyguns2]

This is one of the most beautiful and profound pieces of music ever written. It's interesting to see how many idely different tempi are adopted by many great conductors for it; Walter and Mengelberg, who were closest to Mahler, take it faster than anyone, whereas Kubelik, Rattle, and Bernstein stretch it into infinity.

[innerdeth]

No puedo creer, tan bella obra y pocos comentarios...!

[CristinaCeaicovski]

@innerdeth Si, pocos comentarios... :-) Es tan dificil de comentar sobre la perfeccion!! Muchos amantes de la musica prefieren escuchar esta obra maestra sin palabras, sin hacer comentarios... Esta pieza abre el corazon y levanta el espiritu!!!

[zbietka85]

ten utwór to prawdziwa tęsknota...

[lau399]

No hay palabras para expresar la inmensidad de la belleza de esta música. El tecnisimo se olvida y la teoría musical y solo queda lo que se siente cuando te llega al alma. Es realmente milagroso escuchar esto y sentir de la forma que se siente.

[barrocke]

@lau399 eso es el arte! felicidades por tener un oido sensible a él, no todos lo poseen...

[siempremarisol]

@lau399 ESTO es paz para el espiritu a veces necesitamos esto

[PacRimJim]

@lau399 Hay lugares en el corazón que sólo la música puede llegar.