Mahler Symphony No.8 2nd Movement Part 6

[Tobias15111985]

Für ein britisches Orchester eine erstaunlich gute Aufführung. Das Unzulängliche wird hier nicht Ereignis!

[NoZain]

His face in the end : "Yeah, I know. I can do this in my sleep."

[hecamasa1]

Hermosaaa

[tjard0]

Top!

[Jazzical28]

Absolutely overwhelming rendition.

[y7u7r7i]

I´ll see and listen to this live next week... so excited!!!

[FernieCanto]

I wish people like that MIFFLISH weren't so self-righteous and pompous just because they like classical music. People should feel content that we're able to listen to these masterpieces on the Internet, instead of going around saying "THERE WRONG! THERE WRONG!", I mean... he can't even tell the difference between "there" and "they're". If you want to show people are wrong, you should try being RIGHT first.

[pacogranados]

After hearing this it seems to me that music hasn´t evolved. On the contrary, it is devolving at a very fast pace.

[aicos1424katsu]

when i heard this on live, i cry



[BJWGirlie]

Yesterday I sang this piece, (and tomorrow I'm going to sing it too) which has so much energy en peace at the same time.

that's is so wonderful to me, every time I hear this I get a special feeling which want to make me smile and cry at the same time. o no, now I say the same (: It's so beautiful, that it makes you confused. Sir Simon rattle is the patron of my Choir, Nationaal kinderkoor Nederland. I want to say is, Great respect for Mahler, and Rattle!

[rayclentchris]

I can honestly say that this is beyond words! Beyond anything I have ever heard.

[alsdouble]

Never ever hear that without some pressure in my eyes and serious laughter. I think it's called joy. It's physical.

[Maie131]

pffffff !! GRANDIOSE ...... SUBLIME ....

[Maie131]

pffffff !! GRANDIOSE ......

[Kewlpipes]

If Heaven doesn't sound like this, I don't want to go.

[Beldmort]

@Kewlpipes most likely heaven would sound better, at least in my opinion, although, sound would at that point be a minor stimulus then if you know what I mean

[bersa888]

@Kewlpipes : This music IS our Heaven. No need for silly fairy tales ;-)

[meyerjv]

@bersa888 funny. those silly fairy tales inspired this very piece of music!

[bersa888]

@meyerjv : They sure did! :-)

[Kalhari]

millfish - young ppl are ignorant to mahler because they get mozart/brahms and run-of-the-mill italian composers shoved down their throats at every available opportunity by hollywood etc.

[minzokim]

holy crap

just starting from like the 5:20 mark when they all stand up, nonstop waves of chills along my body

that was ridiculous

[presspig]

I once saw a tv documentary on British tv about Mahler and it truly staggers me how any one person can go off to a writing hut in the forest armed with nothing but pen and paper and produce works of such magnitude. Just how does one do it ?. Utter and complete genius.

[Drastam]

great performance and recording.

[OliverKahnNr1]

2:40 Are we sure there aren't any Russian Basses in the choir for that last C1 and the B1s that stick out above anything else? xP

[stormbreaker1000]

Because i am in the bach children's choir in vancouver bc. we did this for the olympiad and it was so much fun!!!!! the kids got to meet all of the soloists (meisha brougengrosmen) and the conductor, brandwell tovey, said that we were excellent but we did a week of 6-11pm rehersals for 6 DAYS!!!!! but it's a once in a lifelime opertunnity and i really enjoyed it and i hope that you like it too when you listen to this!!!!

[pppccclll]

And while I agree with you that I too wish I could show the world how beautiful Mahler's music is, they might never understand. So what I can tell you is that if you understand it, than use if for yourself. This summer, I plan to take a massive bike ride on a nature trail located near my house and while I have acheieved pretty far distance a few years ago on it, I did NOT have Gustav's 8th Symphony along for the ride. Now I will!

[pppccclll]

As I listen to the end of this, I physically, or physiologically can NOT control my response of tearing up because it is so astoundingly triumphant. Hearing this makes me want to rethink my whole idea of existence. What my purpose on this planet might be? However, know this. These same feelings that we experience for Mahler and the likes are felt by devout followers of Kayne West and Lady Gaga. There is nothing you can do about it.

[pppccclll]

MIFFLISH. . . I understand your frustration. But know this! You can NOT begin to understand the ignorant because we are all ignorant to something else. However, there is a line that separates superb artistic creation that transcends time and a piece of trash that is made for the 'club scenes.' If Lady Gaga and Kayne West are what American society considers to be the best art that can represent our culture, then we live in a very sad era.

[simichbrau]

Oh, so true. Is serious (my name for Classical music) going to die out with this generation who can only listen to the pap spewed out on the radio? It may have it's part in the culture of the day, but certain music will live forever. I could on as to why but it would cover volumes and bore everyone to death anyway.

[myreau]

It gives hope for humanity...

[Sylderon]

"Here the impossible is achieved.

The Eternal Feminine leads us onward."

*tries not to cry*

*fails*

[muzomanoz]

Birtains orchestras have a bright future!

[VelvetCat1]

@muzomanoz

Don't they? I'm so amazed this is a youth orchestra! To play correctly this piece is necessary a mature and experienced ansamble of excellent musicians. Of course, this kids show a little flaw here and there and definitely the conduction of Sir Simon Rattle helps but this is really a brilliant youth orchestra! :)

[2Dawgz]

In response to the question about the organist. The venue is Royal Albert Hall which boasts the second largest organ in the UK (the largest is at Liverpool Cathedral). The organist is seated at a movable console facing the conductor, not the fixed console attached to the organ, proper, which is rarely used because the organist has to use mirrors to see the conductor.

[2Dawgz]

I should add that the fixed console IS used for organ recitals because the audience can see the organist playing.

[simichbrau]

That was in response to "gilraen789's" comment about almost believing. I took a couple of very basic music courses at MSU which I really wanted to and one day the professor made each group sing a chord from bass to soprano a Capella. What a glorious sound to hear all those voices coming together to make something so simple yet so powerful. Would that we could all get together like that in life instead of our petty wars and castes. It would be Heaven on earth.

[simichbrau]

If anyone knows the whole story of Faust as written by Goethe, yes he sells his soul to Mephistopheles for the ultimate moment of happiness in life, but when he takes pity on Gretchen and tries to rescue her, he realizes that in trying to do good for humankind and not for himself after all, then the Devil loses his bet and Faust gains salvation and ascends into Heaven. Mahler with genius married the Veni Creator Spritus of Pentecost and the climax of Goethe's Faust to create absolute beauty.

[jAcSToNeDjaK]

What is playing the organ?! at 6:24 no one is at the console?!

[gilraen789]

Sublime. I'm an atheist but this music almost makes me believe. But maybe that is entirely appropriate when listening to music that describes the acceptance into heaven of a man who sold his soul to the Devil in return for the experience of all the joys of earth and found his way to the court of Mary in spite of that.

[Nestrovsky]

"Fantastic!"

Mário

Santos, SP (Brazil)

[pastrugnone]

I sung it, last summer, and I swear: When the music ended it remained in my head for Hours! Mahler is incredible!

[Theis59]

This is crazy :)

The piece of a thousand. GREAT! :D

[Swedetres]

Brillant,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[pantatheos]

Interesting interpretation, GusMahler8. I wonder how you would break down the finale of the Second Symphony...would definitely be interested and enjoy your ideas on that :)

[GusMahler8]

The ending of the Second is overwhelming as well. To me, the ending of that symphony is a person's soul Resurrecting-obviously. I think when the chorus ends, the soul is dies, and the depths of death is seen when it quiets down, and then it is born anew when the orchestra shatters the quiet.

[GusMahler8]

At 6:53, the Human Soul begins to ascend to Heaven, and then at 7:10 it is released from all anxiety, fear, pain, suffering, and saddness-and it has returned home to God

[xaviqaz]

the guy behind at 6:17 is really enjoying

[goyoubear]

hahaha he is!!!

[goodridgewinners]

haha i love sir simon rattle lol. hes so funny. but an AMAZING conductor.

And mahler...what a crazy idiot! Thats a compliment haha...hes just sooooo amazing at orchestration!!!

love them both

[maxxomix]

Gustav Mahler is God! For this Symphonie he choosed the text from Goethe! All that together is so amazing!!!

[pantatheos]

The brass crescendo on the second to last note - is that written in the score?

[GusMahler8]

"Here the indescribable is accomplished; the Eternal Feminine Leads us Heavenward". THis is the closet piece of music to heaven ever written

[Blue0ctane]

I listen to this as often as possible at full volume.

The chord at 7:10 lacks a description. No person could possibly come up with an explanation for the sheer force of that moment.

Of course, every single thing about this song is transcendently magnificent.

I remember once wondering to myself about the possibility of a composer making a person cry through the sheer beauty of his music. It was about this time last year that I discovered Gustav Mahler.

[pmhaber]

I have exactly the same feelings about this masterpiece. I am flying to New York in June to listen to NY Philharmonics perfrorming it.

[goyoubear]

ahh so lucky

or i might as well buy the ticket now

[tommyk77]

2:42 and 3:10 make me shiver with the sheer beauty of the sound.

Amazing

[WAYSMEANS]

Totally awesome.  Nothing in pop music can possibly compare with the depth and grandeur of this. Or Mahler's 2nd. Or his 9th. Or the Adagietto of his 5th . . .

[stevtomato]

Or his 3rd Symphony...

[ppgppgppgppg]

Or the 1st

Or the 10th

Or Das Lied von der Erde

Or Bruckner

Or Beethoven

Or Berlioz

Or every classical composer lived in the past

[DerPampa]

@WAYSMEANS Jajaja, or you could simply say "or any of his works!"

[undango]

I'm English but let's not forget it's a Great British orchestra so lets give credit to the Welsh,Scottish and Irish members too.

[jiggerinct]

This is quite an accomplishment for such young musicians under the direction of Simon Rattle. Does anyone know who they are?

[ppgppgppgppg]

I think they are NYOGB. Weren't they amazing? Nowadays those youth orchestra in Europe are doing better than the older ones....

[Richard500000]

WOW!!- PHANTASTIC!! - The "Undescriptable"!!

Music that comes all over the universe!

[ppgppgppgppg]

All Men on Earth: Bow to Master Mahler, the Man who Raised the World of Art to the Highest Extent. Lord also Bless Master Rattle, with the Brilliant Artistic Interpretation of the Masterwork.

[ffurgy]

When the chorus stands, at 5:20, you know that the whole universe is in sync, and world lines everywhere are connected...and Mahler is going to show us the possibilites that are out there...

[kurbiscremesuppe]

@ffurgy 5:20 I totally agree. For me it sounds like the transition in the universe from the age of pisces to the age of aquarius!

[Superbdragon]

@ffurgy  wow so true

[nielshak]

@ffurgy and at 5:37, you know there's no other thing than music, music is the world. Music is emotion. Music is eternal.

[StirlingRadliff12]

@nielshak The Eternal-Feminine!

[claronebasse]

Last Christmas, I received Tennstedt's version of the Eigth with the London Philharmonic on the EMI Classics label. I was a little tentative because EMI sometimes has a bad sound. Not with this one. I sat down and listened to the entire symphony. By the time it was over, I was completely breathless. This music, no matter how many times I listen to it, ALWAYS moves me deeply. Mahler was truly a gift from God.

[tame093]

extraordinario

[NeoMalikov]

my goodness. That is BIG. Big enough to rumble through abyss of space and time. That is a moment when Mahler becomes one with universality of existance as we know it, reaching out to infinity. He's free.

[GeoGis13]

So many people said that it was like "music from the stars". I agree - it has everything in it about life - everything. I am so, so proud of the young people of England shown here. They are fantastic and brilliant. This performance would make many "professional" orchestras of the western world drool and gawk in envy and awe.

If the young people of England show such strength and emotional wisdom at their core, then they are all brilliant and awesome role models for all of England's youth.

[NaylaZim]

Realmente com essa obra MAGNIFICA Mahler atingiu o nivel de consciencia cósmica que so ocorre com uns poucos eleitos porque é o universo inteiro que explode em musica.Transcendente,parece traduzir em sons o destino de toda alma humana rumo à eternidade,ao infinito.

[Aaron741963]

Oh my gosh that Bass singer at 2:40 is such a beast. I mean you've got this lovely chorus and then this increadibly low bass sticking out with pure hair on the note. Absolutely lovely.

[KaiseRex42]

Magnificent Mahler! :))

[MIFFLISH]

I want to show the world how beautiful Mahler is. But the people my age these days are just to stubborn, because they think all classical music is boring. But there wrong, there just so wrong. I will show them some day.

[hoogestefan]

*Takes hat off and bows*

Good there know there are still people who do know the way.

[ppgppgppgppg]

I am at your service. ANYTIME. People will grow up. One day they will. One day high teachers will teach the kids to bow in honor of Beethoven and Mahler before every meal.

[dylanbasurto12345]

@MIFFLISH not all of us....

[pionata]

@MIFFLISH

Nobody yet even came close to Mahler. He is the true master of the past legacy, made a body of works which is infinitely meaningful and therefore his music will stand the test of time most surely.

Do not worry about your friends who have been indoctrinated in popular junk culture. This music was written for the ones who still can hear.

[chale529]

@MIFFLISH

Thank you!! I thought I was alone in this battle!!!

[chale529]

@MIFFLISH

Thank you!! I thought I was alone in this battle!!! This stuff is the real deal!

[gijsl]

You feel so big when you listen to this music, it just lifts you up in the sky.

[MIFFLISH]

Nobody gives me goosebumps like Mahler.

[undango]

the last 6 mins is the most beautiful ,powerful music ever written. personally, i cry ever time i hear it.

[Sutiea]

Mahler's 8th -- absolutely epic.

[Waarhl666]

wow 5mins and up is so beautiful..

[lepimachor]

Imagine something like this in Niš! Impossible!

[vladisgreatmusician]

Bravo!

All I can say is BRAVO!!!

[tyrelroo]

I performed this back in May. I was shaking after the last chord, and after putting my bassoon away I went back to my dorm and cried; I just wanted to be alone for a while.

[mahlerkid]

As a bassoonist who played in this symphony would you say that you had any solo parts, Like for example during the finale did you play "back round" music or something else?

[tyrelroo]

One or two very brief solos, but for the most part hardly anybody in the orchestra ever has a solo. There are a lot of really thick unisons, like the entire woodwind section playing one note.

[mahlerkid]

And another thing, where did you perform at?

[tyrelroo]

Springfield, Missouri. It wasn't of the calibre of the performance in this video, but it was easily one of the best concerts I'd ever played, if not the best, and certainly the most memorable. Right after the final chord, some man in the audience shouted, "Woah baby!" =)

[mahlerkid]

Hah! thanks for replying.

[hermanzoon]

Wow.. that is great. Such music has the power to alter ones concept of life.

[mahlerkid]

It has indeed for me in a way....powerful comment!

[GusMahler8]

Is this ever on TV?

[Shota871]

You must be the most blind... sorry... deaf music lover to ever embrace this planet. Gustav Mahler is arguably one of the greatest if not THE greatest composer in history of Western Classical Music. His music is so full of optimism and hope (because despair leads to spiritual destruction), and do "embrace everything"; life, the divine order (whether one believes it or not), the universe.

[JSWright101]

Was this in response to my comment? I merely marked on Rattle's odd physical features then to the orchestral sound. It is a great recording. My low points were because I never took as much to his 8th (actually it must have been late because I wouldn't normally have given such a low score I'm just not drawn to it so much as say his 2nd, his 5th, his 6th, or his 9th). Don't judge, I'm an avid listener and I consider Mahler one of my greatest influences.

[Shota871]

Answering your question, yes. Except you might have accidentally responded on the wrong reply I made. Obviously, you love Mahler, unlike LanceBoyle112.

[JSWright101]

Hmmm...the youtube gods told me otherwise....

[Shota871]

Just to confirm things, the person I was referring to be "deaf" is not you at all.

[ThePiano1991]

your a fuckkin idiot

[JSWright101]

This is one of the scariest looking conductors I've seen...like a who...an animated, robotic, who. Otherwise, the recording is quite grand...very Mahlerian - err big.

[Shota871]

As for the first sentence, I think otherwise. Sir Rattle conducts Mahler with utmost passion. For a piece as hyper-emotional as this, any conductor might as well be. He is probably the most intense Mahler conductor since Bernstein. Mahler himself was a very dynamic and "hardcore" conductor.

[pianoboyo]

the alles vergangliche is so magical..mahler is such a master of colour and orchestration..this work has everything!

[OdetoJoy9]

I get chills down my spine at 6:09 when the chorus and soloists sing the last chords!

[insomniacdude]

The greatest thing ever written by anybody, past present or future. That's a fact.

[hermanzoon]

...an opinion, not a fact.  However, it is tremendous!

[abschied222]

ditto

[cattlesplodge]

I was in this performance, in the youth chorus. The best performance of my life. I also did the ones in Symphony Hall with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. We also performed it in the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester.

[AtterseeSommer]

so cool!

[mahlerkid]

This symphony makes you wonder why Mahler isn't more famous than Beethoven or Mozart

[F3YR3]

Because no one has made a movie about him yet. >.<

[sentientautomaton]

I've been unsuccessful in obtaining it, however there is a film from 1974 entitled, "Mahler."

[AtterseeSommer]

By Ken Russel. It shouldn't be hard to find. I've rented it many times. (You may be dissapointed).

[mahlerkid]

It sounds like the last words of this symphony are the same ones it begins with "Veni Creator Spiritus".

[mahlerkid]

In 6:17-6:22 right below rattle's right arm you can see a man in a white shirt and beard laughing for whatever reason.

[youspoon1978]

I think he's just happy to be alive. Mahler has this effect on people!

[OdetoJoy9]

I noticed that!!

[AtterseeSommer]

He's not laughing. I think youspoon is correct.

[OdetoJoy9]

The ending is absolutely overwhelming

[Shota871]

And one should be... "Try to imagine the whole universe beginning to ring and resound. These are no longer human voices, but planets and suns revolving." - Gustav Mahler.

[Mumum2]

This is the first Mahler song I ever listened to, and of course I like it.

[OdetoJoy9]

That's the same with me, and now I am hooked on him

[tonyinvan]

Like every Mahler symphony I think I got the answer to my question at the end. (This time in tommuk77's comment) And it was.... what kind of orchestra was this with all young people and a fair sprinkling of women? The old folks were all in the chorus. The National Youth Orchestra did a superb job for such a demanding piece. I loved the performance.

[mahlerkid]

I wonder what the drums at 6:36 are supposed to represent?

[OdetoJoy9]

The Power of rising to heaven, which Faust, at the end of this composition, does do.

[fadinoraan]

6:08-6:25, just hear the power of the music...oh my God!, what a magnificent composition of Mahler...he's a real music God!!!

[mahlerkid]

I never get tired of listening to this

[blahtkhip]

This is amazing.

[yerious]

u can also enjoy Berstein's concert fully

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[OdetoJoy9]

I like Sir Simon Rattle's recording of this Symphony with the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. The part from 6:53 until the ending, he does much slower and it is more powerful slower. In Solti's recording, he does that part WAY TO FAST, and it feels SO rushed. To me, that part is when FAUST is rising to heaven-which will be a glorious and extraordinary event.

[MartynUK]

Performances of the 8th are so rare (and this one is superb) I shall NEVER understand the BBC for not releasing this on DVD

[mrichmond636]

it is amazing, i think it is an amazing spectale, and would love to hear this symphony live on such a big scale, and I think that the NYO were great hear

[pianoboyo]

This is symphony no 8 (symphony of a thousand) virtually everything is doubled!

[crwv]

can anyone tell me whats doubled in the brass section?

[OdetoJoy9]

I believed it is the trumpets.

[OdetoJoy9]

I Believe it is the trumpets

[OdetoJoy9]

6:08-6:23; the Coda is absolutely fascinating; one of the greatest things I've ever heard.

[OdetoJoy9]

So Beautiful. Music is one of God's greatest gift.

[phidelt2]

Is this video a dvd that can be purchased or whats the deal - - i think its amazing! Please someone let me know

[mattj2887]

This was a TV recording of the BBC proms in 2002. They are shown on TV every year all over the world, and heard all over British radio aswell. I don't think they release DVDs of each years performances, because they go on for weeks, and it would take months to make the DVDs and they would be like 20 disc box sets, and by the time it was all done, it's time to do the next performance, becuase they are once a year. :D Look out on BBC television every september. :D

[ArabiJung]

Obvio, tenemos con que aqui en Venezuela y para regalar, somos la mejor orquesta sinfonica infantil y juvenil del mundo, reconocido por la UNESCO, Simon Rattle y todo el mundo. Seria un placer escuchar esta sinfonia con el maestro Rattle aqui en venezuela, ya como lo hizo en el 2004 con la 2da Sinfonia de Mahler "Resurreción" que para mi es la mejor interpretacion q he escuchado. saludos!!!

[Marcopyus]

tienem um link para orquestras venezuleanas de buena calidad por el utube?

[trevim]

Galáctico !!!!

[Shota871]

Mahler ist Gott!!!

[ctorrev]

La infantil de Venezuela en cambio, le dan vida y gesto a cada una de las notas interpretadas. Y la persona que los oiga y no se le salga una sola lagrima, quiere decir que no tiene sangre en las venas, ¡Bravo! por los músicos Venezolanos.

[ctorrev]

De verdad tienen toda la razón, como la infantil de Venezuela no hay, Estos muchachos tocan muy bien pero son muy Rígidos en su interpretación; lo que hace la diferencia...

[tommyk77]

absolutely brilliant stuff. thnx for the upload. it may be the national youth orchestra but the choir isnt so youthful! lol

[srsoft]

En Verdad los coros venezolanos y la Orquesta nacional Juvenil de Venezuela(ojo producto de la 4ta republica) orgullo nacional y del mundo no tenemos nada que envidiarles a esta magnifica interpretacion,,, bravo por los artistas de esta presentacion

[srsoft]

Yo tuve la dicha de cantar esa obra en Venezuela hace casi 10 años y solo con oirla me traslado a esos tiempos y se me pone la carne de gallina

[lvega69]

Que envidia carajo