The Symphony No. 1 in D major by Gustav Mahler was composed between 1884 and 1888. The work is sometimes known as the "Titan", due to Mahler originally conceiving it as a tone poem based loosely on Jean Paul's novel Titan. It was composed while Mahler was second conductor at the Leipzig Opera, Germany. The symphony was premiered at the Hungarian Royal Opera House in autumn 1889. When you get to the Grand Finale,you feel closer to God through this genius
That comment is complete drivil. Just because Mahler composed differently than Mozart or Bach doesn't make him any less of a composer, and Bernstein is one of the best conductors to have ever lived (and one of the most famous).
You should watch your tongue before you criticize. Everyone likes a certain thing, don't be so quick to judge.
@AndyMan4000 Mahler is better than Mozart and Bach. Nothing can reduce me to tears faster than his Fifth or Second. No piece of Mozart's or Bach's can do that. NONE.
@Jureyder The quality of a music pieces lies purely in it's ability to instill emotion in the listener. There are pieces that simply don't do that to me, and therefore they do not have any quality in my eyes.
But music is like poetry, it can be interpreted in different ways, and it's level of quality is purely subjective and inherent to each individual listener.
For me, Mozart and Bach aren't as good as Mahler. It may be different in your case, and I am in no position to guess.
@Dan474834 That's absurd. The quality of music isn't purely subjective. In that case, a moron banging on the ground with a stick to a beat could be judged, based on your standard, as a good musician by someone, better than Mahler.
The quality of music depends upon the composer's ability to create structure among other things. To turn music into the subjective turns anyone into a proper critic. "It's good for me" allows anyone to get out of explaining reasons.
@Shinertheantizionist Mahler was only Jewish by heritage, not necessarily by practice. He even converted to Christianity in order to secure his position as conductor of the Wiener Staatsoper, although he told a friend at the time that "I have simply changed my coat." Your name and your comments indicate that you are an ignorant buffoon, and your lack of appreciation for this music also indicates you are probably hard of hearing.
The San Francisco Symphony debuts its acclaimed Keeping Score series about Gustav Mahler this Spring. Watch the trailer on the Symphony's Youtube Page: Sfsymphony
You can acutally see the 8 suns with giant vibrant rainbow rings setting beneath the neon K2-like terrain and methane atmosphere; behind those towering glass skyscrapers like mammoth icicles on an alien planet~! Mahler is the Master!
Grazie a questo direttore e alla sua orchestra ci è concesso di accedere a questo splendido discorso musicale, fatto con grande passione e competenza.
One of the first compositions I heard in Dvorak's concert hall in Rudolfinum (Prague, Czech Republic)...Oh..I am a bit nostalgic on Christmas Eve :) Merry Christmas !
@Sylderon silly americans... rotarys are WAY better than piston trumpets (I play a rotary myself) the problem here is that the trumpets are in C and this why not completely in tune (or its just the recording, today there are C trumpets that are completely in tune, I prefer B-flat) but hey if you like piston sound more- i accept your opinion but don't say that about rotarys. and by the way..vienna horns have rotary valves.
can some1 tell me, which symphonies are those, that a "really important"? up to now, i justed listened to atonin dvorak, but its not enough for me anymore :)
@xeon8519 In my opinion, the "very necessary" symphonies for a casual listener are: Haydn's n.104; Mozart's Prague, n.40 and Jupiter, all the 9 from Beethoven, Schubert's "unfinished" and "great", Berlioz's Fantastique, Schumann's Renana, Brahms' n.4, Dvorak's from the new world and of course Mahler's Titan :D this is just a silly partial and totally arguable list of masterpieces, which makes close to no sense, but you asked for it and I gave you my 2 cents ;)
This is a very significant recording. This was Mahler's orchestra when he was director of the Vienna State Opera -- the VPO is the same band when not playing in the opera house. Mahler was considered somewhat of a 'fringe' composer during his life and then when the Nazis took power, his music was publicly reviled. Lenny is reintroducing the VPO to music originally written for it remained ignored in its culture.
Um... what's up with his conducting? Where are the beats? I just see a lot of flailing. If he were conducting me I'd think we were in 7/16 or something. Notice the players are looking at their parts, not him.
@beastraeatsall@Lado1677 He is Leonard Bernstein. He basically invented modern conducting. Yes, he is conducting ahead of the beat (97% of conductors do) he is definitely not alone. When you conduct a professional orchestra, you are not a metronome. If that is what a conductor is for, then we would just put a metronome on the stand and that would be that.
@SeanMan87 I know who Leonard Bernstein is and I know what a conductor does and how to do it, I'm not an idiot. He probably conducted just fine during the rehearsals and this is the Vienna Phil, the best of the best. Bernstein is a flaming extrovert putting on a show for the audience, if that's what you mean by modern conducting. Michael Tilson Thomas reminds me a Bernstein with his flashy, jumping-around conducting style. It looks impressive and dramatic but it's really not necessary.
Bernstein explained his Mahler conducting had to be extreme in all emotions, because thats what Mahler music was about in his opinion and that was what he wanted to communicate to the orchestra..So, to him, 'the show' was necessary and is directed toward the orchestra and not the audience..
I'm a layman with classical music. Is it possible for someone who is not so to describe the value fo the conductor to me?To the untrained eye, he looks superfluous... but I expect I am missing something.... ??
@spiekblix The conductor provides the right tempo (and accelerates/slows down when necessary) which is very important not only for timing purposes but also for musical expression. He also has the final word regarding dynamics, timbral mixing and articulation (mostly during practice sessions, when the conductor instructs the musicians) and is like the musical mastermind of the orchestra.
I am not a teenager, but many of us in the heavy metal community have a huge respect and adoration for the classical era of music. As a composer for my band, I find it's music like this that influences me, rather than jazz, blues, or rock.
True this. Not to mention that many things guys like Mahler did are era-equivalents to what metal does today. Like I know Mahler had this two-person string bass made that required one guy to stand on a stool to fret and the other guy to pluck the strings. Going to all that effort to have so much extra bass? Thats pretty metal.
And you have all these technical bands like Obscura and Necrophagist that combine modern death riffing with classical guitar playing. Vivaldi meets guitar!
@Monolithan666 I remember we once had to listen to a Metallica electric guitar solo at the University and our professor took out her violin and played that same solo. It was so amazing...so many things are similar in these two types of music and I know that if these composers lived today they'd most probably be metal, rock n' roll and punk musicians! After learning more about this at Uni I have more respect for classical music. It's the basis to almost everything we listen to today!
@geooool Trust me, Metallica guitar solos are nothing compared to some of the more technical stuff you can find in the more extreme genres. Its funny, the more modern and "extreme" you get in metal, the closer it gets to baroque classical music!
I love the scene in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure where they bring Mozart or Bach or someone back to their time (the 80s) and he starts improv-ing on four keyboards, simultaneously, Eddie Van Halen style :P
@Monolithan666 Love Eddie Van Halen..never heard of this scene but I'll check it out ;) Metallica was less complex, easier for us to understand so that's why she had chosen that (i think). I don't know a lot of things about technical stuff in heavy metal music but i'm sure there can be very extreme and complex things. One way or another, i love both types of music..even though i am not the biggest fan of baroque, it's still nice to sometimes see it in new and improved music.
I am 18 and I play the trumpet - largely focused on jazz.
I compose classically though - and I am a member of a symphony orchestra and wind orchestra. In symphony, we're playing Beethoven's Egmont overture, a masterpiece.
I love listening to stravinsky, Holst, Brahms and a bit of Mahler in between bouts of Hendrix, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and Coltrane.
wow! My orchestra might play this in next university period and I was a bit curious... That's going to be some work for me and the other horn players :-)
Goethe's cold rational attitude to the world ( in "Faust"), his cynical knowledge of meanness of people and............. Mahler's divine fire of enthusiasm. Goethe has lived up to extreme old age in conformism to authority and stagnancy, and another ,in eternal war, has burned down in 51 year. Goethe didn't suffice heat of heart, light humanity.
There will come the moment in th world, when even the knowledge is abolished, and LOVE - is eternal. It is about Goethe and Mahler.
yes, and goethe told hölderlin to write poems in a more easy and lightly way...and hölderlin burnt out with 32.....went down to the shadows of his light.......
Mahler is probably one of the most underated composer of all times...Im amazed when some people ask Gustav who? Most people are more familiar with Bach and Mozart... However Mahler is my fav... :)
@achan1058 saying Bach and Mozart's music is somehow smaller then Mahler's sounds a bit like... blasphemy to my ears... this is still awesome music nonetheless
Mahler uses bigger orchestra's though and introduced a broad pianissimo sound with la big part of the orchestra without crescendo..So factual, Mahler had a thicker, more colorful sound..
No blasphemy here, I love Bach... (Mozart not so much..)
@quinto34 Kandinsky's paintings were more colorful then Caravaggio's, does this make Kandinsky's art somehow better then the one by Caravaggio? Mahler wrote music more or less a century and a half after Mozart's age... of course his aesthetic is totally different and the orchestral composition uses different techiques, that's because they work in different ages. And I can't find your argument relevant: does Mahler's pianissimo make his symphony better by any meanings then a solo sonata by Bach?
@adejedi-Difficult to compare composers of different eras. Better to compare Mahler with his contemporaries: Dvorak, Bruch, Brahms, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, R. Strauss & Elgar, etc.. The aforementioned all wrote great sym. pieces as well as great pieces in other categories. Mahler well.., wrote pretty much sym.s; not well rounded; fairly one dimensional. The aforementioned I prefer over Mahler as overall composers, but Mahler's sym.s are Grandest of the Grand!!!!
@adejedi I would agree with that statement, but only because the sound Mahler produced is bigger, the orchestra is bigger, the pieces are longer...but that's only like saying that color photography is superior to black-and-white, it's only technical issues, not the underlying artistry.
the cymbal player's technique at the end really bothers me... he's in a major symphony orchestra and is inconceivably better than I am at everything percussion, but I don't understand who he can be consistent playing like that...
When Mahler wrote symphonies, numerous orchestras were all on one level.
More than a few symphonies are now tiered, with the tiers rising as you move back. it's far easier to build them with modern materials that may have no been as easily used at the turn of the 19th Century.
The main reason that they stand is for the grand finale. since they're above the rest of the orchestra, the need for standing is moot.
GSYBE631 - Just a suggestion, but try listening to and viewing Gustavo Dudamel conducting La Scala Philharmonic - It's quite amazing (although he is quite "animated" - That turns some people off),,,,,,Like I stated - Just a suggestion. Let me know what you think......
sorry, but Dudamel just missed the Point of Gustav Mahler's music. His interpretation is miserable. I heard him once on the radio, without knowing that it was him and it was miserable.
He will never reach the level of Bernstein, Kleiber, Böhm and many more. He is just a media phenomenon...
wie heißt des lied genau??
UltraGohan1 3 months ago
3:17 sounds out of tune in the trumpets :)
David0794 3 months ago
When I hear it makes me feel like a "titan"
hazaeel99 3 months ago
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fintonmckee 4 months ago
wtf...that cymbal player^^
David0794 4 months ago
Past Master!
Hidalguia 5 months ago
2:40 Zack Galifianakis on the horn =)
4znhatred 5 months ago
The Symphony No. 1 in D major by Gustav Mahler was composed between 1884 and 1888. The work is sometimes known as the "Titan", due to Mahler originally conceiving it as a tone poem based loosely on Jean Paul's novel Titan. It was composed while Mahler was second conductor at the Leipzig Opera, Germany. The symphony was premiered at the Hungarian Royal Opera House in autumn 1889. When you get to the Grand Finale,you feel closer to God through this genius
MrFerminleon 6 months ago
Love Bernstein and he introduced me to Mahler- but this video of the Titan's climax was waaaay too fast in tempo for my taste.
hillcresthiker 7 months ago
コンセルトヘボウとのCDもそうだが、
なぜファイナルであんなに速度アップするのか分からない。
一連のVPOとの映像、金管楽器が不調です。
TheTen777 7 months ago
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This sounds like a cheap hollywood movie score from the 1950's.
Both Bernstien and Mahler are way over rated because they are jews and jews control the zietgiest.
Compare this drivil to anything from Mozart or Bach should be illegal.
Shinertheantizionist 9 months ago
@Shinertheantizionist
That comment is complete drivil. Just because Mahler composed differently than Mozart or Bach doesn't make him any less of a composer, and Bernstein is one of the best conductors to have ever lived (and one of the most famous).
You should watch your tongue before you criticize. Everyone likes a certain thing, don't be so quick to judge.
AndyMan4000 9 months ago 15
@AndyMan4000 Mahler is better than Mozart and Bach. Nothing can reduce me to tears faster than his Fifth or Second. No piece of Mozart's or Bach's can do that. NONE.
Dan474834 3 months ago
@Dan474834
Your tastes can't pretend to have THE affirmation of what is, or what isn't.
There is no best, and no worse in Music.
And I think you didn't understand ANY-THING of music's spirit.
Très belle symphonie, magnifique.
Jureyder 3 months ago
@Jureyder The quality of a music pieces lies purely in it's ability to instill emotion in the listener. There are pieces that simply don't do that to me, and therefore they do not have any quality in my eyes.
But music is like poetry, it can be interpreted in different ways, and it's level of quality is purely subjective and inherent to each individual listener.
For me, Mozart and Bach aren't as good as Mahler. It may be different in your case, and I am in no position to guess.
Dan474834 3 months ago
@Dan474834
I totally agree with you now.
The problem in your first comment was the affirmation you did.
"Malher is better than Mozart and Bach", you just forgot "For me".
That explains my first answer.
Jureyder 3 months ago
@Dan474834 That's absurd. The quality of music isn't purely subjective. In that case, a moron banging on the ground with a stick to a beat could be judged, based on your standard, as a good musician by someone, better than Mahler.
The quality of music depends upon the composer's ability to create structure among other things. To turn music into the subjective turns anyone into a proper critic. "It's good for me" allows anyone to get out of explaining reasons.
MrTabat24 2 weeks ago
@Shinertheantizionist I guess Tesla was less of an inventor because his ideas were different (and often quite better than) Edison's?
brandon112586 9 months ago
@Shinertheantizionist Well, they don't suck because their jewish, but it does sound like a cheap 50s hollywood movie score.
Neongrapes 9 months ago
@Neongrapes Probably because cheap Hollywood scores took so much from Late Romantic symphonies...
Sylderon 8 months ago
@Neongrapes Doesn't Bernstein not always overemphasize the strings and string melodic lines??
dniez1 7 months ago
@dniez1 he does. karajan let them play smoother
gnalidna 7 months ago
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@Shinertheantizionist Well, they don't suck because their jewish, but it does sound like a cheap 50s hollywood movie score.
Neongrapes 9 months ago
@Shinertheantizionist fuck you
DasWeisseBand 9 months ago
@Shinertheantizionist Mahler was only Jewish by heritage, not necessarily by practice. He even converted to Christianity in order to secure his position as conductor of the Wiener Staatsoper, although he told a friend at the time that "I have simply changed my coat." Your name and your comments indicate that you are an ignorant buffoon, and your lack of appreciation for this music also indicates you are probably hard of hearing.
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Mahler + Bernstein = FUUUCK YEAHHH :D
Mahler + Bernstein = Two Jews, the first one highly over-rated (i.e., a so-called 'genius), the latter, a filthy homosexual.
Veritas699 9 months ago
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TheDavid2222 9 months ago
@TheDavid2222
You may be talking about the English Horn. The lower sounding version of the oboe.
TJThaddeusG 6 months ago
Jus Allah - Chess King
FiswaT 10 months ago
nicee
FiswaT 10 months ago
wiener philharmonic
iamthefox422 10 months ago
The San Francisco Symphony debuts its acclaimed Keeping Score series about Gustav Mahler this Spring. Watch the trailer on the Symphony's Youtube Page: Sfsymphony
NickLCI 10 months ago
i'm sorry, but this may be one of my least favourite recordings. i guess the first time you hear it, thats the only way it'll sound good to you...
sdeshpande102 10 months ago
LOVE is all You Need !!!
pinturner 10 months ago
Splendid!
SymphonaireInfernusS 11 months ago
konzerthaus wien
mahlermahlermahler1 11 months ago
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poluvl2 11 months ago
@poluvl2 your boring
IIIgreatjobIII 11 months ago
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poluvl2 11 months ago
@poluvl2 You are going to school?? really?? Someone pay to educate you? Poor tax payers LOL
TheCastagne 11 months ago
One of my favourite scores! :-)
JonBrooksComposer 11 months ago
Somebody PLEASE disable the "dislike" tab! Too many idiots keep clicking it!!!
SordidGuy 1 year ago
I bet Mahler was a great influence on Ennio
konlutz 1 year ago
You can acutally see the 8 suns with giant vibrant rainbow rings setting beneath the neon K2-like terrain and methane atmosphere; behind those towering glass skyscrapers like mammoth icicles on an alien planet~! Mahler is the Master!
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Mahler + Bernstein = FUUUCK YEAHHH :D
karzoff 1 year ago 26
Grazie a questo direttore e alla sua orchestra ci è concesso di accedere a questo splendido discorso musicale, fatto con grande passione e competenza.
liliamare 1 year ago
I'd always heard that Bernstein like the dudes...but dayum. He didn't even let women be in the orchestra?
krb3141 1 year ago
minun pitää tehdä gustav mahlerista esitelmä koulussa :(
TheArzonite 1 year ago
One of the first compositions I heard in Dvorak's concert hall in Rudolfinum (Prague, Czech Republic)...Oh..I am a bit nostalgic on Christmas Eve :) Merry Christmas !
ipscale 1 year ago
I usually hate Classical music, but this is just incredible.
ifhgsfj 1 year ago
This piece is far from brilliant. It's insipid meddling. I am trying very hard to not fall a sleep, due to this boring pile of phrasing.
BELACSAMOHT 1 year ago
@BELACSAMOHT You think this is boring? Maybe classical music isn't for you
Huddiethegreat 1 year ago
@Huddiethegreat
Yeah,you're right. Baroque is much better.
BELACSAMOHT 1 year ago
@Huddiethegreat I was referring to all Classical music, not just periods. If I was I would have typed "Romantic music isn't for you."
Huddiethegreat 1 year ago
God those crash cymbals sound fakin bad
1udwi6 1 year ago
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iniamazing 1 year ago
vienna horns are badass
imadoofus123 1 year ago 52
@imadoofus123 Silly Austrians...piston valves on horns and rotary valves on trumpets!
Sylderon 6 months ago
@Sylderon silly americans... rotarys are WAY better than piston trumpets (I play a rotary myself) the problem here is that the trumpets are in C and this why not completely in tune (or its just the recording, today there are C trumpets that are completely in tune, I prefer B-flat) but hey if you like piston sound more- i accept your opinion but don't say that about rotarys. and by the way..vienna horns have rotary valves.
SchwarzeDose21 4 months ago
Great, up until the end. Mahler is not something to be rushed through.
Sylderon 6 months ago
@imadoofus123 It's the beards.
stevieg5064 2 months ago
@tueslabelledujour..thanks..imformation about Titan..
i;ll go to music hall tomorrow night..
i;ll hear this selection..Titan
1115youha 1 year ago
is this 1st.movement?
1115youha 1 year ago
@1115youha
no 4th :)
tueslabelledujour 1 year ago
can some1 tell me, which symphonies are those, that a "really important"? up to now, i justed listened to atonin dvorak, but its not enough for me anymore :)
thx
xeon8519 1 year ago
@xeon8519 In my opinion, the "very necessary" symphonies for a casual listener are: Haydn's n.104; Mozart's Prague, n.40 and Jupiter, all the 9 from Beethoven, Schubert's "unfinished" and "great", Berlioz's Fantastique, Schumann's Renana, Brahms' n.4, Dvorak's from the new world and of course Mahler's Titan :D this is just a silly partial and totally arguable list of masterpieces, which makes close to no sense, but you asked for it and I gave you my 2 cents ;)
adejedi 1 year ago
Divina!
andrea5318 1 year ago
crap
newworldodour 1 year ago
This is a very significant recording. This was Mahler's orchestra when he was director of the Vienna State Opera -- the VPO is the same band when not playing in the opera house. Mahler was considered somewhat of a 'fringe' composer during his life and then when the Nazis took power, his music was publicly reviled. Lenny is reintroducing the VPO to music originally written for it remained ignored in its culture.
Earzful 1 year ago 2
leonard bernstein is the reason i love classical music!
JaYcRaKdAbEaSt 1 year ago 2
Um... what's up with his conducting? Where are the beats? I just see a lot of flailing. If he were conducting me I'd think we were in 7/16 or something. Notice the players are looking at their parts, not him.
beastraeatsall 1 year ago
@beastraeatsall i'm a chef and have no clue what 7/16 means, but that conductor was clearly alone, lol
Lado1677 1 year ago
@beastraeatsall @Lado1677 He is Leonard Bernstein. He basically invented modern conducting. Yes, he is conducting ahead of the beat (97% of conductors do) he is definitely not alone. When you conduct a professional orchestra, you are not a metronome. If that is what a conductor is for, then we would just put a metronome on the stand and that would be that.
SeanMan87 1 year ago
@SeanMan87 I know who Leonard Bernstein is and I know what a conductor does and how to do it, I'm not an idiot. He probably conducted just fine during the rehearsals and this is the Vienna Phil, the best of the best. Bernstein is a flaming extrovert putting on a show for the audience, if that's what you mean by modern conducting. Michael Tilson Thomas reminds me a Bernstein with his flashy, jumping-around conducting style. It looks impressive and dramatic but it's really not necessary.
beastraeatsall 1 year ago
@beastraeatsall
Bernstein explained his Mahler conducting had to be extreme in all emotions, because thats what Mahler music was about in his opinion and that was what he wanted to communicate to the orchestra..So, to him, 'the show' was necessary and is directed toward the orchestra and not the audience..
quinto34 1 year ago
@quinto34 Interesting! Oh, those crazy late romantics and their unrestrained displays of emotion.
beastraeatsall 1 year ago
I'm a layman with classical music. Is it possible for someone who is not so to describe the value fo the conductor to me?To the untrained eye, he looks superfluous... but I expect I am missing something.... ??
spiekblix 1 year ago
@spiekblix The conductor provides the right tempo (and accelerates/slows down when necessary) which is very important not only for timing purposes but also for musical expression. He also has the final word regarding dynamics, timbral mixing and articulation (mostly during practice sessions, when the conductor instructs the musicians) and is like the musical mastermind of the orchestra.
vork666 1 year ago 2
@vork666 ok, thanks for the explanation... I would not have been able to pick that based on appearance alone. Cheers!
spiekblix 1 year ago
Do you not think Mahler and Rossini were cousins at heart?
rebelarouser 1 year ago
9 people hate life because they are deaf
tomixboy 1 year ago
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spikemansss 1 year ago 2
M' encantaba en Leonard Bernstein, sentia la musica com si fos seva
La sensibilidad de Leonard Bernstein se notaba en cada uno de sus gestos, cuando dirigía, todo un genio!
TOWANDETA 1 year ago
Fanfare at 3:21 sounds very clear
JLwaldhorn 1 year ago
it's sad that there are no teenagers that listen to music like this
jackbosley 1 year ago
@jackbosley
There are actually. Though very few.
I am not a teenager, but many of us in the heavy metal community have a huge respect and adoration for the classical era of music. As a composer for my band, I find it's music like this that influences me, rather than jazz, blues, or rock.
Mahler is like the doom metal of that time :P
Monolithan666 1 year ago 3
@Monolithan666
Get Some Stravinsky inta Ya!
Jimmyhendrixrules 1 year ago
@Monolithan666 Heavy metal music is classical music but with electric music instruments! :) e.g. Malmsteen..he always had a thing for Bach!
geooool 5 months ago
@geooool
True this. Not to mention that many things guys like Mahler did are era-equivalents to what metal does today. Like I know Mahler had this two-person string bass made that required one guy to stand on a stool to fret and the other guy to pluck the strings. Going to all that effort to have so much extra bass? Thats pretty metal.
And you have all these technical bands like Obscura and Necrophagist that combine modern death riffing with classical guitar playing. Vivaldi meets guitar!
Monolithan666 5 months ago
@Monolithan666 I remember we once had to listen to a Metallica electric guitar solo at the University and our professor took out her violin and played that same solo. It was so amazing...so many things are similar in these two types of music and I know that if these composers lived today they'd most probably be metal, rock n' roll and punk musicians! After learning more about this at Uni I have more respect for classical music. It's the basis to almost everything we listen to today!
geooool 5 months ago
@geooool Trust me, Metallica guitar solos are nothing compared to some of the more technical stuff you can find in the more extreme genres. Its funny, the more modern and "extreme" you get in metal, the closer it gets to baroque classical music!
I love the scene in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure where they bring Mozart or Bach or someone back to their time (the 80s) and he starts improv-ing on four keyboards, simultaneously, Eddie Van Halen style :P
Monolithan666 5 months ago
@Monolithan666 Love Eddie Van Halen..never heard of this scene but I'll check it out ;) Metallica was less complex, easier for us to understand so that's why she had chosen that (i think). I don't know a lot of things about technical stuff in heavy metal music but i'm sure there can be very extreme and complex things. One way or another, i love both types of music..even though i am not the biggest fan of baroque, it's still nice to sometimes see it in new and improved music.
geooool 5 months ago
@jackbosley
you'd be surprised.
I am 18 and I play the trumpet - largely focused on jazz.
I compose classically though - and I am a member of a symphony orchestra and wind orchestra. In symphony, we're playing Beethoven's Egmont overture, a masterpiece.
I love listening to stravinsky, Holst, Brahms and a bit of Mahler in between bouts of Hendrix, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and Coltrane.
You never know what people listen to...
Jimmyhendrixrules 1 year ago
@jackbosley ?
lurxtlifeson 1 year ago
LEONARD, LEONARD, LEONARD, LEONARD, EH,EH,EH,EH,EH.... XD
xavipercu 1 year ago
Bravooooooooooooo!
ariastoteles 1 year ago
If it gets any better than this: will someone please clue me in?
RebelMusicInc 1 year ago
音量低い
KEN0823lotte 1 year ago
How are there dislikes for this video?
EDGJZConglomerate 1 year ago
wow! My orchestra might play this in next university period and I was a bit curious... That's going to be some work for me and the other horn players :-)
lioly01 1 year ago
Crying now..
carlosgarciaamigo 1 year ago
i had to listen to this artist cause of a project in my class and now im starting to listen to his music every time which is really weird
funkystar45 1 year ago
Beautiful. Haunting.
leinstermad 1 year ago
schöne interpretation, aber bei 3:06 hört man einen deutlichen patzer bei den hörnern
joernbroeker 1 year ago
@joernbroeker Na bitte . . .
manthasagittarius 1 year ago
Fantastico!!!
KIROLANDIA 1 year ago
Ce frumuste.....
allmoustfullmoon 1 year ago
Ahhh, I rarely see this kind of passion in composer or orchestra at my Symphony Hall. Bravo.
ProfessorCrow 1 year ago
AUSTRIA
beraban2 1 year ago
is it forbidden to women to play in this orchestra? I didn't notice that Vienna was in Saudi Arabia...
monya77 1 year ago
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Hello,
can anyone tell me what is the music played in video above (starts at 1:00)?
/watch?v=V_G_ZRThifM
hlupekkk 1 year ago
Unglaubliche Sinfonie und ich bin Fan von Bernstein, aber die Intonation der Blechbläser besonders ab 5:00 bis Ende is zum heulen!
mokiloc 1 year ago
What a great version !!!
ledormant 1 year ago
Fantastic, I imagine that this will still be played with reverence in a thousand years.
britishbulldog5505 1 year ago
das ist sicher nicht der musikverein! wo sind die karyatiden?
delfin1609 1 year ago
Whoa! That was way too fast!
mainiacjoe 1 year ago
@mainiacjoe i concur! especially at the end - it sucks the life out of it.
glenngould99 1 year ago
Wo ist das genau? Das ist nicht die Musikverein oder?
kelmundur 1 year ago
1975... Wiener Phiharmoniker, nicht auf Tournee, sondern in Wien - das ist in der Tat das Haus des Wiener Musikvereins!
großartige Darbietung, exzellenter Dirigent, brillantes Orchester - nur live dabei gewesen zu sein wäre noch schöner!
golliwogg1989 1 year ago
das ist das Konzerthaus in Wien, nicht der Musikverein! Egal! Unvergleichlich! ;-)
Geigensepp 1 year ago
excellent!
yonhenki 1 year ago 2
Goethe's cold rational attitude to the world ( in "Faust"), his cynical knowledge of meanness of people and............. Mahler's divine fire of enthusiasm. Goethe has lived up to extreme old age in conformism to authority and stagnancy, and another ,in eternal war, has burned down in 51 year. Goethe didn't suffice heat of heart, light humanity.
There will come the moment in th world, when even the knowledge is abolished, and LOVE - is eternal. It is about Goethe and Mahler.
tzeleustremlennost 1 year ago
If you say that of Goethe I think you really should try and actually read something that he has written.
rtega 1 year ago
yes, and goethe told hölderlin to write poems in a more easy and lightly way...and hölderlin burnt out with 32.....went down to the shadows of his light.......
piroschka6 1 year ago
@piroschka6 ..but had great parties before he ...burned out..i think girls and booze helped a lot
MrSunnyfriday 1 year ago
Bernstein is magic!
john1801rambo 1 year ago 3
189,000 views !!! - wonderful. March on, Gus.
uranrising 1 year ago 3
188888 views
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newFranzFerencLiszt 1 year ago
Mahler is probably one of the most underated composer of all times...Im amazed when some people ask Gustav who? Most people are more familiar with Bach and Mozart... However Mahler is my fav... :)
Thelastdragonfly 1 year ago
I agree. While Bach and Mozart wrote music, Mahler wrote worlds.
achan1058 1 year ago 27
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@achan1058 wow !!best description ever!! "While Bach and Mozart wrote music, Mahler wrote worlds"
danielhl22 1 year ago
@achan1058 saying Bach and Mozart's music is somehow smaller then Mahler's sounds a bit like... blasphemy to my ears... this is still awesome music nonetheless
adejedi 1 year ago 2
@adejedi Smaller doesn't mean less..
Mahler uses bigger orchestra's though and introduced a broad pianissimo sound with la big part of the orchestra without crescendo..So factual, Mahler had a thicker, more colorful sound..
No blasphemy here, I love Bach... (Mozart not so much..)
quinto34 1 year ago
@quinto34 Kandinsky's paintings were more colorful then Caravaggio's, does this make Kandinsky's art somehow better then the one by Caravaggio? Mahler wrote music more or less a century and a half after Mozart's age... of course his aesthetic is totally different and the orchestral composition uses different techiques, that's because they work in different ages. And I can't find your argument relevant: does Mahler's pianissimo make his symphony better by any meanings then a solo sonata by Bach?
adejedi 1 year ago
@adejedi Smaller is not inferior, I think we agree..
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GeniusHaydn 1 year ago
@adejedi-Difficult to compare composers of different eras. Better to compare Mahler with his contemporaries: Dvorak, Bruch, Brahms, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, R. Strauss & Elgar, etc.. The aforementioned all wrote great sym. pieces as well as great pieces in other categories. Mahler well.., wrote pretty much sym.s; not well rounded; fairly one dimensional. The aforementioned I prefer over Mahler as overall composers, but Mahler's sym.s are Grandest of the Grand!!!!
GeniusHaydn 1 year ago
@adejedi I would agree with that statement, but only because the sound Mahler produced is bigger, the orchestra is bigger, the pieces are longer...but that's only like saying that color photography is superior to black-and-white, it's only technical issues, not the underlying artistry.
Sylderon 6 months ago
@achan1058 of course, mahler wrote worlds, but think of toccata and fugue, it´s also an own world .
emilio65largo 1 year ago
@achan1058 Bullshit.
2rocker4life 1 year ago
the cymbal player's technique at the end really bothers me... he's in a major symphony orchestra and is inconceivably better than I am at everything percussion, but I don't understand who he can be consistent playing like that...
TheDrummingKoala 1 year ago
1. His cymbals are relatively small, therefore , less chance of an airlock.
2. He obviously has much experience with these cymbals, and knows their limitations and how to play them consistently.
muzomanoz 1 year ago
More seriously, one of the two harpists is a woman !
ledormant 1 year ago 3
Wrong ! One of the flutists is a bearded woman !
ledormant 1 year ago 15
Nice performance. Anyone notice there are no women in the orchestra?
tl1358 2 years ago 2
Good eye!
nahaymath 1 year ago
Very enthusiastic conductor.
Shite1997 2 years ago
Bernstein at his best. Great finale !
ledormant 2 years ago
pretttttty great
mahlermahlermahler1 2 years ago
I thought in Mahlers score he calls for the horn players to stand up for the last few bars. It doesn't look like that is happening here!
scottlens 2 years ago
When Mahler wrote symphonies, numerous orchestras were all on one level.
More than a few symphonies are now tiered, with the tiers rising as you move back. it's far easier to build them with modern materials that may have no been as easily used at the turn of the 19th Century.
The main reason that they stand is for the grand finale. since they're above the rest of the orchestra, the need for standing is moot.
phantomeagle 1 year ago
Only one movement is based on Father Jacob, not the whole symphony
123212321 2 years ago
Did you know that this first symphony is based on Father Jacob?
annemontess 2 years ago
Yes the 1ére symphonie is yhe same on Father Jacob but not in major, it's in game minor
tonric1 2 years ago
Fantastic !!
katzofe 2 years ago
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Seanmahler1 2 years ago
GSYBE631 - Just a suggestion, but try listening to and viewing Gustavo Dudamel conducting La Scala Philharmonic - It's quite amazing (although he is quite "animated" - That turns some people off),,,,,,Like I stated - Just a suggestion. Let me know what you think......
SordidGuy 2 years ago
sorry, but Dudamel just missed the Point of Gustav Mahler's music. His interpretation is miserable. I heard him once on the radio, without knowing that it was him and it was miserable.
He will never reach the level of Bernstein, Kleiber, Böhm and many more. He is just a media phenomenon...
roymarcus 2 years ago
My apologies. You guys are correct. After listening and watching again, I cannot agree more. This is BY FAR the best......
SordidGuy 2 years ago
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Listen to the version by Kubelik. Personally my favourite!
roymarcus 2 years ago
Am I the only one who finds every other interpretation of the Titan's ending too slow after hearing Bernstein's? It just feels....right!
GSYBE631 2 years ago
To me the Bernstein has always sounded a little too rushed at the end. I like more weight and grandeur.
wdashwor 2 years ago
i agree. it does feel rather rushed.
for me the perfect version of this is rafael kubelik conducting who captured this symphony so wonderfully:)
tituscaesar 2 years ago 2
If I may borrow a line from the movie Educating Rita, "WOULDN'T YOU SIMPLY DIE WITHOUT MAHLER?" - Absolutely astounding in every way!!!!!!
SordidGuy 2 years ago
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bubbledhs 2 years ago
true dat.
and thanx for posting
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jacotrumpet 2 years ago
Very amazing performance ! Bernstein is the best !
atralfalgar 2 years ago
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this is a very good performance but why there are only men in the orchestra?Isn't that racism?
SC2larry 2 years ago
ah ah!!
chitsevermag301 2 years ago
why, do women belong to another human race? maybe coincidence.
DominikDrinkhahn 2 years ago
I actually meant sexism.Why u guys thumb me down....
SC2larry 2 years ago 3
wouldn't you mean sexism??
Gretsche87 2 years ago
if anythin, itd be sexism....
Missbreedz 2 years ago
This piece would be nice to be accompanied by a picture of the moon Titan haha
uberkhy 2 years ago
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mrpossibilities 2 years ago
lol someone gave me a thumbs down for that?!
uberkhy 2 years ago
the cymbal player has an interesting technique ;D
PhilBonzo 2 years ago 2