And that sense of inevitability colored this entire piece, including the incredibly glorious and beautiful passage starting at 8:23 on this clip. It moved a 10 year old to tears in 1964...... it still does 47 years later.
....with the single trumpet holding the increasingly chaotic world in some semblance of order, as if all great human endeavor somehow fails in the end...... and once that is realized, then perhaps some semblance of inner peace may be realized..... which is the next part of this incredible first movement by this master of composition, who used to conduct this very same orchestra. Mahler was very superstitious, and knew he would never finish this symphony because his idol Beethoven never did...
I wore my father's monophonic record of George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra's version of this magnificent beginning to the unfinished symphony out from playing it in 1964. It was my favorite when I was 10 years old: the pathos, the intensely poignant beauty broken suddenly by a twist of melody, which sends the notes off like a flight of escaping birds....... and the quiet interlude before the triumphant blast of Judgement Day, which for all their joy break into break into discord....
Haunting, beautiful, terrifying. There's a really cool passage, variations on theme 1, at 4:30, divided strings and amazing textures. Check out the Learning Company series by Robert Greenberg--8 lectures on Mahler. I couldn't relate Berstein's gestures to the music...
Mahler had difficulty completing this symphony because he discovered that his wife was screwing an architect ... what's your favourite building by Walter Gropius?
@flowforms Yeah he (Mahler) wrote a partial score, a large part of this 1st movement was in draft form and complete-ish. The rest was just 4 staves, a basic outline if you like. A few people wrote it out properly, Cooke's version being the most popular (also the one played here).
A lot of conductors won't play the other movements, as they don't think that Mahler really wrote it. Bernstein (this video), only plays the 1st movement.
The chord at 9:09 that comes is just....perfect.
BonoEtMalo 2 months ago
And the violins at 9:28, how they're almost crying. It's amazing. Mahler is such an inspiration to me as a young musician.
BonoEtMalo 2 months ago
I live in Lincoln MA, where the Gropius house is. If you ask me, Gropius couldn't design. The house looks silly. Mahler, however, could sure compose.
tlcooper93 2 months ago
And that sense of inevitability colored this entire piece, including the incredibly glorious and beautiful passage starting at 8:23 on this clip. It moved a 10 year old to tears in 1964...... it still does 47 years later.
MorseNumber2 5 months ago
....with the single trumpet holding the increasingly chaotic world in some semblance of order, as if all great human endeavor somehow fails in the end...... and once that is realized, then perhaps some semblance of inner peace may be realized..... which is the next part of this incredible first movement by this master of composition, who used to conduct this very same orchestra. Mahler was very superstitious, and knew he would never finish this symphony because his idol Beethoven never did...
MorseNumber2 5 months ago
I wore my father's monophonic record of George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra's version of this magnificent beginning to the unfinished symphony out from playing it in 1964. It was my favorite when I was 10 years old: the pathos, the intensely poignant beauty broken suddenly by a twist of melody, which sends the notes off like a flight of escaping birds....... and the quiet interlude before the triumphant blast of Judgement Day, which for all their joy break into break into discord....
MorseNumber2 5 months ago
It's an Ab minor
igor62191 5 months ago
Haunting, beautiful, terrifying. There's a really cool passage, variations on theme 1, at 4:30, divided strings and amazing textures. Check out the Learning Company series by Robert Greenberg--8 lectures on Mahler. I couldn't relate Berstein's gestures to the music...
eiteljim 8 months ago
If anyone could tell me what notes are in that chord at 8:25 it'd be much appreciated.
mahler151 10 months ago
@mahler151
Sounds like an Ab minor progression to me
freshhh1994 10 months ago
Mahler had difficulty completing this symphony because he discovered that his wife was screwing an architect ... what's your favourite building by Walter Gropius?
radstainforth 11 months ago
@radstainforth Do you think she was a Gropius Groupie?
chrispharis1 9 months ago
@chrispharis1 I think she was hot ... she went through the New York Philharmonic in 1910 ...
radstainforth 9 months ago
Bernstein conducts the score as Mahler had left it, without Deryck Cooke's retouchings.
hootenhtn 1 year ago
What an eargasm!
horiac 1 year ago
That life, my god that life.........
BluesYourAss 1 year ago
<3 0:16
BRICKsauce 1 year ago
8:25: "btw, I'm totally dying right now. And it hurts. Just so's you know." >.<
petitequinte 1 year ago 11
The end of this clip, from 8:00 onwards, is absolutely incredible.
Mahler's 9th is the best symphony ever written in my opinion, but if this were complete, it may have been even better.
Morfee 1 year ago 17
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kianskiputz92 11 months ago
@kianskiputz92 Re-read the comment... I said the 9th is the best ever written, but the 10th could have been if he had completed it.
Morfee 11 months ago
was this his incomplete symphony that others put together from notes?
flowforms 1 year ago
@flowforms google
kkitkatsuprem 1 year ago
@flowforms Yeah he (Mahler) wrote a partial score, a large part of this 1st movement was in draft form and complete-ish. The rest was just 4 staves, a basic outline if you like. A few people wrote it out properly, Cooke's version being the most popular (also the one played here).
A lot of conductors won't play the other movements, as they don't think that Mahler really wrote it. Bernstein (this video), only plays the 1st movement.
Morfee 1 year ago