Mahler - Symphony No. 8 - Ending (Rattle, NYOGB)

[proctorjohn]

The joy the spirit, no greater has our universe ever sounded.

[gpeddino]

Rattle at 5:39... "BRACE YOURSELVES!"

[Tokru86]

Although I really like classical music, especially loud and with a choir, I must say that this peace of music is just boring. No melody. No special part someone would recognize. Kind of dissapointing after reading the comments.

[TimeWarp47]

@Tokru86 Are you deaf?

[georgecziffra]

@TimeWarp47 Yes. Yes he is.

[TheFumbleberry]

@Tokru86 If all that you hear is a lack of melody I pity you, you are missing out on a level of beauty than mankind has yet to achieve again.

[timdewart3]

yes.. in an amazing place, too

[isuau1815]

Love it thanks so much!

[mlr2107]

There is a worldwide broadcasting of this symphony with the LA Phil conducted by Dudamel and others in Venezuela on February 18th!! It's going to be shown live in theatres across the globe...with the number of performers somewhere around 1600 musicans! It will very well be one of the most epic performances of a major work of the last hundred years..

[rForsstrom]

@mlr2107 - My brother and I attended the Dudamel concert at the Shrine Auditorium on Feb 4, 2012. Our parents were part of the 800+ singers on stage selected from the Pacific Chorale from Orange County. Wow truly fantastic performance, the 6000 seat auditorium was sold out! I couldn't believe how many performers they brought together for the concert. The auxiliary brass ensemble and Shrine organ made for a truly memorable experience!

[paulieinct]

If there was music at the Big Bang, this would've been it.

[msg355]

@paulieinct genius comment

[CraigRyan86]

Life changing.

[nightyfischer]

epic beyond all measure. .....

[geniusboy98]

@conanhayle You're kidding, right?

[manud93]

Oh my goooood!!! Oh my gooooood!!!!!!!!!

[ggmackie]

@conanhayle

I stumbled upon your rubbish...talking cats...really?

[conanhayle]

GOD I AM feeling sick. what absolute crap. Grow up you pretentious twats,, how did I stumble upon this rubbish?

[msg355]

@conanhayle emotionless cunt?

[phaune73]

Sublime !

[magnifier2020]

When great composers or conductors are compared, they cease being great. You might have a preference, but that's all it is.

[dimsimlord]

"Imagine the whole universe beginning to ring and resound. There are no longer human voices, but planets and stars revolving."

-Mahler on this symphony

[essej765]

this video gives me hope for humanity!

[dimsimlord]

Stop bitching about people coughing in the audience; if you want a recording without that just get a non-live one; there's no shortage of them

[poyetl]

Est-ce qu'on peut trouver l'enregistrement de ce concert en DVD? Merci.

[marconiphone]

Unbelievable. The NYO aren't even full-time musicians or music students.

Some of the most electric moments on youtube.

[Octavianist1]

Sublime.



[Dan474834]

If every one of us could introduce classical music to just one other person, the world would be a better place.

[elsantoenaccion]

the man in the background of white 5:05 , hi's feeling like i do, crying of course

[4LeafCover]

what a beautiful place to play this beautiful piece! where is this located?

[Denomoses]

@4LeafCover royal albert hall in london

[gpeddino]

I saw this live yesterday. It was a defining moment for my life.

[lty2k84]

This is brilliant. I get chills down my spine as I always listen to this great performance.

[DarthGoofy]

I saw Mahler's 8th four hours ago in Cologne, Germany. You just can not describe the power of a full orchestra and 6 choirs. Mind blowing! If you ever get the chance, go and see it for yourself!

[JadziaStar]

@DarthGoofy

I was there, too. Absolutly awesome^^

[thexcolorxshred]

.... those basses.... holy.....oh my..... wtf?

[16081935]

Fantasticamene dolente

[16081935]

Fantasticamente, sontuosamente dolente

[AndyMan4000]

I cannot stop listening to this! :)

[LFrenchie01]

I'm a composer, but when I hear something like this, I always think "I wish I could write music."

[vilmadb]

Bravo!!! Bravissimo!!!

[Mozart3150]

Whenever I see youth, I anticipate a mediocre performance at best.  And I've really always been right.

It was so amazing to be so completely wrong.

[Denomoses]

@Mozart3150 never heard of the simon bolivar youth orchestra of venzuela i see

[milouribebotta]

@Denomoses The Simón Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela will perform Mahler's 8th together with Los Angeles Philarmonic on february 4th 2012 in Los Angeles (Shrine Auditorium ). Conducted by Gustavo Dudamel.

[SolidOne40]

Hate to say this, but the conductor looks like a Who from The Grinch...great symphony though.

[korlock3000]

Pause at 5:09. ITS VOLDEMORT!!!

[20512361]

Best Mahler 8 finale in youtube!!

[wandereruk44]

@20512361 Possibly because kids are playing it. Kids at sing and play with heart and you can feel it.

[wandereruk44]

@wandereruk44 I meant act. You only have to watch a nativity play.

[bersa888]

All hearts on the sleeves.....

[celofelo]

THIS IS SO FREAKING AWESOME

[klaviermusikfreund]

Ein grandioses Stück, grandios gespielt und das in einer sehr guten Aufnahme. Bravo und vielen Dank!

[veeerooniicaaa]

Hermoso

[classicforever1]

His music is harder to enjoy than Beethoven, Bach or Mozart is.

[uuunderground]

@classicforever1 For you.

[HugoPlayTheTrumpet]

Would love to be in the National Youth Orchestra such a amazing orchestra, especialy made up of such talented young musicians well done to every one. and such a moving piece.

[blueeyedbehr]

who's the 2nd soprano, the one with the short dark hair?

[mvuorsalo82]

@blueeyedbehr Soile Isokoski, from FInland, Suomi... One of our finest, with Karita Mattila...

[Pianista061292]

4:59 The greatest climax EVER!

[korlock3000]

I LOVE THE CHOIR AT 4:38

[z0tx]

Even the visual effect of the children's choir gettting up is stunning.

[headlessadi]

5:11 I just lost my breath! And laughed and cried like a maniac at the same time!

[conanhayle]

@headlessadi GOSH !you poor sod,, I hope you recover

[SordidGuy]

THE SOUND / AUDIO IS HORRIFIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[steven4570]

@SordidGuy well what do you expect from a 360p video compressed and shrinked down for youtube? 

[innhat11]

Please upload the whole ending applauses, I want to have more time to cry without beeing disturbed by the silence!!

[Wcpapier00]

no words

[MusicismyheartXO]

I trust that we would all appreciate the performers shown in this clip to be credited:

Christine Brewer (soprano), Magna Peccatrix

Soile Isokoski (soprano), Una Poenitentium

Juliane Banse (soprano) Mater Gloriosa

Birgit Remmert (mezzo) Mulier Samaritana

Jane Henschel (mezzo) Maria Aegyptiaca;

Jon Villars (tenor) Doctor Marianus

David Wilson-Johnson (baritone) Pater Ecstaticus

John Relyea (bass) Pater Profundus

[hornplayerchris]

@MusicismyheartXO "All the performers"? Looks like you only listed 8 of them, looks like there are actually about 300 performers in this video.

[MusicismyheartXO]

@hornplayerchris Of course, the listed soloists are joined by City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, City of Birmingham Symphony Youth Chorus; Toronto Children's Chorus; Sydney Philharmonia Choirs; London Symphony Chorus and the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus.

If you put your reading glasses on, you'll notice that I said we "would all appreciate"; I never said "all the performers". Calm down, build a bridge, and GET OVER IT.

[hornplayerchris]

@MusicismyheartXO "calm down and get over it?" Get over what? I was just pointing out a fact, you are the one who is using all caps letters and having a meltdown. You said "list the performers" which you did not do in your original post which is all I was pointing out.

[MusicismyheartXO]

who needs sex when you have Mahler.

[Santasbestbuddy]

Rattle is just a GENIUS

[PickledHarrrington]

@berto41 The modulation is awesome but I was talking more about the incredible richness and "alive-ness" in the high note in the vocal line there... I don't really know how to describe it

the note itself I'm talking about happens at 3:54

[Matt54e]

@PickledHarrrington it's either the tenors or the solo tenor

[korlock3000]

@PickledHarrrington Lol I get what your trying to say. I think its the combination of the rising note and at the part you are talking about the brass drop out and the woodwinds and strings crescendo to try and "match" them. Its really very ingenious.

[PickledHarrrington]

I love something about 3:50 but I don't now what it is

[Azureflair]

I listen to this as closely as possible, and all of the people coughing makes me want to strangle the audience.

[etaylor100]

@peppersax That's not an orgasm, that's a Mahler-gasm! :P

[Crouchenders]

Were there more people in the audience or the choir and orchestra..

[Aduuri]

Oh My Goddess! Nor only to conduct, must be a true thrill to listen that massive choir and orchestra live! Plus of course... Mahler! WOW!

[loganswell]

Beautiful!! Just a pity about the slight lack of synch between sound and vision - that spoils it slightly.

[purpleska]

I had the pleasure to be conducted by Sir Rattle sometime last year. Such an expressive and wonderful maestro.

[juliosdutra]

How can 14 dislike this???

[peppersax]

This is the ultimate ORGASM! This piece literally brings tears (of happiness) to my eyes!!!

[freshhh1994]

good trombone section = impossible to defeat

[TheCapoony147]

I love at 6:25 the guy on to the right of the composer looks like hes having an orgasm

[Giovanni222]

@TheCapoony147 To the right of the composer? I didn't realise Mahler was in attendance.

[ZackaryLester]

I don't know what I like more, the conductor's expression or the song.

[freshhh1994]

5:35 nice horns.... LOL

[valleybrook]

Isn't it pity that when sun stops to shíne and world collapse that this piece of art will just disappear forever. But until then this we just enjoy it. This piece shows how much the human kind can accomplish. Mahler is a genious together with Bach

[musicxpwnsxlife]

YIKES PERCUSSION! They look like war drummers...

[ThePablo6018]

Es Gloriosa esta música

[HenriNioto]

Mahler would create his music with his mind. Beethoven would create it with his guts. So, Mahler's music is a bit too thoughtful for me.

[boxfervor]

@HenriNioto Well, of course!

[onewiseowl]

I love music so much.

[HenriNioto]

Impressive, but far behind Beethoven 9th. Mahler was creative genious, but in term of art and HUMILITY, he was like Wagner, a little bit feeble.

[martinusB95]

@HenriNioto

When I listen to van Beethoven, I fall asleep. (Genious, but boring in my vieuw).

[thatguy0744]

As i listen to the russian bass singer. wowzer!

[MusicismyheartXO]

and I jizzed in my pantzz

[colts4558]

HOLY CRAP THIS IS GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!

[sergenovique]

@boxfervor: thanks for your kind respond.

work = hobby, salary = charity. this is where we go at cultural level now a days. and yet, I´m so much in love with this video!

[sergenovique]

one of the biggest abuse of young talents! well, have fun! they studied music in order to play for nothing... though, I´m crazy about this sound!

[boxfervor]

@sergenovique It it not an abuse, it is a hobby, a learned skill, something that keeps with you like riding a bike. The beauty of music, unlike most other forms of refined art, is reproducible. The paper is the logic, the instrument is the medium, and the music is the perfection of the idea. Taking part in this cycle is an event, a monumental experience.

[sergenovique]

@boxfervor: thanks for your kind respond.

work = hobby, salary = charity. this is where we go at cultural level now a days. and yet, I´m so much in love with this video!

[wandereruk44]

@berto41 The beauty is that it is not a job for the kids. They play out of love and it shows.

[propatria0704]

I wasn't impressed as expected, after reading all the comments so far. Anyway Beethoven speaks much more clearly to me.

[flylooper]

@propatria0704

Well, all of Mahler's critics said pretty much the same thing in his day. It took years for the public to catch up to this great artist. You're not alone, even today.

[flylooper]

Wow! The orchestra & choir did a bang-up job. I loved Rattle giving his group multiple "Bravos" at the very end. I have to say, the performance was first rate. It's so wonderful to watch young people doing such great music.

As for the composer, what can one say. He was in a class by himself and for that reason his music, from the 1st to the 10th, the lieder, all will stand the test of time. His music will be done hundreds of years from now (that is, if humanity survives!)

[TedMichaelMorgan]

@flylooper Terrific to watch young people do this. Wow.

[mardybum66]

I just love the bloke in the audience having an orgasm at 5.04!!! (Can't say as I blame him, though!). Marvellous!

[paulybarr]

@mardybum66 No, you can't blame him, can you? The incredible tension and long anticipation Mahler builds up to that great E flat chord, which says " and... we're... HOME ! " THAT'S what tonality is all about!

[johannputensen]

that was beautiful

[violinoamore]

So beautiful - but how could people start just shouting and making that terrible pedestrian noise with their hands right after that galactic finale (such a terrible disgusting habit) instead of just sitting few minutes in a silent dumb ecstasy ??? Were they totally deaf all the time before the end ??? Is it a sport match or what ? That horrible clapping cacophony becomes a part of that music before and is a kind of strong slap in its magnificent face

[sevpra]

great piece of music!!!!

[mlr2107]

The three greatest climatic musical orgasmic finales: This, Mahler's Resurrection, and Beethoven's 9th!

[uk46]

You tosser you have no idea what good music is.

[duply01]

Sentimental drivel.

[hornplayerchris]

Wow that is an absolutely massive ensemble.

[012121958]

Am Ende, wenn der Chor beginnt: "Alles Vergängliche ist ein Gleichnis"

(All that is fleeting is merely a symbol) komponierte Mahler die Unendlichkeit !

Phantastisch!

Gänsehaut, überall Gänsehäut an meinem Körper...

[bachgod]

Why not African-Americans or Hispanics? Discrimination, prejudice, and income is the answer. I prefer Jessy Norman as a Soprano.

[martybrodeur111]

I cried.

[trackandfieldboy]

i think this song was played at the end of a play where a man's soul was going to Heaven. i can't remember the name of the play which makes me angry but this song is phenomenal!!!!

[Severolus]

@trackandfieldboy

the "song" is almost about the beginning/end of it all - mankind.

even the women must die...:)

[Dally3232]

@trackandfieldboy

Faust II?

[trackandfieldboy]

@Dally3232 yes!! thank you!!

[Dally3232]

@trackandfieldboy

Always glad to be able to help.

[jerchiury]

"wordless."

[a83692128]

Rattle is like, "YOU GUYS PLAYED SOME GOOD SHAT!"

[OrangeSodaKing]

Beethoven who?

[skimdit]

WHATA BUNCH OF SLOBS !T-SHIRTS RAMPANT. I hope they caught their trains back to the suburbs on time. Good by Britain.

[letsbeone]

@skimdit You snob. Mahler wrote this in his shit filled knickers, but what does it matter? It does not. You snot.

[830dwbutterfly]

Wait! Maybe woodwinds werent three times larger just the strings. Maybe just the softer ones

[830dwbutterfly]

Mahler is greater than people give him credit for. He was an experimentor past his time and before his time. His orchastras (strings and woodwinds anyway) were three times larger than normal enabling bigger soung from quiet sounds. Yes he borrowed from other composers but Clapton didnt grow up on the Mississippi delta either. Mahlers music was the most used and borrowed from in early Holllywood. Movies didnt exist during his time. That is pretty magical.

[830dwbutterfly]

@830dwbutterfly Hey cant you spell?

[TheRachmaninoffFan]

I bet all the woodwinds lost their hearing after this (from the brass) lol

I know in my orchestra I'm a horn player and the brass section loves to play as loud as we can to deafen the woodwinds XD

[830dwbutterfly]

@TheRachmaninoffFan Sadly, I dont think the woodwinds could get you horn players back even in Mahlers orch haha

[youngergermanpope]

@TheRachmaninoffFan payback from percussion is a bitch.

[freshhh1994]

@youngergermanpope

nah, brass can drown out percussion too

[fledgehog]

@TheRachmaninoffFan haha of course! brass parts are always so regal and musical, especially in mahler. it's meant to just blow you away.

and speaking of brass, mahler's symphonies with offstage brass are mind-blowing.

[GSYBE631]

I don't have a score in front of me so I could be wrong, but 0:07 sounds like a missed cue for the harp and others to come in. It sounds about a beat and a half late, hence Rattle's concerned glance over to the left.

Fantastic playing regardless!

[EDGJZConglomerate]

We owe Mahler so much.

[Dagrecco1982]

It never fails - this piece always gives me the biggest knot in my throat. We, human beings, are capable of such intense utter beauty.

[MrBarsty]

Such amazing music - but I must admit that the guy in the white T shirt from 5:05-5:12 is a highlight of this particular video. Just watch him, he's loving it! When that cadence finished at 5:12... let's just say they don't call it a climax for nothing!

[suzymcgrath]

Most transcendent piece of music ever written.

[Obstructions]

This piece reminds me of how much I love to play horn.

[j0seff1994]

Its hard to imagine what kinds of thoughts the kids were going through. To be experiencing such a monumentally emotional piece of music at that point in their lives had to be something. Amazing.

[worldviolist]

5:39 most epic downbeat I've ever heard.

[09WestTexas]

I heard the Mahler 8th for the first fime 40 yrs ago. I think it was Burnstien conducting, and was over whelmed then, but this is beyond anything I could imagine. I listen to it every night before going to bed. It is heaven. Dear G-d could there be anything of more grandeur and beauty.

[UTubeCorporation]

You know it's going to get good when the kids stand up at 4:08

[ZacRob76]

Perfect sonorities coupled with gifted writing for individual instruments. Mahler once noted that if a part is uninteresting to play, it is worthless to write. Little in this world touches the depths as does this work. His words were "imagine that the universe begins to vibrate and sound..." and he illustrated it perfectly! BTW, do you have the first movement available as well?

[leandrovieira40]

Bravo! Bravíssimo!

[JackPowPow]

@Gargantupimp You are a mother fuck.er! Stupid! Whats you IQ? 1? Lol!

[mlr2107]

This just inspired me more than anything else ever has. I can't explain the emotions I feel when listening..definetly somewhere in heaven.

[longeaton34]

Look out folks for another concert performance of Mahler 8 - RAH 15/5/2011. Get your tickets before they sell out. To hear this symphony live is a life changing experience, don't miss it.....!

[emmadoucette]

Catharsisique.......

SUBLIME

[BBRENTTAGHAPP]

i just got extreme goosebumps...amazing