Mahler: Symphony No. 7: Mov. 5 - Part 1 of 2

Symphony No. 7 in E minor: Mov. 5, "Rondo-Finale: Tempo I (Allegro ordinario)"
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

Conducted by Leonard Bernstein

Vienna Philharmonic

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[mahlermahlermahler1]

Oh, I like that trumpet glissando up to the C in the very beginning.

[simonofhell]

@jsteuernol You, sir, are a douchebag.

[fjfjrfjfjr]

@mortalfrog0815 Yes, still possible on a rotary. Same effect. My rotary trumpet is a Ricco Kuhn.....made in Germany.

Of course in Mahler 7 there is no glissando written.... Even the octave slurs are sometimes treated like legato passages, if the player is a bit tired by the end of the symphony.

[mortalfrog0815]

@fjfjrfjfjr yeah, that's right but i'm austrian and was thinking of rotary trumpets. 

[fjfjrfjfjr]

@mortalfrog0815 A glissando is possible on the trumpet. One must push the valves down half way. You can hear this is jazz all the time.

[mortalfrog0815]

@laundrymunkey1414 he didn't mean an actual glissando, he's talking about lip-slurs! a real glissando is not possible an the trumpet

[Rasterius]

way to slow

[parmat88]

@mesondehimiko Actually the Vienna Philharmonic plays with a much higher pitch than other orchestras...

[jsteuernol]

@laundrymunkey1414

Yes.

[laundrymunkey1414]

@jsteuernol is a glissando even possible on trumpet?

[mahler19110]

In the score, it is written as a slur. Standard performance practice is to play it as a slur (which this trumpet player does). Part of the technique for performing high notes on the trumpet involves raising the tongue. Many method books state that the player should say "whee" to aid in proper tongue placement. Sounds like this poor fellow just quite didn't move his tongue quickly enough, and got a sound reminiscent of a jazz lead player. An actual gliss would have sounded quite different.

[Gunnifunz]

I've just been to Vienna listening to Mahler 7 in the Musikvereinssaal. Wiener Symphoniker. An amazing performance led by Lothar Zagrosek. And the Viennese are the worst audience one could imagine. The first left after movement 2. And after the unbelievable 5th movement about 30 per cent of the audience just left without even bothering to applaud ... . I was devastated. Did they do that sort of thing in the days of Karajan and Bernstein too, I wonder?