Mahler Feest 1995, GMJO - Haitink

Live performance of Gustav Mahler's 10th symphony played by Gustav Mahler Jugend Orchester, conducted by B. Haitink. Mahler Feest, may 1995, Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

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Music

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• Mahler
• Youth
• Orchestra
• Haitink

[grabit1]

Video clog, you should unclog your ears. Besides, there are many clogs in Amsterdam.

[darkprose]

"Noisy and vulgar"? This is an anachronistic response to Mahler, one better suited to the late 19th century than the opening of the 21st. Mahler? Without wit? Surely, you are not innocent of the Rondo-finale of the fifth and seventh? Or the grotesque accordian music of the ninth? The counterpoint of the same? Or of the reflective nostalgia of the second? A joke is always "nois[e] and vulgar[ity]" before it is understood.

[mahlermahlermahler1]

Since when do so many people dislike Mahler?

[moosatious]

Oh, yes. Mahler's music is vulgar, Strauss' witty, Janacek's trash, Bartok's Music for Strings Percussion and Celesta was a pot boiler, and Rafael Kubelic was a horrible conductor rightly run out of Chicago on a rail (just listen to those old Mercury recordings with the CSO). Thank you, Claudia Cassidy! That concert hall that now bears you name was once my favorite room of the old Chicago Public Library. For some reason, and I cannot quite say why, I prefer to remember as it once was.

[yttrium55]

On the contrary, I couldn't stand Mahler as a young and novice music lover. Now that I am mid-50, his music speaks to my heart.

[RaoulShade]

Well, videoclog is certainly entitled to his opinion, but fortunately he cannot substantiate it

[grabit1]

Ditto.

[grabit1]

There's no winning over the unenlightened. That's often best left to the politicians, who frequently have hearing problems. Or listening problems, to be more accurate.

[videoclog]

There are a few nice (but not exactly brilliant) pieces by Mahler, such as the first three movements from the First Symphony and the second and third movement from the Second and I remember a few interesting songs but he's not a first class composer.

I was listening to Brahms's Second Piano Concerto and his Piano Pieces Op. 76 this afternoon: what a joy and musicality compared to this pompous rubbish. No wonder they've always adored Mahler in Amsterdam...

[videoclog]

Yes, I loved Mahler's music when I was sixteen. Now that I'm thirty I see that his music is noisy and vulgar. But I'm still having a good time with Richard Strauss's witty music.