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

Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor: Part I: Mov. 1, "Trauermarsch. In gemessenem Schritt. Streng. Wie ein Kondukt"

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

Conducted by Leonard Bernstein

Roland Berger, Horn
Vienna Philharmonic

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[jamesh625]

I don't think I saw a single woman in the orchestra...what's up with that?

[Tokkemon]

@jamesh625 The VPO has been traditionally an all-white all-men orchestra. This has changed a little bit (there's only a couple non-white non-male members today), but back in 1970s this policy was in full force.

[TheDavid2222]

@chemiah i don't skin color would make one bit of difference. Actually I KNOW it wouldn't make any difference.

[gretchenne]

@chemiah huhhh.. I feel kind of insulted at what you just said.. Basically you're saying that, if we put white males together, the music they will produce will necessarily be more pure than if we threw in some blacks or yellow or whatever and some women... Your comment is absurd AND stupid. Precisely why right now the VPO are starting to accept more DIFFERENT people. Gees you're clearly a pretty conservative person eh ?

[bervy8]

Love the music and Bernstein, but oh that humming.  Very distracting.

[nickthenab1]

@LordWingDeath you're out of tune...

[nickthenab1]

@Jimbothenoob that's because he had a lot of tragedy in his life so death was pretty much his main theme of composing symphonies. a little fun fact for ya haha!

[gretchenne]

@trombonemassa Well in this case, if you add "conservatism" to "basing your opinion on a person's skin colour or whatever", to me it sounds pretty racist. But yes, otherwise those two concepts do not necessarily go together

[trombonemassa]

@gretchenne Conservative has nothing to do with being racist, I think.

[spartanGUN]

@Jimbothenoob Is that what happened at the end?? Because that's exactly what it sounded like; someone's last gasps of life before signing out.

[LordWingDeath]

They are so out of tune!!!

[TheCrusius]

@jamesh625 perché questa registrazione è almeno di trent'anni fa.....eravamo più maschilisti all'epoca

[Jimbothenoob]

Seems like Mahler was really obsessed with death.

[flylooper]

Thanks for uploading this. I feel like I've taken a trip through the entire gamut of human emotions, images of nature, ländlers (and parodies of them!),Viennese waltzes...the whole 9 yards. A great work, to be sure.

What's amazing is that Mahler kept evolving in his music. By the 10th he was approaching atonality. God only knows what he would have produced had he lived a full life. Maybe getting to go to heaven is really about getting to listen to Mahler's finished 10th, and an 11th , 12th,etc