Mahler - Myung-Whun Chung - Symphony No.9 Mvt.4 1/3

NHK Symphony Orchestra conducted by Chung Myung-Whun. NHK Hall, Tokyo, 2008.

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• Whun

[nypianist171]

one of the greatest korean conductor.

[TheSanityInspector]

Gorgeous, just gorgeous...I'm glad no one is here with me, watching me blink back tears.

[scmc28]

I don't know much about Mahler's music, but the string sound is awesome. It is as if a huge and luminous castle is being built by the string sound alone.

It is hard to imagine what it was like to listen to this music when it was first played, since it seems to have been adopted by lots of filmmusic. That may be the fate of every art work. Despite a specific context against which it is created, it cannot but be reinterpreted endlessly. "The Absence of Fact in Art"? Does it stop there?

[corean3polar]

fantastic orchestra. breathtaking.

[TheFrancescaViolin]

1:55 is so incredible.

[FabioCostaMusic]

This is the right way to divide bowings in Mahler. Lots, lots and lots of bow. And I love Chung Myung-Whun.

[BMperc22]

what a masterpiece .... amazing ! i'm crying everytime i hear this

[cieobt2]

From Oxford Music Online: "On the podium, much of his technique is reminiscent of Karajan." Yes, very much so.

Music knows no barriers, cultural or comic.

[mrmack2067]

this is beautiful

[BrucknerMotet]

5:25 - I love the way Mahler leads off here with a simple (but hauntingly beautiful) motif on the violin and repeats it four times beginning at five minutes and fifty-two minutes, making sure that each repeat is orchestrated each time with new feeling, leading to what you think is a fifth repeat but which is really the intro (with french horn) to the passage that lasts from six minutes twenty seconds all the way to seven minutes and nineteen seconds when M-W cannot help but shake with approval.

[BrucknerMotet]

1:58 - watch through to the moment at two minutes and twenty seconds when M-W nods his head in vigorous approval of the timing and dynamic control being executed by the string section. He's obviously pleased with the way the strings handled the thrilling build-up to that simple and lovely french horn melody.