Mahler: Symphony No. 10: Adagio - Part 2 of 3
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And the violins at 9:28, how they're almost crying. It's amazing. Mahler is such an inspiration to me as a young musician.
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The chord at 9:09 that comes is just....perfect.
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I live in Lincoln MA, where the Gropius house is. If you ask me, Gropius couldn't design. The house looks silly. Mahler, however, could sure compose.
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And that sense of inevitability colored this entire piece, including the incredibly glorious and beautiful passage starting at 8:23 on this clip. It moved a 10 year old to tears in 1964...... it still does 47 years later.
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....with the single trumpet holding the increasingly chaotic world in some semblance of order, as if all great human endeavor somehow fails in the end...... and once that is realized, then perhaps some semblance of inner peace may be realized..... which is the next part of this incredible first movement by this master of composition, who used to conduct this very same orchestra. Mahler was very superstitious, and knew he would never finish this symphony because his idol Beethoven never did...
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I wore my father's monophonic record of George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra's version of this magnificent beginning to the unfinished symphony out from playing it in 1964. It was my favorite when I was 10 years old: the pathos, the intensely poignant beauty broken suddenly by a twist of melody, which sends the notes off like a flight of escaping birds....... and the quiet interlude before the triumphant blast of Judgement Day, which for all their joy break into break into discord....
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It's an Ab minor
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Haunting, beautiful, terrifying. There's a really cool passage, variations on theme 1, at 4:30, divided strings and amazing textures. Check out the Learning Company series by Robert Greenberg--8 lectures on Mahler. I couldn't relate Berstein's gestures to the music...
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@chrispharis1 I think she was hot ... she went through the New York Philharmonic in 1910 ...
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@radstainforth Do you think she was a Gropius Groupie?
The end of this clip, from 8:00 onwards, is absolutely incredible.
Mahler's 9th is the best symphony ever written in my opinion, but if this were complete, it may have been even better.
Morfee 1 year ago 17
8:25: "btw, I'm totally dying right now. And it hurts. Just so's you know." >.<
petitequinte 1 year ago 11