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The Best of Mahler
The Best of Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911)
Georg Solti
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
As a composer, Mahler acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century. While in his lifetime his status as a conductor was established beyond question, his own music gained wide popularity only after periods of relative neglect which included a ban on its performance in much of Europe during the Nazi era. After 1945 the music was discovered and championed by a new generation of listeners; Mahler then became a frequently performed and recorded composer, a position he has sustained into the 21st century.
Born in humble circumstances, Mahler displayed his musical gifts at an early age. After graduating from the Vienna Conservatory in ...
published: 06 Nov 2014
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Mahler: Adagietto Symphony 5 - Karajan*
Karajan's Mahler is unsurpassed
See also ( very interesting):
Mahler: Adagietto Symphony 5 arranged for Choir :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA1c9jZmdag
See also the adagio's from symphony 4 & 6 by Karajan on this channel & Part 1 & 4 of symphony 9:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kTXstgF20E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvUego50gVg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwwhZGtcnSM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnjnwVS53ko
Symphony 5 part 1 :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUGPzud8rJk
Symphony 5 part 2 :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cyGKsfGXoI
published: 10 Jul 2012
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Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection" (Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado)
Recorded live at the Lucerne Festival, Summer 2003
Culture and Convention Centre Lucerne, 21 August 2003
Eteri Gvazava - soprano
Anna Larsson - mezzo-soprano
Orfeón Donostiarra
José Antonio Sainz Alfaro - chorus master
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Claudio Abbado - conductor
Chapters:
0:00 Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection"
1:37 I. Allegro maestoso
22:26 II. Andante moderato
32:18 III. [Scherzo] In ruhig fließender Bewegung
43:38 IV. Urllicht. Sehr feierlich, aber schlicht
48:42 V. Im Tempo des Scherzo. Wild herausfahrend - "Auferstehn"
Resurrection in Lucerne
Lucerne Festival. 21 August 2003, 7.30 pm. The atmosphere in the large concert hall in the spectacular, steel and glass Culture and Convention Centre built on the shore of Lake Lucerne by the French star architect Jean Nou...
published: 02 Feb 2015
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Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 (Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Abbado)
Recorded live at the Lucerne Festival, Summer 2009
Concert Hall of the KKL Luzern, August 2009
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Claudio Abbado - conductor
Chapters:
0:00 Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1
0:30 I. Langsam, schleppend
17:16 II. Kräftig bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell
24:50 III. Feierlich und gemessen, ohne zu schleppen
36:19 IV. Stürmisch bewegt
Watch this work performed by the Asian Youth Orchestra under the baton of James Judd: https://youtu.be/Kj_iBBmGzsU
Whenever Claudio Abbado conducts the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA, music lovers are in for a very special event. Such was the case in the summer of 2009 when the charismatic Italian conductor opened Lucerne's tradition-rich Festival with a concert featuring Mahler's First Symphony and Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto. In 2003 Abbad...
published: 14 Mar 2015
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Gustav Mahler-Piano Quartet in A minor
Gustav Mahler's Piano Quartet in A minor
For Piano and Strings Trio.
Hope you Enjoy =]
published: 21 Mar 2010
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Keeping Score | Gustav Mahler: Origins (FULL DOCUMENTARY AND CONCERT)
The first of two episodes explores the roots of Gustav Mahler’s music. SFS Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas journeys to rural Bohemia to rediscover the inspirations of Mahler’s music, and traces Mahler’s life through the premiere of his first symphony in 1888. It shocked the contemporary audience, but as MTT and the San Francisco Symphony reveal, on location and in performance, this ground-breaking symphony contains elements of everything else that Mahler composed. Shot on location in the Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, and in performance in San Francisco’s Davies Symphony Hall.
Bonus Features:
Full-length concert performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 1 by the San Francisco Symphony originally filmed in high-definition 16:9 widescreen and 5.1 surround sound.
More information about ...
published: 29 Mar 2020
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Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 10 "Adagio" | Vienna Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein [HD]
Gustav Mahler - Adagio from Symphony No. 10 in F sharp major (incomplete), 1910 | Vienna Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein.
Movements
00:00 I Adagio
Incomplete movements:
Scherzo (sketches)
Purgatorio (sketches)
Scherzo (sketches)
Finale (sketches)
Other Recordings:
Adagietto https://youtu.be/Bj6KLv7kv2Q
Mahler left a substantially complete first movement of his tenth symphony, marked Adagio and published a few years after his death. It is a meditative, tragic movement, rising to a screamingly dissonant chord pierced by a high trumpet note. Mahler died after sketching out the rest. Musicologist Deryck Cooke discovered around 1960 that the composer had written at least a melodic line from the beginning of the second movement to the end, sometimes with detailed indications of instrumentati...
published: 01 Dec 2014
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Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 9 (Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Claudio Abbado)
From the Sala Santa Cecilia, Rome
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
Claudio Abbado
Chapters:
0:00 Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 9 in D major
0:40 I. Andante comodo
25:50 II. Im Tempo eines gemächlichen Ländlers. Etwas täppisch und sehr derb
41:05 III. Rondo-Burlesque. Allegro assai. Sehr trotzig
53:57 IV. Adagio. Sehr langsam und noch zurückhaltend
The Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester (GMJO) was founded in Vienna in 1986, on the initiative of its present musical director, Claudia Abbado. Today it is regarded as the world's leading youth orchestra.
As weil as the encouragement of the next musical generation and working with young musicians, it was of particular importance to him to enable young Austrian musicians to play with their colleagues from the then socialist republics of Czechoslovakia an...
published: 06 Feb 2015
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Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 ~ Funeral March
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D major ~ Movement III Feierlich Und Gemessen, Ohne Zu Schleppen
Mahler's inspiration for this movement was a children's woodcut (above) by the artist, Moritz von Schwind. The illustration depicts a torch-lit funeral procession of animals carrying a fallen huntsman.To describe this ironic and amusing scene, Mahler juxtaposes various musical themes in the movement to recreate the sense of irony the scene represents. The huntsman's funeral is firstly evoked by a minor mode version of the children's round 'Frère Jacques', then the oboes and trumpets offer a mock sentimental accompaniment in a Jewish Klezmer dance. A dreamlike melody from Mahler's 'Songs of a Wayfarer' is an interlude in the movement, and finally, the march returns back with a sudden rush of p...
published: 19 Sep 2011
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Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 3 (Lucerne Festival Orcherstra, Claudio Abbado)
Recorded live at the Lucerne Festival, 19 August 2007
KKL Luzern, 19 August 2007
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Women of the Arnold Schönberg Choir, Vienna
Tölz Boys Choir
Anna Larsson - contralto
Chapters:
0:00 PART I
0:50 I. Kräftig, Entschieden
33:55 PART II
34:10 II. Tempi di Menuetto. Sehr mäßig
43:26 III. Comodo. Scherzando. Ohne Hast
59:44 IV. Sehr langsam. Misterioso. Durchaus ppp "O Mensch! Gib Acht!"*
1:09:14 V. Lustig im Tempo und keck im Ausdruck "Es sungen drei Engel einen süßen Gesang"**
1:13:37 VI. Langsam. Ruhevoll. Empfunden
*Text by Nietzsche: Also sprach Zarathustra
**Text: Des Knaben Wunderhorn
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"Blissful trust"
Those who were able to be there in person are unlikely ever to forget the occasion. Whenever Claudia Abbado conducts Mahler, especially when he is at the he...
published: 10 Feb 2015
1:57:46
The Best of Mahler
The Best of Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911)
Georg Solti
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
As a composer, Mahler acted as a bridge between the 19th-centur...
The Best of Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911)
Georg Solti
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
As a composer, Mahler acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century. While in his lifetime his status as a conductor was established beyond question, his own music gained wide popularity only after periods of relative neglect which included a ban on its performance in much of Europe during the Nazi era. After 1945 the music was discovered and championed by a new generation of listeners; Mahler then became a frequently performed and recorded composer, a position he has sustained into the 21st century.
Born in humble circumstances, Mahler displayed his musical gifts at an early age. After graduating from the Vienna Conservatory in 1878, he held a succession of conducting posts of rising importance in the opera houses of Europe, culminating in his appointment in 1897 as director of the Vienna Court Opera (Hofoper). During his ten years in Vienna, Mahler—who had converted to Catholicism to secure the post—experienced regular opposition and hostility from the anti-Semitic press. Nevertheless, his innovative productions and insistence on the highest performance standards ensured his reputation as one of the greatest of opera conductors, particularly as an interpreter of the stage works of Wagner and Mozart. Late in his life he was briefly director of New York's Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic.
Mahler's œuvre is relatively small; for much of his life composing was necessarily a part-time activity while he earned his living as a conductor. Aside from early works such as a movement from a piano quartet composed when he was a student in Vienna, Mahler's works are designed for large orchestral forces, symphonic choruses and operatic soloists. Most of his twelve symphonic scores are very large-scale works, often employing vocal soloists and choruses in addition to augmented orchestral forces. These works were often controversial when first performed, and several were slow to receive critical and popular approval; exceptions included his Symphony No. 2, Symphony No. 3, and the triumphant premiere of his Eighth Symphony in 1910. Some of Mahler's immediate musical successors included the composers of the Second Viennese School, notably Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg and Anton Webern. Shostakovich and Benjamin Britten are among later 20th-century composers who admired and were influenced by Mahler. The International Gustav Mahler Institute was established in 1955, to honour the composer's life and work.
(0:00) Symphony No.1 in D major - II: Kraftig Bewegt, Doch Nicht Zu Schnell
(6:47) Symphony No.2 in C minor "Resurrection" 5d: Langsam. Misterioso
(13:27) Symphony No.2 in C minor "Resurrection" - 5e. "O glaube, mein Herz, o glaube"
(21:07) Symphony No.3 in D minor - IV: Sehr langsam.
(29:50) Symphony No.3 in D minor - V: Lustig im Tempo und keck im Ausdruck
(33:54) Symphony No.4 in G major - IV: Sehr behaglich "Wir genießen die himmlischen Freuden"
(42:49) Symphony No.5 in C sharp minor - I: Trauermarsch. In gemessenem Schritt. Streng. Wie ein Kondukt
(57:21) Symphony No.5 in C sharp minor - IV: Adagietto. Sehr langsam
(1:08:34) Symphony No.6 in A minor "Tragic" - II: Andante moderato
(1:22:31) Symphony No.7 in E minor - III: Scherzo. Schattenhaft - Trio
(1:32:24) Symphony No.8 in E flat major "Symphony of a Thousand" - Part 1. Hymnus "Veni creator spiritus" - Veni, creator spiritus
(1:36:14) Symphony No.8 in E flat major - Part 2: Final scene from Goethe's Faust - Alles Vergängliche
(1:42:58) Symphony No.9 in D major - 2a. Im Tempo eines gemächlichen Ländlers
(1:45:46) Symphony No.10 in F sharp minor - II: Scherzo I
https://wn.com/The_Best_Of_Mahler
The Best of Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911)
Georg Solti
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
As a composer, Mahler acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century. While in his lifetime his status as a conductor was established beyond question, his own music gained wide popularity only after periods of relative neglect which included a ban on its performance in much of Europe during the Nazi era. After 1945 the music was discovered and championed by a new generation of listeners; Mahler then became a frequently performed and recorded composer, a position he has sustained into the 21st century.
Born in humble circumstances, Mahler displayed his musical gifts at an early age. After graduating from the Vienna Conservatory in 1878, he held a succession of conducting posts of rising importance in the opera houses of Europe, culminating in his appointment in 1897 as director of the Vienna Court Opera (Hofoper). During his ten years in Vienna, Mahler—who had converted to Catholicism to secure the post—experienced regular opposition and hostility from the anti-Semitic press. Nevertheless, his innovative productions and insistence on the highest performance standards ensured his reputation as one of the greatest of opera conductors, particularly as an interpreter of the stage works of Wagner and Mozart. Late in his life he was briefly director of New York's Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic.
Mahler's œuvre is relatively small; for much of his life composing was necessarily a part-time activity while he earned his living as a conductor. Aside from early works such as a movement from a piano quartet composed when he was a student in Vienna, Mahler's works are designed for large orchestral forces, symphonic choruses and operatic soloists. Most of his twelve symphonic scores are very large-scale works, often employing vocal soloists and choruses in addition to augmented orchestral forces. These works were often controversial when first performed, and several were slow to receive critical and popular approval; exceptions included his Symphony No. 2, Symphony No. 3, and the triumphant premiere of his Eighth Symphony in 1910. Some of Mahler's immediate musical successors included the composers of the Second Viennese School, notably Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg and Anton Webern. Shostakovich and Benjamin Britten are among later 20th-century composers who admired and were influenced by Mahler. The International Gustav Mahler Institute was established in 1955, to honour the composer's life and work.
(0:00) Symphony No.1 in D major - II: Kraftig Bewegt, Doch Nicht Zu Schnell
(6:47) Symphony No.2 in C minor "Resurrection" 5d: Langsam. Misterioso
(13:27) Symphony No.2 in C minor "Resurrection" - 5e. "O glaube, mein Herz, o glaube"
(21:07) Symphony No.3 in D minor - IV: Sehr langsam.
(29:50) Symphony No.3 in D minor - V: Lustig im Tempo und keck im Ausdruck
(33:54) Symphony No.4 in G major - IV: Sehr behaglich "Wir genießen die himmlischen Freuden"
(42:49) Symphony No.5 in C sharp minor - I: Trauermarsch. In gemessenem Schritt. Streng. Wie ein Kondukt
(57:21) Symphony No.5 in C sharp minor - IV: Adagietto. Sehr langsam
(1:08:34) Symphony No.6 in A minor "Tragic" - II: Andante moderato
(1:22:31) Symphony No.7 in E minor - III: Scherzo. Schattenhaft - Trio
(1:32:24) Symphony No.8 in E flat major "Symphony of a Thousand" - Part 1. Hymnus "Veni creator spiritus" - Veni, creator spiritus
(1:36:14) Symphony No.8 in E flat major - Part 2: Final scene from Goethe's Faust - Alles Vergängliche
(1:42:58) Symphony No.9 in D major - 2a. Im Tempo eines gemächlichen Ländlers
(1:45:46) Symphony No.10 in F sharp minor - II: Scherzo I
- published: 06 Nov 2014
- views: 681305
11:54
Mahler: Adagietto Symphony 5 - Karajan*
Karajan's Mahler is unsurpassed
See also ( very interesting):
Mahler: Adagietto Symphony 5 arranged for Choir :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA1c9jZmdag
...
Karajan's Mahler is unsurpassed
See also ( very interesting):
Mahler: Adagietto Symphony 5 arranged for Choir :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA1c9jZmdag
See also the adagio's from symphony 4 & 6 by Karajan on this channel & Part 1 & 4 of symphony 9:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kTXstgF20E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvUego50gVg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwwhZGtcnSM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnjnwVS53ko
Symphony 5 part 1 :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUGPzud8rJk
Symphony 5 part 2 :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cyGKsfGXoI
https://wn.com/Mahler_Adagietto_Symphony_5_Karajan
Karajan's Mahler is unsurpassed
See also ( very interesting):
Mahler: Adagietto Symphony 5 arranged for Choir :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA1c9jZmdag
See also the adagio's from symphony 4 & 6 by Karajan on this channel & Part 1 & 4 of symphony 9:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kTXstgF20E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvUego50gVg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwwhZGtcnSM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnjnwVS53ko
Symphony 5 part 1 :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUGPzud8rJk
Symphony 5 part 2 :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cyGKsfGXoI
- published: 10 Jul 2012
- views: 6658497
1:26:28
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection" (Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado)
Recorded live at the Lucerne Festival, Summer 2003
Culture and Convention Centre Lucerne, 21 August 2003
Eteri Gvazava - soprano
Anna Larsson - mezzo-soprano
O...
Recorded live at the Lucerne Festival, Summer 2003
Culture and Convention Centre Lucerne, 21 August 2003
Eteri Gvazava - soprano
Anna Larsson - mezzo-soprano
Orfeón Donostiarra
José Antonio Sainz Alfaro - chorus master
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Claudio Abbado - conductor
Chapters:
0:00 Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection"
1:37 I. Allegro maestoso
22:26 II. Andante moderato
32:18 III. [Scherzo] In ruhig fließender Bewegung
43:38 IV. Urllicht. Sehr feierlich, aber schlicht
48:42 V. Im Tempo des Scherzo. Wild herausfahrend - "Auferstehn"
Resurrection in Lucerne
Lucerne Festival. 21 August 2003, 7.30 pm. The atmosphere in the large concert hall in the spectacular, steel and glass Culture and Convention Centre built on the shore of Lake Lucerne by the French star architect Jean Nouvel is electric. The event was sold out months ago. Here and there a throat is softly cleared, people settle in their seats, their faces alert and expectant. At last, doors open and the members of the newly founded Lucerne Festival Orchestra come on to the platform. There are many very well-known faces: the clarinettist Sabine Meyer and Emmanuel Pahud, the fleet-fingered first flute from the Berliner Philharmoniker, Natalie Gutman among the cellists, members of the Hagen and Alban Berg Quartets among the rank and file of strings, and other players include Albrecht Mayer (oboe), Kolya Blacher (violin) and Wolfram Christ (viola).
Lucerne en fête
What kind of orchestra is this, formed of the most famous instrumentalists, the most celebrated chamber-music players, the most experienced soloists from the world's best orchestras? With Claudio Abbado to conduct it, chief conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker up until the previous year, for whom the Lucerne Festival Orchestra is the realization of a wholly personal dream? One answer, at least, is obvious: lt is an orchestra of superlatives. "After this first appearance", the press agreed, "there can be no argument: orchestral cultivation of this calibre is scarcely to be heard anywhere else."
The Lucerne Festival has a long tradition of generating its own orchestras. The best remembered is probably the Swiss Festival Orchestra, which assembled "the best orchestral musicians of Switzerland" (to quote the Original memorandum of association) to give the concerts that formed the festival's backbone every year from 1943 to 1993. But the idea of an elite orchestra goes back further, to the summer of 1938. This was the year in which Arturo Toscanini dissociated himself from the Salzburg Festival for political reasons; a handpicked orchestra was formed for him to conduct in Lucerne (the members of the legendary Busch Quartet, banned frorn playing in Germany, sat at the first desks of the string section) and his "concert de gala" marked the moment when Lucerne was new-born as a festival city.
https://wn.com/Gustav_Mahler_Symphony_No._2_Resurrection_(Lucerne_Festival_Orchestra,_Claudio_Abbado)
Recorded live at the Lucerne Festival, Summer 2003
Culture and Convention Centre Lucerne, 21 August 2003
Eteri Gvazava - soprano
Anna Larsson - mezzo-soprano
Orfeón Donostiarra
José Antonio Sainz Alfaro - chorus master
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Claudio Abbado - conductor
Chapters:
0:00 Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection"
1:37 I. Allegro maestoso
22:26 II. Andante moderato
32:18 III. [Scherzo] In ruhig fließender Bewegung
43:38 IV. Urllicht. Sehr feierlich, aber schlicht
48:42 V. Im Tempo des Scherzo. Wild herausfahrend - "Auferstehn"
Resurrection in Lucerne
Lucerne Festival. 21 August 2003, 7.30 pm. The atmosphere in the large concert hall in the spectacular, steel and glass Culture and Convention Centre built on the shore of Lake Lucerne by the French star architect Jean Nouvel is electric. The event was sold out months ago. Here and there a throat is softly cleared, people settle in their seats, their faces alert and expectant. At last, doors open and the members of the newly founded Lucerne Festival Orchestra come on to the platform. There are many very well-known faces: the clarinettist Sabine Meyer and Emmanuel Pahud, the fleet-fingered first flute from the Berliner Philharmoniker, Natalie Gutman among the cellists, members of the Hagen and Alban Berg Quartets among the rank and file of strings, and other players include Albrecht Mayer (oboe), Kolya Blacher (violin) and Wolfram Christ (viola).
Lucerne en fête
What kind of orchestra is this, formed of the most famous instrumentalists, the most celebrated chamber-music players, the most experienced soloists from the world's best orchestras? With Claudio Abbado to conduct it, chief conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker up until the previous year, for whom the Lucerne Festival Orchestra is the realization of a wholly personal dream? One answer, at least, is obvious: lt is an orchestra of superlatives. "After this first appearance", the press agreed, "there can be no argument: orchestral cultivation of this calibre is scarcely to be heard anywhere else."
The Lucerne Festival has a long tradition of generating its own orchestras. The best remembered is probably the Swiss Festival Orchestra, which assembled "the best orchestral musicians of Switzerland" (to quote the Original memorandum of association) to give the concerts that formed the festival's backbone every year from 1943 to 1993. But the idea of an elite orchestra goes back further, to the summer of 1938. This was the year in which Arturo Toscanini dissociated himself from the Salzburg Festival for political reasons; a handpicked orchestra was formed for him to conduct in Lucerne (the members of the legendary Busch Quartet, banned frorn playing in Germany, sat at the first desks of the string section) and his "concert de gala" marked the moment when Lucerne was new-born as a festival city.
- published: 02 Feb 2015
- views: 3240698
1:02:14
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 (Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Abbado)
Recorded live at the Lucerne Festival, Summer 2009
Concert Hall of the KKL Luzern, August 2009
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Claudio Abbado - conductor
Chapters:...
Recorded live at the Lucerne Festival, Summer 2009
Concert Hall of the KKL Luzern, August 2009
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Claudio Abbado - conductor
Chapters:
0:00 Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1
0:30 I. Langsam, schleppend
17:16 II. Kräftig bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell
24:50 III. Feierlich und gemessen, ohne zu schleppen
36:19 IV. Stürmisch bewegt
Watch this work performed by the Asian Youth Orchestra under the baton of James Judd: https://youtu.be/Kj_iBBmGzsU
Whenever Claudio Abbado conducts the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA, music lovers are in for a very special event. Such was the case in the summer of 2009 when the charismatic Italian conductor opened Lucerne's tradition-rich Festival with a concert featuring Mahler's First Symphony and Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto. In 2003 Abbado, together with Artistic and Executive Director Michael Haefliger, founded the orchestra, which consists of internationally renowned soloists and chamber musicians - just as did its model, the elite body of musicians that Arturo Toscanini gathered around hirn at the Festival's founding in 1938. lt was with this first-class ensemble that Abbado offered a vividly inspired interpretation of the Mahler. In truth - as the audience's response demonstrated - it left nothing to be desired. The twenty-two-year-old Chinese Pianist Yuja Wang likewise earned enthusiastic applause for her account of the Prokofiev Concerto, which she played with character and nuanced expression.
The theme of nature served es the guiding thread for all the programming choices during the summer of 2009 - a theme with obvious relevance for the LUCERNE FESTIVAL, which is held amid one of the most beautitul landscapes of Europe: its concerts incIude unforgettable views of Lake Lucerne and Alpine panoramas. This theme, es it happens, has eminent musical significance es well: 'Like a sound of nature' is the direction Mahler inscribed at the very beginning of the First Symphony.
https://wn.com/Gustav_Mahler_Symphony_No._1_(Lucerne_Festival_Orchestra,_Abbado)
Recorded live at the Lucerne Festival, Summer 2009
Concert Hall of the KKL Luzern, August 2009
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Claudio Abbado - conductor
Chapters:
0:00 Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1
0:30 I. Langsam, schleppend
17:16 II. Kräftig bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell
24:50 III. Feierlich und gemessen, ohne zu schleppen
36:19 IV. Stürmisch bewegt
Watch this work performed by the Asian Youth Orchestra under the baton of James Judd: https://youtu.be/Kj_iBBmGzsU
Whenever Claudio Abbado conducts the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA, music lovers are in for a very special event. Such was the case in the summer of 2009 when the charismatic Italian conductor opened Lucerne's tradition-rich Festival with a concert featuring Mahler's First Symphony and Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto. In 2003 Abbado, together with Artistic and Executive Director Michael Haefliger, founded the orchestra, which consists of internationally renowned soloists and chamber musicians - just as did its model, the elite body of musicians that Arturo Toscanini gathered around hirn at the Festival's founding in 1938. lt was with this first-class ensemble that Abbado offered a vividly inspired interpretation of the Mahler. In truth - as the audience's response demonstrated - it left nothing to be desired. The twenty-two-year-old Chinese Pianist Yuja Wang likewise earned enthusiastic applause for her account of the Prokofiev Concerto, which she played with character and nuanced expression.
The theme of nature served es the guiding thread for all the programming choices during the summer of 2009 - a theme with obvious relevance for the LUCERNE FESTIVAL, which is held amid one of the most beautitul landscapes of Europe: its concerts incIude unforgettable views of Lake Lucerne and Alpine panoramas. This theme, es it happens, has eminent musical significance es well: 'Like a sound of nature' is the direction Mahler inscribed at the very beginning of the First Symphony.
- published: 14 Mar 2015
- views: 1467512
9:54
Gustav Mahler-Piano Quartet in A minor
Gustav Mahler's Piano Quartet in A minor
For Piano and Strings Trio.
Hope you Enjoy =]
Gustav Mahler's Piano Quartet in A minor
For Piano and Strings Trio.
Hope you Enjoy =]
https://wn.com/Gustav_Mahler_Piano_Quartet_In_A_Minor
Gustav Mahler's Piano Quartet in A minor
For Piano and Strings Trio.
Hope you Enjoy =]
- published: 21 Mar 2010
- views: 1802085
1:49:56
Keeping Score | Gustav Mahler: Origins (FULL DOCUMENTARY AND CONCERT)
The first of two episodes explores the roots of Gustav Mahler’s music. SFS Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas journeys to rural Bohemia to rediscover the insp...
The first of two episodes explores the roots of Gustav Mahler’s music. SFS Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas journeys to rural Bohemia to rediscover the inspirations of Mahler’s music, and traces Mahler’s life through the premiere of his first symphony in 1888. It shocked the contemporary audience, but as MTT and the San Francisco Symphony reveal, on location and in performance, this ground-breaking symphony contains elements of everything else that Mahler composed. Shot on location in the Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, and in performance in San Francisco’s Davies Symphony Hall.
Bonus Features:
Full-length concert performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 1 by the San Francisco Symphony originally filmed in high-definition 16:9 widescreen and 5.1 surround sound.
More information about DVD and Blu-Ray discs available here:
https://www.warnerclassics.com/release/keeping-score-mahler-origins-and-legacy
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The first of two episodes explores the roots of Gustav Mahler’s music. SFS Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas journeys to rural Bohemia to rediscover the inspirations of Mahler’s music, and traces Mahler’s life through the premiere of his first symphony in 1888. It shocked the contemporary audience, but as MTT and the San Francisco Symphony reveal, on location and in performance, this ground-breaking symphony contains elements of everything else that Mahler composed. Shot on location in the Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, and in performance in San Francisco’s Davies Symphony Hall.
Bonus Features:
Full-length concert performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 1 by the San Francisco Symphony originally filmed in high-definition 16:9 widescreen and 5.1 surround sound.
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- published: 29 Mar 2020
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27:20
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 10 "Adagio" | Vienna Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein [HD]
Gustav Mahler - Adagio from Symphony No. 10 in F sharp major (incomplete), 1910 | Vienna Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein.
Movements
00:00 I Adagio
Incomplete ...
Gustav Mahler - Adagio from Symphony No. 10 in F sharp major (incomplete), 1910 | Vienna Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein.
Movements
00:00 I Adagio
Incomplete movements:
Scherzo (sketches)
Purgatorio (sketches)
Scherzo (sketches)
Finale (sketches)
Other Recordings:
Adagietto https://youtu.be/Bj6KLv7kv2Q
Mahler left a substantially complete first movement of his tenth symphony, marked Adagio and published a few years after his death. It is a meditative, tragic movement, rising to a screamingly dissonant chord pierced by a high trumpet note. Mahler died after sketching out the rest. Musicologist Deryck Cooke discovered around 1960 that the composer had written at least a melodic line from the beginning of the second movement to the end, sometimes with detailed indications of instrumentation and harmony, sometimes with less information, sometimes with nothing but the melodic line. He used this sketch to produce a "performing version" in which to Mahler's material he added, where needed, countermelodies, harmonies, and orchestration. Later Cooke redid his completion, using a larger orchestra. The interior of the symphony comprises two scherzos divided by a movement called "Purgatorio," based on the accompaniment to one of his early Wunderhorn songs. The first scherzo is grotesque, the second more dramatic, with a great deal of good humor. The fourth movement ends with a muffled bass drum stroke, an effect Mahler observed at a New York City fireman's funeral procession. The final movement is a struggle movement, faster in tempo, not yielding easy answers, and reprising the screaming chord of the first movement. Is this completed version valid? Many conductors, including arch-Mahlerite Leonard Bernstein, did not think so. This writer accepts it as fascinating listening which is never less than at least a good imitation of Mahler, and frequently coming close to the genuine article.
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Gustav Mahler - Adagio from Symphony No. 10 in F sharp major (incomplete), 1910 | Vienna Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein.
Movements
00:00 I Adagio
Incomplete movements:
Scherzo (sketches)
Purgatorio (sketches)
Scherzo (sketches)
Finale (sketches)
Other Recordings:
Adagietto https://youtu.be/Bj6KLv7kv2Q
Mahler left a substantially complete first movement of his tenth symphony, marked Adagio and published a few years after his death. It is a meditative, tragic movement, rising to a screamingly dissonant chord pierced by a high trumpet note. Mahler died after sketching out the rest. Musicologist Deryck Cooke discovered around 1960 that the composer had written at least a melodic line from the beginning of the second movement to the end, sometimes with detailed indications of instrumentation and harmony, sometimes with less information, sometimes with nothing but the melodic line. He used this sketch to produce a "performing version" in which to Mahler's material he added, where needed, countermelodies, harmonies, and orchestration. Later Cooke redid his completion, using a larger orchestra. The interior of the symphony comprises two scherzos divided by a movement called "Purgatorio," based on the accompaniment to one of his early Wunderhorn songs. The first scherzo is grotesque, the second more dramatic, with a great deal of good humor. The fourth movement ends with a muffled bass drum stroke, an effect Mahler observed at a New York City fireman's funeral procession. The final movement is a struggle movement, faster in tempo, not yielding easy answers, and reprising the screaming chord of the first movement. Is this completed version valid? Many conductors, including arch-Mahlerite Leonard Bernstein, did not think so. This writer accepts it as fascinating listening which is never less than at least a good imitation of Mahler, and frequently coming close to the genuine article.
- published: 01 Dec 2014
- views: 319606
1:24:08
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 9 (Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Claudio Abbado)
From the Sala Santa Cecilia, Rome
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
Claudio Abbado
Chapters:
0:00 Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 9 in D major
0:40 I. Andante comodo
...
From the Sala Santa Cecilia, Rome
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
Claudio Abbado
Chapters:
0:00 Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 9 in D major
0:40 I. Andante comodo
25:50 II. Im Tempo eines gemächlichen Ländlers. Etwas täppisch und sehr derb
41:05 III. Rondo-Burlesque. Allegro assai. Sehr trotzig
53:57 IV. Adagio. Sehr langsam und noch zurückhaltend
The Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester (GMJO) was founded in Vienna in 1986, on the initiative of its present musical director, Claudia Abbado. Today it is regarded as the world's leading youth orchestra.
As weil as the encouragement of the next musical generation and working with young musicians, it was of particular importance to him to enable young Austrian musicians to play with their colleagues from the then socialist republics of Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Thus, the GMJO became the first international youth orchestra to hold open auditions in the countries of the former Eastern bloc. In 1992, the GMJO opened up to musicians aged up to 26 from all over Europa. As the youth orchestra for the whole of Europe, it is under the patronage of the European Council.
A jury authorized by Claudio Abbado makes its selection from the many candidates at auditions held in more than twenty-five European cities each year.
- Violin I
Raphael Christ, Germany (Leader/ Konzertmeister) / Emilie Belaud, France / Adriana Coines Escriche, Spain / Elisabeth Eibensteiner, Austria / Gustav Frielinghaus, Germany / Aya Georgieva, Bulgaria / Yury Gorbachev, Russia / Desirée Justo Castilla, Cuba / Alexandra Krivoborodov, Germany / Jana Kuhlmann, Germany / Carolina Kurkowski Perez, Poland / Lorenzo Lucca, Italy / Franziska Mantel, Germany / Lisa Obert, Germany / Anna Maria Paatz, Germany / Marie-Stephanie Radauer-Plank, Austria / Carmel Raz, Israel / Isabelle Reinisch, Austria / Janka Ryf, Switzerland / Mariella Schorn, Austria / Yunna Shevchenko, Russia / Alexandra Shipilo, Russia / Dessislava Tcholakova, Bulgaria
- Violin II
Angelo Bard, Germany / Thomas Bilowitzki, Germany / Indulis Cintins, Latvia / Beate Dorina, Latvia / Helena Druwé, Belgium / Katarzyna Dul, Poland / Michal Durib, Slovakia / Sergio Guadagno, Italy / Piotr Kaniuga, Poland / Maartje Kraan, Netherlands / Ewoud Mahler, Netherlands / Andrea Mascetti, Switzerland / Martina Mazzon, Italy
Mara Mikelsone, Latvia / Danilo Pia, Switzerland / Franz-Markus Siegert, Germany / Diet Tilanus, Netherlands / Dimiter Velitchkov, Bulgaria / Anna Wirdefeldt, Sweden
- Viola
Maite Abaloso Candamino, Spanien / Aubrun Ermengarde, Frankreich
Federica Cucignatto, Italien / Marie-Louise De Jong, Niederlande / Anežka Ferencová, Tschechien / Abel Gonzalez Rodriguez, Spanien / Leonardo Jelveh, Italien / Lydia Kappesser, Deutschland / Tomasz Karwan, Polen / Mirabelle Le Thomas, Frankreich / Fabian Lindner, Deutschland / Marcos Lopez Martinez, Spanien / María Rallo Muguruza, Spanien / Paula Romero Rodrigo, Spanien / Marie Walter, Frankreich / Miryam Veggi, Italien
- Violoncello
Maartje-Maria den Herder, Netherlands / Georg Dettweiler, Germany / Benoît Grenet, France / Inge Grevink, Netherlands / Maria Grün, Austria / Christian Hacker, Germany / Gabriel Hopfmüller, Austria / Katarzyna Horbowicz, Poland / Evgeniya Hristova, Bulgaria / Maria Pstrokonska-Nawratil, Poland / Laie Puig Torné, Spain / Jean-Baptiste Schwebel, France / Martin Sikur, Slovenia / Uli Wittalar, Germany
- Double Bass
Sándor Budai, Hungary / Albert Chudzik, Poland / Pierra-Emmanuel da Maîstre, France / Johanee Gonzalez Seijas, Venezuela / Apostol Kossev, Bulgaria / Roman Mosler, Poland / Stanislaw Pajak, Poland / Stefan Rauh, Germany / Christian Todorov, Germany / Tibor Tóth, Romania / Omry Weinberger, Israel / Emilio Yepes Martínez, Spain
- Flute / Flöte
Matthieu Gauci-Ancelin, France / Alvaro Octavio Diaz, Spain / Frauke Oesmann, Germany / Birgit Ramal, Austria / Thomas Saulet, Frence
- Oboe
Nicolas Cock-Vassiliou, France / Lucas Macías Navarro, Spain / Konrad Mika, Poland / Céline Moinet, France /
- Clarinet / Klarinette
Massimo di Trolio, Great Britain / Darío Marinio Varela, Spain / Marcos Pérez Miranda, Spain / Pavel Püspöky, Slovakia / Sandrine Vasseur, France
- Bassoon
Pieter Nuytten, Belgium / Guilhaume Santana, France / Matthias Schottstädt, Germany / Philipp Tutzer, Italy
- French Horn
Fabian Gabriel Borchers, Germany / José Vicente Castelló Vicedo, Spain / Gustavo Castro Barreiro, Spain / Christian Loferer, Germany
lonut Podgoreanu, Romania
- Trumpet
Thomas Hammerschmidt, Austria / Gábor Richter, Hungary / Christian Syperek, Germany / Herbert Zimmermann, Austria
- Trombone
Ruth Davies, Great Britain / Martin Lueger, Austria / Bernhard Stangl, Germany
- Tuba
Ramiro Tejero Morte, Spain
- Percussion
Jakob Weber Egholm, Denmark / Ines Fehr, Germany / Stephan Kostenbader, Germany / Ignacio Molins Bosch, Spain / Heikki Parviainen, Finland
- Harp
Manon Louis, France / Ekaterina Semion, Russia
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From the Sala Santa Cecilia, Rome
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
Claudio Abbado
Chapters:
0:00 Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 9 in D major
0:40 I. Andante comodo
25:50 II. Im Tempo eines gemächlichen Ländlers. Etwas täppisch und sehr derb
41:05 III. Rondo-Burlesque. Allegro assai. Sehr trotzig
53:57 IV. Adagio. Sehr langsam und noch zurückhaltend
The Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester (GMJO) was founded in Vienna in 1986, on the initiative of its present musical director, Claudia Abbado. Today it is regarded as the world's leading youth orchestra.
As weil as the encouragement of the next musical generation and working with young musicians, it was of particular importance to him to enable young Austrian musicians to play with their colleagues from the then socialist republics of Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Thus, the GMJO became the first international youth orchestra to hold open auditions in the countries of the former Eastern bloc. In 1992, the GMJO opened up to musicians aged up to 26 from all over Europa. As the youth orchestra for the whole of Europe, it is under the patronage of the European Council.
A jury authorized by Claudio Abbado makes its selection from the many candidates at auditions held in more than twenty-five European cities each year.
- Violin I
Raphael Christ, Germany (Leader/ Konzertmeister) / Emilie Belaud, France / Adriana Coines Escriche, Spain / Elisabeth Eibensteiner, Austria / Gustav Frielinghaus, Germany / Aya Georgieva, Bulgaria / Yury Gorbachev, Russia / Desirée Justo Castilla, Cuba / Alexandra Krivoborodov, Germany / Jana Kuhlmann, Germany / Carolina Kurkowski Perez, Poland / Lorenzo Lucca, Italy / Franziska Mantel, Germany / Lisa Obert, Germany / Anna Maria Paatz, Germany / Marie-Stephanie Radauer-Plank, Austria / Carmel Raz, Israel / Isabelle Reinisch, Austria / Janka Ryf, Switzerland / Mariella Schorn, Austria / Yunna Shevchenko, Russia / Alexandra Shipilo, Russia / Dessislava Tcholakova, Bulgaria
- Violin II
Angelo Bard, Germany / Thomas Bilowitzki, Germany / Indulis Cintins, Latvia / Beate Dorina, Latvia / Helena Druwé, Belgium / Katarzyna Dul, Poland / Michal Durib, Slovakia / Sergio Guadagno, Italy / Piotr Kaniuga, Poland / Maartje Kraan, Netherlands / Ewoud Mahler, Netherlands / Andrea Mascetti, Switzerland / Martina Mazzon, Italy
Mara Mikelsone, Latvia / Danilo Pia, Switzerland / Franz-Markus Siegert, Germany / Diet Tilanus, Netherlands / Dimiter Velitchkov, Bulgaria / Anna Wirdefeldt, Sweden
- Viola
Maite Abaloso Candamino, Spanien / Aubrun Ermengarde, Frankreich
Federica Cucignatto, Italien / Marie-Louise De Jong, Niederlande / Anežka Ferencová, Tschechien / Abel Gonzalez Rodriguez, Spanien / Leonardo Jelveh, Italien / Lydia Kappesser, Deutschland / Tomasz Karwan, Polen / Mirabelle Le Thomas, Frankreich / Fabian Lindner, Deutschland / Marcos Lopez Martinez, Spanien / María Rallo Muguruza, Spanien / Paula Romero Rodrigo, Spanien / Marie Walter, Frankreich / Miryam Veggi, Italien
- Violoncello
Maartje-Maria den Herder, Netherlands / Georg Dettweiler, Germany / Benoît Grenet, France / Inge Grevink, Netherlands / Maria Grün, Austria / Christian Hacker, Germany / Gabriel Hopfmüller, Austria / Katarzyna Horbowicz, Poland / Evgeniya Hristova, Bulgaria / Maria Pstrokonska-Nawratil, Poland / Laie Puig Torné, Spain / Jean-Baptiste Schwebel, France / Martin Sikur, Slovenia / Uli Wittalar, Germany
- Double Bass
Sándor Budai, Hungary / Albert Chudzik, Poland / Pierra-Emmanuel da Maîstre, France / Johanee Gonzalez Seijas, Venezuela / Apostol Kossev, Bulgaria / Roman Mosler, Poland / Stanislaw Pajak, Poland / Stefan Rauh, Germany / Christian Todorov, Germany / Tibor Tóth, Romania / Omry Weinberger, Israel / Emilio Yepes Martínez, Spain
- Flute / Flöte
Matthieu Gauci-Ancelin, France / Alvaro Octavio Diaz, Spain / Frauke Oesmann, Germany / Birgit Ramal, Austria / Thomas Saulet, Frence
- Oboe
Nicolas Cock-Vassiliou, France / Lucas Macías Navarro, Spain / Konrad Mika, Poland / Céline Moinet, France /
- Clarinet / Klarinette
Massimo di Trolio, Great Britain / Darío Marinio Varela, Spain / Marcos Pérez Miranda, Spain / Pavel Püspöky, Slovakia / Sandrine Vasseur, France
- Bassoon
Pieter Nuytten, Belgium / Guilhaume Santana, France / Matthias Schottstädt, Germany / Philipp Tutzer, Italy
- French Horn
Fabian Gabriel Borchers, Germany / José Vicente Castelló Vicedo, Spain / Gustavo Castro Barreiro, Spain / Christian Loferer, Germany
lonut Podgoreanu, Romania
- Trumpet
Thomas Hammerschmidt, Austria / Gábor Richter, Hungary / Christian Syperek, Germany / Herbert Zimmermann, Austria
- Trombone
Ruth Davies, Great Britain / Martin Lueger, Austria / Bernhard Stangl, Germany
- Tuba
Ramiro Tejero Morte, Spain
- Percussion
Jakob Weber Egholm, Denmark / Ines Fehr, Germany / Stephan Kostenbader, Germany / Ignacio Molins Bosch, Spain / Heikki Parviainen, Finland
- Harp
Manon Louis, France / Ekaterina Semion, Russia
- published: 06 Feb 2015
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10:21
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 ~ Funeral March
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D major ~ Movement III Feierlich Und Gemessen, Ohne Zu Schleppen
Mahler's inspiration for this movement was a children's woodc...
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D major ~ Movement III Feierlich Und Gemessen, Ohne Zu Schleppen
Mahler's inspiration for this movement was a children's woodcut (above) by the artist, Moritz von Schwind. The illustration depicts a torch-lit funeral procession of animals carrying a fallen huntsman.To describe this ironic and amusing scene, Mahler juxtaposes various musical themes in the movement to recreate the sense of irony the scene represents. The huntsman's funeral is firstly evoked by a minor mode version of the children's round 'Frère Jacques', then the oboes and trumpets offer a mock sentimental accompaniment in a Jewish Klezmer dance. A dreamlike melody from Mahler's 'Songs of a Wayfarer' is an interlude in the movement, and finally, the march returns back with a sudden rush of pace with the animals of the forest rushing the huntsman towards his grave. The irony of the movement? How unhappy are these animals with the huntsman's death?
Performed by Leonard Bernstein; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
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Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D major ~ Movement III Feierlich Und Gemessen, Ohne Zu Schleppen
Mahler's inspiration for this movement was a children's woodcut (above) by the artist, Moritz von Schwind. The illustration depicts a torch-lit funeral procession of animals carrying a fallen huntsman.To describe this ironic and amusing scene, Mahler juxtaposes various musical themes in the movement to recreate the sense of irony the scene represents. The huntsman's funeral is firstly evoked by a minor mode version of the children's round 'Frère Jacques', then the oboes and trumpets offer a mock sentimental accompaniment in a Jewish Klezmer dance. A dreamlike melody from Mahler's 'Songs of a Wayfarer' is an interlude in the movement, and finally, the march returns back with a sudden rush of pace with the animals of the forest rushing the huntsman towards his grave. The irony of the movement? How unhappy are these animals with the huntsman's death?
Performed by Leonard Bernstein; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
- published: 19 Sep 2011
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1:41:41
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 3 (Lucerne Festival Orcherstra, Claudio Abbado)
Recorded live at the Lucerne Festival, 19 August 2007
KKL Luzern, 19 August 2007
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Women of the Arnold Schönberg Choir, Vienna
Tölz Bo...
Recorded live at the Lucerne Festival, 19 August 2007
KKL Luzern, 19 August 2007
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Women of the Arnold Schönberg Choir, Vienna
Tölz Boys Choir
Anna Larsson - contralto
Chapters:
0:00 PART I
0:50 I. Kräftig, Entschieden
33:55 PART II
34:10 II. Tempi di Menuetto. Sehr mäßig
43:26 III. Comodo. Scherzando. Ohne Hast
59:44 IV. Sehr langsam. Misterioso. Durchaus ppp "O Mensch! Gib Acht!"*
1:09:14 V. Lustig im Tempo und keck im Ausdruck "Es sungen drei Engel einen süßen Gesang"**
1:13:37 VI. Langsam. Ruhevoll. Empfunden
*Text by Nietzsche: Also sprach Zarathustra
**Text: Des Knaben Wunderhorn
***
"Blissful trust"
Those who were able to be there in person are unlikely ever to forget the occasion. Whenever Claudia Abbado conducts Mahler, especially when he is at the head of his own Lucerne Festival Orchestra, the whole is more than just the sum of its parts thanks to a process that one is tempted to call magical. The present live recording of an acclaimed performance of Mahler's Third Symphony at Lucerne's Culture and Convention Centre on 19 August 2007 provides lasting proof of this and allows us to see that with Abbado ecstasy is never achieved at the expense of musical and rhetorical clarity: a powerful emotional charge is held in check by calm contemplation. Never for a moment does Abbado give undue emphasis to subjective mawkishness or an overtly theatrical sense of worldweariness: Abbado's Mahler is precisely calculated and at the same time intuitively felt.
The musicians of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra were meeting for the Orth time when they assembled in Lucerne in the summer of 2007. Among them were not only a number of distinguished soloists but also experienced principals from the world's foremost orchestras: the leaders were Kolja Blacher and Sebastian Breuninger, while the rank-and-file violin sec-tion behind them included players of the eminence of Mirijam Contzen and llya Gringolts. The cellos ware led by Jens Peter Maintz and Natalia Gutman sitting alongside Valentin Erben of the Alban Berg Quartett and Clemens Hagen, whose sister, Veronika, was a member of the viola section under Wolfram Christ and Diemut Poppen. The woodwind section in-cluded the flautist Jacques Zoon and the ciarinettist Sabine Meyer, while prominent among the brass was the trumpeter Reinhold Friedrich.
All the plavers are friendly with one another es weil as sharing a special affinity for chamber music, which famously makes the greatest demands in terms ofthe need to listen closely to one's colleagues. And it is here thatthis orchestra is unique, a uniqueness clear from the present performance. The large concert hell seerned literally to vibrate with psychic energy, and the intensity with which the musicians responded to even the tiniest fluctuations in the music reached the point where all the players seemed to surpass themselves. "The goal is clear and is shared by all the participants," wrote the critic ofthe Neue ZürcherZeitung; "it seems that in advancing towards this goal, the players achieve a high degree of individual responsibility, while the conductor encourages each and every one ofthem ... to realize his or her potential in orderto benefitthe collective— an example of successful leadership in a highly specialized context. As such, this is more or less the opposite of what people normally assume to be the job of a conductor. What we saw here was emphatically not self-promotion ata stroke butthe experience that something special arises only when people have space in which to develop."
Abbado first recorded Mahler's Third Symphony in 1980, following it up with a second recording in 1999, both of them demonstrating the conductor's particular affinity with the work. His unerring feel tor the narrative structures of this rich and varied score finds expression in an extraordinary sensitivity, aliowing hirn to respond with particular vividnessto a workthat deals with nothing lass than the origins ofthe universe. [...]
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Recorded live at the Lucerne Festival, 19 August 2007
KKL Luzern, 19 August 2007
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Women of the Arnold Schönberg Choir, Vienna
Tölz Boys Choir
Anna Larsson - contralto
Chapters:
0:00 PART I
0:50 I. Kräftig, Entschieden
33:55 PART II
34:10 II. Tempi di Menuetto. Sehr mäßig
43:26 III. Comodo. Scherzando. Ohne Hast
59:44 IV. Sehr langsam. Misterioso. Durchaus ppp "O Mensch! Gib Acht!"*
1:09:14 V. Lustig im Tempo und keck im Ausdruck "Es sungen drei Engel einen süßen Gesang"**
1:13:37 VI. Langsam. Ruhevoll. Empfunden
*Text by Nietzsche: Also sprach Zarathustra
**Text: Des Knaben Wunderhorn
***
"Blissful trust"
Those who were able to be there in person are unlikely ever to forget the occasion. Whenever Claudia Abbado conducts Mahler, especially when he is at the head of his own Lucerne Festival Orchestra, the whole is more than just the sum of its parts thanks to a process that one is tempted to call magical. The present live recording of an acclaimed performance of Mahler's Third Symphony at Lucerne's Culture and Convention Centre on 19 August 2007 provides lasting proof of this and allows us to see that with Abbado ecstasy is never achieved at the expense of musical and rhetorical clarity: a powerful emotional charge is held in check by calm contemplation. Never for a moment does Abbado give undue emphasis to subjective mawkishness or an overtly theatrical sense of worldweariness: Abbado's Mahler is precisely calculated and at the same time intuitively felt.
The musicians of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra were meeting for the Orth time when they assembled in Lucerne in the summer of 2007. Among them were not only a number of distinguished soloists but also experienced principals from the world's foremost orchestras: the leaders were Kolja Blacher and Sebastian Breuninger, while the rank-and-file violin sec-tion behind them included players of the eminence of Mirijam Contzen and llya Gringolts. The cellos ware led by Jens Peter Maintz and Natalia Gutman sitting alongside Valentin Erben of the Alban Berg Quartett and Clemens Hagen, whose sister, Veronika, was a member of the viola section under Wolfram Christ and Diemut Poppen. The woodwind section in-cluded the flautist Jacques Zoon and the ciarinettist Sabine Meyer, while prominent among the brass was the trumpeter Reinhold Friedrich.
All the plavers are friendly with one another es weil as sharing a special affinity for chamber music, which famously makes the greatest demands in terms ofthe need to listen closely to one's colleagues. And it is here thatthis orchestra is unique, a uniqueness clear from the present performance. The large concert hell seerned literally to vibrate with psychic energy, and the intensity with which the musicians responded to even the tiniest fluctuations in the music reached the point where all the players seemed to surpass themselves. "The goal is clear and is shared by all the participants," wrote the critic ofthe Neue ZürcherZeitung; "it seems that in advancing towards this goal, the players achieve a high degree of individual responsibility, while the conductor encourages each and every one ofthem ... to realize his or her potential in orderto benefitthe collective— an example of successful leadership in a highly specialized context. As such, this is more or less the opposite of what people normally assume to be the job of a conductor. What we saw here was emphatically not self-promotion ata stroke butthe experience that something special arises only when people have space in which to develop."
Abbado first recorded Mahler's Third Symphony in 1980, following it up with a second recording in 1999, both of them demonstrating the conductor's particular affinity with the work. His unerring feel tor the narrative structures of this rich and varied score finds expression in an extraordinary sensitivity, aliowing hirn to respond with particular vividnessto a workthat deals with nothing lass than the origins ofthe universe. [...]
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- published: 10 Feb 2015
- views: 1288054