Symphony No 7 in E minor by Gustav Mahler 1. Langsam-Allegro 2. Nachtmusik I 3. Scherzo 4. Nachtmusik II 5. Rondo-Finale Wiener Philharmoniker Leonard Bernstein, Conductor 1974
Perhaps the least often played of Mahler’s works, but my favorite. Amazing orchestration, use of unusual instruments or instruments used in unusual combinations. And the coda of the finale…just wow. Bernstein was among the early champions of these symphonies, I remember his recording with the NYP from the 1960s…amazing.
For historic performance, you should listen to Jascha Horenstein's live public performance in the BBC Proms of 1969, with the New Philharmonia Orchestra. ua-cam.com/video/kZoKDi7OlRI/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/tscEPHrMR6I/v-deo.html
Great conductor yes, but "one the greatest" is debatable. Well, probably for American standards... ;) And as a composer, not even close to be "one of the greatest"... Please....
@@bruno_dias As a Conductor yes and as a Composer of On the Waterfront and West Side Story, Yes but he was no Mahler , Mahler in many people's opinion now consider him the greatest Symphony Composer of All Time!!!!!
@@scottmiller6495 As a condutor only if you like showboating, media interviews and the like. Many 20th century conductors are considered, by experts, better than Bernstein. As a composer, please... He's not even at the level of some great film composers, let alone being comparable to the greatest 20th century composers. Are you oblivious to classical music of the 20th century?
Every Conductor has his own interpretation of Beethoven 5th, but this is actually incredible! My favorite Symphony #7 Song of the Night! Is exactly how Mahler Visualize this Music! ❤❤❤❤❤
back in 1982 my 8th grade teacher Ms. Green planted a seed in my mind/head, about Leornard Berstein. never heard of him before she/Ms. Green kept mentioned him in class, throughout the school year. little did I know that seed she planted back in the 80's would take root/grow, many years later... I still love my Pop, R&B, and Funk music. I wasn't into classical music growing up in the 80's. but thanks to Ms. Green. I am into it now. and have been for a while. and it was her who brought Leonard Bernstein into my consciousness.
Une symphonie très originale, la plus extravagante et mystérieuse de Gustav Mahler, qui dévoile des rythmes étranges et des groupements d'instruments improbables, sans doute celle que je préfère de ce grand compositeur, car il y a beaucoup d'humour et peu de mélancolie dans cette symphonie. Bernstein semble beaucoup s'amuser en dirigeant ce monument musical.
Le génie de Bernstein, littéralement habité par l'esprit de Mahler ! Et à Vienne, avec les Philharmoniker qu'il a dû engueuler pour les faire revenir à "leur" musique, qu'ils avaient totalement oubliée, ile s'est littéralement explosé !
Awesome performance of a great Mahler symphony! BRAVO to Maestro Lenny Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic! Thank you so very much for this wide-screen hi-fi stereo upload!!
Every Bernstein album in my record library became etched in my memory, making it difficult to accept other interpretations. Sadly, I never heard him live…. Bernstein is always so convincing, he just sweeps you…. Thank you for posting this invaluable document…. You can definitely hear the new century in this work of genius: the tortured chromaticism, which threatens to almost neutralize tonality at certain points; the grotesque, sarcastic gestures, the unorthodox orchestration, the “ruthless counterpoint” to use Mahler’s own phrase…. Spirits such as Mahler, among others, FELT the slow, inexorable approach of the catastrophic events of the twentieth century....
Mahler was introduced to America by Bernstein's predecessor the Greek conductor of the N.York Philharmonic Dimitri Mitropoulos. His successor Lenny embraced Mahler and today is still considered one of the best Mahlerians
Thank you very much for this. Although I believe that Mahler's Das Lied and especially his 9th Symphony are his most profound works, as a Trumpet player and major leage Mahler fanatic the first movment of his 7th is my favorite. Especially the trumpet suspension and afterwoards (here at 10:45 - 13:33). And of course from a trumpetistic standpoint (only) , the Rondo movement speaks for itself. Bernstein's approach here is very consistant with his NY Philharmonic recorded performance, which might be a litter better than this excellant version. Bernstein OWNS this work! Thnak you again!
Alan Ross, I agree the 9th is a profound work. One can hear it differently at each sitting. I believe Leonard Bernstein in one of the Harvard "Norton Lectures" addressed the 9th symphony, particularly the 4th movement, as earthly existence gradually disappearing, like a cloud, into an infinite blue sky. If I had the power to raise one to sainthood it would be Leonard Bernstein for introducing me to Mahler many years ago. I wouldn't care to be without the shadowy, nocturnal sounds of the 7th symphony. Bravo!
@@johkkarkalis8860 Yup as it pertains to his comment "as earthly existence gradually disappearing", I'm positive you also love Bruckner's 9th and Strauss' Four Last Songs (particularly in this context the 4th Song). You probably have checked Bruno Walter's Mahler recordings. He's my co-favorite for Mahler and just about everything else. Keep listening Baby!!!!!
@@academic11 You are downright scary! You read minds. I love the Bruckner 9th as well as the 8th, the 7th, the 6th, the 5th.......You get the point. Why Anton Bruckner and Gustav Mahler are lumped together like conjoined twins has always made me smile just a bit. True, their symphonies were of considerable length and they were both Austrians, but I approach each with a separate mind set. If duration alone has merit, then why not Havergal Brian's "Gothic" symphony #1? At the tender age of 82 I'm not ready for Havergal. Length is just a matter of perception. Bruckner and Mahler took the time required to say what they had say. Yes, the valedictory mood of "Im Abendrot" for me reflects the finale of the Mahler 9th. I will admit to a guilty pleasure, but don't tell anyone. I caught a performance at Severance Hall in Cleveland years ago of the Deryck Cooke performing version of the Mahler 10th with Simon Rattle, long before the knighthood. I was overwhelmed. Leonard Bernstein, among others, wouldn't touch it, but I found it moving. So I am a philistine.
@@johkkarkalis8860 Back at you on the Scary! I'm just a 72 year old Baby Boomer. While you're at you might also want to check out Trane, McCoy Tyner, Freddie Hubbard, Booker Little, Bobby Hutcherson (etc. etc. etc. ET AL !!!). Although I'm sure you have.
@@academic11 Yup. to McCoy Tyner and Freddie Hubbard. I don't know what this says about me, but I can listen to Miles all day. How he got that sound remains a mystery to me. I also like piano, especially Bill Evan's and Thelonious. I wouldn't be without be without Billie Holiday. She was long ago but she could just as well be speaking to our own angst ridden time. Now lets hear it for the big guy. Johann Sebastian Bach. He was there at the creation. I don't feel 82 (well maybe early in the morning) . My former long distance running kept me going (no pun intended).
I disagree with comments that the tempo is too fast. Many also criticized his tempo of the first movement of the sixth, and the andante of the sixth third instead of second. Mahler himself said, while rehearsing his eighth, said, " If there's anything that you think needs to be changed in my music, I not only give you permission, but you are honor bound to do it." That's why we get to argue about everything 😅❤❤
Pas la plus connue ni la plus aimée des symphonies de Maher, mais.... avec Bernstein, les Wiener Philharmoniker n'ont pu s'y échapper, et tant mieux pour nous !
I feel that the way into this symphony is to regard it as the "antidote" to the "sickness unto death" of the Sixth. The first two movements are the gradual awakening from the Stroke; the Scherzo is the chilling reminder of what we are recovering from; the 2nd Nachtmusik is rest and recovery; the Rondo finale shows the full recovery, because all the many false cadences turn out to be silly little things all running off in random directions, utterly unlike the horror of the false cadence of Doom in the Sixth. Oh, the Symphony does darken again before the end - but slams us back into triumphant life in the coda. My two cents.
Es dificil , ho faig per primera vegada , ........vaig ara al Conservatori , a la clase , i , Ho posare amb ordre I , repasare el allegro per a dema amb la professora de Armonia ❤
1974 still hardly any women in the orchestra yet, would take several more years for that to happen. Perhaps it's the quality of the recording but I like the Claudio Abbado recording much better of this symphony.
I know a lot of Mahler's symphonies, and find the earlier ones a lot more compelling. The 7th is just too scattershot for my taste. I guess I just don't get it.
In the case of Bernstein's Mahler, the playing speed is too fast. In the distant past, there was a time when Karajan was regarded as a sporty conductor and played at a fast tempo. Probably this 90% tempo when conducted by the real Mahler. However, it is too early. I would like to send "Bravo" to the geniuses of the Vienna Philharmonic who are keeping up with it.
Lennie Bernstein will forever be my favorite conductor, what a genius!🙏
Perhaps the least often played of Mahler’s works, but my favorite. Amazing orchestration, use of unusual instruments or instruments used in unusual combinations. And the coda of the finale…just wow. Bernstein was among the early champions of these symphonies, I remember his recording with the NYP from the 1960s…amazing.
11:48 The Heaven comes to this land... Thank you, Maestro Bernstein ! And thank you very much, Gustav Mahler for this wonderful symphony !!!!
Leonard Bernstein was indeed blessed ,good looks ,extreme talent and tons of charisma .
My favorite Mahler Symphony! All music no singing to describe what he is saying! Song of the Night! ❤
A historic performance from one of the greatest composers/ conductors of the 20th century !!!!!
For historic performance, you should listen to Jascha Horenstein's live public performance in the BBC Proms of 1969, with the New Philharmonia Orchestra.
ua-cam.com/video/kZoKDi7OlRI/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/tscEPHrMR6I/v-deo.html
Great conductor yes, but "one the greatest" is debatable. Well, probably for American standards... ;) And as a composer, not even close to be "one of the greatest"... Please....
@@bruno_dias As a Conductor yes and as a Composer of On the Waterfront and West Side Story, Yes but he was no Mahler , Mahler in many people's opinion now consider him the greatest Symphony Composer of All Time!!!!!
@@scottmiller6495 As a condutor only if you like showboating, media interviews and the like. Many 20th century conductors are considered, by experts, better than Bernstein. As a composer, please... He's not even at the level of some great film composers, let alone being comparable to the greatest 20th century composers. Are you oblivious to classical music of the 20th century?
@@bruno_dias Ok very good 😊
1. Langsam-Allegro 0:07
2. Nachtmusik I 21:38
3. Scherzo 38:18
4. Nachtmusik II 48:20
5. Rondo-Finale 01:03:05
It was mandatory viewing in my household òf the Young People's Concerts from Carnegie Hall. RIP Lennie
49:12 The harmony is simple, yet it gives me chills EVERY SINGLE TIME I hear it
Every Conductor has his own interpretation of Beethoven 5th, but this is actually incredible! My favorite Symphony #7 Song of the Night! Is exactly how Mahler Visualize this Music! ❤❤❤❤❤
back in 1982 my 8th grade teacher Ms. Green planted a seed in my mind/head, about Leornard Berstein. never heard of him before she/Ms. Green kept mentioned him in class, throughout the school year. little did I know that seed she planted back in the 80's would take root/grow, many years later... I still love my Pop, R&B, and Funk music. I wasn't into classical music growing up in the 80's. but thanks to Ms. Green. I am into it now. and have been for a while. and it was her who brought Leonard Bernstein into my consciousness.
The journey will never end.
I always talk about the "seed" to people around me. The seed was planted in me when I first started to learn how to play the piano at the age of 6 :)
Et la fin de la symphonie est d'une gaieté et d'une joyeuseté folle ! Merci pour cette mise en ligne.
Une symphonie très originale, la plus extravagante et mystérieuse de Gustav Mahler, qui dévoile des rythmes étranges et des groupements d'instruments improbables, sans doute celle que je préfère de ce grand compositeur, car il y a beaucoup d'humour et peu de mélancolie dans cette symphonie. Bernstein semble beaucoup s'amuser en dirigeant ce monument musical.
FABULOUS!!!
Maravilloso dierector
Le génie de Bernstein, littéralement habité par l'esprit de Mahler ! Et à Vienne, avec les Philharmoniker qu'il a dû engueuler pour les faire revenir à "leur" musique, qu'ils avaient totalement oubliée, ile s'est littéralement explosé !
Awesome performance of a great Mahler symphony! BRAVO to Maestro Lenny Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic! Thank you so very much for this wide-screen hi-fi stereo upload!!
Every Bernstein album in my record library became etched in my memory,
making it difficult to accept other interpretations.
Sadly, I never heard him live….
Bernstein is always so convincing, he just sweeps you….
Thank you for posting this invaluable document….
You can definitely hear the new century in this work of genius: the tortured chromaticism, which threatens to almost neutralize tonality at certain points; the grotesque, sarcastic gestures, the unorthodox orchestration, the “ruthless counterpoint” to use Mahler’s own phrase….
Spirits such as Mahler, among others, FELT the slow, inexorable approach of the catastrophic events of the twentieth century....
Agreed. No one seemed to "get" Mahler like Bernstein.
Very perceptive comments at a deeper level. If artists are the canaries in the coal mines, what are they saying today?
Bernstein? no other conductor comes close
@@lawrencetendler7747 Really? In Hollywood standards, maybe?
✨✨Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)✨✨
✨Symphony No. 7 *(1904-05)* ✨
0:00:08 I. *Langsam (Adagio) -*
*Allegro risoluto, ma*
*non troppo*
0:21:40 II. *Nachtmusik I.* 🌜
*Allegro moderato*
0:38:19 III. *Scherzo. Schattenhaft.*
*Fließend aber nicht zu schnell*
0:48:22 IV. *Nachtmusik II.* 🌜🌛
*Andante amoroso*
1:03:10 V. *Rondo - Finale (Allegro*
*ordinario)*
1:21:13 *Applause*
Vienna Philharmonic
Leonard Bernstein, conductor
*Musikverein*
*Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹 1974*
Thank you for the beautiful time stamp. Most well done! /:-)
The foot stomping followed by dancing by Bernstein 45 :12 combined with the music is fantastic .
Mahler was introduced to America by Bernstein's predecessor the Greek conductor of the N.York Philharmonic Dimitri Mitropoulos. His successor Lenny embraced Mahler and today is still considered one of the best Mahlerians
Mahler , ho tinc com una ajuda per a fer el treball de Armonia ❤
Mahler and Bernstein are joined at the hip.
The longest symphony ever composed can be found and listened on UA-cam, composed by ThePolyMath
@@swinger9374 I don't care. The real longest symphony is Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony.
@@jgesselberty The aforementioned symphony composed by PolyMath is 1:48:11, very long.
Thank you very much for this. Although I believe that Mahler's Das Lied and especially his 9th Symphony are his most profound works, as a Trumpet player and major leage Mahler fanatic the first movment of his 7th is my favorite. Especially the trumpet suspension and afterwoards (here at 10:45 - 13:33). And of course from a trumpetistic standpoint (only) , the Rondo movement speaks for itself. Bernstein's approach here is very consistant with his NY Philharmonic recorded performance, which might be a litter better than this excellant version. Bernstein OWNS this work! Thnak you again!
Alan Ross, I agree the 9th is a profound work. One can hear it differently at each sitting.
I believe Leonard Bernstein in one of the Harvard "Norton Lectures" addressed the 9th symphony, particularly the 4th movement, as earthly existence gradually disappearing, like a cloud, into an infinite blue sky.
If I had the power to raise one to sainthood it would be Leonard Bernstein for introducing me to Mahler many years ago.
I wouldn't care to be without the shadowy, nocturnal sounds of the 7th symphony.
Bravo!
@@johkkarkalis8860 Yup as it pertains to his comment "as earthly existence gradually disappearing", I'm positive you also love Bruckner's 9th and Strauss' Four Last Songs (particularly in this context the 4th Song). You probably have checked Bruno Walter's Mahler recordings. He's my co-favorite for Mahler and just about everything else. Keep listening Baby!!!!!
@@academic11 You are downright scary!
You read minds.
I love the Bruckner 9th as well as the 8th, the 7th, the 6th, the 5th.......You get the point.
Why Anton Bruckner and Gustav Mahler are lumped together like conjoined twins has always made me smile just a bit. True, their symphonies were of considerable length and they were both Austrians, but I approach each with a separate mind set.
If duration alone has merit, then why not Havergal Brian's "Gothic" symphony #1? At the tender age of 82 I'm not ready for Havergal.
Length is just a matter of perception. Bruckner and Mahler took the time required to say what they had say.
Yes, the valedictory mood of "Im Abendrot" for me reflects the finale of the Mahler 9th.
I will admit to a guilty pleasure, but don't tell anyone. I caught a performance at Severance Hall in Cleveland years ago of the Deryck Cooke performing version of the Mahler 10th with Simon Rattle, long before the knighthood. I was overwhelmed.
Leonard Bernstein, among others, wouldn't touch it, but I found it moving.
So I am a philistine.
@@johkkarkalis8860 Back at you on the Scary! I'm just a 72 year old Baby Boomer. While you're at you might also want to check out Trane, McCoy Tyner, Freddie Hubbard, Booker Little, Bobby Hutcherson (etc. etc. etc. ET AL !!!). Although I'm sure you have.
@@academic11 Yup. to McCoy Tyner and Freddie Hubbard.
I don't know what this says about me, but I can listen to Miles all day. How he got that sound remains a mystery to me.
I also like piano, especially Bill Evan's and Thelonious.
I wouldn't be without be without Billie Holiday. She was long ago but she could just as well be speaking to our own angst ridden time.
Now lets hear it for the big guy.
Johann Sebastian Bach.
He was there at the creation.
I don't feel 82 (well maybe early in the morning) .
My former long distance running kept me going (no pun intended).
I disagree with comments that the tempo is too fast. Many also criticized his tempo of the first movement of the sixth, and the andante of the sixth third instead of second. Mahler himself said, while rehearsing his eighth, said, " If there's anything that you think needs to be changed in my music, I not only give you permission, but you are honor bound to do it." That's why we get to argue about everything 😅❤❤
Al vespre podriem escoltar una opera A reveure ❤
Pas la plus connue ni la plus aimée des symphonies de Maher, mais.... avec Bernstein, les Wiener Philharmoniker n'ont pu s'y échapper, et tant mieux pour nous !
ara , tinc que fer un moderato, o , adagio A veure qu,em surt ....❤
♥️
30:42 This cello solo is amazing
I've always liked the movements of the 7th, but am not sure they all come together to make a cohesive symphony.
I feel that the way into this symphony is to regard it as the "antidote" to the "sickness unto death" of the Sixth. The first two movements are the gradual awakening from the Stroke; the Scherzo is the chilling reminder of what we are recovering from; the 2nd Nachtmusik is rest and recovery; the Rondo finale shows the full recovery, because all the many false cadences turn out to be silly little things all running off in random directions, utterly unlike the horror of the false cadence of Doom in the Sixth. Oh, the Symphony does darken again before the end - but slams us back into triumphant life in the coda. My two cents.
Hmm...thank you for this explication
GRAZIE a
@LeVampire666
3 mesi fa
1. Langsam-Allegro 0:07
2. Nachtmusik I 21:38
3. Scherzo 38:18
4. Nachtmusik II 48:20
5. Rondo-Finale 01:03:05
Why was the camera not on the harp for that glissando?
Wish the ending applause part wasn't cut off.
What is the curved brass instrument heard at the start of the symphony ? Is it a Wagner tuba or something else ?
tenor horn....actually a baritone horn!
1:09:50 - Rondo, chamber music
I , dema tinc clase de Armonia amb la professora L,hi ensenyarem , tots , ho que em fet Jo , he fet un allegro ❤
43:17 martin scorsese in the background?
Bernstein sure as shit had a grip on Mahler! And vice-versa.
Es dificil , ho faig per primera vegada , ........vaig ara al Conservatori , a la clase , i , Ho posare amb ordre I , repasare el allegro per a dema amb la professora de Armonia ❤
1:20:45 The sunrise begins here glorious and magnificent!!!! Another day comes to us !!!
1974 still hardly any women in the orchestra yet, would take several more years for that to happen. Perhaps it's the quality of the recording but I like the Claudio Abbado recording much better of this symphony.
1:03:06
I know a lot of Mahler's symphonies, and find the earlier ones a lot more compelling. The 7th is just too scattershot for my taste. I guess I just don't get it.
Mahler symphonies reduce instrumentalists to machinists who produce tones.
Bernstein seems to have lost the momentum of this piece which is surprising as he is usually one to pep up a piece.
In the case of Bernstein's Mahler, the playing speed is too fast.
In the distant past, there was a time when Karajan was regarded as a sporty conductor and played at a fast tempo.
Probably this 90% tempo when conducted by the real Mahler. However, it is too early.
I would like to send "Bravo" to the geniuses of the Vienna Philharmonic who are keeping up with it.