That this was actually played at the Proms says to me that this work has been accepted into the repertoire. There really is nothing like it. It's both universal and personal, which is why most of us sob when we hear it. I have known this music for over 50 years now. It still always moves me. Thanks and best
Absolutely sublime, the best version of the Tenth I have heard, great conductor and orchestra...words are meaningless here..."whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent" in the face of so much beauty. sd goh (malaysia)
Have you heard the Yoel Gamzou's version? By the way, Mahler left more than a sketch behind. He had the entire work laid out from end to end. It is VERY clear where he was going. Conjectural passages aside, the four-staff version he left behind is very specific, to the point of his indicating orchestral touches such as the 5th movements sole flute line. Slatkin went over the versions at one point and was impressed by how the assorted arrangers had reached the same textural conclusions.
The score does call for muffled drum - Mahler picked this idea up from a funeral procession for a deceased fireman in New York - The cortege passed down Central Park West outside Mahler's residence and he heard the muffled drum in that cortege from his window several floors above the street - or so the story goes.
The glass noise at the end isn't part of it, is it? It actually fits pretty well, like a brokenhearted man giving his last breath and dropping his whiskey cup.
All the anguished torment of love and betrayal and loss and death - all of the most painful elements of being human in one piece of music.
That this was actually played at the Proms says to me that this work has been accepted into the repertoire. There really is nothing like it. It's both universal and personal, which is why most of us sob when we hear it. I have known this music for over 50 years now. It still always moves me. Thanks and best
19:48
Absolutely sublime, the best version of the Tenth I have heard, great conductor and orchestra...words are meaningless here..."whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent" in the face of so much beauty. sd goh (malaysia)
Achingly beautiful. Faithfully rendered.
Maybe the best flute solo I've heard in this work.
Mahler's 10th always makes me cry!
I firmly believe that the ending of this beautiful work is the full acceptance of death and the peace that follows
For me, from
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8:39
This was a great flute solo (and the soloist looked like he was alone with the music and that the world had disappeared for him).
Have you heard the Yoel Gamzou's version? By the way, Mahler left more than a sketch behind. He had the entire work laid out from end to end. It is VERY clear where he was going. Conjectural passages aside, the four-staff version he left behind is very specific, to the point of his indicating orchestral touches such as the 5th movements sole flute line. Slatkin went over the versions at one point and was impressed by how the assorted arrangers had reached the same textural conclusions.
The score does call for muffled drum - Mahler picked this idea up from a funeral procession for a deceased fireman in New York - The cortege passed down Central Park West outside Mahler's residence and he heard the muffled drum in that cortege from his window several floors above the street - or so the story goes.
11:15
Man, I guarantee you will never find a woman that will make you feel the way this symphony can.
19:43
The glass noise at the end isn't part of it, is it? It actually fits pretty well, like a brokenhearted man giving his last breath and dropping his whiskey cup.
The E-flat clarinet makes a small mistake and it gives it a way "jazzy-er" feel than what is written =p
Great