Who but Mahler could string so many major chords together and still portray such desperation and hopelessness. Dashed hopes, ruined aspirations, failed ambitions. “Oh Beauty, O Love, Farewell, farewell.”
Most beautiful adagio ever written. The longing. The desperation. The cynicism. And then death. I cry every time i hear it. Every single time. Sobbing.... Thank you Mahler. Thank you Bernstein
I just cry every time I hear this. I can't help it. It's the celebration of everything that ever existed, whilst at the same time recognizing the end of it all.
When i was 17, my father (long divorced from my mother) gave me some money as a present, and so i obtained the Columbia boxed set of Mahler's symphonies numbers 1, 6 and 9. My mother was a born-again bible thumper, and in her non-religious moments, succumbed to her old addiction to Mantovani. She hated this music, that "awful screechy stuff" .....So my rebellion as a teenager was to morph into a musician. This music was rather major as a turning point in that process.
All the "adagios" or "adagiettos" that Mahler wrote in all his Symphonies may be are the best ever witten. Glorious , directly to the heaven of a terribly suffered man.
If you like the Mahler adagios then I wholeheartedly recommend Bruckner's symphonies - especially the slow movements from the 7th, 8th and 9th, which are, if anything, even more stunning still (and a direct inspiration for Mahler's adagios, especially this one).
Thanks for the suggestions. I've heard them , even more I've heard all his nine symphonies and Of course no doubt that Bruckner was a great reference in Mahler's music as Wagner as well.
Given that discrepant variation in Bernstein's somewhat arguably too many Mahler recordings over decades, perhaps it is better to say that he was "the best Mahler conductor" in many of these (as well as many of his live performances further to this splendid 9th), while being not as 'best' in many of his others (his fairly awful 9th with the circa/near to post Karajan Berliner's being an example of that) - and this especially when he allowed his personal subjectivities to encroach too much on the objectivity of GM's music. That said, who'd ever want to ever be without his his 'best' recordings?!
Hi Ann, well... That may be true for America, I would not know, but in Europe Mahler never has been 'out of style'. Certainly not in the Netherlands, with the great Conductors like Mengelberg, Van Beinum and Bernard Haitink. It is true for me that the ninth, which Bernstein conducted here in Amsterdam with the Concertgebouw orchestra is one of the highlights in my life. A life-changing experience.
That part from 9:32 to 10:58 is my favorite part. I just can't stop listening to it, especially because of that immense, larger-than-life eruption from those French horns! 😍😍
Pretty rare that in a mahler symphony movement, the trumpets come in after 15 minutes. This piece is the one of the purest depiction of heartbreak, truly amazing.
and yet this magnificent farewell manifests such abundance of feeling ...it's filled with supremely well-expressed emotion, and isn't that evidence of life?
I just listened to this for the first time. It is very beautiful. It is kind of like dying at the end. Kind of eeire. When it slowly fades away, I open my eyes and say to myself "I´m still here!"
“And one by one, these spidery strands of sound connecting us to life melt away, vanishing from our fingers even as we hold them. We cling to them as they dematerialize, holding two, and then one. One, and suddenly none. We are half in love with easeful death- now, more than ever, seems it rich to die. To cease upon the midnight with no pain. And in ceasing, we lose it all- and in Mahler’s ceasing, we have gained everything.” - Leonard Bernstein
Bernstein simply understands what Mahler was writing and instinctively knows what he wished us to hear, I recall listening to his lectures on Mahler and it was upon explaining his 10th incomplete symphony that my lifetime love of Mahler grew, and I felt the deep sadness and yearning greatness that he was reaching out to tell to the world, and for the first time I really listened and suddenly I too got Mahler, I cried somewhere near the start of 10 and moved to tears during this symphony too, and the 5th and 6th symphonies is where he started to break from the tradition imposed upon his works to propel him into new heights, I felt his greatness, felt his sadness, knew his unshakable love for his wife alma and suddenly I heard his message and all the melancholy for what was passing by never to return, yet there lay that seed that may still germinate to return what was, in the world, in his life, in the realm of music, his fading life, health, the way the world was turning dark, and a great tradition of classical music was fading into atonal, jazz, bebop pop and chaos, the last of the great Russian composers died never to complete his 10th yet enough of the fragments existed, notes and schemas that this beloved wife alma provided and a sir simon rattle used to finally publish what he may have intended had he lived a little longer, and his heart had not failed him, as he died he spoke these words "Mozart.. Mozart", good bye Mahler you are remembered, fear not
This symphony is not significant just for Mahler or classical music It was a farewell or better word requiem for peace and a declaration of an age of war , depression and misery It was a personel farewell for the innocence that was to be left behind .
Lenny's conducting is simply sublime👌 his movements, his facial expressions...its not just conducting...he's acting out what the composer mean't whilst keeping tempo. It takes a truly great conductor to do that...and Lenny was a truly great conductor.
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musica divina e grande Bernstein che sembra veramente entrare nella musica di Mahler come nessuno. Un'emozione continua che appaga l'animo e rende questa nostra vita bella e godibile. grazie
An ad right in the middle and even Adblock couldn't stop it. Those greedy, uncultured, deracinated little peddlers won't stop until they get into absolutely everything. Disgraceful and infuriating.
@@danfriend9567verminous cretins perhaps to add to the contempt and disgust for what has become in a mere 50 years an appallingly ugly place among the elites who pull the strings and assuage their criminality by an odd penny thrown to some charity.
6:14-6:55 Beautiful violin solo by late concertmaster Gerhart Hetzel, just at 30 years old then. Rainer Küchl sits next to him after just two months of his appointment as concertmaster just at age 20, and served in that position for the next 45(!) years!
The light thins out, the shadow seems unable to take over, the world is revealed by darkness, the light radiates between the branches, the trees intertwine with their branches, the moon falls, the light appears, and here from the shadows form of the figures with a rhythmic step, they seem to advance gently, and here is a flash of light, it is dawn, those nightmares vanish, you can hear the murmur of the water and nature awakens, it is a ballet where everything comes to life and comes to life, joy explodes in the music, everything wakes up and is joy. But then the shadow seems to want to resume the scene, it advances silently. Calm and uncertainty while waiting. And here is the voice of the little beings who lurk in the shadows, which advances... The querulous sound of the violin seems to presage something, but it emanates sadness and perhaps an inner search... the horns enter forcefully, and now everything orchestrates with its deep and singable theme. [...]
Beautifull…Nevertheless, Mahler must have been a happy man being able to write such wonderfull music and getting so much inspiration from the gods of music.
😂 .. That cat was awesome .. He was definitely being motivated by something the people behind the camera were moving around for him though... not so much the music.
Same; I remember when I first watched it. I was curious about what the name of the song was until someone in the comments said it and watched the full movement. Lately, I was having the feeling of listening to every Mahler's symphony. Until now, I started listening to classical music. Thanks for recommending this wonderful masterpiece. It changed my life.
Quiet Mind, spiritually, through this music, I still live in the Bernstein Era. I was 19 the year Lenny died. When I hear his Mahler today I feel young again.
@@yohannesephrem9096 It is funny and strange: When I read a comment on any piece of music it´s most of the time about who is better or worse. But that´s not what music is about. As a prof. musician I know that there might be many musicians somewhere who are better than me. But that doesn´t stop me from making music - or should it? The better or worse question will lead you to nowhere cause it distracts you from the basic points. And those may be: OK, I don´t like it - so what´s the reason? Maybe I´m just used to that special Karajan recording or are there specific aspects in the interpretation that I don´t like? And so on - and so on ... In the end those thoughts will teach you a lot about your approach to music. And you will be much more precise and thoughtful than now.
Bernstein was such a ham on the conductor's stand. The New York music critics did not find his antics appealing. Nor did I. One time he actually fell off after one of his leaps. The orchestra hardly noticed. They had learned to avoid looking at him. Too distracting.
@@robertbangkok Of course I get it. The critics disliked him and the orchestra paid no attention to him during performances. Rehearsals were different.
@@dennismiddlebrooks7027 True or not, we must always keep in mind that the "devil" is actually the ego in Man! purposely misassigned to give agency to the church when only our Universal Progenitor can be the Teacher of Man!
Actually, if you look at the orchestra's faces, they are watching him closely. They were also very well rehearsed. No one pulled sounds out of an orchestra like Lenny did. He WAS the music.
Nothing wrong with some theatrics thrown in for spice ... I think it's great .. You never know, it may have subconsciously affected the performance of the players in a positive way.
Who but Mahler could string so many major chords together and still portray such desperation and hopelessness. Dashed hopes, ruined aspirations, failed ambitions. “Oh Beauty, O Love, Farewell, farewell.”
- Inside the score
Most beautiful adagio ever written. The longing. The desperation. The cynicism. And then death. I cry every time i hear it. Every single time. Sobbing.... Thank you Mahler. Thank you Bernstein
I just cry every time I hear this. I can't help it. It's the celebration of everything that ever existed, whilst at the same time recognizing the end of it all.
When i was 17, my father (long divorced from my mother) gave me some money as a present, and so i obtained the Columbia boxed set of Mahler's symphonies numbers 1, 6 and 9. My mother was a born-again bible thumper, and in her non-religious moments, succumbed to her old addiction to Mantovani. She hated this music, that "awful screechy stuff" .....So my rebellion as a teenager was to morph into a musician. This music was rather major as a turning point in that process.
Music is all I have left
All the "adagios" or "adagiettos" that Mahler wrote in all his Symphonies may be are the best ever witten. Glorious , directly to the heaven of a terribly suffered man.
If you like the Mahler adagios then I wholeheartedly recommend Bruckner's symphonies - especially the slow movements from the 7th, 8th and 9th, which are, if anything, even more stunning still (and a direct inspiration for Mahler's adagios, especially this one).
Thanks for the suggestions. I've heard them , even more I've heard all his nine symphonies and Of course no doubt that Bruckner was a great reference in Mahler's music as Wagner as well.
I recommend the adagio of the 3rd, which I believe not only to be his greatest composition, but one of the greatest pieces in all music.
Bruckner surpassed Mahler.
@@PLTConductorComposer Thanks. I didn't know that.
Lenny.
The best Mahler conductor of the 20th century. His interpretations are so deep and exactly in time.
Bernstein pretty much singlehandedly revived interest in Mahler back in the 60s.
Given that discrepant variation in Bernstein's somewhat arguably too many Mahler recordings over decades, perhaps it is better to say that he was "the best Mahler conductor" in many of these (as well as many of his live performances further to this splendid 9th), while being not as 'best' in many of his others (his fairly awful 9th with the circa/near to post Karajan Berliner's being an example of that) - and this especially when he allowed his personal subjectivities to encroach too much on the objectivity of GM's music. That said, who'd ever want to ever be without his his 'best' recordings?!
He brought Mahler to the public's attention again! I am forever grateful.
Hi Ann, well... That may be true for America, I would not know, but in Europe Mahler never has been 'out of style'. Certainly not in the Netherlands, with the great Conductors like Mengelberg, Van Beinum and Bernard Haitink. It is true for me that the ninth, which Bernstein conducted here in Amsterdam with the Concertgebouw orchestra is one of the highlights in my life. A life-changing experience.
That part from 9:32 to 10:58 is my favorite part. I just can't stop listening to it, especially because of that immense, larger-than-life eruption from those French horns! 😍😍
My favourite part is 0:00 - 27:03
Pretty rare that in a mahler symphony movement, the trumpets come in after 15 minutes.
This piece is the one of the purest depiction of heartbreak, truly amazing.
The sensitivity of the playing, and conducting in the coda is simply incredible...and not a single cough!
I thought so, too, till 26:04. But just let it go. For we, too, are human. Imperfect, wouldn't have it any other way.
Be well.
So very beautiful. The 4th movement is unsurpassed - life holds on by a thread.
snif. So agree
and yet this magnificent farewell manifests such abundance of feeling ...it's filled with supremely well-expressed emotion, and isn't that evidence of life?
@@photo161 Consciousness of the inevitability of death is when the flame of life burns its brightest.
Look at his Move!
Look at his Face!
Finally He becomes Mahler himself.
I just listened to this for the first time. It is very beautiful.
It is kind of like dying at the end. Kind of eeire. When it slowly fades away, I open my eyes and say to myself "I´m still here!"
“And one by one, these spidery strands of sound connecting us to life melt away, vanishing from our fingers even as we hold them. We cling to them as they dematerialize, holding two, and then one. One, and suddenly none. We are half in love with easeful death- now, more than ever, seems it rich to die. To cease upon the midnight with no pain. And in ceasing, we lose it all- and in Mahler’s ceasing, we have gained everything.”
- Leonard Bernstein
Bernstein simply understands what Mahler was writing and instinctively knows what he wished us to hear, I recall listening to his lectures on Mahler and it was upon explaining his 10th incomplete symphony that my lifetime love of Mahler grew, and I felt the deep sadness and yearning greatness that he was reaching out to tell to the world, and for the first time I really listened and suddenly I too got Mahler, I cried somewhere near the start of 10 and moved to tears during this symphony too, and the 5th and 6th symphonies is where he started to break from the tradition imposed upon his works to propel him into new heights,
I felt his greatness, felt his sadness, knew his unshakable love for his wife alma and suddenly I heard his message and all the melancholy for what was passing by never to return, yet there lay that seed that may still germinate to return what was, in the world, in his life, in the realm of music, his fading life, health, the way the world was turning dark, and a great tradition of classical music was fading into atonal, jazz, bebop pop and chaos, the last of the great Russian composers died never to complete his 10th yet enough of the fragments existed, notes and schemas that this beloved wife alma provided and a sir simon rattle used to finally publish what he may have intended had he lived a little longer, and his heart had not failed him, as he died he spoke these words "Mozart.. Mozart", good bye Mahler you are remembered, fear not
this is pure beauty
keith wollenberg
What a superbly interpretation i almost had a heart attack
Bernstein’s greatest conducting performance ever
starting at 22:00, it all begins to fade and die. It's pulls and tugs at the heart and you keep hoping against hope. But no. Death's finality.
Mahler Forever, Director Bernstein Is unique
This symphony is not significant just for Mahler or classical music
It was a farewell or better word requiem for peace and a declaration of an age of war , depression and misery
It was a personel farewell for the innocence that was to be left behind .
Lenny's conducting is simply sublime👌 his movements, his facial expressions...its not just conducting...he's acting out what the composer mean't whilst keeping tempo. It takes a truly great conductor to do that...and Lenny was a truly great conductor.
15:10 This is eargasm.
Mahler Forever
Bernstein here pulls all the emotion I imagine Mahler intended out of an orchestra. The conversation between conductor and orchestra has been modeled.
Putting an ad anywhere on this is criminal. You should be ashamed of yourself.
True ! the music is reaching a climax when suddenly A political gargoyle grins and asks for money.
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@JOHN DAVID COOK My pleasure, hope it helps you all to never get your music interrupted again :)
musica divina e grande Bernstein che sembra veramente entrare nella musica di Mahler come nessuno. Un'emozione continua che appaga l'animo e rende questa nostra vita bella e godibile. grazie
I love watching Leonard Bernstein work!
Bernstein Mahler best performance of all Times, Thanks for Art🙏❤️
Really beautiful addagio for the last Mahler; great Bernstein !
Really sound and impressive adagio ! Great Bernstein !!!
A belíssima e genial construção melódica de Mahler aliada a magnífica luz regencial de Leonard Bernstein! Perfeita e divina união!
The conductor puts so much into it!
An ad right in the middle and even Adblock couldn't stop it. Those greedy, uncultured, deracinated little peddlers won't stop until they get into absolutely everything. Disgraceful and infuriating.
I know your pain, just use ublock origin.
@@dumaramutsi thanks for the suggestion!
The ads were worth it to see "deracinated" used in a sentence.
@@danfriend9567verminous cretins perhaps to add to the contempt and disgust for what has become in a mere 50 years an appallingly ugly place among the elites who pull the strings and assuage their criminality by an odd penny thrown to some charity.
Magical music.
6:14-6:55 Beautiful violin solo by late concertmaster Gerhart Hetzel, just at 30 years old then. Rainer Küchl sits next to him after just two months of his appointment as concertmaster just at age 20, and served in that position for the next 45(!) years!
This is beautiful. Truly a piece of art.
Legend Mahler and Bernstein 🤩🤩🤩
timeless
Forever amazing music!!!!
Breathtaking
I like to listen to this with my eyes closed...By the way, it's so strange having the music paused for an ad....
This sheds me to tears
Me too
@@mariamusic9076 totally. I'm a wreck after listening to this masterpiece
All Is perfect.Last Masterwork of Mahler
Mahler 10, if you don’t accept the other mvts you have to accept mvt 1 it was basically fully complete
Perfect🌹
The more sadness music of all the universe.
A prelude to the XX century. And also hope, we are alive after all the sadness.
L'uomo muore, ma la Gloria di Dio resta in eterno.
Wow, Harrison Ford is such a great conductor!
@@42839 yes
laugh
A long farewell
this is pure, da sein
La maravillosa música de Mahler interpretada por un grande de la batuta
16:16 favorite moment
Sounds like background track for an early 40s black and white movie.
Gracias.
Lenny perfect for Mahler !!
bernstein is forever!!!!!
The light thins out, the shadow seems unable to take over, the world is revealed by darkness, the light radiates between the branches, the trees intertwine with their branches, the moon falls, the light appears, and here from the shadows form of the figures with a rhythmic step, they seem to advance gently, and here is a flash of light, it is dawn, those nightmares vanish, you can hear the murmur of the water and nature awakens, it is a ballet where everything comes to life and comes to life, joy explodes in the music, everything wakes up and is joy. But then the shadow seems to want to resume the scene, it advances silently. Calm and uncertainty while waiting. And here is the voice of the little beings who lurk in the shadows, which advances... The querulous sound of the violin seems to presage something, but it emanates sadness and perhaps an inner search... the horns enter forcefully, and now everything orchestrates with its deep and singable theme. [...]
Symphony no.9 of Mahler Is Masterwork of chromatism hear 1 mouvment and 4 , Joy and Exstatic Death
Precioso !
Nothing but dieing. The long endless way to death. In no ways to compare with Bruckner’s adagios!!!!!!
Beautifull…Nevertheless, Mahler must have been a happy man being able to write such wonderfull music and getting so much inspiration from the gods of music.
...Truth...
struggente commento al periodo che stiamo vivendo
🌹
The breaths slow down to nothing. Brain activity slows. Then, with an occasional rally, even that finally ceases. Nothingness.
2nd violin excerpt m. 60-82: 8:55
A black cat brought me here
Me too!
@@herlastvoyagesame
😂 .. That cat was awesome .. He was definitely being motivated by something the people behind the camera were moving around for him though... not so much the music.
Same; I remember when I first watched it. I was curious about what the name of the song was until someone in the comments said it and watched the full movement. Lately, I was having the feeling of listening to every Mahler's symphony. Until now, I started listening to classical music. Thanks for recommending this wonderful masterpiece. It changed my life.
I was a 6 year old kid I was put in front of maestro really my memory of it is eating juniors cheesecake
Do you know when and where it has been recorded? Thank you!
Marine Mammoliti It was during the 70s in Berlin with the Vienna Philharmonic!
Thx !
10th March 1971 in the Berlin philharmonie
Güzel Beethoven 9.senfonisi ile birlikte düşündüğümüzde nasıl bir sonuca ulaşabilirsiniz?
The last of the (last) ninth.
3:50 Distorted cat!
2:20
kippevel
What else?
No one does the adagio better than Bernstein. Especially the fade at the tail end. What a loss 27 years later. Felt as we now enter the Trump era.
Karajan did it better.
Is Trump living that rent-free in your mind that you can't even discuss music without mentioning the president?
Quiet Mind, spiritually, through this music, I still live in the Bernstein Era. I was 19 the year Lenny died. When I hear his Mahler today I feel young again.
@@yohannesephrem9096
It is funny and strange: When I read a comment on any piece of music it´s most of the time about who is better or worse. But that´s not what music is about.
As a prof. musician I know that there might be many musicians somewhere who are better than me. But that doesn´t stop me from making music - or should it?
The better or worse question will lead you to nowhere cause it distracts you from the basic points. And those may be: OK, I don´t like it - so what´s the reason? Maybe I´m just used to that special Karajan recording or are there specific aspects in the interpretation that I don´t like? And so on - and so on ...
In the end those thoughts will teach you a lot about your approach to music. And you will be much more precise and thoughtful than now.
Miss Mr. Trump badly after experiencing Biden.
8 unlike??? Why????
For me,Karajan's performance of this adagio is unsurpassed,far better than Bernstein's.
ik denk dat ik weet waar dit over gaat
Nietsche zei: "De dood is er niet, als hij er wel is, ben ik er niet". Hier was hij er 27 minuten. Een intens afscheid van het leven.
De geluidskwaliteit is niet al te best waardoor de subtiliteit van de muzieknuances verdwijnt. Jammer.
T
I don't like it because of its dissonance and lack of resolution.
It’s literally tonal
Sad for your lack of knowledge and understanding. Wow!
@@macmadnes5262 yeah, .. it's really not that dissonant if you compare it to a lot of other contemporary classical stuff.
이곳에도 광고넣어 돈벌겟다는 ...ㅉㅉㅉㅉ
Transcendental.
Full of deliberate failure to resolve.😵
Not nearly as good as the adagietto in his 5th.
This counterpoint... This orchestration... Sorry, I prefer this Adagio so far.
Bernstein was such a ham on the conductor's stand. The New York music critics did not find his antics appealing. Nor did I. One time he actually fell off after one of his leaps. The orchestra hardly noticed. They had learned to avoid looking at him. Too distracting.
Distorted facts - interpreted assumptions. Lenny was loved by the orchestra. You don't understand; you just don't get it.
@@robertbangkok Of course I get it. The critics disliked him and the orchestra paid no attention to him during performances. Rehearsals were different.
@@dennismiddlebrooks7027 True or not, we must always keep in mind that the "devil" is actually the ego in Man! purposely misassigned to give agency to the church when only our Universal Progenitor can be the Teacher of Man!
Actually, if you look at the orchestra's faces, they are watching him closely. They were also very well rehearsed. No one pulled sounds out of an orchestra like Lenny did. He WAS the music.
Nothing wrong with some theatrics thrown in for spice ... I think it's great .. You never know, it may have subconsciously affected the performance of the players in a positive way.
I tried.. tried hard, but could not get in to Mahler. boring as fack. Give me Stravinsky
Idiot
its a GREAT!!!!
same.
You’re a fool..Mahler is a genius, this and the 5th adagietto are a masterpiece
no need to try- either you can or you can't , either you are ready or you're not