For me, Mahler's Tenth Symphony is the most beautiful music in the world. It is so beautiful that it gets me in tears, every time. The horrible dissonance chord at 17'32 makes a terrific impact - Mahler truly wrote his all anxiety to this moment. At the time he had a serious heart disease and some complicated problems with his wife Alma. It is a pity that Pierre Boulez recorded only this Adagio from Symphony No. 10 for Deutsche Grammophon. But this live performance is very good - a touching memorial for the great conductor. Rest in peace, Boulez.
@7777Scion
8 жыл бұрын
+Luukas Hiltunen Mostly because it's all Mahler wrote. The very rough, incomplete sketches makes any 'reconstruction' a hack job and is most certainly NOT Mahler.
@steventiger880
8 жыл бұрын
+7777Scion - I disagree. No one is claiming that the completions that have been offered are "Mahler." (For that matter, this movement would probably have undergone revision if the composer had lived longer, for Bruno Walter has noted that he was constantly revising and improving his scores.) But speaking only for myself, I think the world would be a poorer place without the opportunity to experience at least the general shape and sound of what Mahler had been constructing. And among the available reconstructions, listeners can choose from the modesty of Deryck Cooke's "performing versions" of the sketches to the fully orchestrated re-composition by Clinton Carpenter, and between those extremes the versions by Mazzetti, Wheeler, Samale, Mazzucca, and Barshai. It would be different if anyone claimed that a completed version is authentic Mahler, but no one does. And the fact that these versions were all done with painstaking care (if differing levels of skill and success) means that they should not be dismissed as "hack jobs."
@7777Scion
8 жыл бұрын
Nah. Hack job.
@SeanPi314
6 жыл бұрын
Even more surprising is that the chord you mentioned is just a consonant minor chord, which again proves Mahler's ingenuity of harmony and orchestration.
@chrisVes1
6 жыл бұрын
Thank you, SeanPi314, I wondered where we could hear a dissonance...
@Balfour.
4 жыл бұрын
King of Adagios
@PieInTheSky9
9 жыл бұрын
The beginning theme after the introduction gives me chills. It's beautiful dissonance, like it's reaching inside of me and ripping the beauty out of me from within.
@urbanviii6557
7 жыл бұрын
To think that I lived 1 mile away from this orchestra and hall for 12 years, and heard them ca. 36 times a year, will be with me for the rest of my life. When I lived in NYC, I always went to hear them at Carnegie Hall. Their 1996 Schoenberg Op. 16 performance, with Bruckner 5th at Carnegie Hall, was a highlight of my life. Stunning playing, by any world standard!
@olivierbeltrami
2 жыл бұрын
Worked in Buffalo NY for 4 years at the end of the 1980s and we’d slog at 55mph (except for the short stretch in PA at 65 mph) most Saturdays to hear the Cleveland Orchestra under Christoph von Dohnányi. Those were the days.
@illyanafox6594
2 жыл бұрын
I was at that Bruckner 5 as well, brilliant! The 1995 season they came to Carnegie with Robert Shaw for Mahler 8, unforgettable!
@dippin1523
7 жыл бұрын
One of the greatest conductors, conducting arguably the greatest orchestra playing one of the greatest symphonies. beautiful.
@urbanviii6557
5 жыл бұрын
Totally agree! I lived a two minute drive from the hall for 12 years, and heard them every Thursday night. I have heard them play at least 500 pieces. Then moved to Manhattan, where I would hear them in Carnegie Hall. Their Ecstasy Festival last April was astonishing; complete Tristan with Nina Stemme; preceded by Messiaen Turangilîla Symphonie on Wednesday. I flew in for it. Zachary Wolfe in NYTimes was also astonished, and SAID so in his review!
@dan-us6nk
Жыл бұрын
I find his conducting dry and too structured for one such as Mahler, but that's to my ear
I'm always stunned by the compexity, the depth and the mysticism of this music. So unique.
@amcamc4809
7 жыл бұрын
That part from 17:32 to 18:49 to is absolutely terrifying- it really shows how Mahler was trying to create new musical expressions.
@bobstroein9588
10 жыл бұрын
somehow perfect ! Tempo, clarity, details, colors maybe only Boulez can give that ! Superb orchestra too .
@predragtijanich7355
4 жыл бұрын
hello, my dear hometown of cle, greetings from italy...
@GTEd
5 жыл бұрын
Interesting. Here on KZitem, we have Cleveland with Boulez while elsewhere Leonard Bernstein performs his singular magic with the score leading the Vienna Philharmonic in a much older, live-concert video. I am hard-pressed to say which performance was the better and more satisfying one. On balance I prefer Bernstein's occasional heart-on-sleeve emotionality to Boulez' relatively (and I say do mean relatively) more constrained approach. One could hardly argue with Cleveland's brass and brilliant wind instruments while the strings are glowing if not quite as glowing as Vienna's players. What a feast in a work that tugs at the heart while somewhat alarming the mind with its dissonances and penultimate screech from the first violins at the climax of the movement. I'm glad we only have the Cooke first movement in both performances and not the unfinished and incomplete following movements as realized elsewhere very well.
@h.harrison5841
10 жыл бұрын
Happy Birthday Gustav Mahler. I am very glad you existed.
@wandabanterle8053
10 жыл бұрын
Dopo questa musica ....rimane il silenzio per sublimare una tale espressione musicale, ai limiti dell'umana coscienza.Rapisce l'anima! Grazie Maler..ovunque tu sia! Il cuore trema tutte le volte che ti ascolto.
@jamesdegriz
7 жыл бұрын
This just blows me to bits every time.
@elyria1014
3 жыл бұрын
On top of it all, actually embracing and enfolding it all, is the uniquely stunning interior of Severance Hall. Videos such as this enable us to combine the music with the architecture into, a sublime union.
@user-fv7wv2ws9v
2 жыл бұрын
What a great performance!
@martin1024
7 жыл бұрын
Mahler was in life full of joy
@beng7716
6 жыл бұрын
Moral Dilemma nope
@michaelstrom5532
4 жыл бұрын
18:24 Worlds best trumpet sound ever produced!!!
@louise_rose
Жыл бұрын
Yes, great - and reminiscent of a wartime siren, a bomber raid alert -. a context that Mahler could not have heard, only imagined in a nightmare vision.
@papagen00
4 жыл бұрын
Comparing Boulez and Bernstein is like apple and orange. One is not better than the other, but two different, valid solutions to a puzzle.
@jeanparke9373
3 жыл бұрын
Amen to that!
@stevesincock941
3 жыл бұрын
Agreed. At this level- the highest level -it has to be about subjective aesthetics. You may prefer Bernstein over Boulez but to say one is better than the other is kind of pointless. Like comparing Miles Davis to Clifford Brown. Two totally different approaches to the trumpet. Neither is better than the other - but have different conceptions. Unless the performance/ recording is an obvious misfire then there is a degree of personal preference involved
@stavrosvenizelos610
4 жыл бұрын
Great performance, balance, composure, humanism, perfect pitch. Simply essence, not dramatical effects and lofty empty gestures. Thank you for sharing.
@stephenstavnicky7520
4 жыл бұрын
Mike Sachs at 17:32. That’s all I’ve got to say.
@CENTRUMUMAI
10 жыл бұрын
Great performance!
@neilwalsh3977
7 жыл бұрын
As Luukas says, this is sheer beauty - warmth - love - humanity.
@marcellusnash6862
2 жыл бұрын
this adagio is on my playlist.
@jamesko220
3 жыл бұрын
Wonderful. Thank you.
@PsychedPerspective
11 жыл бұрын
My music appreciation class I am taking brought me here. I have to do a music review and I chose a Gustav Mahler piece and I love it!
@b286guy
11 жыл бұрын
The climax at 17:31 is so chilling -- gives me goosebumps everytime I hear it. This whole movement is amazing. I wish Mahler could have lived to finish the symphony, although there are interesting performing editions derived from his outlines of the work. It's just hard to give those a true sense of legitimacy.
@BalbirSingh-tt8rv
6 жыл бұрын
My unending thanks to eternity For his great music.
@gehrke111
11 жыл бұрын
Remarkable, thanks for posting. Boulez's interpretation is perfect, and the Cleveland Orchestra is impressive, as usual. There's something mysterious about this movement, and the symphony really seems to me to have been a work in progress suddenly cut off short, a promising project rather than a "farewell," like the 9th.
@louise_rose
Жыл бұрын
Yes, this Adagio and the entire body of drafts were composed in the space of just three to four months, befoe he had to put it aside, in the early autumn of 1910. due to other work commitments. No doubt he intended to poick up ythe draft again in the summer of 1911 but by that time he was already gone of course. It is a torso (though this movement is probably pretty much finished and solid the way he wanted it) - and unlike what some people think. it was not composed under an overwhelming feeling that Death was standing around the corner and waiting for him, Mahler seems to have felt physically strong and resilient at the time. The unease he felt was about other things...
@Examantel
Ай бұрын
Look at those massive leaps up and down the fingerboard. The trumpet playing the long A, really a G double-sharp leading tone. You can hear the Romantic style really starting to break apart.
@erikrupp2592
8 жыл бұрын
All for Alma M. Schindler - "To live for you! For you to die! Almschi!" [G. Mahler]
@efsonyt
4 жыл бұрын
she didn't deserve him
@doccreed658
6 жыл бұрын
I wonder if Mahler was influenced by Tchaikovsky, especially by his 6th Symphony. The juxtaposition of grief and ecstacy and the surprising jolt of dissonance like a blast. Mahler was so tender here and in a Mahler symphony fragility is usually on the razor's edge of the eternal and the unspeakable. Haunting.
@jraldne1
11 жыл бұрын
Well so far, I've listened to Simon Rattle's interpretation, then Haitink's and now Boulez. So as for now, I will go with the Boulez. It's so well done, besides...I always get more out of such as masterpiece of an Adagio as so few can write...Mahler ranking so high among them...Thank You!...
@tenorjosh
4 жыл бұрын
My favorite of his:)
@ljiljanastanic9076
4 жыл бұрын
Just listen and admire💙💙💙
@Lopesmarson
7 жыл бұрын
Isto é uma maravilha!
@DavidHHermanson
11 жыл бұрын
I've played under both and find that the only truly important criteria is the ability to articulate and draw forth well conceived musical ideas. Hence the sometimes flamboyant Bernstein and the reserved Boulez are equally trenchant. Beyond this, This is perhaps the reason why many musician's find playing in a festival orchestra so invigorating: the conductor needn't battle orchestral inertia. George Szell's remarks regarding Cleveland were quite telling (if a bit scandalous)in this regard.
@hearthing_dev
11 жыл бұрын
I keep forgetting about 17:30, and I'll have my speakers turned up and then just destroy my ears, haha. Happens every time . . .
@louise_rose
Жыл бұрын
Like the Scherzo of Bruckner's 9th with its icy, spectral yet thunderous march (like suddenly glimpsing a column of tanks, or innocent but framed men and women being led to the gallows), the dreamy terror of this Adagio seems to prefigure something of the 20th century. Both Bruckner and Mahler wrote their final symphonies at a threshold point towards the modern world, a world they were destined never to know personally.
@BalbirSingh-tt8rv
6 жыл бұрын
Pierre s pure sonic painting.Thanks to Cleveland orchestra.
@WolfgangDrEpple
6 жыл бұрын
Gustav Mahlers Spätwerk in dieser Vollendung...eine wahre Kulmination der abendländischen Kulturmusik. Unerreicht für immer. Geradewegs in den Himmel führend
@jackarcher7495
2 жыл бұрын
Let me shift gears from comments on the music, however interesting, and just note how nice it is to see so many faces from back then that you can still see on the Severance stage today. If with a little more "character," like mine.
@AudiophileTubes
11 жыл бұрын
Very nice!
@-E42-
Жыл бұрын
every time I listen to it, it is like a pilgrimage to the end of a world - and then I realize we live on the other side of that precipice today, and we are now looking back across that 9-tone-chord to where Mahler's music was the Mount Everest of an entire world, discover it like meeting a deceased person in a lucid dream and carefully float along in a melancholia that would fall apart if we were to touch it, so we immerse ourselves in that transience before it all disintegrates and disappears again as we gradually wake up to our present realities
@louise_rose
Жыл бұрын
Yes, beautifully put. Just like the sinking of the Titanic (an event some of this music would have worked very well to illustrate a film about) this Adagio seems to dramatize, to embody the point of rupture between old Europe and the modern, post-1914 world, and the huge losses that were to cement the gulf, like a burnt-through forest stretching around the 1910s. This movement was premiered in late 1924, and at that time, it had to be said that much of the everyday world Mahler had known in his lifetime, the political scene, the ideas and assumptions, and many millions of young people...were dead.
@sangilpae3284
8 жыл бұрын
too, great!
@MrLombreeze
11 жыл бұрын
Maravilloso
@FaroukIIBouamdatovski
7 жыл бұрын
SUBLIME !!!
@stefanbarthel2299
4 жыл бұрын
Slow but beautiful!
@primusjulianbugar262
11 жыл бұрын
Now that I'm a little older and (slightly) more mature, I tend to side with minimalist conducting more so than I would an over the top conductor. The more you can accomplish with less, the better you actually are.
@hearthing_dev
10 жыл бұрын
Am I the only one terrified by 17:32?
@joaniepietrafitta7292
9 жыл бұрын
No, you are not! Funny but someone wrote this same comment for the same spot in another recording of this movement.
@aristidispas
7 жыл бұрын
i had this lovely song playing while doing staff in the house.. then i went to take a quick shower and suddenly this part of the song rocks the house!! OMFG!!
@cheliereifen992
7 жыл бұрын
WHAT A SOUND, WHICH WAS NEVER HEARD BEFORE, HE TELLS US ABOUT A MOST HORRIBLE DISASTER, HE SHOUTS FROM HORRIFIED PAIN AND SORROW AND HUGE ASTONISHMENT, OF WHAT CAN HAPPEN IN OUR WORLD. WHAT A GREAT COMPOSER, HE BRINGS TEARS AND EXCITEMENT.
@alexreik424
7 жыл бұрын
c reifen: wait a while, nothing of the sort is going to happen. stop smoking that granola druggie
@aristidispas
5 жыл бұрын
@alléespach yeap.. you are right.. I did straight translation from my language to English :/
La fin... Quelle fin... « C'est la connaissance de la mort, la considération de la souffrance et de la misère de la vie, qui donnent l'impulsion la plus forte à la pensée philosophique et aux interprétations métaphysiques du monde. » ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER, LE MONDE COMME VOLONTÉ ET REPRÉSENTATION
@Maralegar2009
8 жыл бұрын
RIP Maestro 6 janvier 2016
@jraldne1
11 жыл бұрын
The only other one now, is that of Bernstein; one who's been one of Mahler's greatest champions...
@oscaraitorp3922
7 жыл бұрын
Please,try it with Sinopoli's performance,delírium and agony even more extreme
@marcelouz1
10 жыл бұрын
Ha, ha Pierre Boulez at the end of his mature life had to conduct Mahler's SYMPHONIES of course
@jouilledaniel1029
6 жыл бұрын
Tout MAHLER est là ..une invention et une ligne mélodique... et ces ruptures brutales ..la 10 est extraordinaire car surprenante ...loin de la fluidité de l'AD. De la 5...mais intrigante et belle Djouille
@zezoribeirooficial
5 жыл бұрын
É o melhor e mesmo assim enchia muita linguiça. Em todas. O substrato de todas as sinfonias devem dar os melhores momentos celestiais de todos os tempos.
@jockboy69
11 жыл бұрын
I hope that you know Boulez's recording of Mahler's 7th with Cleveland, on Deutsche Gramophon. Easily, the best ever recorded, IMHO. I just heard the same orchestra play the piece this afternoon on radio, with Alan Gilbert conducting.
@LorenzoLopezConductor
8 жыл бұрын
Rip Boulez.
@DavidJGillCA
7 жыл бұрын
The camera should be on Boulez.
@MrCC379
8 жыл бұрын
Unless I'm mistaken, this was Pierre Boulez' last performance that he ever conducted.
@JorgeFranganillo
8 жыл бұрын
Apparently, his final appearance as a conductor was a little bit later, in Salzburg on 28 January 2012, with the Wiener Philharmoniker and Mitsuko Uchida in a programme of Schönberg, Mozart and Stravinsky.
@martin1024
7 жыл бұрын
It was his first. He is the cousin of Benjamin Button
@dreamlotusart
6 жыл бұрын
Those semitones are elusive. But interesting!!
@didierduplenne2325
9 жыл бұрын
17:30
@davidmayhew4818
7 жыл бұрын
The. great explosion makes me think of his heart condition. The poor man. Today he could have been cured. Very sad.
@alvaropanchi3786
3 жыл бұрын
04:00 violins
@patrickmarcland8854
8 жыл бұрын
nice to give us this but why don't we see Boulez instead of the musicians or the walls ??
@jahman514
4 жыл бұрын
Because Boulez is boring (sometimes).
@Violamuza
9 жыл бұрын
шикарно..... я это играла. Не хватает мучительности в первых тактах Простовато и откровенно во всей игре. Всё же это- расставание со всем самым дорогим....... как и в Пятой симфонии. НО там Герой не знает, что умирает А здесь - зрелое осознание. ДОлжна быть борьба.Её НЕТ. Эвтаназия по-европейски. Я бы сыграла ИНАЧЕ. альтистка простите, но всех этих, включая дирижёра на недельку бы в Донбасс.... оркестр бы звучал ИНАЧЕ Просветлённее.
@Violamuza
9 жыл бұрын
Violamuza ола-ла.......... сплошная толерантность. Весь оркестр с кондуктором - в Донецк на недельку. Осваивать репертуар. Иначе - в чём смысл творчества? В НОТАХ? НО Маллер сам выражал протест против филистёров!
@isaakmaydanikov1874
6 жыл бұрын
НУ НУ. ЗНАЧИТ СТРОИТЬ Russian peace. Да вы милочка этой музыки не понимаете и вас очень жаль.
@primusjulianbugar262
11 жыл бұрын
21:20 entrance, whoops.
@kennyfujii7408
3 жыл бұрын
11:20
@kennyfujii7408
3 жыл бұрын
18:05
@johnmanno2052
3 жыл бұрын
Do not interrupt the music with a shitty commercial!!!!!!!!
@lisilein2
11 жыл бұрын
08:36 Batman Forever totally ripped off that main theme from mahler XD!!! such an inapropriate comment I know...
@marctaziaux216
3 жыл бұрын
Une interprétation globale remarquable à l'exception du violoncelle (9min.14s) dont le jeu est trop saccadé voire hésitant. c'est vraiment dommage.
@marcelouz1
10 жыл бұрын
Too fast in general the interpretation, specialy the clusters, typical of Boulez .
@appman1138
11 жыл бұрын
the George szell recording is much better
@cathfragment
5 жыл бұрын
The Bernstein version with the VPO is much better and profound than his version.
@muslit
4 жыл бұрын
A pale comparison to the Bernstein/Vienna version. Mr. Ice is a bore.
@zezoribeirooficial
5 жыл бұрын
Publicidade de merda no meio de uma obra dessas? Vc é louco?
@henrygingercat
3 жыл бұрын
It's OK but the adagio from Bruckner 8 wins by a mile.
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