Exploring the Themes of Mahler's Symphony No. 9

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Join Music Director Brett Mitchell and a virtual ensemble of Colorado Symphony musicians as they explore Gustav Mahler's ninth and final symphony. Mahler's masterwork was written during one of the most difficult times of his life, and the sorrowful, achingly-beautiful themes act as a summation of his career. "This symphony," notes the composer, "says something I've had on the tip of my tongue for the longest time."

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15 окт 2024

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@AnilKumar-rp2vs 4 месяца назад

Thank you. That was outstanding. Your reference to the Rondo Burlesque as a tour-de-force of negativity reminded me of a comment made by Richard Osborne in his 1979 Gramophone review of the Karajan's 9th, "a searing indictment of worldly folly." I hope to get to Colorado someday to watch you listen to your marvelous orchestra.

@ashashaani Год назад

Brilliant! Thank you.

@emhum3391 4 года назад

Thank you so much for continuing to provide music during the pandemic! This was wonderful. During times of social isolation it is so important to have access to the arts. What a beautiful show!

@brettmitchellconductor 4 года назад

So glad you enjoyed it!

@TheColoradoSymphony 4 года назад

Thank you, Em!

@bwalle Год назад

Thank you! I had the fortune of experiencing a performance of the 9th by the Oregon Symphony with my son just before the COVID outbreak and your analysis is very much appreciated!

@mortegae Год назад

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 great video. Excellent Brett Mitchell and the Colorado Symphony members. So beautiful and deeply illustrative... Thanks for this.

@manuel2atack Год назад

This is brilliant!!! You are the best Greetings from Chile in South America!

@mbdelong 3 года назад

Superb! Great work by all - musicians, conductor, audio/visual technicians!

@brettmitchellconductor 3 года назад

Thanks so much, Michael!

@juliekrugerphotography3359 4 года назад

This was so beautiful! Can’t wait to hear this live soon!

@brettmitchellconductor 4 года назад

Thanks so much, Julie!

@HYP3RK1NECT Год назад

Lo que me llamó la atención, es que añadió el motif del último movimiento de la tercera sinfonía a este finale de su novena sinfonía. Siento que este movimiento final de la novena, estaba hecha para Re mayor. Mahler deliberadamente puso en Re bemol mayor para hacer esa sombra del aquel finale de la tercera.

@remomazzetti8757 3 года назад

The Ninth is not his last symphony as you well know: the comprehensive draft of his five movement 10th is his final symphony and embodies the final summation of his symphonic journey. And I agree with Mahler biographer and others who feel that the 10th is structurally superior and better balanced than the Ninth which starts with its most inspired movement, while the rest of the work ,fine as the other movements are, never rise to the same level. The beautiful and heartbreaking Finale of the Ninth Symphony seems to evaporate into thin air in one of Mahler's most extraordinary endings, but it doesn't resolve the tensions implicit in the symphony, certainly not the way the powerful final passage of the 10th Finale which is a subtle reference to Isolda's Liebestod, and exactly where Mahler wrote his poignant note to his wife: "to live for you, to die for you!"

@parisax Месяц назад

Why not include the French horn melody(especially) and the six-tuplet figure as two of the main components of the 1st movement?

@michaelweiner4836 Год назад

Very romantic. Except it's NOT Mahler's final work, or final farewell. His 10th Symphony was incomplete, but he was writing it, and he had much more to say. Your implication that this was the end is very misleading.

@wearywilko 3 месяца назад

I believe Mr. Brett Mitchell backed up the claim extensively & with enough evidence that Mahler's 9th Symphony was destined to be his "Farewell" one. The music speaks for itself with its musical references, harmonies and suspenses in addition with Mahler's own annotations in the music sheets. Although, I have to agree with you that the music doesn't describe his "end" in a final sense. In my opinion, Mahler's 9th represents his farewell to the physical world he has lived on for 50 years with which he was so connected with that he dedicated "Das Lied von der Erde" to it. I believe he knew that his end was near, both as a human and especially as a composer. The fact that he couldn't finish his 10th Symphony and that his 9th Symphony is composed in such a heartbraking manner which can't be easily put into wordsd is convincing enough for me to believe that he was aware that the 9th was going to be the last completed work of his. I want to tell you how my German father, a big Mahler fan who I am very thankful of for introducing me to his symphonies, likes to put it: Mahler's 9th is so stunningly beautiful and heartbraking that barely any eye can stay dry. Mahler's 10th, although it was never finished, rounds up the 9th, because without the 10th it would be way too pessimistic and depressive of an ending to comprehend. That's why Mahler's 10th sounds 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱. It is meant to be. It forms the end of a man and the beginning of ethereal eternity. Maybe this helped you to understand other points of view better. Thank you very much Mr. Mitchell and the Symphonic Orchestra of Colorado for this very well made, detailed and also well-performed music-historical explanation of Mahlers motivation and ideas behind his 9th Symphony as well as the descriptions of the musical motifs & themes he used. From a music enthusiast standpoint, you used the time of the pandemic very productively as I was just looking for a video like this. Greetings from Germany & best regards, Wilko