G. Mahler: Symphony No. 1 "Titan" - Lorin Maazel - Sinfónica de Galicia 

Lorin Maazel dirigiert wunderbar, das Tempo ist meines Erachtens angemessen. Das Orchester ist großartig. Danke, daß wir diese schöne Interpretation kennenlernen durften.

25:40 That has to be the "cleanest" bass solo I've ever heard. Perfection, and the guy doesn't look like he's struggling or tense, beautiful...!!

If I could... I'd give a thousand of likes !!! Lorin Maazel R.I.P.

A magnificent performance. Mahler is now saying, “here I am, this is the first of many.”

This is the type of orchestra Gustav Mahler must have envisioned when he wrote this Symphony. They give everything, no holds barred, big hearted and full throttle. I love this orchestra!

Poco a poco la Sinfónica de Galicia se ha ido convirtiendo en una gran orquesta. La he escuchado en varias interpretaciones y cada vez me gusta más. Esta interpretación de la N. 1 de Mahler es colosal, como su nombre, Titán

Excellent microphone placement/balance by the recording engineers that captures a panoramic vista of stereophonic sound allowing the listener to hear with great clarity all of the different orchestral instruments and their sections.

Primera vez que oigo la1 de Mahler y ha sido impresionante. Después oír la versión "Del Nuevo Mundo" me suscribí a la la Orquesta de Galicia, porque me gustó esa versión. El algoritmo la puso a continuación de esa, por lo que el contraste es grande, como podrán imaginar. Cosas del duende del algoritmo. He visto dos películas acerca de Mahler, por lo que la curiosidad acerca de su obra es grande. Gracias por subir sus presentaciones. Son impecables. Valparaíso. 10-12-2022

Detaillierte Aufführung dieses spätromantischen Meisterwerks voller wunderschönen und unvergesslichen Melodien. Der erfahrene Maestro dirigiert das perfekt trainierte Orchester im angemessenen Tempo mit sorgfältig kontrollierter Dynamik. Ruhe in Frieden, Herr Maazel!

Esecuzioe stupenda! L' ennesimo esempio di come un magnifico interprete possa far suonare meravigliosamente anche un'orchestra considerata (infondatamente) di secondo rango....Ma la Sinfonica de Galicia dimostra di essere un'orchestra di primissimo rango, con prime parti - vedasi, ad esempio, le trombe - degne dei massimi riconoscimenti. Maazel aveva sprazzi di autentica genialità..........

No matter how many times I listen to this masterpiece it never fails to delight. How miraculous is the musical narrative it weaves from beginning to end. It is as much a delight for the performers as the audience. This is the eternal gift of music.

I hope the people living in this part of Spain appreciate that they have a world class orchestra.

I have to laugh because so many composers in the 20th century eschewed melody because they could not match Mahler. This is a piece that sings from beginning to end. What a joy!

The first movement of this symphony is absolutely majestic, it makes me think about the awesomeness of the creation and gives me some kind of nostalgic feeling... Thank you!! ♥️

Magnificent!!!! Maazel and orchestra. G. Mahler: Symphony No. 1, "Titan" Definitely the best performance of this piece I have ever heard. 👏 👏 👏 👏, Bravo ❤️

Best version of Mahler no.1. Bravo Maazel, the true master of conducting.

I've listened to over ten symphony orchestras playing this piece and this is by far the best and most bombastic (to Mahler's liking) I have heard. Maazel is just a master and this is quite the talented orchestral group performing this piece.

Goooooooooooooooodness! That is the single best double bass solo I have ever heard in the opening of the third movement. Bravo! And, generally, a superb performance.

It’s always a thrill to see the brass standing at the finale. I know they’re not leaving anything behind; they’re giving their maximum. I don’t feel cheated.

One of the things I most enjoy is seeing the conductor in action and I simply LOVE watching Maazel's effort and energy towards the very last minutes!

The best performance ever!

Truly a titan in every aspect. Great performance.

I don't know why this reminds me of symphonie fantastique. Great sound and great camera work.

Thank you very much Maestro Maazel for bringing us this beauty. And my thanks also to the Sinfonica de Galicia that always is good.

Maazel is perfectly tuned with Mahler and the appropriate conductor for the austrian composer

A powerful rendition by a legendary conductor

Beautiful. The ending had that powerful slow tempo that I always wish would happen. Mahler sure spoke well.

25:45 dieser bassist ist genial! ich habe das noch nie so musikalisch gespielt gehört!

En memoria del gran maestro John Aigi, inmenso como primera trompeta

Qué enorme y gran orquesta es la Sinfónica de Galicia!!! No me canso de disfrutarla!!!

I loved the slow pace of the Finale. Very rare.

NO SABÍA QUE GALICIA TENÍA UNA ORQUESTA ASI DE EXCELENTE. MAAZEL GRAN DIRECTOR Y GRANDIOSA LA MÚSICA DE MAHLER. SALUDOS DESDE BUENOS AIRES ARGENTINA!

Maazel's handling of the TRIO in the Scherzo (the schmaltzy stuff) and the entire Third Movement was SUPERB in his Vienna (Sony) recording from the '80's; HERE, he gets the orchestra to play with the same expression, color, and idiomatic feel, quite an astounding feat. Bravo to everyone involved. LR

Incredible le tempo finale.,amazing!!!!!

Lorin Maazel in memoriam (1930-2014)

This is magnificent. I had no idea this piece could sound rich and lush and clear and sparkling all at the same time.

RIP Lorin Maazel. How different from when we saw him conducting the NY Philharmonic as a guest in early 1970's.

One of the best live recordings of Mahler's 1st ever. But I have to say it's the concert master is the most passionate orchestral violinist I've ever seen. Either that or he's a huge Mahler fan, to say the least.

O Mestre Lorin Maazel non nos puido deixar un maior legado que a dirección desta sinfonía de abrumadora beleza. Que descanse en paz! Orquestra Sinfónica de Galicia sodes uns maravillosos músicos incribles !!! A interpretación sonora non estaría neste nivel se non fose pola excelente dirección técnica. De verdade grazas!

Maazel u grandisimo director y esta orquesta nunca decepciona. Magnifica

“Titan,” A Tone Poem in Symphonic Form (Hamburg) / a title likely inspired by the 1803 novel by Jean Paul (later removed) Part 1 (“From the Days of Youth - Music of Flowers, Fruit, and Thorn” in Hamburg program) 🟦1st Movement (“Spring and No End” in Hamburg program) ◾Introduction - “The awakening of nature from a long winter’s sleep” (Hamburg) 0:07 Slowly, dragging, like nature sounds; Nature Theme of fourths @ 0:37 0:50 Più mosso: Clarinet fanfare (awakening call) 1:11 Tempo I: Theme of fourths 1:38 Più mosso: Trumpet fanfare (awakening call) 1:54 Tempo I: Theme of fourths 2:05 Più mosso: Cuckoo calls (awakening call) 2:12 Tempo I: Very mellow horn melody 2:30 Più mosso: Trumpet fanfare 2:38 Tempo I: Mellow horn melody 2:59 Più mosso: Trumpet fanfare and cuckoo calls 3:06 Tempo I: Chromatic bass motif and theme of fourths ◾Exposition 3:54 & 6:04 Song theme derived from “Ging heut morgen uber’s Feld” from Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (1884) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6VCpbMPhmWY.html 4:12 & 6:22 Music of the Song’s third verse 4:58 & 7:07 Music of the Song’s first verse 5:34 & 7:41 Final group (taken from the Tirili motif) ◾Development 8:13 Part I: New form of the introduction (now with a gradual retard) without the use of clarinet and trumpet fanfares and including the Tirili motif; preparation of the cello theme 11:04 Part II: 11:07 Fanfare theme of the horns 11:31 Cantabile cello theme (functioning as a secondary theme) 11:38 Renewed statement and development of the song motif in changing colors, including the cantabile cello theme 13:34 Part III: A foreshadowing of the inferno in anticipation of a section from the Finale @54:15 14:52 “Breakthrough”: Trumpet fanfares and woodwind and horn signals 15:03 Recapitulation 16:36 Coda “my hero breaks out in laughter and runs away” “Blumine”, cut from symphony in 1896. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ueIOa_R3UEE.html One of seven pieces of incidental music composed in 1884 for the epic Der Trompeter von Sakkingen by Joseph Victor von Scheffel. 🟦2nd Movement (“Under Full Sail” in Hamburg program) A mixture of landler and waltz, a peasant dance at the pub! Thematic material from earlier lied Hans und Grete (1880) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3lrwX7pV0Lw.html 17:02 Kraftig bwegt [strongly moving!] 17:46 Repeat 18:29 Ostinato motif 18:53 Wild! 20:48 Trio 22:26 Etwas frischer [a little more brisk] 24:03 Tempo primo Part 2: “Commedia humana” (Hamburg) 🟦3rd Movement: Todtenmarsch in Callots Manier 25:38 Gloomy cannon death march round in D minor, derived from the well-known melody “Brother Martin, Are You Sleeping” 28:02 Sentimental transition 28:32 Trivial, “happy tune” marked “with parody” 29:46 Expressive and elegiac, “the terribly painful lament of the hero” 30:18 Canon returns 31:09 Lyric middle section, derived from last stanza of the lied “Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz” [The Two Blue Eyes of My Beloved] from Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fsZXTJjJqqo.html @2:43 about the tranquility and forgetfulness the traveler found under the linden tree (gravesite?) 33:18 Recapitulation in E-flat minor, varied and intensified 33:56 Two-voice trumpet melody counterpoint to the round 34:47 Two-voice trumpet melody returns in D minor in contrapuntal weaving with the round melody 34:52 plotzlich viel schneller [suddenly must faster], like a Czardas (Hungarian Dance), very rhythmically A close proximity of the tragic and the trite! 🟦4th Movement: (“Dall’ Inferno al Paradiso” in Hamburg program) Some motifs inspired by Liszt’s Dante Symphony (1856) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-A7x-la2AbjE.html ◾Exposition Introduction in F minor [Stormily moving]: Inferno 37:01 Dissonance, interpreted by Mahler as the ‘outcry of a deeply wounded heart’ 37:10 Liszt’s Cross motif in minor 37:13 Concise chromatic “Inferno” triplets 37:28 Anticipation of a motif from the main theme @38:16 37:31 inferno triplets 37:36 Wail (cf. Das klagende Lied, No. 81) 37:45 Inferno triplets 37:55 Cross motif in minor x4 38:13 First complex of themes in F minor: Inferno 40:04 Sequences of swelling brass sounds [with great ferocity]: Inferno 40:51 Transition 41:22 Secondary section in D-flat major [very songlike] 44:13 Epilogue in D-flat major [Slowly]: Recall of the slow introduction of the main section and inferno motif ◾Development 44:45 First part in G minor (As at the beginning) 45:28 First statement of the ‘victorious’ motif in C major, pianissimo [Liszt’s cross in MAJOR @45:35 and the 'Dresden Amen', together form the ‘Grail theme' from Wagner’s Parsifal (1882) (see ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-W4Xslpp6874.html @5:31) which Mahler rhythmically varies here 46:04 Second part in C minor 47:15 Second entrance of the ‘victorious’ motif in C major and ‘breakthrough’ Chorale theme (47:48 - similarities to 0:37) in D major [a bold modulation signalling the sphere of the paradiso has been reached] 48:47 Recall of the motifs of the main section (very slow); ‘a remembrance of the hero’s youth’ ◾Recapitulation 51:00 Secondary section with transition in F major 53:28 Main theme in F minor (Tempo I): the Inferno image now has been moved to the distance (ppp) 54:15 Intensification of material from the main section 55:27 [Utmost strength]: breakthrough, third occurrence of the ‘victorious’ motif and Chorale theme in D major (Paradiso) 57:26 Coda Composed Jan-Mar 1888 Originally “A Symphonic Poem in Two Sections” (movements 1-3 / 4-5) Premiered in Budapest Nov 1889 to mixed reception Significant revisions for second performance in Hamburg, 1893, including programme noted below. Program elements and ‘Blumine’ (2nd movement) later removed ◾Notes based on Constantin Floros : Gustav Mahler The Symphonies, Amadeus Press (1985)

Don’t you just love Mahler!!!

Hay unos matices y fraseos maravillosos. Una orquesta en estado de gracia....no, siempre en estado INMENSO. Una orquesta para competir en todo el mundo. Todas las secciones son de lujo. Gran versión con un gran director y una gran orquesta. Por ciert, en el minuto 2'' se puede ver al gran cellista David Ethève recién fallecido el 10 de diciembre de 2016 (D.E.P.)

Strength, melody, beauty and what an ending, almost like a pre-echo of the “Hammer blows of Destiny” I’ve known and loved this symphony since I was about 16 but this incredible version is almost like hearing it for the first time. And bravo to the orchestra who were equal to every demand put on them!

Brillante! Magnifico! Bravooo!!!

Muchas Felicidades por tan emotiva interpretación al lado del Maestro Lorin !!!!

Vaya con la Orquesta S. de Galicia! por Dios!...los metales suenan bellísimos! es una de las mejores interpretaciones que he visto, pero sin dudar de la calidad de la orquesta, el Dtor. hace mucho! brillante!

01:37 Dios Mio! Es magnifica la interpretación por el hecho de ser balanceada sin excesos en los tiempos (o muy rápido o muy lento sobretodo en el Finale) es un gran virtud de los directores mantener ese equilibrio, Grande "Big Mazzel"

BRAVO ORQUESTA SINFÓNICA DE GALICIA !! CON ESTOS PROFESORES Y CON LA DIRECCIÓN DEL MAESTRO HERR MAAZEL. GALICIA ES MUCHO MÁS GRANDE...FELICIDADES ! MAGNIFICA SINFONÍA DE GRAN MALHER ,Y POR SUS COMPOSICIONES CORALES.GRACIAS.AndonY

Love love love the timpani roll in the 4th movement .... barrrrump, barrrump, barrrump - let me hear every note like Mahler wanted me to!

This is the soundtrack when heaven meets earth !!👏👏👏😍

I think this is a great performance of Titan, made me feel like I was back in Poland walking in the forest and listening to cuckoos, folk melodies in a little village and coming home to my Cantor grandfather's Jewish songs and dancing with my friends at the Jewish gathering 🙂 And when bad times make me restless, back at the forest all troubles seem to go away. Life is full of conflicts we struggle with as Mahler did but memories of childhood, music we grew up with and nature make it easier to cope. And triumph prevails

extraordinario!, una orquesta con gran sonido

I like how long the beginning remains a delicate opening. I usually get right to the madness in my compositions so this is a good change of energy.

Beautifully conducted, beautifully performed.

A truly great performance and recording of a great symphony !

56:56 8 horns: **epic soli** 1 trumpety boii: "Nah m8 this shit's mine"

Me ha encantado. Bravo 👌💪

Extraordinario Gracias Maestro Maazel y también a la Orquesta de Galicia me fascinó 👏👏👏🌹

Still love this performance--and great camera work, too!

Que sobriedad y magnificencia felicitaciones al maestro y la Orquesta. Sublime. Gracias

una de mis orquestas favoritas 💕

Bravo!!! Fantastic performance!!!

Simply brilliant!

Fantástica perfomance!

Magnifica interpretación!!

MARAVILLOSO

Sublime ejecución.

Произведение вечное!Исполнение прекрасное,глубоко профессиональное! Спасибо музыкантам за знакомство с очередным шедевром композитора!

Preety and it's mastered so greatly. BRAVO. BRAVO

Love it so much when the French horns stood up... I cried.

Fantástica obra!!!! Y excelente ejecución, la mejor que he visto!!!!

Excelente interpretación, excelente orquesta sinfónica y por supuesto excelente director de orquesta. Los tempos o velocidades de los movimientos son muy bien llevados por este director, no por nada fue unos de los mejores directores de orquesta del siglo XX y un parte de este.

one of the best, really masterpiece, bravo!

Wonderful to find your orchestra here on You Tube.

This is the piece that made me fall in love with Symphonic Music.

This is a long, leisurely waking up on any given holiday.

magnificent performance of a magnificent piece

very pretty in my mind thanks

The tempo at the end is magnificent!!! Not rushed or racing like so many!

このオケは私がユーチューブで知り得たオーケストラです！ 　彼らは音楽が何をすべきものか、表現力、パワー、楽器の操作はもちろん、 すべてにおいて世界トップレベルに間違いない!このオケの人は一体何者?スーパー集団!です！ウイーン．ベルリン・フィルにも匹敵しています。 　日本にくてくれる事が望みです！ 　もっとたくさん聞いてみたい!

the tempo at the last movement was very well designed and impressive. so moving.

UN MAGNIFICO CONCIERTO

Bellissimo !!! ❤️

first time hearing Langsam at university i got hooked on Mahler

Magnifique.

＃ライブ会場映像の魅力、＃オーケストラ、＃楽曲の演奏速度最高です。＃臨場感、＃スイッチャーカメラ割り、 第1楽章0:07秒、指揮者は楽譜の音部記号や変化記号や強弱記号、速度記号、1つの音符のみを強調する記号、特定の音符のみを強くしたり弱くしたりする記号を含むニュアンスのアーティキュレーションが素晴らしいですね感動しました。スイッチャーカメラ割り映像0:10秒、0:16秒、0:22秒を含む数箇所、第2楽章17:01秒、またオーケストラの皆さんの指揮者に対する理解力の演奏はニュアンスのアーティキュレーションが素晴らしく感動しました。また複数のTVカメラ映像の切り替えスイッチャーの映像が素晴らしいですね感動しました。また複数のTVカメラ映像切り替えスイッチャーの譜面や楽譜が読めるスイッチャーの楽器奏者のカメラ割り映像が素晴らしいですね感動しました。🙌👍❤️ありがとうございました。😊第1楽章でトライアングルのカメラ割り映像がなかつたですね。？コメント中です。

Absolutely well balanced play!!! Mahler mounted lots of disparted notes from Oriental motives in his symphonies. So some great conductors complained it and did not play Mahler often. Maazel has made this Giant music in Order - that was the love of Maszel's interpretation. New rising conductor, Klaus Makela, has shown somewhat disorders forward and interpreted Mahler's notes in new details that was also unique and interesting too.

Magnificent ✨🎆

Bellissimo, grazie!!❤

I am speechless. Thanks for sharing.

Nur die Musik die in die Ohren Fließ ist das einzige wahre wirklichkeit ❣️🌹❣️🌹🥂

Totalement géniale.

47'27''': I was 'shocked' when the whole orchestra paused, when I was doing homework, listening to this. This made me pause on my homework and watch exactly what happened right at the moment. Really surprising, but pretty reasonable - I don't think a lot of orchestras are doing this. This is definitely new to me.

Musica bellissima su di un tema incredibile ma sublime.

大変素晴らしい、私は好きです。

Fantastic

25:46 amazing doublebass solo

very good!!!

Muito bonita essa sinfonia.