Mahler - Symphony No 4 - Abbado 

This symphony made me reassess Mahler. Never been a great admirer but have to admit there’s something very special and unique about this work, absolutely wonderful.

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Elle est très drôle pleine de suspense comme la vie. Un peu single aussi

Ditto.

Absolutely true !!

I strongly agree. We need a few moments to let our emotions peak and release

I so enjoyed that you pointed that out. As a musician myself, I love how he almost seems not to stop directing until he has also digested the music & processed his emotions. He does not simply wave a wand at the end of a piece to bring it to an abrupt end. What a joy it must have been to play for him!

I suspect they were recording it. Most audiences do not have the self-control to maintain that silence without prior instruction.

you will appreciate the defeaning 5 mn of silence after the 9th at the Lucerne festival : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-81AFdWXLNCU.html&start_radio=1.

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Abbado conducted the greatest concert I ever attended with the VPO in the late 1970's.

The best bosses I ever had were people who got me to do my best not because I was afraid of them, but because I was terrified of disappointing them by not living up to the standards they thought I met every day. I loved working for them. I always feel like this must have been what it was like with Abbado conducting.

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Yes, the much-loved Claudio Abbado certainly had them on his side.

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The playing throughout is sublime--despite the histrionics. I don't doubt that the orchestra loved him, too, but I doubt even more that the contrived turbulence and gyrations for the camera have anything to do with that. (Look, for example at 24:09. Good thing we can see both of his hands!) There are some videos I watch with the sound muted. This one, I listen to with the screen minimized. To each his own. And yes, I love the music Claudio Abbado made.

206dvr There’s nothing wrong with an orchestra getting jazzed up for a great conductor. Bernstein had the same effect I’m sure, to name just one. Unlike some other legendary conductors who were capable of inspiring terror.

@@206dvr Obviously your choice to feel this way. Abbado is the ONLY composer I've ever watched who elicited a smile from a musician playing a complex part of a symphony. For the type of music he helps create I find his gestures endearing and loads of fun to watch. If he didn't adore his orchestras he was the best actor in the history of classical music.

You’ll come back on top. We all will.

I feel the same way. And, my name is also Anna.

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I first understood something that i liked more than the real meaning of the coment. I understood that the orquesta is playing the conductor and not the reverse and i fixed my attention to why you said that crazy phrase and i really lautgh looking at the poor Abbado dancing "forced" by the orchestra....

@@kerencanelo8580 I meant he likes how they're playing

That’s also why I love Abbado! : )

@@reginayang537 He looks frail here and must be near the end of his journey, but oh, how the music inhabits him and lights him from within. He is very near his God, and his God is music.

Everyone should be pleased, I think. This Mahler cycle with Abbado and LFO might just be the greatest work of art ever witnessed in the history of music. I have worked with great conductors in my career, but I would exchange almost all of that for having the chance of being part of it....

music is one of the only things that make me hopeful for humanity. too much negativity these days, so I'm really glad to see people genuinely enjoying themselves.

they really emphasized the portamento by sliding up from a different note hahaha

Yes. That movement I think is possibly Mahler's most beautiful. I have found myself crying listening to it more than with any other piece of music

Over time it became my favorite part of this symphony.

Same!

Watch his Mahler 9. He holds the audience for almost 5 minutes after the end.

Sleep well!

Mahler lets you a wide range of interpretation. There doesnt exist "the only one". Abbado is one of the Mahler Connaisseurs.

Karajan was extraordinary as well.

Kubelik is my favorite Mahler conductor tbh.

Mahler himself felt exactly the same. He actually said so.

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I totally agree with you Brianna Donnelly !

Forget about the oboe, what about that horn player?

Peut-être la plus poétique, elle vous mène dans les endroits les plus incroyables du paysage de notre âme. Bonne soirée.

Me too...

Each of his symphonies unfolds its own intrinsic universe, this one being undoubtedly the most "accessible" in terms of its construction and its pure poetry, barely tinged with the usual - and sublime - Mahlerian torments and lyrical flights.

They loved him.

I agree with you.

Yes! Terrific camera work. Some of the best I have seen on RU-vid

And how about the orchestra!? I don't believe Maestro Abbado played a single note!

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The third movement is one of his best in my opinion. So beautiful.

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@@noradosmith I too think the 3rd movement is absolutely sublime. It's at the very core of the symphony.

From my point of view I think it's the worst Mahler symphony, steel all Mahler symphonies are brilliant

It's profound, but it doesn't hold a candle to his second, which IMO is akin to Beethoven's 9th at its grasp of everything a symphony could convey.

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È bravo davvero!!

There are parts in this symphony where cracks by the horn section are so common I've almost assumed they were part of the score! It's a weird but pleasant experience hearing it without them.

Exactly my reaction. Amazing playing!

Absolutely!! Absolutely!!

Thanks for posting this WONDER!

is as big as Beethoven's biggest & final symphony....

I agree. The silence at the end was, in and of itself, amazing.

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Isn't that such a wonderful moment?

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Had an orgasm too

20:07 is cool too :D

- 1 With apathy and fatigue - 2 In turmoil, slightly bumfuzzled. - 3 Questioning reality, meaning, and causation - 4 Withering contempt for audience

It seems this orchestra consisted mostly of an orchestra called the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, which was set up with the assistance of Abbado. So it’s not a festival orchestra in the truest sense (ie it’s not entirely ad hoc / a collection of players from various orchestras)

Lucerne Festival Abbado's summer orchestra. He chose the players, most of whom had played with him various places, orchestras, etc.

He’s so happy it makes the whole orchestra happy too.

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Nao existem nenhum divino nem almas mas a musica de Mahler e de verdade divina e transcende.

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Congratulations, Robert. You are now directly connected to the Heavens. I especially enjoyed the singing of Magdalena Kožená. I think this piece suits a Mezzo Soprano much better than a Soprano. It needs that mezzo power. I first heard it 40-50 years ago, and Frederica von Stade, the great Mezzo Soprano of the 80s (and, even today here in Alameda, CA), sang it, under Maestro Abbado with the Wiener Philharmoniker. We lost that great Mahler interpreter 4 years ago.

My introduction came w/ Mahler's 1st, 50 years ago on my 18th birthday. It was a gift from my mother. She knew exactly what she was doing. All these years later, Mahler still lives in me. What a gift!

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Comes into my head months apart from the heavens. Nothing like it.

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Fate itself.

Not surprising since he wrote them concurrently

Well...Mahler tended to be self-referential. Some works are more closely related than others (symphonies 2-4 with each other but also with Des Knaben Wunderhorn, 5-7, etc.).

Actually, it's the same I think

@@keithyeung9097 well you know, heard one Mahler symphony you've heard them all

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Toscaninni goes first and the the others follow like sheeps

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Nell'Empireo inter deosdeasque con Bernstein e Haitink

My own favorite is the Szell/Raskin. I listened to it just the other day. It is the only recording of the 4th in my too-large collection. But I agree that this is outstanding, that it does exactly what you say. Abbado was -- no, is -- a very great Mahler conductor.

Just posted that the Szell version is also my favourite! He and Cleveland made many brilliant recordings

You are right, except for one another performance by Claudio Abbado, the one he did with the Vienna Philarmonic together with the soprano Frederica von Stade around 1978. This rendition is the perfect expression of Mahler's symphonic art, specially the interpretation of the sublime third movement's ending.

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I see that same cute violist with the pixie haircut and the small nose all over RU-vid.

Mahler always conducted from score.

When you understand music so deeply, to conduct it by heart it's actually the least challenging thing. Anyone can conduct by heart with some practice. To be like Abbado, 100 lives are not enough.