Chicago during the ‘80s, under Solti, produced some of the greatest performances and recordings. Not only the mastery and finesse of Herseth, but the beauty of Clevenger on horn and the power of Friedman and Crisofali on Trombone, all held together with Arnold Jacobs on Tuba. It was the greatest brass section of all time!
Certainly awesome. I'll put in a bid for the LSO with Maurice Murphy, Dennis Wick, John Fletcher etc though as sharing that honour (sorry can't remember who was on Horn then.) Ok maybe Chicago win, by a whisker!
I learned all the Mahler Symphonies from the CSO in the first row of the upper balcony of Orchestra Hall in the late 60’s and into the 70’s with Solti, Giulini, Abaddo, et al. Solti’s tempi here are much slower than I recall. (Bud Herseth’s playing is exactly what I remember, since I’ve never heard anything like it since.)
Sir Georg and CSO, Mahler 5th. It can’t get better than that! I remember very fondly when Sir Georg and CSO were in Vienna in Nov. 1990, playing this symphony. It was an amazing evening!
@@GLC-1979 Um, no. There was no attempt at gaslighting 🙄 Somebody commented (sarcastically) that they only heard audio signal in their left ear. I am listening right now with headphones and have output signal from left & right. If the right channel is truly missing, and it was mixed to mono from left channel source, both ears would still be enjoying the music as I am right now. So my original point stands-Instead of sarcastically complaining & trying to be clever, just try to appreciate the document in it’s imperfect form - we are all lucky to enjoy in *any* form.
What a fantastic performance of one of the greatest symphonies of all time composed by i think the greatest symphony composer ever! And a concert from a time that you,ll never ever see like this ever again, Bravo !!!!!
The fact that we are lucky enough to even have access to this performance should be celebrated. Thank you! Now why don’t the complainers find some place else to showcase how miserable they are.
Danke für diese wunderbare Aufnahme. Es ist mir unerklärlich, wie Mahler, noch dazu bei seiner Arbeitsbelastung, diese genialen Werke, quasi in seinem Urlaub, in seiner Sommerpause, schaffen konnte. Welch ein Geschenk hat er uns hinterlassen!
Thank you so much to whoever it was that improved the sound! I've seen this same video in the past, but the sound was terrible! Is there any other orchestra in the world that is more suited to perform a masterpiece of Mahler's? BRAVO!!! Mahler symphonies are some of the greatest works of mankind!
I had a similar upload 10 years ago and decided it was time to do it again. I bought a new vhs to digital converter. The quality has certainly improved in the past 10 years.
Even more amazing when you consider he was nearly 65 when this was recorded (and still 15 years from retirement!). And a very nice man, too. I had a friend who was one of his students and positively idolized him, both as a man and as a musician.
@@stubloom4870 I was at this one, I think he was 78 then: www.bing.com/videos/search?q=mahler+5+cso+barenboim&&view=detail&mid=638DFE8D0051FCBF0CEF638DFE8D0051FCBF0CEF&&FORM=VRDGAR
Farkas, who played principal horn with Herseth for ~ 10 years, said he never once heard an imperfect note from him in performance or rehearsal - not once.
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Was thinking the same thing. Tried listening to it my car and couldn’t get it to sound correct as it only played in my left speaker, even with panning it to the right.
Lived in Chicago for 30 years and caught the CSO at least once a year. The brass section was such a brilliant musical force. Herseth, Scarlett, Vosburgh, Friedman, Jacobs, Pokorny.
