Symphony No 7 in E minor by Gustav Mahler 1. Langsam-Allegro 2. Nachtmusik I 3. Scherzo 4. Nachtmusik II 5. Rondo-Finale Wiener Philharmoniker Leonard Bernstein, Conductor 1974
Perhaps the least often played of Mahler’s works, but my favorite. Amazing orchestration, use of unusual instruments or instruments used in unusual combinations. And the coda of the finale…just wow. Bernstein was among the early champions of these symphonies, I remember his recording with the NYP from the 1960s…amazing.
Every Conductor has his own interpretation of Beethoven 5th, but this is actually incredible! My favorite Symphony #7 Song of the Night! Is exactly how Mahler Visualize this Music! ❤❤❤❤❤
Une symphonie très originale, la plus extravagante et mystérieuse de Gustav Mahler, qui dévoile des rythmes étranges et des groupements d'instruments improbables, sans doute celle que je préfère de ce grand compositeur, car il y a beaucoup d'humour et peu de mélancolie dans cette symphonie. Bernstein semble beaucoup s'amuser en dirigeant ce monument musical.
For historic performance, you should listen to Jascha Horenstein's live public performance in the BBC Proms of 1969, with the New Philharmonia Orchestra. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kZoKDi7OlRI.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tscEPHrMR6I.html
Great conductor yes, but "one the greatest" is debatable. Well, probably for American standards... ;) And as a composer, not even close to be "one of the greatest"... Please....
@@bruno_dias As a Conductor yes and as a Composer of On the Waterfront and West Side Story, Yes but he was no Mahler , Mahler in many people's opinion now consider him the greatest Symphony Composer of All Time!!!!!
@@scottmiller6495 As a condutor only if you like showboating, media interviews and the like. Many 20th century conductors are considered, by experts, better than Bernstein. As a composer, please... He's not even at the level of some great film composers, let alone being comparable to the greatest 20th century composers. Are you oblivious to classical music of the 20th century?
Awesome performance of a great Mahler symphony! BRAVO to Maestro Lenny Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic! Thank you so very much for this wide-screen hi-fi stereo upload!!
Every Bernstein album in my record library became etched in my memory, making it difficult to accept other interpretations. Sadly, I never heard him live…. Bernstein is always so convincing, he just sweeps you…. Thank you for posting this invaluable document…. You can definitely hear the new century in this work of genius: the tortured chromaticism, which threatens to almost neutralize tonality at certain points; the grotesque, sarcastic gestures, the unorthodox orchestration, the “ruthless counterpoint” to use Mahler’s own phrase…. Spirits such as Mahler, among others, FELT the slow, inexorable approach of the catastrophic events of the twentieth century....
back in 1982 my 8th grade teacher Ms. Green planted a seed in my mind/head, about Leornard Berstein. never heard of him before she/Ms. Green kept mentioned him in class, throughout the school year. little did I know that seed she planted back in the 80's would take root/grow, many years later... I still love my Pop, R&B, and Funk music. I wasn't into classical music growing up in the 80's. but thanks to Ms. Green. I am into it now. and have been for a while. and it was her who brought Leonard Bernstein into my consciousness.
Le génie de Bernstein, littéralement habité par l'esprit de Mahler ! Et à Vienne, avec les Philharmoniker qu'il a dû engueuler pour les faire revenir à "leur" musique, qu'ils avaient totalement oubliée, ile s'est littéralement explosé !
Mahler doesn't look anything like the composer of these gigantic works. One imagines a seven foot, three hundred pound man, not someone who resembled my high school geography teacher in Montevideo, Conrado Schneider. I hesitate to pick a favorite Mahler symphony, they're all so darn great. Schubert's ninth seems to run through all of them, processional, majestic, playful, never pompous. That ninth may also have inspired Bruckner's symphonic style.
I disagree with comments that the tempo is too fast. Many also criticized his tempo of the first movement of the sixth, and the andante of the sixth third instead of second. Mahler himself said, while rehearsing his eighth, said, " If there's anything that you think needs to be changed in my music, I not only give you permission, but you are honor bound to do it." That's why we get to argue about everything 😅❤❤
Pas la plus connue ni la plus aimée des symphonies de Maher, mais.... avec Bernstein, les Wiener Philharmoniker n'ont pu s'y échapper, et tant mieux pour nous !
Thank you very much for this. Although I believe that Mahler's Das Lied and especially his 9th Symphony are his most profound works, as a Trumpet player and major leage Mahler fanatic the first movment of his 7th is my favorite. Especially the trumpet suspension and afterwoards (here at 10:45 - 13:33). And of course from a trumpetistic standpoint (only) , the Rondo movement speaks for itself. Bernstein's approach here is very consistant with his NY Philharmonic recorded performance, which might be a litter better than this excellant version. Bernstein OWNS this work! Thnak you again!
Alan Ross, I agree the 9th is a profound work. One can hear it differently at each sitting. I believe Leonard Bernstein in one of the Harvard "Norton Lectures" addressed the 9th symphony, particularly the 4th movement, as earthly existence gradually disappearing, like a cloud, into an infinite blue sky. If I had the power to raise one to sainthood it would be Leonard Bernstein for introducing me to Mahler many years ago. I wouldn't care to be without the shadowy, nocturnal sounds of the 7th symphony. Bravo!
@@johkkarkalis8860 Yup as it pertains to his comment "as earthly existence gradually disappearing", I'm positive you also love Bruckner's 9th and Strauss' Four Last Songs (particularly in this context the 4th Song). You probably have checked Bruno Walter's Mahler recordings. He's my co-favorite for Mahler and just about everything else. Keep listening Baby!!!!!
@@academic11 You are downright scary! You read minds. I love the Bruckner 9th as well as the 8th, the 7th, the 6th, the 5th.......You get the point. Why Anton Bruckner and Gustav Mahler are lumped together like conjoined twins has always made me smile just a bit. True, their symphonies were of considerable length and they were both Austrians, but I approach each with a separate mind set. If duration alone has merit, then why not Havergal Brian's "Gothic" symphony #1? At the tender age of 82 I'm not ready for Havergal. Length is just a matter of perception. Bruckner and Mahler took the time required to say what they had say. Yes, the valedictory mood of "Im Abendrot" for me reflects the finale of the Mahler 9th. I will admit to a guilty pleasure, but don't tell anyone. I caught a performance at Severance Hall in Cleveland years ago of the Deryck Cooke performing version of the Mahler 10th with Simon Rattle, long before the knighthood. I was overwhelmed. Leonard Bernstein, among others, wouldn't touch it, but I found it moving. So I am a philistine.
@@johkkarkalis8860 Back at you on the Scary! I'm just a 72 year old Baby Boomer. While you're at you might also want to check out Trane, McCoy Tyner, Freddie Hubbard, Booker Little, Bobby Hutcherson (etc. etc. etc. ET AL !!!). Although I'm sure you have.
@@academic11 Yup. to McCoy Tyner and Freddie Hubbard. I don't know what this says about me, but I can listen to Miles all day. How he got that sound remains a mystery to me. I also like piano, especially Bill Evan's and Thelonious. I wouldn't be without be without Billie Holiday. She was long ago but she could just as well be speaking to our own angst ridden time. Now lets hear it for the big guy. Johann Sebastian Bach. He was there at the creation. I don't feel 82 (well maybe early in the morning) . My former long distance running kept me going (no pun intended).
Mahler was introduced to America by Bernstein's predecessor the Greek conductor of the N.York Philharmonic Dimitri Mitropoulos. His successor Lenny embraced Mahler and today is still considered one of the best Mahlerians
I feel that the way into this symphony is to regard it as the "antidote" to the "sickness unto death" of the Sixth. The first two movements are the gradual awakening from the Stroke; the Scherzo is the chilling reminder of what we are recovering from; the 2nd Nachtmusik is rest and recovery; the Rondo finale shows the full recovery, because all the many false cadences turn out to be silly little things all running off in random directions, utterly unlike the horror of the false cadence of Doom in the Sixth. Oh, the Symphony does darken again before the end - but slams us back into triumphant life in the coda. My two cents.
Es dificil , ho faig per primera vegada , ........vaig ara al Conservatori , a la clase , i , Ho posare amb ordre I , repasare el allegro per a dema amb la professora de Armonia ❤
1974 still hardly any women in the orchestra yet, would take several more years for that to happen. Perhaps it's the quality of the recording but I like the Claudio Abbado recording much better of this symphony.
Als großer Freund u.a. der IX. Symphonie und des Liedes von der Erde muss ich nach spätem Wiederhören konstatieren : trop de contenu oder Goethe zitieren: getretener Quark wird breit nicht stark
I know a lot of Mahler's symphonies, and find the earlier ones a lot more compelling. The 7th is just too scattershot for my taste. I guess I just don't get it.
In the case of Bernstein's Mahler, the playing speed is too fast. In the distant past, there was a time when Karajan was regarded as a sporty conductor and played at a fast tempo. Probably this 90% tempo when conducted by the real Mahler. However, it is too early. I would like to send "Bravo" to the geniuses of the Vienna Philharmonic who are keeping up with it.
