But suddenly I am sad, feel abandoned, melancholic and lost. I have been taken by Mahler to a sensitive world, where it is not embarrassing to show our real feelings. I miss a wonderful friend who is not here, anymore, and with a defenseless heart, I feel my friend near me. Thank you, Mr. Gustav Mahler, for making me a better human being. I will give you a hug, someday, on the other side.
How beautifully said, I have my entire family on the other side and during Holidays it is especially lonely, listening to these adagios I feel deep melancholy and sadness but it also brings me peace I haven't felt for a while living in this strange world of clashes between opposite factions and control and coincidentally, often Mahler's music is about clashes between the good and the bad (especially 5th symphony). My mind is relaxing now and releasing built up stress and anger. In the meantime lets hug people here on earth, the ones who deserve it. Oh, listen to Michael Tilson Thomas' documentary Keeping Score about Mahler
Thank you for this comment. Sadness and loneliness are true human emotions for which we should not be embarrassedI It is only some people in society who for some reason have been made to feel shame. By allowing myself to fully feel these emotions, even anger, as long as I am still respectful of others, I now feel liberated by feelings and memories locked away for 70 years. This balance has finally brought me he inner peace which I have sought all my life. I understand and honour the feelings this wonderful music brings to you.
After years of rock and roll I came to classical music in middle age. Then I wandered for a while. As I am now much older I've discovered Mahler. Wish I had known him 60 years ago. He should take me to the end of things.
Discovered him at 16. At RFK's funeral at St.Patrick's in '68 Bernstein and the NY Philharmonic performed the Adagio of Mahler's 5th. A year later I heard this here as backdrop to a documentary about Camus. No more Mahler again until '74, when I heard all of the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th. The 3rd I didn't hear until '79. The 9th I didn't hear until 1981, and I penned a short story inspired by its last movement, also an Adagio. The 1st and 8th I was holding in reserve, and didn't hear the latter until 1993. I listened to the 1st at some point but, compared to all the others, it seemed to me a dud. Be sure to scope out Bruckner too! Esp. his 4th, 5th, 7th and 9th. Vale!
I guess im lucky because I loved Rock N Roll and still do but at the same time, I discovered Mahler at 22 and he has grown with me to my current age of 80. His music has comforted, consoled and uplifted me all my life and even though I am an atheist, I hope that the sound of the 2nd symphony (The Resurrection) will comfort me at the end.
how heart felt commnts I am reding. I couldn be more in synch with unknown people here, whom I wish once I have the opprtunity to get to know. How wonderful to understand human beings in this crazy world this moment. A big hug to all and to our beloved gustav Mahler.
Quite something considering he was banned by Nazi Germany, I have a very strong attachment to his music also. Of course, quite an irony that the biggest artillery piece at the time was named "Gustav" after a different human of course. Truly a dichotomy between good and evil. Some say evil is not real, but this music proves it, purely by making real of the opposite. "abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is"
The Adagio of the fifth symphony is haunting. I love it and sometimes I am afraid to listen to it. It makes me feel sad. Yearning, longing, missing. Dream! Far away. Mysterious.
Have nearly the same feeling about that one. I discovered it not for long. The very first minutes, tears are falling down. Sad but peaceful and relax sometimes. A high master piece indeed
Look up Leonard Bernstein's analysis of the fifth here on RU-vid. The means to the 5th's adagio is so very simple and a key to the essence of music itself.
Actually, the whole symphony is about clash of good and evil, adagio represents the good and represents peace and other parts played by wind instruments are evil warmongers. At the end they make peace and all instruments play together.
The most sophisticated composer and a definer of 20th century music - all that we observe in films, theater is inspired by this. Not the simplest to listen to.
Los adagios de Mahler dirigidos por Karajan es uno de los momentos más emotivamente sublimes de la historia de la música. Se tocan bellamente con todos sus tonos y matices las hojas del árbol del corazón y del alma.
First time hearing this. I'm at a loss. Tears rolling down my cheek. Looking back on a life wasted and myriad opportunities squandered. I don't think I'll ever emerge from this deep despair I'm feeling. This piece gives a most eloquent voice to my melancholy, much more eloquent than I can ever hope to be. I just want everyone to know that I tried. Thank you dear Mahler for all the beauty you have created.
When it's gone and it was empty, it's kind of sad. Try to think of the accomplishments that did happen, and remember the pitfalls that were avoided, and it doesn't seem so bad.
Is there nothing of value you did? It just can't be that your life is only a sum of failures. I also have squandered opportunities, potentials unexpressed. But if you even made a small gesture of help to your fellow man, it was worth it. I wish you all the serenity in the world.
When you speak of Masters, Mahler is a master of the envelopment of clarity in his pieces. That an orchestra could bring the sounds of single instruments and tones forth in such a manner, seems like only something we can do today with sophisticated filtering electronics. The sounds of the double bass, just don’t sound, but are prolonged, stuck in your bones, as are the violins who seem to linger, after the tone seems to have ceased to be played.
This music is absolutely sumptuous .... rich melodic speech, harmonies breathtaking orchestration constantly renewed in the use of the stamps of the orchestra, in short a Babylonian sound architecture erected by humble and immense master.
I’m flyng I’m in space and I can see my self!!!!!Instantly everything gets connected and I get the understanding of my existence and of this Univers!! Thank you my dear Maller I’m sure that we meet again because this only believe permits us to continue in this life
Mulți oameni suferă, iubesc, speră, visează, se bucură, dar foarte puțini pot să exprime aceste sentimente în sunete, pentru a le împărtăși și celorlalți. Este un dar de la Dumnezeu.
A mis 60 años puedo decir, con mucha certeza, de que he perdido la cuenta la cantidad de veces que he escuchado las sinfonías de Mahler. Hasta los 10 años solo conocía su primera sinfonía (Titan), entonces me crucé con la 6 y quedé cautivo pues sus obras son, realmente, sublimes.para mi gusto, lo mejor es logrado Abbado, Haitink y Karajan
Totalmente de acuerdo, la numero 6 es una pieza maestra, desearia poder haber visto una presentacion en vivo de Bernstein, Abbado o Karajan en vida ya que los considero los mejores interpretes de Mahler.
En mi caso la escucha atenta y activa de sus sinfanías comenzó pasados los 40, creo que antes no hubiera sido capaz de compenderlas. Para mi su significado es la recreación del universo y el ser humano como parte del mismo con las sublimes experiencias de goce, euforia y dolor. Desde hace màs de 10 años he ido conociendo una por una sus obras y confieso que me acompañaràn hasta el final de mis días.
Mahler lived his best life. He was truly a great composer, and he died married to the woman that God set him to be with, and vice versa. What more could you ask for.
thanks a lot ! I love deeply Mahler's music and especially these parts... and I love deeply Austria ; but this year, it will be complicated to spend holidays in my favorite country among Mahler (Maernigg) Bruckner (Linz) Mozart (Salzbourg Vienna..) Brahms Beethoven (two german but who lived and died in Vienna)
Wagner is the most sublime/greatest composer since LvB. Mahler would agree! Watch and listen. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Mic_EOGOTzE.html
@@cubanbach I feel "meh" towards 90% of Mahler's music but I still think he's a significant composer. It could be just a difference of personal taste. I have heard almost everything Mahler wrote. If 10% is sublime, that's still plenty. Do you just not like Wagner's music or are you not familiar with it?
@@dvforever Thank you for responding. Personally, I reserve "sublime" for the indisputable sublime triumvirate of Bach, Beethoven and Mozart. Now, I certainly like Wagner a lot, I attended the San Francisco "Ring cycle" back in June1999. But for some reason, I've never found the word "like" elevated to "love" in my vocabulary to describe his music. Let's say it in simple terms, he never "touched" me. Except when I cried at the end of Die Götterdämmerung. Go figure! :)
@@cubanbach Wagner has always been my favourite. It's music of triumphant ecstasy and touches my psyche. I always get goosebumps at least twice listening to Tannhauser overture
The one he wrote for Alma, the 4th movement of the 5th maybe the most personal moving piece of music ever written since beethoven's moonlight sonata. He wrote these personal notes to her on the music,this is love you can hear coming from the strings from bass to violins and it was just after he wrote this that his life would make a tragic change. Hard to believe that 42 yrs ago i would have missed this man's great music if not for a marine gunny sgt giving me an assignment to write a paper on his life and music.
As for me, I think that, in order to understand Mahler's work, it is necessary to understand the dominant aspect of the Jewish soul: its deep, remarkable feeling of nostalgia. Greetings for all from Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Gracias Gustavo por haber existido.Soy fanático por las sinfonías 4. 6.5 y 9.Pero ademas la 1.2.7 y 10.De chico escuchaba solo la primera.Después descubrí que todas sus obras son increíbles.GRACIAS
L''adagio de la 4ème par Karajan reste pour moi inégalable à ce jour c'est vraiment la perfection sur tous les plans The adagio of the 4th by Karajan remains for me incomparable to this day it is really the perfection on all plans
behind the existence of the universe is Mahler:) please do not spoil your clear mind as an atheist!. Because, this is the last phase of a human brain. Do not reverse!.
SOY ARTISTA PLASTICO Y ME INSPIRO EN MIS PINTURAS EN MUSICA COMO ESTA-ALLA LEJOS EN 1983 EN UNA GALERÍA DE BUENOS AIRES REALICÉ UNA MUESTRA SOBRE LA OBRA DE BEETHOVEN, Y ENTRE OTRAS MUCHAS MUESTRAS INDIVIDUALES ESPERÉ HASTA EL AÑO 1988 PARA PINTAR SOBRE LA MUSICA DE MAHLER TAMBIEN EXPUESTAS EN UNA GALERIA DE LA BOCA, EN BUENOS AIRES- POR LO CUAL MAS ALLA DE TENER TODAS LAS SINFONIAS GRABADAS DE ESTOS DOS GENIOS, AL ESCUCHAR ESTOS ADAGIOS UNIDOS COMO EN UNA SOLA OBRA, SIENTO REVIVIR EN MI, INFINIDAD DE EMOCIONES Y RECUERDOS QUE ME HACEN ELEVAR A OTROS PLANOS ESPIRITUALES- FELICITO POR LA IDEA DE AGRUPARLAS Y EDITARLAS CON TAN BELLAS IMAGENES, Y ADEMAS DE ELEGIR TAMBIEN A KARAJAN
Felicitaciones a Greatclassicrecords por tan excelente idea y trabajo de publicar estos adagios de Mahler. Son sutiles vibraciones que elevan el espíritu. Son un susurro de Dios. Gracias.
Mahler the great composer was a former student of Bruckner at the Music Conservatory in Vienna. They were two genies that have used different musical languages, two different worlds.
Herbert von Karajan condutor orquestral, executa com seu rigor reconhecido e elevado, com a sua maravilhosa orquestra, estes adágios sublimes da criação da pena de Gustav Mahler, em que uma elevação do criador na sua beleza da escrita, foi encontrada com toda a certeza, e observada, afim de ser perpetuada. Paz a ambos.
However great this is, we need to remember what a symphony is. It's one work in multiple movements, the order of which matters. So we shouldn't take movements and play them as separate works, at least, this is not what they were intended to be. I encourage everyone to listen to the symphonies properly - in full and respecting the order of movements.
Quelle délice pour l'âme se plongrer, se noyer sous ces notes dont ces phrases sombres et mélancholiques sont comme l'aveu d'un être résigné a son sort et en y égoutant un plaisir morbide. L'élégie d'une vie qui rien en espère et qui en a tout goûté et vécu.
Splendido omaggio al grande Gualtiero Marchesi, grazie a Franco Ziliani di averlo dedicato in rete magistralmente a un grande interprete e comunicatore dell'arte del buon vivere, che è condivisione prima di ogni altra cosa.
Despues de escuchar los adagios de la novena de Beethoven y septima de Bruckner, estos adagios de Malher son lo mas conmovedor que escuche hasta ahora, sumando a estos la no menos gloriosa version del gran Herbert Von Karajan con la Filarmonica de Berlin, me pregunto porque tardo tanto tiempo en imponerse estas maravillas sinfonicas despues de la muerte del gran Malher❤❤❤
I know, I'm one of the unwashed heathen who is not a Mahler fan. Yes, he has written some beautiful music, but as a whole, he's not my favorite. What you have distilled in this collection, though, is without parallel for beauty. I'm so glad I didn't pass it by when it came up in recommendations. I was in a mood for something different. Thank you. Subscribing.
Shostakovich is another composer whose music always seems too raucous for me. But he surprises me with his delicacy sometimes. For an immense treat, listen to the second movement of his Piano Concerto # 2. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jFnbnJrpT6o.html
this is Mahler's Adagio conducted by Herbert von Karajan, so don't ask to add the adagio from the 3rd or 10th. I don't think Karajan has records on these two pieces.
I would add the Adagios of Symphony No. 3 &10 to the list of 'glorious.' However, space is limited on the recorded medium and those from Symphonies 4, 5, 6 & 9 demonstrate Mahler's versatility in composing slow movements. For example, the Sixth Symphony slow movement is actually marked Andante (faster tempo than adagio). Viva Gustav! Viva Herbert!
Why thank God? Do you think Karajan would make a lazy recordings of the 3rd symphony? How can you know???? Karajans Mahler is simply magnificant! And why is his Mahler a disaster? Is his Mahler too beautifull?
Um verdadeiro medicamento anabolizante na estabilidade das emoções eternas de que tanto aprecio nas ondas sonoras musicadas de Gustav Mahler com esta beleza de um maravilhoso estupendo vibrar celestial. À sua Paz.
Speechless in front of this music, Similar to Beethoven. At his time there were caricatures on his symphonies. How is it to know for himself that he is a genius and regardless of the local criticism go on composing. It's demoralizing when criticism is negative. It makes some people think that they are not talented.
O GOOGLE e a INTERNET fizeram o grande milagre de reunir em um só gigantesco compartimento digital TODAS AS PÉROLAS MUSICAIS do mundo inteiro e beneficiando a cultura mundial da música. Walter Barcelos - Brasil
