Why Listen to Mahler?

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Gustav Mahler has been one of my favourite composers since I discovered Classical Music - and in this video I try to explain why he holds that place, from many angles, channelled through the extraordinary, moving story of Mahler’s life and works.
I hope you can consider this a complete introduction to Mahler’s life and works, and a compelling springboard for a musical journey into the depths of Mahler’s soul.
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Music included (Listening List):
Symphony no. 2 (‘Resurrection’) - Finale
Symphony no. 1 (‘Titan’) - First Movement
Symphony no. 1 - Third Movement
Symphony no. 3 - Final Movement (Adagio)
Symphony no. 4 - Das Himmlische Leben
Symphony no. 4 - Third Movement (Adagio)
Symphony no. 5 - Adagietto
Kindertotenlieder - Wenn dein Mütterlein (If your mother…)
Symphony no. 6 (‘Tragic’) - Scherzo
Symphony no. 6 - Finale
Symphony no. 8 (‘Symphony of a Thousand’) - Movement 2 (Closing Scene from Goethe’s Faust)
Symphony no. 9 - First Movement
Symphony no. 9 - Finale
Symphony no. 10 - Adagio (First Movement)
0:00 - Introduction
1:20 - Chapter One: Spring
8:01 - Chapter Two: Summer
13:17 - Chapter Three: Autumn
17:59 - Chapter Four: Winter

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@InsidetheScore 4 месяца назад

@theoe354 2 года назад

Please keep the "why listen to ..." series coming. Its some of the best content on yt

@13teleportingman 2 года назад

Yesssss!!!

@catherineluk2414 2 года назад

one of my favourites

@ranieddy7232 2 года назад

I agreeee

@jaroddavid5933 2 года назад

Agreed - he needs to do every composer!

@lennardbehnke3681 2 года назад

I agree

@markdisanzo3796 2 года назад

I'm not ashamed to admit that the second symphony moved me to tears the first time I listened to it.

@TheRealValus Год назад

One should sooner be ashamed if it did not.

@zacharyferreira2469 Год назад

the 6th.

@Unhacker Год назад

A lot of Mahler has that effect on me, sometimes I can guess it's Mahler by the way it makes me feel, even if I've never heard it before.

@clavijocarlos Год назад

I will use this comment to confess the same, tears and joy with the second symphony, I just finished it a few minutes ago

@alexandresobreiramartins9461 Год назад

@@zacharyferreira2469 Yeah, my favorite.

@mercy2409 2 года назад

Mahler saved me when life was too dark, his works made me way stronger... He is my favorite composer.

@dothgaerwenoakblossom15 7 месяцев назад

I would agree to name Mahler the composer of life :D

@RatnipTX 6 месяцев назад

He gave me a reason to live. Especially the 2nd Symphony.

@devakikaren 4 месяца назад

Fascinating. I believe favorite music is healing for everybody. It's been proven in many University studies as well.

@sunnaum 2 года назад

if debussy's music is like an impressionist musical painting, Mahler's music is like a musical movie that can only be seen by your heart

@aa-tt5yy Год назад

perfectly said.

@PastPerspectives3 Год назад

Mahler the Director Debussy the Painter Chopin the Poet Beethoven the Actor Anyone have any more?

@timbredan3476 Год назад

beautifully said

@salmonandsoup Год назад

Honestly, the more I listen to his works, the more I go "You would have been a phenomenal scorer, Gustav. You would have loved movies-especially animated ones, where you can go beyond the realms of what is humanly possible and TRULY contain EVERYTHING." The film scorer before film scorers.

@robkunkel8833 Год назад

@@PastPerspectives3 … Stravinsky and Prokofiev? I don’t want to attempt it. Somebody help me out.

@patrickreilly6351 2 года назад

There’s not really and collection of words I could put together to describe this man. He unlocked the very deepest of emotions within himself and was somehow able to capture that in its purest form and portray in to us. We are lucky that in the span on the universe we were able to experience someone like him

@PrinceValiance 2 года назад

There's not really a collection of words, because it doesn't make sense. His music isn't great, because his life wasn't great, so if your life isn't great there's a connection. My life is fine, so I don't enjoy or empathize with Mahler in the least.

@anbuc11 2 года назад

@@PrinceValiance Mahler's life was great at times and not great at others. But during the periods of greatness he knew about the fragility and the finite nature of this greatness. That's the difference between him and you and that's why you are (still) unable to connect.

@NeilFiertel 2 года назад

Exactly so! He changed my life 62 years ago on hearing his music for the first time.

@SR009s 2 года назад

@@PrinceValiance I don't even like mahler, but that's one of the worst takes I've ever read.

@PrinceValiance 2 года назад

@@SR009s Good. Must mean it means something.

@jeromus9996 2 года назад

"A symphony must be like the world. It embraces everything" - Gustav Mahler

@Grappapappa 2 года назад

Hello from Helsinki! I think he said that to Sibelius while visiting him.

@jeromus9996 2 года назад

@@Grappapappa Yes Mahler did said that when he met Sibelius in 1907. They were discussing about the meaning of a symphony, and since Mahler's concept is different than Sibelius', he told Sibelius of that quote.

@jaroddavid5933 2 года назад

More like a person - someone has to learn how to embrace everything

@Grappapappa 2 года назад

@@jaroddavid5933 I think the original is that it must embrace everything. But a person can do whatever it damn pleases. Free will and all that.

@simoncarrier9910 2 года назад

Very stupid statement, almost as stupid and overrated as his musac.

@MusicalBasics 2 года назад

what a beautiful video essay

@anotherpracticeboy40hrs57 2 года назад

@Timmy Tran that’s sacrilegious

@anotherpracticeboy40hrs57 2 года назад

@Timmy Tran fair enough

@brodycates8472 2 года назад

@Timmy Tran I kinda agree. I'm open to the idea of mahler being a good composer, but I refuse to put him at Bach/Beethoven tier

@durban55 2 года назад

I agree

@D.Oktipu 2 года назад

Your music is more epic

@gracewenzel Год назад

I made the mistake of thinking I could have this on in the background while I did chores about the house… when I got to the section about his 9th, and the prophetic three hammer blows, I was standing in the middle of the kitchen, stunned, eyes filled with tears. What a deeply moving story about a composer of whose works I’ve only had a small taste. The quality of this “Why Listen” series is outstanding - what a gift!

@williamhollin1445 Год назад

The hammer is in the 6th. But yes....

@seanforgor Год назад

The three hammer blows is in his 6th symphony

@Quotenwagnerianer Месяц назад

@@seanforgor While it is true that the hammer blows are in the 6th, the 9th repeats the 3 blows of fate in the first movement where each climax ends in an ever stronger catastrophe.

@sjambler 2 года назад

Changed my life. Your opening quote was a reply to Sibelius when they met in Helsinki in 1907: "Mahler and I spent much time in each other’s company. Mahler’s grave heart-trouble forced him to lead an ascetic life and he was not fond of dinners and banquets. Contact was established between us in some walks, during which we discussed all the great questions of music thoroughly. When our conversation touched the essence of symphony, I said that I admired its severity and style and the profound logic that created an inner connection between all the motifs. This was the experience I had come to in composing.Mahler’s opinion was just the reverse. ‘Nein, die Symphonie muss sein wie die Welt, Sie muss alles umfassen.' " Sibelius also changed my life.

@bilahn1198 2 года назад

And I love Sibelius! We can have both!

@sjambler 2 года назад

@@bilahn1198 Indeed.

@lolilollolilol7773 2 года назад

I didn't know they had met. How much I would have paid to have a detailed account of their conversations.

@uliketofindmistakes 2 года назад

Like Richard Strauss , they all three met at same destination from total different direction

@samuelleal4250 2 года назад

Very interesting. I like Sibelius too. His tunes are very lively. One of my favorites is the Kullervo, Op. 7: III. Kullervo And His Sister.

@InsidetheScore 2 года назад

Mahler's music is so personal - it seats you in the intense perspective of one man's vision of life... and death. This video explores how his life and music are so intimately connected, and the meaning behind some of the extraordinary works he composed.

@diemenschen8339 2 года назад

Another excelent video, thank you.

@jamesmullaney5841 2 года назад

Thank you for this illuminating road map. I've made several attempts to listen deeply to Mahler in the past but I couldn't find my way within the dense, dark forest. Now I'm better prepared for the journey.

@eyelovelil 2 года назад

. . . btw, I watched this twice in a row & saved it so I can watch it again.

@Ashutosh5897 2 года назад

Make videos on Indian classical music 🙏

@Alexagrigorieff 2 года назад

6:45 - promgrammatic

@althor5980 2 года назад

Mahler is simply the best. I love the quote: “There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.” His music has such a personal and direct sound, nothing else comes close

@slowpainful 2 года назад

What does that quote mean, I wonder? Maybe that a Mahler eighth note would take about half an hour longer than normal? lol

@bachagain1685 2 года назад

@@slowpainful probably referring to the orchestration.

@eduardoguerraavila8329 2 года назад

Better than Bach or Beethoven? 🤔

@althor5980 2 года назад

@@eduardoguerraavila8329 for me absolutely. Although Bach Beethoven and Brahms are close behind

@dan-us6nk Год назад

@@eduardoguerraavila8329 If a fertile creator such as J.S. Bach would have Mahler's tools (modern instruments, globality, the acceptance of new approaches(partially)), I'd say he'd still have been one of if not the most important figure in western music.

@goxigoksi3236 Год назад

I have discovered Mahler a few months ago and I can not stop listenning again and again, no one other classical musics touches me as his.

@dfkfgjfg 2 года назад

I wish we could all tell Mahler what his legacy is like today. He used to be so troubled and frustrated over the lack of understanding and appreciation of his music. He never even got to hear his greatest works (Das Lied, the 9th and the 10th). But today he is one of the only composers people seriously compare to Beethoven. Excellent video but I wish more was said about the 10th. He did finish 90% of the actual notes, he just didn't finish orchestrating it.

@pawelpap9 2 года назад

If composition is about counting notes, I would surmise 90% of notes is orchestration. Second, much of the quality of the composed piece is in orchestration. You can try to play Mahler’s symphony on flute. I doubt you’ll get the same effect as one gets from orchestra performance.

@dfkfgjfg 2 года назад

@@pawelpap9 Sorry for over simplifying, I just didn't want to go into huge depth and said "notes". What I really mean is the structure is 100% complete and quite possibly the greatest he wrote. The harmony is 95% complete and some of the most inventive and abstract. The motivic variation is also around 95% complete. The whole Symphony makes sense as it is on paper, I play it on the piano regularly as Mahler himself did! Mahler loved to play his music on the piano. Yes it isn't the same as the orchestra but that says something. The orchestration is mostly finished for the first 3 movements and he wrote detailed information for movements 4 and 5 in order for them to be completed. There's a reason all the different "completions" sound roughly the same (at least the good ones do, there's some shoddy ones). I firmly believe Mahler's 10th Symphony is his own and more finished than people usually assume. It's probably my favourite along with Das Lied

@pawelpap9 2 года назад

@@dfkfgjfg Thanks for clarification. Now it makes sense. Still, there exist different “finished” versions and to my poorly trained ear they sound different by more than 5%, but it’s not really about counting.

@dfkfgjfg 2 года назад

@@pawelpap9 It depends what you care about when you listen to music. We all have different ears. The difference between the Wheeler version and Cooke version is not too much on paper but the sound is totally different because Wheeler almost refused to write in anything Mahler didn't so it's much "emptier" and doesn't sound like a Mahler Symphony. Barshai's version is the exact opposite. He orchestrates it like a Shostakovich Symphony and even changes a few chords in the scherzo he thinks Cooke predicted incorrectly. As different as they all are the heart of the music is still there for me. The "narrative" so to speak. I obviously wish we could have Mahler's own version but I just settle for playing at the piano to get the "purest" version possible. If you didn't know there's actually a piano roll recording of Mahler playing his own 5th and 4th symphonies (only one movement of each) and its very interesting seeing how he plays them and what he omits from the texture to make it playable

@pawelpap9 2 года назад

@@dfkfgjfg Now you made me curious and I will have to get the piano version and sink my teeth into it. I am curious how the monster chord is written. Doesn’t it span four octaves?

@lawyh1506 2 года назад

"If you ever get the change to hear [the eighth symphony] live, THEN GO!" Totally agree! I flew specifically to Switzerland in August 2016 to listen to Mahler's eighth performed by the Lucerne Festival Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Muti. It was one of the best performances that I have ever attended live. I still remember it like yesterday (including fighting for a ticket on the online reservation system during a uni lecture...).

@yuzoookun Год назад

That concert must have been a lifetime experience.. lucerna orchestra, Muti and mahler's 8th just feels too much. I went to Monte Carlo plane round trip on the same day just to listen to Argerich's Ravel Piano concerto and still one of the best musical experiences in my life. The other one was experiencing Mahler's 2nd symphony live

@bovinejoannie9429 11 месяцев назад

Worthless lecture that was

@scottmiller6495 10 месяцев назад

How about the 10 minute Standing Ovation and then Abbado,s famous solo curtain call after the orchestra leaves the stage with remaining people going crazy cheering for him !!!!!

@gregthebaritone 9 месяцев назад

I got to sing in the Blossom Festival Chorus for Mahler's 8th a few decades ago. One of the highlight experiences of my life.

@porcinet1968 6 месяцев назад

it was Riccardo Chailly, the famous Riccardo who is a great conductor and known for Mahler who conducted that performance and yes it's amazing - it's on DVD/Bluray but it's Chailly, not Muti. Chailly has recorded the 8th multiple times, all of them are great. There's a great one here on RU-vid

@marnieesjolander1831 2 года назад

Symphony 7 is so underrated. It deserves more than a quick notice. It is as brilliant as the other eight.

@charmoka Год назад

I agree! It was barely mentioned - the final movement of the 7th symphony is especially a great favorite of mine, of all Mahler's music... and I would recommend Abbado for it, I think Bernstein's version is a little slow.... but Those last few measures of the finale--- more cowbell!

@rantdmc 11 месяцев назад

@charmoka it's got great music, but it's not truly as coherent as many of the other symphonies

@craigbrush5784 9 месяцев назад

Yes! Years ago I said to a musician in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra that I love the Seventh so much and he looked at me as if I was mad! I don't get it it's wonderful

@kingconcerto5860 7 месяцев назад

@@charmoka Abbado's Mahler is horribly dull... Bernstein recorded it twice, the later one is probably the version you're talking about but his first recording is the better of the two.

@simonwood1461 Год назад

In the 1980s I went to a performance of the 2nd Symphony at London's South Bank. It was conducted by Klaus Tennstedt. At the end I was unable to speak or think coherently. I am now 77 and have never before or since experienced such a churning of my soul. Who cares if he was a Jew or a Catholic? Such thinking is worthless piffle. Your video was a great tribute to a genius, sent to us for an all too fleeting moment. Thank you.

@nachotolchefffernandez231 2 года назад

This video is incredibly well articulated and put together. Had goosebumps all over the video. You deserve much more credit than what you receive

@sveinungnygaard1505 2 года назад

Remember the first time i heard the «white hot pain» chord from the 10th. I froze to my chair in terror

@jimryon1002 2 года назад

Me too, I was playing in our first rehearsal of the 9th, and when the trumpet sounded that high note, I felt terror stricken.

@alanmundy1536 2 года назад

Indeed, it is one of the most astonishing moments in music (and is generally referred to as the Mahler scream). Then of course there is the startling final movement with the repeated crash of the single drum. I saw a performance in The Netherlands (available here on RU-vid) where one of the violinists was actually in tears at the end, something I had never seen before in an orchestra. I think the Chorus Mysticus at the end of the 8th is just as moving and I hope to leave this world listening to it. Mahler has been with me since a teenager and 40 years later, his music remains a constant companion.

@antoinewcaron2132 2 года назад

@@alanmundy1536 I have seen musicians cry also after a performance of the Resurrection in Montréal.The power of this music is infinite and will last forever

@dirtyharry1881 2 года назад

@@alanmundy1536 In my 3rd year studying musicology I was assigned to analyze the 1st part of the 9th symphony. I learned to hear it from the score... At the end (I think the solo clarinet) of the part I was literally weeping over the score for about 1/2 hour. It is touching enough when you listen to it from an orchestra. But listening it in your head is quite devastating!

@alanmundy1536 2 года назад

@@dirtyharry1881 Thank you for sharing. For those who experience Mahler viscerally, it is difficult to explain it to others. Music expresses the ineffable and Mahler, for me is the summation of that. He forces us to confront ourselves despite ourselves and I will carry his music with him to the very day I die (hopefully leaving this world listening to either the 10th or the Chorus Mysticus).

@a1nevare 2 года назад

My God, man, you made me weep with this. Mahler has always been one of those composers who challenged the player in the best way possible. His life was tragic and like a true artist, he never got the respect he deserved when he was alive. When I played his Symphony 9, you could literally feel the sadness and melancholy of the Farewell and your recounting brought me right back there. As a clarinetist, I am thankful to have been given the opportunity to play his work. And I hope people continue to celebrate him. Brilliantly done on the biography.

@PieInTheSky9 2 года назад

Mahlers 9th symphony is one of the only pieces of music to bring me to tears.

@timwheeler8523 2 года назад

For me it's his second ....

@halfabeet Год назад

I feel sorry that so few pieces of music move you to tears

@specialperson335 Год назад

@@halfabeet No reason to be

@jameswiglesworth5004 Год назад

agree the finale is the greatest piece of music ever written

@Chromexus 9 месяцев назад

@@jameswiglesworth5004 AS his biographer said-people may have written music AS beautiful as that movement but no one has yet written music more beautiful. A good performance of this movement makes a person forget his/her own name and where he/she is( eg Abbado Lucerne/ Tilson Thomas)

@junlee7237 2 года назад

The big bang of mahler 2 felt like entering a portal in another dimension

@gerardo4104 2 года назад

I see Mahler as the exact moment in history when the music becomes a powerful force of nature.

@weewee2169 2 года назад

beethovens 9th? or 6th? or 4th? i mean any beethoven symphony?

@Dhruvnater456 2 года назад

Personally, I find Baroque music a powerful force of nature

@Xaviergonzalez85 2 года назад

became*

@hijonathan 2 года назад

When my uncle died in July 2019, the first words to come to my mind were: "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live." After that, I heard, "Symphony No 2, by Gustav Mahler, The Resurrection." I left the café where I was, I went home and put Mahler's 2nd and opened a book. My uncle was a romantic, raised in the Catholic Church's classic education, and, in the final months of his life, he returned to God. I believe that is how he would wanted me to mourn him.

@mutex1024 2 года назад

It's pathetic that you believe this Christian fairy tale.

@lukelombardi1059 2 года назад

Thats a beautiful story, thank you for sharing. If he was a romantic, there probably couldn’t be a better piece to remember him and his conversion than the 2nd. May God bless him and your family

@josephbarbarie692 2 года назад

@@mutex1024 Ahh. Now that comment is true to the spirit of Mahler . . . It's possible Mr. Kelley has a better understanding of Mahler's true convictions than anyone on this thread.

@Jupiterssilhouette 2 года назад

@@mutex1024 you wouldn’t understand with that pathetic attitude

@imfernemland4294 Год назад

The first time I listened the first simphony I was flabbergasted by knowing this knew musical dimension. No composer prepared me for that level of intensity in a symphonic work.

@ballantynemoyes8019 2 года назад

Thank you for this. My introduction to Mahler was almost 50 years ago at the Edinburgh Festival. Bernstein conducted the London Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Symphony Number 2 " Resurrection" with soloists Dame Janet Baker and Shiela Armstrong. I had no idea what I was about to hear, having heard none of his work before. I had never felt such emotion listening to a piece of music, the finale was an ethereal experience. There was absolute silence at the end and then the applause rang out like thunder. I can feel goosebumps even now when I think back on it. I've been hooked on Mahler's music ever since.

@johkkarkalis8860 2 года назад

Ballantyne Moyes, as we say in horseracing, you certainly hit the trifecta 50 years ago. A knowing and charismatic conductor, two superb vocalists, and a work inexpressible in mere words. I envy you.

@Alpha-Andromeda 2 года назад

Bernstein + Mahler = 👼🏼 💀🧨🤍🙏🏼❤️‍🔥

@ballantynemoyes8019 2 года назад

@@johkkarkalis8860 Thank you, John. It has certainly remained a highlight of my concert going experience for many, many years - and I've now been to many, many concerts in my time (and hope to continue for some years yet :) )

@jeanwillis7774 2 года назад

Wow thank you for that description!! You were amongst the best of the best of the time,if not always? Bernstein!!! And Dame Janet Baker….I’m envious…and to have heard Symphony #2’Ressurection’ was the ultimate prize ♥️

@michaelrosa2015 Год назад

Right place, right time. Lucky was you.

@lolilollolilol7773 2 года назад

Finally a video that does some justice to Gustav Mahler. In a short 20 minutes, you managed to give a meaningful sense of his life, personality and of course his music. Not a second wasted. This was a small tour de force.

@dgmelvin Год назад

What a terrific video and tribute to Mahler's music and life. As an undergraduate I had the chance to experience Mahler's 2nd symphony as a member of the choir. I was not familiar with the music before this. I remember in rehearsal of the choral parts by themselves it all seemed so strange and disjointed. But then we had the first orchestra rehearsal and the music had context and was overwhelmingly beautiful and so powerful. Right at the end when the organ comes in with the giant E flat major chord as we sang "Aufersteh’n, ja aufersteh’n" I was overcome with emotion. To this day when I hear the 2nd symphony it makes me openly weep with joyous emotion. Partly out of nostalgia and but mostly to the majesty and wonder of Mahler's music. Mahler changed my musical life and adds to my emotional life to this day.

@theafellacomposer 2 года назад

Mahler was the composer that kick-started my inner voice as a composer. It's one of the biggest influences in my craft. Just breathtakingly amazing his music is. The bitter aftertaste you feel in the emotion of his music touches me everytime because during my genesis as a composer, I was also experiencing intense emotional peril, and philosophical reform because that's when I was also becoming an atheist. His music spoke to me and is now an integral part of my sonic pallette.

@slowpainful 2 года назад

That is amazing. I find that many people who aren't even classical music (so-called) fans are riveted by his music, or perhaps the concept of his music. You are so right to speak of bitterness, I hear this especially in the klezmer episodes. The slow movements are beautiful beyond description, yet It is music that to me is also terrifying and profoundly lacking in consolation... it is like certain moments in Beethoven - the last movement of the 9th, the final string quartets - where a vast universe cracks open and reveals an icy and remote sublimity... Where can I hear your music? I would like to know more.

@theafellacomposer 2 года назад

@@slowpainful I have only uploaded a few of my compositions here on RU-vid (alot of which were pieces by newbie me back in the day since I haven't composed much these days due to the hectic schedule in college. But yeah I might upload more of my compositions soon in my RU-vid channel. Stay tuned to that, I guess 😅 P.S. The piece "Apology in A minor" in my channel is what's obviously very influenced by Mahler 😅

@Joseph----- 2 года назад

Mahler is the first and really only composer I was consciously introduced to as an adult with no prior contact with his music as a kid or teen, and the only composer I actively remember hearing for the first time- that was the third symphony, and the last movement ("what love tells me") remains one of my favorite pieces of music ever written.

@dennisschwartzentruber3204 2 года назад

The third symphony is my favourite among favourites of his !

@Alexagrigorieff 2 года назад

I've been listening to other classical composers since my high school years, but somehow missed Mahler, until I heard live radio broadcast of Mahler's 5th from Pasadena Symphony around 2005, in my 40s. The broadcast was marred by interference from a cordless phone in my house. I went to Tower Music store and bought a few CDs of Mahler's symphonies. That got me hooked. Then, a couple years later I heard a Bruckner's symphony for the first time. It was the 7th, at LA Philharmonic. That got me hooked on Bruckner, as well. You often hear connections and influences between Bruckner and Mahler. One good example is Mahler quoting 2nd movement of Bruckner's 4th in the finale of 6th symphony.

@johnlanou 2 года назад

Me too. Remember first hearing him while I was at work with headphones on, I turned to the classical music station in the middle of his 1st symphony during the 2nd movement and there were these double basses descending chromatically downward towards a new key and I was like what the hell just happened. Stopped work and listen to the rest of it staring at the ceiling.

@slowpainful 2 года назад

It is truly music you can get lost in... I can't always listen to Mahler, because I break down. It's too emotionally intense for me to handle sometimes. Maybe I should just listen...

@packer812 2 года назад

The third was the last of his symphonies that I heard, but it quickly became my favorite, and it still is. It contains everything and is for me the ultimate symphony.

@deidrekellogg9100 2 года назад

Thank you for this excellent video! I have listened to Mahler since I was a child. My parents sought counseling for me, because of my obsession with Mahler and his music! I was a professional ballet dancer and have danced to Mahler, which was so powerful. I still love to listen to Mahler.

@Alexagrigorieff 2 года назад

I had a thought that first and second movements of Mahler's Ninth can totally be turned into a ballet. Not sure about the other two.

@Lopfff 2 года назад

“My parents sought counseling for me, because of my obsession with Mahler.” I think I am in love

@goonhoongtatt1883 Год назад

Let's just pause and appreciate how beautiful the prose of the narration is.

@DeadManProp Год назад

I went to see Mahler's Symphony no. 2 last year without knowing anything about him. I was absolutely blown away by the power of his music.

@EvanYoungMusic 2 года назад

He’s been my musical hero my entire life.

@parintelebaiazid80 2 года назад

I am in awe! I rejoiced and i cried, and than again....Sir, i cannot thank you enough for your very intimate and passionate insight of Mahler's music and life! This kind of work should be mandatory in schools everywhere. One billion likes from me, thank you!

@ZoiBox 2 года назад

Listening to Mahler is one thing but playing Mahler is life changing.

@J.A.Seyforth 2 года назад

I'm literally in tears at the end of this. thank you for this video, it demystified so much around Mahler for me

@kashyapsundararajan1123 2 года назад

Mahler's quartet in A minor - the perfect example of less is more!

@jimhill4725 2 года назад

" Mahler's quartet in A minor - the perfect example of less is more! " As exemplified by John Cage : 4′ 33″ - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JTEFKFiXSx4.html ; maybe Mahler should have strived for even less - just as Maestro Cage did .

@lolilollolilol7773 2 года назад

I believe he wrote it at 16.

@jesusshrek1271 2 года назад

Shutter island made me discover that piece. And what a masterwork was that

@Xaviergonzalez85 2 года назад

@@lolilollolilol7773 i am 16 and i play dominoes with my cousins.

@DynastieArtistique 2 года назад

@@jimhill4725 Cage was an idiot in case you didn't know. "Less is more" has absolutely nothing to do with 4' 33" because it's not only "less", it's literally NOTHING. Any comparison of Cage to Mahler in any way is an idiotic statement.

@Mordred478 2 года назад

Holy cow, you should win an award for this video. It is particularly meaningful to me because my own (Jewish) family escaped Europe and made it to America, to New York, at the same time Mahler and his family did. And I am a musician and songwriter so I have a special appreciation for Mahler's glorious music. Thank you so much for doing this. I'm going to make a donation to your Patreon.

@babyinvasion Год назад

I am so glad you and your family made it to America.Thank you for sharing this. Long live Mahler 🎹🤍

@MutantsInDisguise 2 года назад

I hope to listen to Gustav Mahler. This pandemic has helped me reconnect even more with the very music genre I have always loved as a kid.

@beaker2257 2 года назад

I heard the eighth symphony live at the royal albert hall. We estimated that there were, in fact, about one thousand performers. It was awesome.

@Helz777 2 года назад

Bet you wished you could have taken pictures or video. Still have the program? That would have been an amazing performance!

@beaker2257 2 года назад

@@Helz777 yes I have the program somewhere. It definitely was amazing especially when the Virgin Mary soared into view. (Actually she just walked along a balcony high up, followed by a spotlight, but I have a good imagination).

@Helz777 2 года назад

@@beaker2257 yes, Mahler does stir the imagination!

@InsidetheScore 2 года назад

If it was in 2011 at the First Night of the Proms, I might have been there with you, standing in the pit, as close as I could get to the front. That was my first ever live professional concert of *any* classical music. I'd never heard of Mahler, but my English teacher said I had to go. I never looked back.

@pega17pl 2 года назад

To me the best Mahler # 8 is the one from the Proms 2002, where Simon Rattle conducts the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. It is admirable how the young musicians immersed themselves in the work during the summer camp and the dedication with which they give their best: their "Herzblut" (heart and soul).

@parsifal40002 2 года назад

Mahler's second symphony "Resurrection " had a profound effect on me in my 30s. It drove me to tears the first time I heard it on the local classical music radio station. The performance was by the Chicago Symphony conducted by George Solti. I purchased the stereo record of this performance. I must heard it dozens of times and I weep every time I hear it. I have since become a devotee of Mahler's music. Thank you for this essay on a remarkable composer.

@vcube1234 Год назад

The Solti recording of Mahler 2 is one of my favorite symphonies of all time

@jb1980ist 2 года назад

I adore Mahler.

@globalman 9 месяцев назад

I just attended a performance of the no. 2 here in Cologne. I had never heard it before and it somehow has changed my life. I was with two friends who were equally overwhelmed. We were not ashamed and I never will be for feeling great emotion.

@jacksonenglish2918 Год назад

There’s been many times I’ve been down and I would put on the CSOs performance of the 5th in 1971 and the first minutes of the first movement never fails to lift my spirits ups.

@Hanfgurkenhasser 2 года назад

I rarely have visceral reactions but the opening of the 10th symphony made me both hot and cold, going from 0 to 100 instantly. Insanely powerful stuff. Your video is also densely packed with info, not a single sentence is superfluous or filler. Time flew by. Top notch presentation, both visually and through audio. Thank you very much for making this.

@howimettheopera 2 года назад

I recently compared Mahler's first symphony to Lo-Fi ( bare with me), specifically that passage you mention where we hear the street bands of his childhood, distorted and interrupted. It's that melancholic feeling that a lot of Lo-Fi trends try to emulate today; hearing your childhood cartoons through a distorted radio or TV. Mahler definitely did it best, and holds a special place in my heart for it. Great video!

@cyrilclark5167 2 года назад

Thank you for a wonderful essay! I 'discovered' Gustav Mahler in my early twenties. In 1971 I was priviledged to be present at a performance of Mahler's second symphony at the Royal Festival Hall, London. Otto Klemperer, a friend of Mahler, conducted the New Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus. It was an unforgetable evening; since a fall in 1951, Klemperer conducted seated at his desk and for a few minutes during the symphony lowered his head and baton and seemed to be taking a rest. At the end of the huge fifth movement there seemed to be a collective intake of breath from the audience - it seemed ages before the applause started. We all knew we were present at an historical musical occasion - Otto Klemperer retired a few months later and died in 1973.

@HoH 2 года назад

My favourite composer - thank you very much for this.

@partheneamytilene4206 2 года назад

Mahler has given me such joy. Not happiness but an expression of love for life in all its ways. This essay brought tears to my eyes as you went thru his music. Ever time that voice cries out "Arise" at the end of the 2nd I feel transported to another place. My fav is the final movement of the 10th symphony for which Mahler had extensive notes that Cooke was able to bring to life. In my imagination I see him boarding the boat to cross the sea, in resignation but with a heart content.

@nicholasfulford6753 Год назад

And he looks back with a gentle radiant smile that says, "I loved ... totally, and how beautiful it is; How absolutely beautiful."

@miloslavavoicehovna3551 Год назад

I am a young classical musician who is highly passionate about everything that's tied with music (just for context). And Mahler for me is something incomprehensibly beautiful yet so transcendent... I don't think I'll ever understand and feel his symphonies as deep as it needs. Listening to this music you are left speechless... I was so lucky to hear his "Titan" in concert hall and it was the first time I had ever listened to Mahler. And nothing can compare to what I felt then... Literally NOTHING (except, maybe, listening to the other Mahler's symphonies lol). Moreover, I was 15 then and I knew the context of Titan, and, being young and feeling same things that possible "character" of the symphony felt (Mahler said that it didn't have some programm, but the bond with Mahler's fav book "Titan" by Jean Paul was confirmed), I maybe was close to grasping it. I wish one day I will be able to conduct one of this masterpieces.... It's my biggest dream. His music is priceless. It's one of the world's wonders.

@tesmith47 2 месяца назад

You are in love with WÈSTERN music

@charliewootton8748 2 года назад

The first symphony I ever had the chance to play was Mahler's first. I never really understood it, until that moment when the lights went down on the stage and that single, seven octave A drew up a scene of Midnight in the forest, Unseen creatures stirring, and almost the sort of feeling you get when thinking about what your life was like in the womb, before you were born. At the end, I felt as if Earth's gravity had doubled in the first movement, halved in the second, tripled in the third, and by the fourth, the sun had gone out and been reignited. Truly an experience you can never understand just listening to recordings, or even seeing it live. Mahler gives his performers an experience that no other composer has been able to write down.

@scottmiller6495 Год назад

The greatest Composer of Symphonies Ever PERIOD!!!!!

@valsammajoseph421 10 месяцев назад

Franz Joseph Hayden Godfather of Symphonies

@scottmiller6495 10 месяцев назад

@@valsammajoseph421 Absolutely Hayden was Superb!!!!!

@calcebemcalcados171 2 года назад

I literally cried. This video is so full of emotions I cant describe

@mrplatink 2 года назад

I saw the title, and I'm like, "WHY NOT LISTEN TO MAHLER?" Heck, I have my 5 year old listen to him (one massive movement at a time)!

@Quotenwagnerianer 2 года назад

Just like my father did it with me 40 years ago. An everlasting gift.

@bimmovieproductions6352 2 года назад

I don't think any music has ever hit me like the adagio of the 10th symphony, simply chilling.

@bilahn1198 2 года назад

You said it! It's astonishing!

@johnmaryn4497 2 года назад

An excellent analysis and documentary, Oscar. You have Patreon-ed me. My Mahler exposure relates back to my being a music student in Vienna in 1971. Yes, a while ago. In looking at my student journal, I remember the very famous Leonard Bernstein series of Mahler concerts in April-May 1972. My horn professor played Bernstein’s Mahler’s 5th, I had a seat in the upper balcony behind the orchestra where I could see Bernstein conduct, we attended a rehearsal of two, there was an earthquake during one of the performances, and finally we students were even invited to a party with Bernstein. My understanding is that Bernstein was re-introducing Mahler to the Viennese audience. Of course, most amazing was Mahler’s music itself that sent shivers up my spine. An early George Solti, Chicago Symphony performance of Mahler’s 5th did the same. It was a wonderful year and Bernstein-Mahler was a wonderful part of it.

@clavijocarlos Год назад

It is no coincidence that I came to this video in these dense moments of my life, in the month of May a few days after my birth, listening to the symphony 2 resurrection gives me a little more light, a path to walk where everything sometimes seems being lost and silent, the fifth movement closes in such a strong and powerful way that it inflates and fills the soul as only music can....Thanks!

@TS-rd3gh 2 года назад

Thank you for this video. Personally, I cannot imagine my life without Mahler's music. People who understand his work do not need to explain anything else.

@giuseppedimarco8358 2 года назад

The biggist ! influential and experiences in my life! especially! when, i discovered him at 18years old! in 1981 i had forgoten the rest Giants Symphonist Composers! everyday i used to listen his Music! even though, i had no experience! i couldn,t pass a day without Mahler's music! i was Suffering With him! and yet, Peace and Joy was growing in me! One Must Experience Sufferings! to know Whats Life! and, put it into Sublime Music! I drink to Mahler! Cheers

@1079walter 2 года назад

Mahler's "Adagietto" is one of the most beautiful experiences of music ever written.

@johkkarkalis8860 2 года назад

Required listening during these unsettling times.

@CamilaFuentes0227 2 года назад

I was able to performance Mahler's 2nd symphony with orchestra and a choir and I'm not kidding if I say that at the end my hands were shaking and my heart was beating fast, of the pure emotion and powerful energy that was running through my body. I've never felt so connected to humanity as I felt in that moment.

@traditumium3109 2 года назад

Absolutely epic. There will never be anyone like Mahler.

@jadenthebair 2 месяца назад

Im in my second semester of university, and our orchestra is playing Mahler 2. And my goodness. My trumpet professor told me that preparing this piece will send me into the deepest part of my soul, and this has been incredibly true. The more I learn about who Gustav Mahler was, and the message he engraved in his piece(s), the more I realize I relate to him and his philosophies being expressed in his pieces. My goodness. Society today seems to rarely touch the surface of the human soul. I want to remember Mahler, and composers from the past, and encourage the musicians and composers of today to take this art into the future

@HoH 6 месяцев назад

This remains such an incredible masterpiece of a video. I return to it every so often.

@LastTimer457 2 года назад

Is it just me or am I the only one who always gets chills from listening to Mahlers music?

@isaakmaydanikov3385 Год назад

Me too

@babyinvasion Год назад

Me too 🤍 Especially during the "white hot pain" described in this video. Mahler is a gem 💎

@jacksonjanis5460 2 года назад

Greatest Composer of All Time!

@toni2065 2 года назад

Wow, I just clicked on your video out of fun. And now I am here, on the verge of crying, because something is deeply resonaring inside me. Thank you so much!

@schallabeer 2 месяца назад

You cannot cry watching a video.... Nevermind... What a beautiful illustration of Mahlers life - thank you!

@sophiatalksmusic3588 2 года назад

If you have a chance, I highly recommend reading Mahler’s family letters (there’s a published and English-translated version). Astonishing to see Mahler’s own personality showing extremely vividly though his words (he’s unsurprisingly vocal about everything!), and really helped me get a better sense of the music.

@timbredan3476 Год назад

Mahler is, no doubt, my favorite composer. His music has truly and literally changed my life. I cannot even begin to explain. I wish you would've mentioned briefly the 1st movement of the 3rd symphony when explaining that symphony. That alone is an absolute masterpiece and could've been its own symphony.

@williamraff8123 3 месяца назад

What a gift Mahler left for us. Long live Mahler!

@moondoggie5989 2 года назад

Wow, after having watched this video that I had placed on my watch list for six months, has now reinvigorated me to listen to his symphonies again with greater purpose.

@WoutDC 2 года назад

Greatly structured, very informative, video, hope this turns more people towards the all-encompassing music of Mahler! The famous Bruckner specialist Celibidache once said that 'Bruckner can't be understood, only experienced', I think the same goes for Mahler. I don't think I'll ever forget my first time hearing the second symphony live, it truly is something else. For starters, my tip is to first listen the fourth symphony, it's his shortest, probably most 'classical', symphony and thus his most accessible one. Still my favourite as well.

@barrymorentz5190 2 года назад

I heard the 2nd on Easter Sunday in Carnegie Hall, New York City. Until I heard Elgar’s glorious Dream of Gerontius at the NY Philharmonic some 22 years later I had never had such a transformative experience,

@nathanielwise508 2 года назад

for someone who already enjoys film music, the sixth is another option to start with

@JimGobetz 2 года назад

Mahler's 2nd recorded by Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Mariss Jansons is one of my favourite recordings of any genre. Mind blowing! Great content as always Oscar

@Jesuswinsbirdofmichigan Год назад

Rare, and of the highest style. This video exceeds at every level.

@tidnid1869 2 года назад

Mahler 9.4 live is amazing. Everyone in tears

@historify.54 2 года назад

My mother purchased a hifi stereo in 1964 when I was 10. It came with a free record. One side was bits of classical music that included the Finale of Mahler’s First Symphony. I played it over and over. It both shocked me with its intensity and touched me deeply, and still does. Grateful.

@FreakieFan 2 года назад

A sensational biography of one of earth's greatest artists. Thanks for the video Oscar, I'm always loving these.

@PrinceValiance 2 года назад

The Emperor has no clothes.

@FreakieFan 2 года назад

@@PrinceValiance And you have no brain? Why are you even here?

@kokomanation Год назад

Mahler is a composer that I find very difficult to replay into my head but he is really great !!!

@user-wp4ju4hp5w 11 месяцев назад

Gustav Mahler is without a doubt my favourite composer of all time! His music encompasses all of human emotions. The very ending of his 3rd Symphony is absolutely Heavenly!!!

@tommasobaldi7625 2 года назад

you're criminally underrated, this channel is awesome, you can really tell how much you love the things that you speak about. new subscriber

@richardwilliams473 2 года назад

I was obsessed with Mahler s Symphonies all of life to this day. I was lucky enough to have played the timpani part in his 2nd Symphony in an orchestra in 1984 with an Australian orchestra

@bluedaredevil3207 2 года назад

This is one of my all time favorite RU-vid videos, thank you.

@nicholasfulford6753 Год назад

Mahler composes; The musicians are his hands conducting, and we dear listener are the instruments upon which all that plays out in emotional chords, where waves of frisson dance through our bodies as though they were catgut. When I first heard Mahler - almost 30 years ago - I was completely blown away. I heard the third symphony, and that last movement collapsed duality into unity and unity into silence. I called his music then, and now, musical LSD. It is state altering on an essential and deeply resonant level. It is musical alchemy, and a rich apotheosis which blends pain and joy, suffering and exhaltation, the abyss and the all. In it, the universe unfolds and enfolds. It BREATHES. When I hear Mahler, I am silent, say for what he plays upon and through me. That I know love, I mean KNOW love ... is because this master composer tunes and plays me perfectly. Thank-you Maestro Gustav Mahler.

@undisclosedmusic4969 2 года назад

I recommend to everyone who hasn’t yet, to listen to the 10th symphony reconstruction to the end and do it with a open heart and mind. Some of you who might not have known that this exists will find Gustav there again, waiting like an old friend, to tell you how the story really ends…it's an end very different from the ninth's.

@leoblum0631 2 года назад

Yes, Derek Cook's admirable orchestration made a really great work out of it.

@Harriet-Jesamine 2 года назад

I love that Eliahu Inbal rendition with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, it is either Absurd or a work of total utter genius, and I cannot decide which, maybe both.

@roygbiv7025 2 года назад

This is one of the best documentaries ever on Mahler but perhaps dwells a little too much on the few unfortunate personal events in Mahler's life and neglects to mention the volcano of beautiful melodies, astounding orchestration and ruthless counterpoint that makes every page of his scores a master-lesson in symphonic writing like none other. Mahler Symphonies do not close the door on the line of symphonic composers but opens the door to the infinite possibilities the symphony still offers to the genius.

@reidwhitton6248 Год назад

I was resistant to his music at first because I was listening to mainly late 20th century music with a lot of dissonance. It took a few aborted attempts at listening to his music before I got hooked. But when I listened to the No.10 Adagio movement, that was it! I found that music incredibly moving and it really bowled me over. After that I began listening to all of the symphonies which is a huge undertaking. It's become a life long passion. I can't listen to the symphonies of other composers over and over. But with Mahler I can do it. I don't tire of the music. It takes several years just to start absorbing his ambitious sound world. At first I fell in love with the unique and memorable intros to all of the symphonies so I could identify each one. Now I keep listening to get to know them more intimately.

@adipsous 2 года назад

It was his Sixth that pulled me into the world of Mahler. Specifically the 1967 recording by John Barbirolli with the New Philharmonia Orchestra. Devastating. I'd never heard music that portrayed the conflicts and torments of human psychology with such honesty, fierceness, and vulnerability. It's so much more than that. Words can only begin to barely attempt to describe. It's like a person taking their own two hands and ripping their own chest open as wide as possible. That he could write that and also his Eighth. What a profoundly multi-dimentional mind and soul. The Ninth, however, speaking of psychology expressed through music. I can't even go into it but to say I had a profound revelation in a live performance one time - the final movement. Tears were flowing out of my eyes at what Mahler was saying directly to me. So much personal yet universal generosity.

@talonwhite694 2 года назад

I’ve been lucky enough to see the Resurrection Symphony performed by both the Houston and San Antonio Symphonies. Both performances were extremely moving. The piece was really my first stepping stone into the world of orchestral literature!

@bubbles-1020 2 года назад

You did such an incredible job putting this video together, I am speechless!

@Hajfena63 2 года назад

What a stunningly beautiful video.

@Yonosoyninguien Год назад

Mahler marked the beginning of a new me.

@PumilateVFX Год назад

That’s awesome

@DaSerratos 2 года назад

Great video but I would've liked the seventh to receive at least a bit of attention. It's also an outstanding work. You only called it strange and it is but all of the mystery that sorrounds its meaning and the symbolisms of the "night music" deserved at least a minute of this video.

@InsidetheScore 2 года назад

I apologise! With all my videos, I always have to sacrifice things I want to say (I wanted to talk about the Ruckert Lieder too). Sorry!

@felixdittrich5469 2 года назад

@@InsidetheScore Ah yeah was gonna mention the Liederzyklen as well, those could have got a bit more love. And iirc you only mentioned the 4th mvmt in his 5th symphony. D:

@nlv7125 2 года назад

A big thanks, you didn't forget the wonderfull and so oftenly missed tenth symphony

@martineyles Год назад

Saw and heard Mahler 8 performed live in 2020, just before everything stopped. Glad I got the chance. Looking forward to a play through of Mahler 6 this weekend and performing Mahler 2 in the Summer.

@ricardochiesa9829 2 года назад

Hi. I'm new to your channel. And I just want to say, than you for getting me to open up my interest on classical music. One of the things I always avoid when I see all of these analytical videos about a composition is that they are based only on music theory concepts, which to be honest, are given so much importance, that they are presented as if the composers thought of it that much...which, we don't even know for sure what their thought process was exactly...What you are presenting here, for me at least, is something much more intimate...Music emanating from his life and experiences. Makes much more sense for me to listen to his works now and enjoy them with all of this in mind... Loved your content. Subscribed.

@bertybell4781 2 года назад

Thank you so much!!! I've been waiting for this.😊

@matheusmacedo6214 2 года назад

Wow, this video is absolutely perfect! I've been a huge fan of Mahler's work for more than a decade and it is a joy to watch such a great video here on RU-vid. Cheers from Brazil :)

@rebekahlambert4440 2 года назад

I was privileged enough at 20 years old to see Bernard Haitink conduct the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in Mahler's 9th Symphony in the Salzburg Festspielhaus, and I truly believe that was the epitome of music. I have never been the same since.