A Universe of Sound: Recording Mahler's Symphony No. 8
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- Mahler's immense creation-featuring hundreds of musicians, three choruses, and soloists-is a symphony so epic in scope that it has been dubbed the "Symphony of A Thousand." Mahler's Eighth-a tale of damnation and salvation-is quintessentially a romantic work, but it owes a great debt to the towering Baroque choral works of J.S. Bach. The San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas are joined by a powerhouse of talent including sopranos Erin Wall, Elza van den Heever, and Laura Claycomb, mezzo-sopranos Katarina Karnéus and Yvonne Naef, tenor Anthony Dean Griffey, baritone Quinn Kelsey, and bass-baritone James Morris. Also featured are the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, Pacific Boychoir, and San Francisco Girls Chorus. To learn more please visit www.sfsymphony.org
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It was at a Mahler 8 performance by the SF Symphony on June 25, 1998 when I met the man who was later to become my husband. Naturally, the Mahler 8 is "our song."
We had the enormous privilege of hearing the Mahler on April 30 of this year, conducted by Pierre Boulez in Vienna's Musikverein. It was a life changing experience.
RIP Erin Wall. It was an honor to be a part of this effort. Now you can go teach a thing or two about singing to the angel choir!
I just heard the news. Desperately sad. She had a great voice and felt this music so intensely. R.I.P.
Been in tears for an hour now. I was at this performance.
@@tangonv9903 Were you there?
God, what a loss. RIP, diva.
There are no words to describe the beauty of this AWESOME work!! Thank you maestro, and SFSO and God bless!!!❤️🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Heard this piece live in Cincinnati in May, it keeps the audience spellbound. This is more proof that MTT is a great Mahlerian, and a great conductor!
Yes, recorded live in Davies Symphony Hall over four concerts, using the mighty Ruffati Organ, the largest concert hall rgan in north america. Quite an experience.
Love it when at 4:55 the soprano almost gets into tears. What a piece!
hello Zakster44,
There are no plans to release Mahler 8 on DVD, we only shot this Promo video, not the entire concert. Glad you enjoyed it and hope you like the recording.
I always believe mahler is the greatest human being that ever existed on this planet, and that mahler's symphonies are far superior than any other symphony
3:10
I love this part in the symphony, the very end of the first part, with everybody going just *berserk* with this colossal scale: choir, brass, woodwinds, everybody.
The highest Mahler's contrepoint ! All this movement have a madness complexity !
its a shame there are no plans to release a dvd of this!! i love watching MTT conduct. i have the audio recording and it is fantastic!
This has aged extremely well.
@nevertheless123 Yeah - I hate pointing things out. Thanks for not getting mad, by the way. I'm not trying to look smart or cool. Usually, people who point out tiny facts wind up sounding like "fact trolls." But this music - wow! If you hear it live, then try to listen to CDs or MP3 files, you'll just plain give up. What gets me is that Mahler wrote this 80-minute masterpiece in EIGHT WEEKS! One man, sitting in a hut, with a pile of paper, pen and ink, a piano, and a lakeside view. Holy Smokes!
Looking forward to Dresden in July for Mahler 8 Christian Thielemann!
RIP Erin Wall. Gone far too soon. Painfully sad.
1:04-as a trumpet player I must say- the glory horn cant sound much better than that. wow
@dga471 Yes, Laura Claycomb was singing from high above the audience. The acoustics of Davies Symphony Hall are superb and her incredible voice carried magnicifently throughout the room. One of those "goosebump" moments just like Erin described in the video.
UP WITH MAHLER.
The sweep of the women's chorus missed me by about 5 people! Can you re-edit the footage to include me, please? Only kidding. It is still great to have this to show my friends and family. Thanks for posting it on TH-cam.
The Schoeps microphone people must be very happy for this (free?) plug.
@aabaker22 At the climax of both movements, Mahler specifies a complement of brass to be "isoliert postiert" or offstage. Conductors have traditionally placed these brass players above and behind the main audience, to fill the hall with their additional parts and ringing sound.
At 6:18 they are coming back in for the second (and final) time, to play one of the main motifs of the entire piece, capping the work as a whole.
@sfsymphony OMG it's Erin Wall, I saw the recording of her with conducted by Eschenbach in Paris I think, with Twyla Robinson... They were the most amazing sopranos that matched together so well! Especially the High C and Bflat at Chorus Mysticus... in my opinion, the only performance of that the worked so well and what made it harder is Eschenbach's speed was way too slow!
I wish I could hear that on this video, but oh well! Thanks for posting this up =)
As a writing, it's over the top even for Mahler. He almost caricatures himself with it. I don't mean that negatively, I'm enthralled with the work every time I hear it, like any Mahler fan is of any of his symphonies. It's cartoonish in places, but it's Mahler so it's so well done and thrilling, you give him a pass on that.
B Davis I reckon they got two grammys in 2009 for this performance - best classical album and best choral performance
But, isn't that essential to Mahler, taking us often from the oom pah pah of the town band, to the emotional pain of the funeral march.
2:36-3:23 is literally what heaven sounds like.
Does anyone know what section of the piece this is?
Joe Blumberg very end of part 1
Joe Blumberg: Marked "Langham" (slowly) It's figures 199, 200, 201 and the beginning of 202 of the 2nd and final movement in which there are a total of 220 figures.
You must check out the Venezuelan conductor who replaced Dudamel in the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra. His name is Christian Vasquez and he did Maher Second Symphony, "Resurrection"
Cut and paste, "vasquez mahler 2"
He has memorized the entire score. Just amazing. He is only 25yo.
4:33 is so captivating omg
I had difficulty in perceiving the wit and humor in something so overwhelming in its power, but then I did not laugh at the Prophet Mel Brooks account of Moses receiving the Fifteen Commandments and stumbling thereupon dropping five of them by accident. There was wit and humor in it because it could be so easily mistaken for sacrilegious humor. But the great and powerful wisdom in this "joke" teaches us that as mere mortals we must never practice the arrogant fundamentalism of pretending that we can communicate perfectly with whatever might have willed time and space and those of us who inhabit it because if we do, we become unholy religious monsters.
Where can I find a video of this entire performance?
I'm watching this because I'm starting a recording business and may be recording high school bands and orchestras. Getting some good ideas. =)
Inspiring!
(rushes off to find credit card)
i know this is totally unrelated to the video, but when will the next season of Keeping Score be released? I am quite excited about it!
Was the concert footage part of the whole symphony? If so, are there any plans to release it on DVD?
Does anyone know what kind of recording console Andreas Neubronner is using in the control room there? Or what kind of pres or converters they are using?
Go Eric!
how was it sounds like on first tier?
@tyrelroo
Yeah, seriously. That's like more than twice the usual tempo.
You should've done this with all of them. :( At least No. 3. I never saw the greatness in No. 8. I did, however, in Nos. 1, 5, 6 and 7.
then you should listen more to it.
@nevertheless123 Okay, here I am getting all picky and annoying: recorded sound goes back, more or less, to Edison's machines in 1877. By the late 1890s, recording was widespread. By 1901, years before Mahler compose the Eighth, flat disc gramophone recordings were available commercially.
@2Dawgz How did it change your life?
@metafixi when this piece was premiered, there was well over 1,000 musicians on the stage. :|
When SF symphony had their board and Management act together . Now with what’s going on with the company . I’m afraid theyll become a regional company instead of maintaining its reputation and brand as world class .
Ha! They should try Berlioz's Ta Deum or Requiem. Now THAT requires a huge orchestra.
И при чём здесь RME?
It's a shame. I was madly in love with Michael Tilson-Thomas in high school after I saw him rehearse the SFSymphony in Freshman or sophomore year. I sent him a flower for his lapel after I talked my mom to go see him. But I don't think he ever got it... Probably gay anyway...
+Paula Harris Baca
Whether he has some victimless difference in sexual instinct has no relevance to the validity of his interpretation of the music.
Robert Vincelette True. He was very exciting as a conductor, which is why I fell for him. I made the gay comment because when I was a teen, like many young girls, I fell for sexually ambivalent men or boys. I guess they are a lot less scary than regular old boys. I recall during my crush on Elton John period how some rather rude employee at a rather glitter-rock clothing store noticed me trying the feather boas while I had my star-shaped glasses on. She rather meanly said "you DO know he's gay, don't you, child?" I was so offended, I kept saying he wasn't, that he'd married a woman. *sigh* Oh to be young and naive again. Anyway.... I know that his sexual preferences one way or another mean nothing to Tilson-Thomas's performances. But I confess myself...disappointed....(Voldemort reference)
+Paula Harris Baca, I think it is best not to worry about sexual orientation of anyone you will not be close, let alone intimate with. If and when you find a nice housebroken (non-smoker, non football fan) sweetheart for yourself, the differences that others might have in sexual instincts, which the rest of us cannot experience, won't matter and you will be able to dismiss it as irrelevant as "race" or ethnicity.
wouldn't buy the CD based on this. many more better ones out there
false.
Out of curiosity, which recordings would you buy?
MTT's interpretations are too clean and too mechanical. There's no emotion!
Klaus Tennstedt's Mahler 8 (Recorded and Live) are superior in every way.
+Lytton everyone is entitled to their opinion, but if you listen to this piece here in this link, and tell me there is no emotion-then i think that you are doing something very common in classical music. Instead of realizing there is either a *different* emotion, or perhaps even *less* emotion in some instances with different interperations, you are invalidating an entire group of human beings playing music that indeed has a level of emotion, whether large or small. When human beings play music, especially as I hear it here in this link-it cannot be denied that there is emotion there-and I think its healthier to recognize every souls act of music making, rather than completely invalidating it since it doesn't match your preference. My 2 cents!