I don't think I'll ever tire of this amazing composition, and this performance is yet another spell binding concert. One the best I have watched is with Sir Simon Rattle conducting at the Proms in London in 2002. What makes it so special for me is that the musicians are from the UK National Youth Orchestra and the huge chorus is truly international. This wonderful concert is also on TH-cam and well worth watching.
This is the work of a true genius. It amuses me when critics and journalists refer to it as self-indulgent. My response is "What did you create?" Sad to see the late Erin Wall among the soloists. She was a remarkable talent.
What a stunning performance. Mo. Welser Möst is simply one of the greatest conductors of our time, everything is heartfelt, without a shred of cheap artifice, and with utmost musical integrity and depth.
I have adored the 8th once I first heard Solti on Decca in the late 70s and over the years heard every recording but I don't think I have ever witnessed a more joyous performance. Soloists are faultless corus were belting particularly special to have the Vienna boys choir singing the 8th they owned it. Maestro showed us that you can conduct the 8th with a barely concealed smile and a twinkle in his eye, it was clear to everyone he was enjoying every precious moment. GLORIOUS ❤
It is a magnificent performance, exceptionally well played, sung, and recorded with a massively grandiose ending (the pure orchestral tutti part)^ I REALLY like it that Welser Most takes endings of the both Parts slowly, a slower than usual. Let's hope VPO will release the tape officially.
Hmm, doesn't look like a thousand people. Still, a very nice performance. Kudos to all. The last 10 minutes of this symphony are among the most magical in all of music.
If you are an experienced singer: If you get the chance to be part of a performance of Mahler-8 - do it! You will forever remember it. Not many opportunitiies for "advanced non-professionals" but they are there. It is intense work studying it & you must have musical experience and some voice building lessens but not necessarily be a full-on professional. One of the best singing experiences I've been part of. Folks, be inspired & do it!
This is another performance where you can hear the organ (I am a budding organist). Usually the large orchestra drowns out the organ, but if you know what to listen for you can hear the organ. This is a top notch performance of my favorite Mahler symphony. The ending is a bit slow, and where is the offstage brass? Little things, I guess. But otherwise a fine performance. Bravo!!!
1:18:30 That moment is always awkward as one section ends and another begins, Only Robert Shaw made it work ! th-cam.com/video/XKjiXCzmDok/w-d-xo.html 11:12
@@iozonomarti Eschenbach…yes, problem solved just as Shaw solved it. Although on second hearing, the tempo seems quite slow to me and that held note seems to last forever.
This is a great orchestral performance of Mahler's Eight Symphony. Just an aside... Why do all classical music soloists look like they're constipated? Just asking...
Any time this is played, it is a big event- unfortunately, my opinion of this conductor is that he took the ending waaaaay to slow and the brass was muffled. Nevertheless, still a tear jerker
Maybe in another century there will be women in the 1st violin section in Vienna. 2 centuries, maybe women in the brass section. Great orchestra but what an incredibly reactionary heritage. This orchestra employed unrepentant Nazis into the 1970s.
Thanks for your politically correct opinion. Perhaps one of these days you will lower yourself from your virtue signaling heights to listen to the music.
Why restrain the applause at the end. Conductor should have released the audience with an immediate drop of the arms...it killed the energy of the audience. And the performers deserved that "roar"; that release of the audience emotion. This is not a soft ending . It is a grand finish FFFF...and it is the wrong application of the release of the audience...such a beautiful performance (fabulous soloists) and All Chori had great depth of sound..........only to be "marred" at the end...Watch Barenboim hold the end of Die Gotterdamerung 2013 15 seconds...and appropriately so for that ending of the Ring. This was very disappointing
I don't think I'll ever tire of this amazing composition, and this performance is yet another spell binding concert. One the best I have watched is with Sir Simon Rattle conducting at the Proms in London in 2002. What makes it so special for me is that the musicians are from the UK National Youth Orchestra and the huge chorus is truly international. This wonderful concert is also on TH-cam and well worth watching.
Same here, Mahler belongs to my life since many years. Saw the 8th many years ago in the Taipeh opera house. Unforgettable
This is the work of a true genius. It amuses me when critics and journalists refer to it as self-indulgent. My response is "What did you create?" Sad to see the late Erin Wall among the soloists. She was a remarkable talent.
What a stunning performance. Mo. Welser Möst is simply one of the greatest conductors of our time, everything is heartfelt, without a shred of cheap artifice, and with utmost musical integrity and depth.
I have adored the 8th once I first heard Solti on Decca in the late 70s and over the years heard every recording but I don't think I have ever witnessed a more joyous performance.
Soloists are faultless corus were belting particularly special to have the Vienna boys choir singing the 8th they owned it. Maestro showed us that you can conduct the 8th with a barely concealed smile and a twinkle in his eye, it was clear to everyone he was enjoying every precious moment.
GLORIOUS
❤
Mahler's music is Heavenly!!!
Unglaubliches Konzert!!
War eine Ehre im Chor singen zu dürfen!
Yes, please issue a CD or a DVD/BluRay of this performance. The world needs it.
Now More Than Ever !!!...
Assolutamente strepitosi tutti .Che meraviglia. Grazie
It is a magnificent performance, exceptionally well played, sung, and recorded with a massively grandiose ending (the pure orchestral tutti part)^ I REALLY like it that Welser Most takes endings of the both Parts slowly, a slower than usual. Let's hope VPO will release the tape officially.
Morgen darf ich das live hören
bei mir ist es Sonntag in Leipzig soweit :D
Great. It's my first Mahler 8... At first I felt something like seasickness, but now I get energy from the finale part.
Whatever capacity a performance for each one’s soul. Mahler seems to have a direct connection to cosmic reality.
Thanks for uploading
This & Mahler's 2nd....might be the the most epic pieces in world history.
RIP Erin Wall 🌹🌹🌹
Wonderful diva, breast cancer wins the fight 🥲🥲🥲
Hmm, doesn't look like a thousand people. Still, a very nice performance. Kudos to all. The last 10 minutes of this symphony are among the most magical in all of music.
If you are an experienced singer:
If you get the chance to be part of a performance of Mahler-8 - do it! You will forever remember it.
Not many opportunitiies for "advanced non-professionals" but they are there.
It is intense work studying it & you must have musical experience and some voice building lessens but not necessarily be a full-on professional.
One of the best singing experiences I've been part of.
Folks, be inspired & do it!
Sublime
The HERCULEAN , TITANIC , ALL ENCOMPASSING , MULTI -UNIVERSE
EVERYWHERE , EVERYPLACE AT THE SAME TIME SCOPE OF THIS PERFORMANCE IS MIND-BOGGLING !!!
Please get the caps lock on your keyboard fixed.
Part 1️⃣
01:33 *Hymnus: Veni, creator spiritus*
Part 2️⃣
24:39 *Final Scene from Goethe’s “Faust”*
This is another performance where you can hear the organ (I am a budding organist). Usually the large orchestra drowns out the organ, but if you know what to listen for you can hear the organ. This is a top notch performance of my favorite Mahler symphony. The ending is a bit slow, and where is the offstage brass? Little things, I guess. But otherwise a fine performance. Bravo!!!
I think there were in those high openings above the stage/organ, the same place that the soprano soloist went for her solo
This is the ultimate "sing-phony"!
At 1:17: 10 the 2nd Soprano has a very important solo and yet the camera is trained on the conductor instead. Oops!
he might have been in love with her....or,sadly,she is no longer with us. What a voice.
At 1:20:13
It looks like the conductor is close to tears.
Who wouldn't be?
The performers deserved a better audience.
strange to hold off the applause for so long
peter mattei SWOON
Compared to all those ill-famed, but still 'legendary' conductors, the conductor of this recording is illustrious. Thank toy for the REAL music!
1:18:12
1:34 begins
素晴らしい❗️ウェルザーメストは嘗てのベームやセルの様な新しい巨匠になると確信していますー耳の良さは抜群でしょうし、オーケストラバランスも抜群だが(オーケストラに傷はあるが(笑))、まだまだ先に行きそう。モダンな色彩、音色の柔らかさとパンチの共存が面白い❗️このマーラー良いなあ❗️ーソリストは、例えばバーンスタインのそれと比べると本当に昨今の声楽家のトップのレベルダウンが露呈して残念だがー特にドイツ系の寒さはこの演奏に限らないが。
ウィーンフィルとの来日をキャンセルした。健康状態は大丈夫でしょうか？
1:18:30
That moment is always awkward as one section ends and another begins, Only Robert Shaw made it work !
th-cam.com/video/XKjiXCzmDok/w-d-xo.html 11:12
And Esenbach as well! Look at same performance with Orchestra de Paris, and the solution in that moment is amazing!
@@iozonomarti Eschenbach…yes, problem solved just as Shaw solved it.
Although on second hearing, the tempo seems quite slow to me and that held note seems to last forever.
@@renzo6490 and the tension created sustaining that note with the choir is even better resoluted with the harmonic change. Just amazing!
This is a great orchestral performance of Mahler's Eight Symphony. Just an aside... Why do all classical music soloists look like they're constipated? Just asking...
What happened to the trumpet? well.. I couldn't believe that they are "Wiener Philharmoniker"
37:13 bassoonist enters early
Any time this is played, it is a big event- unfortunately, my opinion of this conductor is that he took the ending waaaaay to slow and the brass was muffled. Nevertheless, still a tear jerker
Maybe in another century there will be women in the 1st violin section in Vienna. 2 centuries, maybe women in the brass section. Great orchestra but what an incredibly reactionary heritage. This orchestra employed unrepentant Nazis into the 1970s.
The creator have mercy with your poor soul, who writes this next to this magnificent music.
Thanks for your politically correct opinion. Perhaps one of these days you will lower yourself from your virtue signaling heights to listen to the music.
Why restrain the applause at the end. Conductor should have released the audience with an immediate drop of the arms...it killed the energy of the audience. And the performers deserved that "roar"; that release of the audience emotion. This is not a soft ending . It is a grand finish FFFF...and it is the wrong application of the release of the audience...such a beautiful performance (fabulous soloists) and All Chori had great depth of sound..........only to be "marred" at the end...Watch Barenboim hold the end of Die Gotterdamerung 2013 15 seconds...and appropriately so for that ending of the Ring. This was very disappointing
This performance is amazing. But Mahler's music reminds me a little of schizophrenia
Worst Performance
The intonation is not what I'd expect from Vienna Phil