Most Beautiful Passages of Each Mahler Symphony
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Richard Atkinson chooses and analyzes a "most beautiful passage" from each of Mahler's 9 symphonies. This is a fair use educational commentary that uses small excerpts from live recordings of Claudio Abbado and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra (Symphonies #1-7 and #9), Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Symphony #8), and Pierre Boulez at Bayreuth (Götterdämmerung excerpt). For best results, view this video full-screen and listen with good-quality headphones or speakers.
00:00 - Symphony #1
04:22 - Symphony #2
08:08 - Symphony #3
11:24 - Symphony #4
16:20 - Symphony #5
20:09 - Symphony #6
23:22 - Symphony #7
26:01 - Symphony #8
28:26 - Symphony #9 - เพลง
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We need a “Most badass moments from each Mahler symphony” video! Anyone agree?
Nice job with your videos! I always learn so much watching you!
Yes, and there are countless examples from which to choose! Just the 7th Symphony could keep you busy for days. 😁😅
@@EElgar1857 Absolutely!!! Mahler 2 is my personal favorite, and it has got a TON of badass moments!
@@VincentGiza-Composerthe col legno bit in movement 1 🤩
The finale of the second symphony is one of the most beautiful and breathtaking passages from any piece of music I've ever heard
I was frozen with goosebumps when I first heard it...
Although quite difficult (because you've been silent for over an hour), it is also beautiful to sing in the choir.
What about the opening to the 5th movement? It starts you up RIGHT after the quiet 4th movement. Not only is it terrifyingly loud, but it's also a very LOOOONG intro.
The low strings make a VAST run for it before everything goes downhill, or in this case, RIGHT UP to probably one of the loudest, strongest, most terrifying, and most gorgeous passages ever. The brass play an angry angry fanfare signifying the apocalypse, letting us know that he'll will be upon our lives. The runs on higher instruments go crazy and right after it dies down, the horn plays a stunning and shocking fanfare in the key of Ab. MY LORD is the whole passage gorgeous.
I'm gonna be singing it in a couple hours for opening night with the Oregon symphony!!!
dont forget the 8th finale, or even the 3rd finale
Mahler approves of this! Great work my man!
Thank you Mahler! I'm honored to have you commenting on my video from beyond the grave!
he may add from the grave: "as long as you don't neglect the other 4580 passages of most intense beauty that I crafted into these children of mine"
Gustav Mahler Hi! I love your works
@@vikli5966 that's not the real Mahler
magicwheel1 yeah lol no shit he’s dead.
The moment @ 14:23 was like literally being gracefully lifted into space to see its ever-wonderous expansion
0:11 - Symphony #1
4:22 - Symphony #2
8:08 - Symphony #3
11:24 - Symphony #4
16:20 - Symphony #5
20:09 - Symphony #6
23:22 - Symphony #7
26:01 - Symphony #8
28:26 - Symphony #9
Thanks
🙏🏻
Grazie ragazzo
Thanks for this! I'll use these to create chapters.
@@Richard.Atkinson it’s an honor from you, I love your videos, keep doing what you are doing ❤️
the adagio of Mahler's sixth symphony is some of the most heart-braking and soul searching music ever written : a real gem !
I was introduced to Mahler as a teenager by a friend. Soon afterward I attended one of the premieres of his 10th by the Seattle Symphony. Why turn of the century romanticism speaks so strongly to me is the constant switching between brooding tragedy and glorious harmony always toying with my mind with out of this world dissonance. These ideas express my own life so closely. Like Bach, Mahler was constantly being compared to other great composers but as the highest paid conductor in the world is loved much more after his time. To me this is evidence his music was not only written for his time, but for our time and far into the future. He taught the great composers of our time how to write haunting and complex melodies with modern dissonance and wrote for the whole orchestra not shying away from innovation.
Mahler famously said that he was an outsider in Austria because he came from Bohemia, that he was an outsider in Germany because he was Austrian and that he was an outsider in the whole world because he was a Jew. And yet, and yet...truly he lives on for the whole world because of his wonderful, astonishing, life-giving music, of which there is enough for a lifetime of discovery.
I think I've deprived myself of Mahler far too long. I do thank you for your inspiration.
Its comforting to know that other people get the same intense enjoyment out of this music that I do. Those particular musical passages that you describe have the same effect on me.
Absolutely have to agree with Sym. 4. I still get gooseflesh every time I hear that section.
Yes, it's possibly the most beautiful moment in any music...
Agreed! Richard, I sure wish I had had you as my professor in university; I would have gotten an A! :) Can't tell you how much I enjoyed your Mozart 41, 4th mvt. analysis - brought tears to my eyes. Even though I studied that movement in college and realized how special it is, your passion for the music and the color coding you added just brought to my eyes what I had largely experienced in my ears until then. Something about SEEING the thematic material change and combine throughout the duration of the movement was nothing short of wonderful, and lent more to my realization of the genius underlying it all. Thank you so much, and I hope to see even more in the future!
You're absolutely right in pointing out the similitude between that ethereal, hallucinatory passage in the first mvt of Mahler's 7th and the 3rd act of Götterdämmerung. I wouldn't have thought of that, not being enough of a wagnerian. But it should be mentioned that Mahler did conduct lots of operas, including Verdi's, if I'm not mistaken.
best part of symph 4 will always be the last movement for me
The brass repeating that whole theme played by the strings in the opening from the Langsam movement of the 3rd is just stunning. Maybe my favorite Mahler moment of them all. Great compilation.
Mahler wrote some of the very most beautiful music in history, according to my taste. I adore and venerate Mahler. Thanks to your analysis I got a glimpse into how this out-of-the-worldish wonder happens. Pure genius. Thank you so much.
It's life-changing music!
I like that Mahler wrote the Urlicht for alto, not soprano.
It helps, too, to have a voice like Anna Larsson's... those octaves...wow....
Yes, what a singer she is.
Amen
It makes it deeper, both musically and narratively.
I'm playing Mahler 4 with my orchestra at the moment and when you said "third movement" I was like absolutely my dude.
What makes the modulation to D in the excerpt from the 4th symphony so special is the sudden addition of the low D in the double basses, this adds a whole new dimension of depth to the sound that makes the high ostinato even more amazing. Great video!
That horn solo at the very end of the 9th symphony is one that would drive me absolutely nuts in the bars leading up to it. Totally exposed, high risk/low reward and just making that perfect octave leap at the end of a very long and taxing evening of playing. So good when it's perfect like in this recording.
"Most beautiful passages of each Mahler symphony" should just be the entirety of the Resurrection.
More like the entirety of the symphonies 1-9
Showing the genius behind Mahler's magnificent works. Thank you.
I've been listening to Mahler for over 50 years. It's hard to please everyone but your choices are as good as any. Nice, concise analysis with the color coding in the scores. Well done.
Richard, we listened to your “Mahler’s most beautiful passages” TH-cam post this evening to celebrate Mahler’s birthday (July 7). What a treat! Deede and I thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
That part in the third symphony just make me cry. It’s so beautiful, the music at some parts cries itself.
Wow this is the best TH-cam video ever
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Just a personal note of my favorite parts
13:58 Symphony 4
16:40 Symphony 5
27:57 Symphony 8
Time to go listen to some Mahler
when i heared Mahler for my first time...i started to love my life! How ever your life sucks...you only need to to hear Mahlers 3rd...
Thank you , Mr. Atkinson , thank you ..... your work is pure devotion ...... for the most precious flowers blossoming in the most precious garden ..... you are a lover , Mr. Atkinson ..... a lover ...... and this is so important .
God bless you .
That brass chorale in the finale of the 3rd is just.......so beautiful
You have inserted sublime moments. In Mahler's music, sublimity and banality (volute) coexist. These two aspects are met happily in Mahler. I love ALL MAHLER
Joy of reading the scores and of appreciating their embodiments by orchestra.
Great job and technical analysis. Personally, I fell in love with Mahler's music through the dark and chaotic side of it. Maybe that's the reason why the 6th's Finale it's my favourite piece of music ever written. Anyways, I hope you consider doing a second part called 'The most colossal passages of each Mahler Symphony'. It'd be great :)
Thank you! That is already on my list of videos to make! Until I do, you might be interested in my list of Mahler symphony movements from greatest to least-great. The finale of the 6th is also first place on my list!
richardatkinsononmusic.blogspot.com/2013/02/mahler-symphony-movements-from-greatest.html
There are so many majestic passages in Mahler's music! -And aside from his glorious adagio movements, he composed the most gorgeous finales I've ever heard, bar none! Is it any wonder that Mahler concerts are still sold out, and that there's SRO (Standing Room Only) at those with a decent orchestra, conductor, and chorus (provided the symphony being performed calls for a chorus).
maybe not "the most colossal" - that's could become too superficial ... maybe "the most breathtaking"
Thank you for all this. I have to be careful of my own emotional stability when exposed to such powerful music as this. The 6th passage you deal with is so tragic and hurt, it has all the pain of humanity in it. I can't take it unprepared these days. Bruno Walter wouldn't conduct the sixth, he felt it too suffused with despair, if I have it right. Also the Chorale early in the 4th Movement of the Ninth, that has to be a contender, don't you think. Thanks so much for giving us this analysis. Mahler had the measure of the 20th century all right.
I first heard his 1st Symphony in the late 50s on a "free" record my Mom got for grocery shopping at the Grand Union Supermarket in Farmingdale, NY. I was captivated immediately. I didn't hear his 2nd or 3rd symphonies until decades later, in the late 80s in Berkeley, CA at Tower Records. "Hey, what's that playing? I hear it a lot these days."
"Sir, that's Mahler's 2nd Symphony". Ahhhhhhh, I should have known.
Now, I have multiple copies of ALL of his symphonies, and, Wesendonck Lieder (Ann Evans' at the 1994 Proms).
Mahler 3's movement 1 has really beautiful moments as well.
This is great! Thanks for compiling these.
This was fantastic. Thank you for sharing this with all of us!
I LOVE IT! Thanks, Richard!
I saw Mahler's 4th a few nights ago with the New York Phil. The ending of that 3rd movement never fails to bring goosebumps.
Stay tuned for one of my next timpani/bass drum videos, that will talk about that moment again (for the 3rd time on my channel!).
I enjoyed that Richard, excellent work, well done.
This is amazing. Thank you for sharing!
Outstanding analysis and great work Richard!!
Fantastic video! Thank you so much for that!
Nice work Richard.! What a wonderful introduction into the sublime beauty of this great master's creations !
Thank you so much for this carefully researched and compiled presentation. I was totally absorbed for the duration. Will definitely watch more of your postings.
Wonderful work, Richard. Thank you.
What a wonderful job Richard- one of the most enjoyable videos I have ever seen on You Tube..I'm a Mahler lover so this really moved me and educated me. Thank you.
Excellent analysis and awesome channel, I'm glad I found it!
Thank you very much for this very interesting video. Terrific work!
Wonderful... thank you for this excellent and instructive video. Really appreciated.
Wow! Agree with you on ALL of them. Please keep doing this!
Excellent analysis and discussion Richard!
Now you've done it. I now have to got back and get my CDs out and listen once again to his symphonies. Thank you. It's actually much appreciated.
Very well done! I especially appreciate that you show not only great moments, but how they grow from their contexts. Greetings from Lucerne.
Great analysis and presentation of music and scores. Will be listening to more Mahler from now on.
Hi Richard,
Perfect selection. They match with my feelings. Thank you for this work!
Excellent analyses of this beautiful music by Mahler, Richard. Thanks for posting.
Bellissimo, stupendo, straordinaria analisi. Grazie di cuore Richard!
Thank you. I know you put effort on making it! Congratulations
Thankyou for this video!!! Im only 2 symphonies in and im already adding pieces to my favorite list xD
This is tremendous, thank you. Not only are your choices excellent, but you get into the why and the how. Very instructive for someone like me with only a little formal training, but a growing appreciation of this music.
Yup, you pretty much nailed what I would consider the most beautiful parts of each symphony. Personally I adore the actual ending of the first movement of the 3rd, but that's more of a triumphant moment rather than straight-up beautiful. For what it's worth, that last bit of your selection from the 9th, with the repeated turn with the celli, bassoon, and horn, is among my favorite 30 seconds of music in the entire classical repertoire. It's such a beautiful, serene, and simple moment and moves me to tears nearly every time I hear it.
thank you for your sensibility! delicate, profound and brilliant!
thank you for this moments of pure beauty
If I had made this list I couldn’t have picked a favorite section. I would just play the whole 9 symphonies and say those are the best sections but amazing job
Thank you so much for such inspiration.
the 6th mov. of mahlers 3rd is absolutely exquisite honestly from where you said until the end is gorgeous and as a horn player i love the solo horn playing a pp high Bb it just sits over the orchestra recurring multiple times till the end just beautiful
Wonderful, Richard. Thank you.
Many thanks for your fine taste and wonderful presentation!
It took many hearings of Mahler 1 to grasp that that expanded romance in the last movement is only briefly hinted at in the opening of the 1rst movement as a little seed in winds. Realizing this made that Mahler 1 last movement romance all the more impressive.
Yes, I agree, but also the first part of the sixth movement of Symphony 3. In fact, the whole sixth movement.
Thank you for your hard work, it makes me want to discover his music.
Learnt something new from your point of view. Thank you ❤❤.
Getting into Mahler can be daunting. Thank you for making this video, Richard
I totally agree with all of these except for the 2nd symphony! In the first movement about 3 minutes in, there's an amazing, heavenly melody please by the strings in B major. It gives me goosebumps every time. Then about 11 minutes in, he brings back the charming melody in C major! It's perfect! Fantastic!
Yes, I love that rising theme. It actually comes back a third time near the end of the movement, and this third time is the most transfigured (it was one of the runners-up to be included in this video, along with a few moments from the 5th mvt.).
Such as...? What passages from the 5th mvt? I sat patiently in the choir for 75 minutes waiting on hard wooden bleachers for the DSO to hit the coolest musical experience of my life.
Even if your favorite passages aren't a choir section, spill them anyway.
Mine: the soprano solo (at 41): O glaube... Du warst nicht umsonst geboren..., and the choir (at 46): Mit flugeln die ich mir errungen...
BTW, Orchestra Hall in Detroit needs to put padding on their bleachers.
@@Richard.Atkinson Its third, transfigured return is beyond beauty..... listen to Tenndstedt cond. who submerges you in it.....
Great picks! I seriously get goosebumps listening to Mahler!
To me, you've chosen precisely those places that most cut to the soul in these works. When I heard the passage in the 1st, I thought, yes, that's what Mahler is all about...and going all the way through to that incredibly moving passage in the 9th. Just a wonderful video.
Beautiful Choices from pieces of Mahler's Symfonies. It inspires me for my own music.Thank you Richard.
I really appreciate and enjoy your presentations, Richard. I really enjoyed your analysis of the Bruckner 5th, and now your work on Mahler's symphonies here is just great. Great use of the scores, great camera work, and intelligent, insightful commentary. All this from a former music major and present listener and student of symphonic scores.
As soon as I saw the title of this video, I thought of the passage you selected from his 6th symphony. Yay!
Brilliant Richard!!! Many thanks.
A fine piece of work - very informative
Thank you for this musical analysis work. Merci pour ce travail d'analyse musicale
Color coded analysis saved my life. Thanks
Excellent video. Need to spend more time with Mahler 7 and 9.
Great fantastic!!! many thanks for this video
I agree with you, very good selection
You have done a great job. Thanks.
Thank you for this video. Mahler composed so, so much great parts in his symphonies but you managed to chose very interesting and good parts on them.
Great video. Having performed all of the Mahler symphonies, what Mahler does amazingly well is to sink into those time bending moments with his superlative orchestration and use of dynamics. He was really in tune with the gestalt of breathlessness and expansion.
Good work, Richard.
Dude I’ve binging through your vids like fries. Keep doing what you’re doing👍
Thank you so much for making these videos. I can only imagine the work that goes into doing this kind of analysis!
It's definitely quite a bit... that's why my videos aren't as frequent as those of some other TH-camrs.
Breathtaking, glorious and wonderful .Not only is the music great but your analysis and visuals is wonderful. It , the written score gives you an idea of what conductor have to deal with. You have brought such beauty to my spirit particularly welcomed in the time of upheaval and covid.
Thank you very much. I send you kisses and hugs of appreciation
Thank You! Your videos are very interesting and educational!🎶🎶💜💜🎶
Thank you so much for this. As a Mahler lover you have added an extra dimension to his music. I play the viola and it's wonderful to see the tonalities , visualy as well. Thank you
Thank you for this! As a great lover of Mahlers music for more than 40 years, I mostly agree with your chooses.
There are two passages in the finale of the 6th that I find incredibly beautiful: the first is the transition and the first couple of measures into figure 132; the second is the is the 16 measure chorale at figure 161, with Mahler giving such beautiful and lucious chorda through our the lower strings and brass. Loved the video, especially the passages that you showed from the 3rd and the 9th symphonies!
Just what I needed. Mahler! By heart: The cello-passage of second mouvement of the fifth, . Also sublime! Etc..
Thanks a lot for the excellent presentation.
The first three notes of passage at 10:07 remind me a lot of the the score that plays when Spock dies in Wrath of Khan after telling Kirk to "Live long, and prosper."
I enjoyed very much, Richard! Congratulations! Would it be possible if you made PART TWO? This time including his 10th also! ❤️💪🙌👋👏
Well Done - the passages picked are great. So many more - I guess you must be a busy man!
Master orchestrater .. magically musical .. brass chorales.. Thanks for this ..
Thank you for this splendid presentation.
You're welcome!