@@phillipecook3227 in those days all interviews were scripted like this. Some of those intermission features. OMG! Dr.Walter is very good, and natural compared to most.
Mengelberg, Fried, Stokowski, Mitropoulos, Barbirolli and others were also single-handedly championing Mahler's music. Hard to believe, but Wilhelm Furtwangler gave dozens of performances of Mahler's symphonies - as early as a 1912 performance of the "Kindertotenlieder" - before the Nazi ban on his music. But, yeah - Bernstein showed up to fan the flames of a fire other people had started long before 1960.
@@TheStockwell true. Mahler comes in and out of fashion it seems . The 40s and 50s it was out, Lenny brought it back, another surge with Gunter Wand in the 90's and its been "in" pretty much since. I trust Walter's interpretations, since Mahler himself coached him.
@@jefolson6989 There are a lot of conductors who confidently claim a lineage to Mahler via Walter via Bernstein. Since we don't have recordings of Mahler's conducting, it reminds me of a poorly-remembered story which goes like this: after a performance of Bach, Wanda Landowska was approached by an earnest admirer who said her interpretation was wrong. He claimed his own teacher had been taught by someone who, in turn, could trace his interpretation hundreds of years back in time through a line of other teachers to Bach, himself. Landowska showed her score to the man, saying: "How wonderful. As for me, my interpretation comes direct from Bach." Oh, that Wanda! ☺
you have to mention Oskar Fried, who was considered by Mahler as his only disciple. Walter is more known, because he emigrated to USA and became conductor in NY, made CBS recordings... but, Fried was the first to make a recording ( in Berlin), conducted Mahler's symphonies in the USSR, where he got success and inspired Chostakovitch, and soviet conductors ( there was a kind of mahlermania , they made an association of mahlerian conductors): but in Western countries, first Mahler's music used to schock and was sacked , as germanistic in France and "jew" in Germany ... Mengelberg was a close friend to Mahler ( who totally trusted him) and promoted him even from the very beginning of 20th century. Klemperer, also, at the same times... But now, it seems Mahler is the favorite composer of many conductors !
"I am sure that those who understand him will feel enriched throughout their life." Certainly true of me, insofar as I can say I understand him, but very definitely a life-enhancing experience. Many thanks for posting this, plus a picture I hadn't seen before of Mahler actually smiling!
Among Mahler's champions on record, Walter was the real thing--passionate, intuitive, authentic. There has never been a better Ninth than Walter's with the Vienna Philharmonic in 1938, mono or otherwise.
there is a CD Mahler at the Welte-Mignon piano you can listen to 30 minutes of interviews of musicians who tell anecdotes with Mahler : whether they had played in the Wiener Orchestra, or at the NYP. there's also Anna telling some anecdocts from her childhood. This is as if you meet Mahler, incredible. in these anecdotes, you can see how Mahler could be generous, funny, or always in thoughts.
A total romantic but also bedded Mahlers wife Alma how lovely is that?!! but nonetheless a wonderful conductor .It seems that most Maestros are highly sexed and promiscuous!!.
Stunning. The sense of immediacy of Mahler's presence is electrifying. I learned more aboutr Mahler from this one interview than from several longish biographies - none of which had the directness of impact. Does anyone know who the interviewer was?
Mahler's decade with the Vienna Court Opera overlapped Toscanini's first tenure at La Scala. Both made revolutionary advances in operatic production. Their styles were very different, but their goals were the same.
It’s in interviews like this that I would really like to actually know something intrinsic about the composer’s humanity and ways of thought that only those who really knew him would know. This is not that interview. Still I am grateful for all BW did for Mahler’s legacy.
I’m gonna get it for this but, this sounds like an interviewer who really wants to talk about Mahler and BW who really wants to talk about himself and praise Mahler without saying anything.
Lazy Pain Let the baby Jesus open your mind and shut your mouth. Only those who are uninteresting themselves can fail to have been interested. AND.....Don't expect any kind of enlightenment with your disinterested and disdainful double-digit IQ. Maybe listen instead to an interview featuring Iggy Pop or Taylor Swift; are they your normal cups of tea?
LazloPlane Iearned Walter played piano when Mahler rehearsed operas and that he hired Walter as assistant conductor. Things I already knew, but hadn't heard it from Walter himself.
Walter's replies to the questions sound rehearsed and prepared. The praise is so excessive and language woolly and general that it tells us very little about the real Mahler. Too polished and smooth, like Walter's own conducting of Mahler. Disappointing.
Different versions for different symphonies. Horenstein for 3rd, Bernstein for 2nd, Barbirolli for 9th. I just find Walter too emollient for a composer as emotional and neurotic as Mahler. But that's just my taste. These things are so subjective.
..a gem..beautifully cadenced...drink for the soul...
He speaks so beautifully. More articulate and refined than many born English speakers.
He's reading. From his preprepared notes? Or perhaps an article he wrote.
He's reading. Still interesting tho.
@@phillipecook3227 in those days all interviews were scripted like this. Some of those intermission features. OMG! Dr.Walter is very good, and natural compared to most.
He doesn't read anything. He was speaping exactly like this.
Obviously reading in a droll fashion.
I can't even imagine how must be the feeling of heard a Mahler symphony conducted by himself.
Walter single-handedly championed Mahler's music to the world, before Bernstein, Klemperer and others. For this, we are grateful.
Mengelberg, Fried, Stokowski, Mitropoulos, Barbirolli and others were also single-handedly championing Mahler's music. Hard to believe, but Wilhelm Furtwangler gave dozens of performances of Mahler's symphonies - as early as a 1912 performance of the "Kindertotenlieder" - before the Nazi ban on his music. But, yeah - Bernstein showed up to fan the flames of a fire other people had started long before 1960.
@@TheStockwell true. Mahler comes in and out of fashion it seems . The 40s and 50s it was out, Lenny brought it back, another surge with Gunter Wand in the 90's and its been "in" pretty much since. I trust Walter's interpretations,
since Mahler himself coached him.
@@jefolson6989 There are a lot of conductors who confidently claim a lineage to Mahler via Walter via Bernstein. Since we don't have recordings of Mahler's conducting, it reminds me of a poorly-remembered story which goes like this: after a performance of Bach, Wanda Landowska was approached by an earnest admirer who said her interpretation was wrong. He claimed his own teacher had been taught by someone who, in turn, could trace his interpretation hundreds of years back in time through a line of other teachers to Bach, himself. Landowska showed her score to the man, saying: "How wonderful. As for me, my interpretation comes direct from Bach." Oh, that Wanda! ☺
you have to mention Oskar Fried, who was considered by Mahler as his only disciple. Walter is more known, because he emigrated to USA and became conductor in NY, made CBS recordings... but, Fried was the first to make a recording ( in Berlin), conducted Mahler's symphonies in the USSR, where he got success and inspired Chostakovitch, and soviet conductors ( there was a kind of mahlermania , they made an association of mahlerian conductors): but in Western countries, first Mahler's music used to schock and was sacked , as germanistic in France and "jew" in Germany ...
Mengelberg was a close friend to Mahler ( who totally trusted him) and promoted him even from the very beginning of 20th century. Klemperer, also, at the same times...
But now, it seems Mahler is the favorite composer of many conductors !
"I am sure that those who understand him will feel enriched throughout their life." Certainly true of me, insofar as I can say I understand him, but very definitely a life-enhancing experience. Many thanks for posting this, plus a picture I hadn't seen before of Mahler actually smiling!
This interview? Priceless.
A fascinating and valuable original source audio document of music history. Thank you very much for posting this.
Priceless, Priceless!
Among Mahler's champions on record, Walter was the real thing--passionate, intuitive, authentic. There has never been a better Ninth than Walter's with the Vienna Philharmonic in 1938, mono or otherwise.
Thank you. How lucky we are to have great men to keep Mahler's magnificiant music alive through a dark period of our history.
Bruno Walter was one the greatest of all time!
there is a CD Mahler at the Welte-Mignon piano you can listen to 30 minutes of interviews of musicians who tell anecdotes with Mahler : whether they had played in the Wiener Orchestra, or at the NYP. there's also Anna telling some anecdocts from her childhood. This is as if you meet Mahler, incredible. in these anecdotes, you can see how Mahler could be generous, funny, or always in thoughts.
MAHLER LIVES! Thanks for posting
What, also, a lovely person is Walter.
A total romantic but also bedded Mahlers wife Alma how lovely is that?!! but nonetheless a wonderful conductor .It seems that most Maestros are highly sexed and promiscuous!!.
Knowing Almer Mahler/Gropius, it's more likely that SHE bedded HIM.
Bruno Walter is by far the best interpreter of Gustav Mahler ' s music.
Danke ! Wunderbar !
Stunning. The sense of immediacy of Mahler's presence is electrifying. I learned more aboutr Mahler from this one interview than from several longish biographies - none of which had the directness of impact.
Does anyone know who the interviewer was?
Thank you for this - fascinating! Where Mahler is concerned, I lap it up!
Mahler's decade with the Vienna Court Opera overlapped Toscanini's first tenure at La Scala. Both made revolutionary advances in operatic production. Their styles were very different, but their goals were the same.
This is amazing.
Bruno Walter did a memoir on Mahler simply entitled, "Gustav Mahler."
Crazy to think of them up in Hamburg in 1894
It’s in interviews like this that I would really like to actually know something intrinsic about the composer’s humanity and ways of thought that only those who really knew him would know. This is not that interview. Still I am grateful for all BW did for Mahler’s legacy.
Can you imagine!
Video posted 100 years (almost to the day) after Mahler's death.
OmegaMale yes, I don't think it was accidental ;)
🙏🎼
He reads out a written text, well prepared!
I’m gonna get it for this but, this sounds like an interviewer who really wants to talk about Mahler and BW who really wants to talk about himself and praise Mahler without saying anything.
treasure !!!
Who is he speaking with here?
All this praise for this interview, yet, really, what did he say of interest or that was enlightening? I didn't hear anything.
Lazy Pain Let the baby Jesus open your mind and shut your mouth. Only those who are uninteresting themselves can fail to have been interested. AND.....Don't expect any kind of enlightenment with your disinterested and disdainful double-digit IQ. Maybe listen instead to an interview featuring Iggy Pop or Taylor Swift; are they your normal cups of tea?
LazloPlane Iearned Walter played piano when Mahler rehearsed operas and that he hired Walter as assistant conductor. Things I already knew, but hadn't heard it from Walter himself.
@@jefolson6989 ZZZzzz...zzzzzzzzzzz......
@@LazlosPlane one man's music is another mans sleep aid.
Rehearsed 'interview'.
Does it matter?
Scripted but by Walter himself. He is pretty good at it. I have heard a extemporaneous
Speech by Walter, and he was HILARIOUS! Looking for it.
tons of praise, not much content. 6 min of praising him without saying anything in concrete
mahler was not an Atheist.......no great Music was ever composed by an Atheist.......Facts and love from vienna austria
Tchaikovsky was an atheist
Peter Helbich Brahms was also an agnostic atheist.
agnostic is not an Atheist.
why do you hate atheists so much? Many great composers were nonreligious.
i dont hate enyone....my statement is about god and not religion ..period...god bless russio
Walter's replies to the questions sound rehearsed and prepared. The praise is so excessive and language woolly and general that it tells us very little about the real Mahler. Too polished and smooth, like Walter's own conducting of Mahler. Disappointing.
Curious whose interpretation of Mahler you prefer
Different versions for different symphonies. Horenstein for 3rd, Bernstein for 2nd, Barbirolli for 9th. I just find Walter too emollient for a composer as emotional and neurotic as Mahler. But that's just my taste. These things are so subjective.
YOU SOUND LIKE A MUSICAL IGNORAMUS disappointed with your own life...??? probably, know-nothing cretin.
That Barbirolli 9th is amazing -couldn't agree with more on that one
@@jcalli66 pff, just listened to him and I think he's much too fast at important places. Perhaps it's just a matter of habit.