Monsieur Tharaud, like Liszt, Busoni and all the great masters of the art of piano transcription, understands that in order to translate successfully the sound of the orchestra or the voice to the piano you must make full use of this instrument's immense resources and here he does it brilliantly!. Other arrangements of this piece just fall flat because they dont understand this simple fact and are too "respectful" of the original. Even Mahler's own piano versions of his orchestral works don't convey the beauty of his orchestral sound. Chapeau Mr.Tharaud!
Wonderful piano pieces played by brilliant pianists connects with the soul of the listener without a single word. Piano music enlightens the soul and many a times helps to reach a better place in this ephemeral existence.
What a great arrangement! It's always good to hear Mahler on piano, of course, that being the instrument he composed all his works on, it just makes sense. If you read Alma, Alma Mahler's memories of Gustav you'll know that he was able to play through all his symphonies on piano, sometimes before orchestrating them at all! This is probably very close to what he actually would have played. Bravo
Très belle transcription pour piano, très romantique, de cet Adagietto de la symphonie n°5 de Gustave Mahler. Bravo pour le travail que cela a dû nécessiter ! Non, transcrire, ce n'est pas trahir mais faire honneur au compositeur. Encore Bravo
Mahler is like a sensual and attentive lover, tenderly caressing every part of his piece lovingly, but always pulling back and delaying the ultimate climax you know must be coming in Mahler.
I never though that such faithfull and accurate transcri^ption of such a massive work coule be done in the 21th century. Alexandre Tharaud is a true genius.
Alexander Tharaud qui possède un génie de plusieurs transcriptions donne dans cette œuvre si émouvante une interprétation passionnée aux modulations très structurées et d'une rare beauté poétique qui vous tire des larmes en suivant mentalement le film éponyme de Visconti qui demeure un chef d'œuvre d'interprétation. Alexandre Tharaud a eu le génie de capter l'essence même de l'adagietto . Mais ,que de travail !!...mes plus sincères félicitations mais qui sont si peu de chose devant l'œuvre recrée. Un grand merci à ce très grand Artiste .
From WIKI: Tharaud refuses to keep a piano in his residence because of his belief that he will begin to prefer the pleasure of improvisation to the necessity of rigorous work. He prefers to practice on different instruments at friends' residences. He composes, but is usually discreet regarding this activity. Before each recording he goes and lays flowers at the tomb of Chabrier in the Montparnasse Cemetery. When asked what a camera would record if it were present at his recording sessions, he replied that he sings, shouts, dances, and argues with the piano ("absurd behaviour - comportements ridicules").
Excelente transcripción para piano, va con toda la fuerza, la profundidad y nobleza que caracteriza la música de Gustav Mahler. Sencillamente magistral.
Something like this was the first Mahler's audition of his adagietto, playing it on his own piano to Alma, to whom was dedicated as a love declaration.
Aqui está mais um exemplo daquilo que não podemos encontrar palavras, porque são profundamente sentidas , vivenciadas e verbalmente impossíveis de ser pronunciadas.
So beautiful, I have heard it with orchestra with the great master conductor Leonard Bernstein. Then orchestra with just incredible images, seem like from Norway?? And few great photos of him, his beautiful wife melting into the music. G.Mahler was born in my native country, then under then austro-hungarian empire. Died in 1911, 8 years before liberation and creation of free Czech rep. Free for only 20 years. Then with the choir, beautiful and now this so rich piano performance! Thank you!
There is no excess, those are the same notes. It’s just that, in the orchestra recordings you listen to, the sound from the strings and the harp are merged together. In a live performance you would hear each of them a lot more distinctly.
U can watch the Canadian ice dancing couple virtue n moir skate to this it was just exquisite (2010 for the gold n they nailed it) u can watch on utube sadly they have retired from skating completion I had never heard this music before n fell in love with it
Dans cette transcription l'oeuvre de Malher prend un relief inattendu. On voit la mer étale du film de Visconti et tous les gouffres de l'âme malherienne.
Who could imagine that Mahler would suit so nicely in a piano arrangement? I'm not able to listen to Mahler's 5th without dying in the attempt, and it's very frustrating, since everybody "respects" it for its "historical value" and blablablablabla... Nevertheless, One must understand that everything is about taste and nobody should force you into liking something. Sadly, this happens a lot in classical music environments. This attitude towards sharing my experience through this cold-inhuman means (Internet and CZcams) is that I'd like to applaud your interpretation, because it represents one way to listen to Mahler differently. It becomes refreshing and less intimidating than the so glorious original version. I know I may never enjoy it more than the 3rd Symphony (my favourite of them all) , but this is a great start to at least trying to understand the artistic-emotional contents of the 5th. Thanks very much for sharing and greetings from Colombia, from someone else who's also made of music.
+John Bell Young sorry, I do not like what kind of vocabulary you are using! No matter how much you agree or disagree. The awfull and unpleasant way how you communicate with others can also reflect your taste in general… personally, I do not like any kind of arrangements, since I think, that composer would have written that or any other pieces for other instrument, if he would have really wanted to do that. By another words, I do not find this transcription that bad as you describe. You are not a musical God to make such ugly judgment about an experiment… excuse me…
+Vladimir Bukac But Mahler did some transcriptions of his symphonic( for instance , he even made a rehearsal of the 5th first mvt ( Trauermarsch) ) and he composed from piano to orchestra... ( see his Lieder and many parts of his 4 first symphonies .
I understand what you say...I love Rachmaninov but I find his Symphony 1 unpleasant to hear...I know I'm talking about a genius but I'm not forced to like everything in classical music...I love Rachmaninov's piano works though...
Julian Pernett Castilla In my opinion all of Mahlers music is all very pianistic. His amazing and vivid orchestration hides this fact. The arpeggiation, trills, subtle textures, independent chromatic lines, all come from the approach of a pianist, which he was first and foremost.
Historical value? Well I guess. But I think it's respected for the fact that it is such a masterpiece. Why not embrace it all? For your sake. If you can handle the 3rd you can handle all of it. Strange response, you.
Milena Despotović Here’s another transcription from imslp. imslp.simssa.ca/files/imglnks/usimg/a/a3/IMSLP48333-PMLP08063-Mahler-Singer---Simphony-No5-Adagietto---Piano-Solo.pdf. Enjoy🙂
waow, je n'imaginais pas qu'on pût faire une transcription aussi réussie de l'adagietto de la 5e. Je le redécouvre sans ce côté lancinant qu'il a à l'orchestre et qui me prend à chaque dois aux tripes.
This is what Alma Schindler, aproximately, listened to, that day ... "Gustav Mahler was in love with Alma Schindler, the woman who would have become his wife (“The most beautiful girl in Vienna”). He keeps from declaring his love, so, one day, he composes this music and sends her the score, without even adding a word. She sits at the piano, plays the music, and answers: "Now you should come here." I think it can be considered the most beautiful love declaration of all time."
Ah, if Cecile Chaminade had composed something as profound as this perhaps her flutist boyfriend would not have married someone else. (Though the Concertino is just as good as a declaration of love as anything else)
@@da96103 Beautiful the Concertino. I didn't know anything about Cecile Chaminade. Anyway, Alma would have soon left Gustav, leaving him in desperation. To us remains the sublime beauty of these notes, the poem of a heart in love, that of a Genius.
Superbe transcription de l'adagietto de Malher, beaucoup plus virtuose que celle des autres pianistes John Belle young et Cyril Saint Amour, les plus faciles à trouver sur youtube. Il faudrait qu'Alexandre Tharaud l'enregistre en CD !
Some interesting ideas in the arrangement, but I'm baffled by why he rewrote the accompaniment triplets, to become so monotonously relentless. Mahler's rhythms are much more interesting and (probably deliberately) leave the listener uncertain about the exact location of beats. It sounds very square to pump out triplet after triplet without leaving space between.
@@cziffra1980 You mean the one Paul Barton plays?Cool.Different approach ....some of us can enjoy both.Nothing wrong in any of them approaches,hence.....chill:)
@@georgevraca2738 there's room for different approaches. But there's also room to be baffled at replacing the interesting and varied with something more ordinary and plain. The interesting thing about the original is the ambiguity of the rhythm. I don't really see why it needs such constant spelling out of the pulse.
Magnífico, impresionante! .... Qué horror esa estruendosa tos en la última nota que hay que dejar que se evapore.....es para matar al tosedor. Debería haber un técnico que la borre de la grabación.
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Was listening to this with my father as he just passed before me. Thank you for such a good rendition.
Sorry for your loss.
...I am really sorry for your loss ,🥀..this music is from the other world..
My thoughts are with you and your father sir.
Monsieur Tharaud, like Liszt, Busoni and all the great masters of the art of piano transcription, understands that in order to translate successfully the sound of the orchestra or the voice to the piano you must make full use of this instrument's immense resources and here he does it brilliantly!. Other arrangements of this piece just fall flat because they dont understand this simple fact and are too "respectful" of the original. Even Mahler's own piano versions of his orchestral works don't convey the beauty of his orchestral sound. Chapeau Mr.Tharaud!
Wonderful piano pieces played by brilliant pianists connects with the soul of the listener without a single word. Piano music enlightens the soul and many a times helps to reach a better place in this ephemeral existence.
What a great arrangement! It's always good to hear Mahler on piano, of course, that being the instrument he composed all his works on, it just makes sense. If you read Alma, Alma Mahler's memories of Gustav you'll know that he was able to play through all his symphonies on piano, sometimes before orchestrating them at all! This is probably very close to what he actually would have played. Bravo
Yes,a bit ultra....but great in any way
Très belle transcription pour piano, très romantique, de cet Adagietto de la symphonie n°5 de Gustave Mahler. Bravo pour le travail que cela a dû nécessiter ! Non, transcrire, ce n'est pas trahir mais faire honneur au compositeur. Encore Bravo
Mahler is like a sensual and attentive lover, tenderly caressing every part of his piece lovingly, but always pulling back and delaying the ultimate climax you know must be coming in Mahler.
I have never heard this as a piano piece. You did it infinite justice in so far as I could not breathe from the beauty of it.
What a wonderful comment. Thank you.
This is most beautiful. I feel as if this arr. stands for its own, as well as the performance of the pianist. Bravo!
I never though that such faithfull and accurate transcri^ption of such a massive work coule be done in the 21th century. Alexandre Tharaud is a true genius.
A Tharaud est de loin le meilleur transcripteur de l'adagietto
jean-claude Bluet Juste Merveilleux! De même son interprétation des variations Goldberg!
Alexander Tharaud qui possède un génie de plusieurs transcriptions donne dans cette œuvre si émouvante une interprétation passionnée aux modulations très structurées et d'une rare beauté poétique qui vous tire des larmes en suivant mentalement le film éponyme de Visconti qui demeure un chef d'œuvre d'interprétation. Alexandre Tharaud a eu le génie de capter l'essence même de l'adagietto . Mais ,que de travail !!...mes plus sincères félicitations mais qui sont si peu de chose devant l'œuvre recrée. Un grand merci à ce très grand Artiste .
i'd like to send my greatest admiration to mr alexandre tharaud.
me too
From WIKI: Tharaud refuses to keep a piano in his residence because of his belief that he will begin to prefer the pleasure of improvisation to the necessity of rigorous work. He prefers to practice on different instruments at friends' residences. He composes, but is usually discreet regarding this activity. Before each recording he goes and lays flowers at the tomb of Chabrier in the Montparnasse Cemetery. When asked what a camera would record if it were present at his recording sessions, he replied that he sings, shouts, dances, and argues with the piano ("absurd behaviour - comportements ridicules").
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😊😊
Wonderful piece of music and I like the pianists attitude
perfect and clear and transparence for better comprehension of orchestral version
Excelente transcripción para piano, va con toda la fuerza, la profundidad y nobleza que caracteriza la música de Gustav Mahler. Sencillamente magistral.
After a fulfilling productive day, one rewards oneself with this. What a beautiful way to cap the day.
Las lágrimas de Gustav reducidas al espíritu del piano... bellísimo arreglo!
Something like this was the first Mahler's audition of his adagietto, playing it on his own piano to Alma, to whom was dedicated as a love declaration.
Гениальная музыка Малера не оставляет равнодушным. Прекрасное фортепьянное переложение и исполнение. Спасибо. Россия.Москва.
I absolutely love this.
Breathtaking....Ingenious.....BRAVO, Maestro Tharaud.....from Mexico City!
Lisztian......More SOFTER modulations would have been good....
Aqui está mais um exemplo daquilo que não podemos encontrar palavras, porque são profundamente sentidas , vivenciadas e verbalmente impossíveis de ser pronunciadas.
Bravo! Bravissimo! Excellent transcription - played magnificently!! Captured the Mahler´s spirit perfectly.
So beautiful, I have heard it with orchestra with the great master conductor Leonard Bernstein.
Then orchestra with just incredible images, seem like from Norway??
And few great photos of him, his beautiful wife melting into the music.
G.Mahler was born in my native country, then under then austro-hungarian empire. Died in 1911, 8 years before liberation and creation of free Czech rep.
Free for only 20 years.
Then with the choir, beautiful and now this so rich piano performance!
Thank you!
I love the excess. It's necessary when the piano attempts to be the orchestra.
Yes very rich
The piano doesn’t have the sustain so he relies on more short notes to make up for it.
There is no excess, those are the same notes.
It’s just that, in the orchestra recordings you listen to, the sound from the strings and the harp are merged together. In a live performance you would hear each of them a lot more distinctly.
Une transcription aussi fidèle à l'original que merveilleusement interprétée !
gives me goosebumps...
Big thanks from korea for this sharing & beautiful play that break my heart... what a melody...
U can watch the Canadian ice dancing couple virtue n moir skate to this it was just exquisite (2010 for the gold n they nailed it) u can watch on utube sadly they have retired from skating completion I had never heard this music before n fell in love with it
This is quite excellent. I can't believe you've done this tremendous work such justice. Brilliant!
If it's excellent, the quite has no place.
A Tharaud est de loin le meilleur transcripteur de l'adagietto, rendez-le disponible pour nous s'il vous plaît!
Qu'est-ce que c'est bien cette transcription !!
Quelques fausses notes (canards), sinon c'est pas mal.
Exquisite transcription,congratulations Mr Tharaud !
Je l'aime beaucoup. c'est tres beau !!!! trop beau.....Magnifique !
Simply extraordinary. Thank you.
Simplement sublime…
es una experiencia muy agrdable escuchar esta pieza Enhorabuena...
Belleza máximaaaaaaa, gracias
Maravilhoso!!!!
This is pure magic.
On entre là dans l'âme de Gustav Mahler, dans son rêve d'atteindre la grâce par son génie.
Wow, this works wonderfully
Perfect.
Dans cette transcription l'oeuvre de Malher prend un relief inattendu. On voit la mer étale du film de Visconti et tous les gouffres de l'âme malherienne.
Such beautiful lament.
Magnifique
Listz would be proud of this transcription. Sounds like Listz in fact.
For me sounds like Rachmaninov
@Jordan Schlansky Yes, maybe in an upright piano. But a concert grand? By Steinway? The difficulty is to stop the endless reverberations!
@Jordan Schlansky So you like Austrian composers in addition to all things Italian? ;-)
muchísimas gracias...
Who could imagine that Mahler would suit so nicely in a piano arrangement?
I'm not able to listen to Mahler's 5th without dying in the attempt, and it's very frustrating, since everybody "respects" it for its "historical value" and blablablablabla... Nevertheless, One must understand that everything is about taste and nobody should force you into liking something. Sadly, this happens a lot in classical music environments.
This attitude towards sharing my experience through this cold-inhuman means (Internet and CZcams) is that I'd like to applaud your interpretation, because it represents one way to listen to Mahler differently. It becomes refreshing and less intimidating than the so glorious original version.
I know I may never enjoy it more than the 3rd Symphony (my favourite of them all) , but this is a great start to at least trying to understand the artistic-emotional contents of the 5th.
Thanks very much for sharing and greetings from Colombia, from someone else who's also made of music.
+John Bell Young sorry, I do not like what kind of vocabulary you are using! No matter how much you agree or disagree. The awfull and unpleasant way how you communicate with others can also reflect your taste in general…
personally, I do not like any kind of arrangements, since I think, that composer would have written that or any other pieces for other instrument, if he would have really wanted to do that. By another words, I do not find this transcription that bad as you describe. You are not a musical God to make such ugly judgment about an experiment… excuse me…
+Vladimir Bukac
But Mahler did some transcriptions of his symphonic( for instance , he even made a rehearsal of the 5th first mvt ( Trauermarsch) ) and he composed from piano to orchestra... ( see his Lieder and many parts of his 4 first symphonies .
I understand what you say...I love Rachmaninov but I find his Symphony 1 unpleasant to hear...I know I'm talking about a genius but I'm not forced to like everything in classical music...I love Rachmaninov's piano works though...
Julian Pernett Castilla In my opinion all of Mahlers music is all very pianistic. His amazing and vivid orchestration hides this fact. The arpeggiation, trills, subtle textures, independent chromatic lines, all come from the approach of a pianist, which he was first and foremost.
Historical value? Well I guess. But I think it's respected for the fact that it is such a masterpiece. Why not embrace it all? For your sake. If you can handle the 3rd you can handle all of it. Strange response, you.
Gustav Mahler:5.cisz-moll Szimfónia-Adagietto
Alexander Tharaud-zongora
Instigante experiência, com resultado brilhante.
Extraordinário e maravilhoso!!!
Goosebumps
alexandre, please come to play again, its marvelous !
I like so much.One of my preferences.-
Love this one
Miraculously good. …. I'm speechless.. music less...
Magnifique, merci :-)
I so want to find this scores... Love this transcription
So have you found it? If so, I’d would like to have it too. So beautiful!!!!
@@loveispatient0808 no :(
Hello, it's now published by Lemoine, n°29563
@@pyouw thank you VERY much
Milena Despotović Here’s another transcription from imslp. imslp.simssa.ca/files/imglnks/usimg/a/a3/IMSLP48333-PMLP08063-Mahler-Singer---Simphony-No5-Adagietto---Piano-Solo.pdf. Enjoy🙂
amazing
waow, je n'imaginais pas qu'on pût faire une transcription aussi réussie de l'adagietto de la 5e. Je le redécouvre sans ce côté lancinant qu'il a à l'orchestre et qui me prend à chaque dois aux tripes.
ça sort des tripes.
Et ce qui sort des tripes c'est de la .......
A wonderful transcript, conveying the full emotion of the original intent. I wonder what a more minimalistic interpretation would sound like.
Actually the original version was not my favorite. but his strikingly beautiful play took my breath away, literally.
MARAVILHOSO, SUBLIME, SENSACIONAL,.............
I love this so much I can't stand it!
Lovely
Fantastic
Bravo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wonderful .. congrats..
Fantastico.
Wonderful
Brava brava
Indescritíveis, obra e pianista.
Je crois que je suis tombé amoureux. Que c’est beau.
Супер!!!
This is lovely!
Ay Dios, qué expresivo.
Hermosa versión.
Sublime!
Prekrasan adagio..ponekad je dobro cuti samo klavir bez orkestra..jutarnje misli uz Mahlera
Esto es excelente
Very nice
really good....
grande interpretazione
❤❤❤❤❤❤
This is what Alma Schindler, aproximately, listened to, that day ... "Gustav Mahler was in love with Alma Schindler, the woman who would have become his wife (“The most beautiful girl in Vienna”). He keeps from declaring his love, so, one day, he composes this music and sends her the score, without even adding a word. She sits at the piano, plays the music, and answers: "Now you should come here." I think it can be considered the most beautiful love declaration of all time."
Ah, if Cecile Chaminade had composed something as profound as this perhaps her flutist boyfriend would not have married someone else. (Though the Concertino is just as good as a declaration of love as anything else)
@@da96103 Beautiful the Concertino. I didn't know anything about Cecile Chaminade. Anyway, Alma would have soon left Gustav, leaving him in desperation. To us remains the sublime beauty of these notes, the poem of a heart in love, that of a Genius.
Alma! You discordant chords.
@@da96103She soon forgot them...
Esto es bello. Cada día me enamoro más de Gustav.
Conmovedora belleza
Unglaublich schön, ähnlich Stefan Mickisch Interpretation von Tristan und Isolde
좋구나.. 말러!!
Superbe transcription de l'adagietto de Malher, beaucoup plus virtuose que celle des autres pianistes John Belle young et Cyril Saint Amour, les plus faciles à trouver sur youtube. Il faudrait qu'Alexandre Tharaud l'enregistre en CD !
Quelques fausses notes (canards), sinon c'est pas mal.
Some interesting ideas in the arrangement, but I'm baffled by why he rewrote the accompaniment triplets, to become so monotonously relentless. Mahler's rhythms are much more interesting and (probably deliberately) leave the listener uncertain about the exact location of beats. It sounds very square to pump out triplet after triplet without leaving space between.
Eager to hear your transcription. I'm uncertain about the exact location where I can find it. Beats me.
@@charleshudson5330 I didn't need to do my own. I recorded one by Mercuzio, which works very nicely.
@@charleshudson5330 Leave it.Waste of time.This is a great arrangement,beautifully played and .....that's what it is to it.
@@cziffra1980 You mean the one Paul Barton plays?Cool.Different approach ....some of us can enjoy both.Nothing wrong in any of them approaches,hence.....chill:)
@@georgevraca2738 there's room for different approaches. But there's also room to be baffled at replacing the interesting and varied with something more ordinary and plain. The interesting thing about the original is the ambiguity of the rhythm. I don't really see why it needs such constant spelling out of the pulse.
Слезы счастья и радости
А скажите пожалуйста где можно найти ноты этой транскрипции?
Dove posso trovare lo spartito di questa meravigliosa trascrizione?
Where can I get the music? transcribed by Tharaud.
it exists a marvelous transcription of this piece by Otto Singer. Why should one have to make a new transcription, which is not better?
G.Mahler ist begraben in Grinzinger Friedhof XIX.Bezirk - ich war dort ♫♪♥
There is a transcription for this? Wow...
Bellisimo
la performance est bien là mais qu'en est-il de la musique au final ? je ne suis pas séduite par cette transcription.
@Nell Santini
- La finale est très fidèle à l'oeuvre originale, je trouve
Et les fausses notes (canards) n'arrangent rien.
Magnífico, impresionante! ....
Qué horror esa estruendosa tos en la última nota que hay que dejar que se evapore.....es para matar al tosedor. Debería haber un técnico que la borre de la grabación.