I was there last night, singing in the Westminster Symphonic Choir. It was one of the most mind-blowing experiences in the world. I can confidently say from both sides of the stage, this is one of the most monumental pieces in the history of music. It just blows my mind.
"Imagine the whole universe beginning to ring and resound. There are no longer human voices, but planets and stars revolving." -Mahler on this symphony
I got one of the most intense chills/goosebumps all over my body when the ending arrived. I felt like crying, but was so in awe at what I was hearing that I froze in place as a whirlwind of emotion built within me. How anyone can compose this is beyond me, but I feel so privileged to listen and experience it.
How the actual heck did a youth orchestra manage this. Like actually how is this recording real, and it sounds incredibly good too. I'm genuinely in shock like how did they manage to do this, let alone for the proms.
Maybe reason of one of best versions: This youth orchestra didn't play high polished without soul but with called in German 'Ausdruck' means emotional and deepness. The real star at this evening was this youth orchestra.
Moments like this don't just happen.Here we see an event that took a tremendous amount of work, planning and talent. Imagine what it took to make this happen.Hundreds of singers, had to be able to read music and practice this piece. They rehearsed and learned the Latin and followed a director's cues. Think of each member of the orchestra spending years learning to play an instrument well. Again, learning and practicing this enormous piece to perfection.Think of the architects who designed this acoustically superb hall. Think of each instrument. Violins and horns are works of art! The design and crafting of which must be perfect in order for them to play properly.Think of Mahler's monumental ability, his humanity..his soul . All of the human ability and talent and will brought together in one place for one purpose: to translate the marks of ink that Mahler put down on paper and turn them into glorious soul stirring sound.Sound that swells the heart. Sound so powerful that you shut your eyes, press your lips together hard, hold your breath as you are taken higher and higher until you think you can't stand the ecstasy and then Mahler opens wide the doors to heaven...and you have a truly spiritual moment. This is Art at its best. Here is humanity at its very best.
Mahler wasn't very popular in his time, but that is because he was a composer far PAST his time. His music is simply other-worldly and like no other, and it is indeed magical.
God, I think it goes beyond the ending of Beethoven's ninth symphony. I've had the fortune of performing this thing, and.. it's overwhelming in every way. I was shaking when I put my bassoon away, doing everything in my power to keep from going to pieces in front of the rest of the orchestra, and afterwards I just wanted to be left alone for a while.
The greatest performance of this symphony I've ever heard- the power contrasted with the unbelievably beautiful quiet and reflective moments-Mahler knew what he was doing-sad that it took so long for him to get his due
I imagine that everything in this piece up until the climax chord at 5:10 is "pre-big bang". Before time. Then BAM! That epic damn chord and the universe bursts into creation and begins expanding rapidly to where it is today.
Mahler knew that his works were huge, that's what he strived for. In all of the Rattle recordings of Mahler works, I say that he knew this too, and appreciates their grandeur to the perfect extent. He doesn't drag them out, he just lets Mahler's eternal emotion that stirs in all of us have its own time to astonish and inspire.
This is hands down my favorite. Mahler was a genius. Rattle is a genius. All these musicians are geniuses. Everytime I listen to this I get choked up. It's the best finale every composed.
ugghhh. everytime i watch this, first i feel like my body goes numb, and then i cry lol. it's uncontrollable...it's just what the music does to me. you took the words right from my own thoughts... it's just so impossible to describe
I cry every time I hear this - Goethe's text at the end of Faust could almost be a description of music itself - music is feminine, (die Musik, la musique, la musica) and draws us ever onward - only Mahler could set this. I don't think I could have stayed in the same room as him for more than a few minutes - but his music can stay inside my mind for ever.
The great star of this evening was the Youth Orchestra. Who ever watched Simon Rattle conducting a school orchestra knows how many work and patience he investigate to teach them the spirit of the music, what is beyond the notes and chords. - Heinz
Human words don't do justice to this absolutely magnificent universe of sounds.I am praying that I may get the tickets to 8th with Lorin Maazel in Duisburg, Germany on September 12, 2010. It's April now and tickets are already all gone... This will probably be one in a life time chance... I wouldn't even need a seat. Just a ground to set my feet on and wonder about the greatness of this undying composer and the spirit of creation that granted but a mortal the inspiration to put this in notes.
What a glorious performance! When Mahler hits that stupendous “Amen” cadence, and the organ comes thundering in on top of everything else that’s going on, I just lose it. I performed this back in high school and just lost it at that moment. Totally overwhelmed emotionally and just started crying. The plagal cadence got to me and when the organ came thundering in, I fell apart. I was also exhausted.
I know this video for 2 years. Meanwhile I come back, may be, every other week. This ending (and especially this video with all the young musicians in it) has become a somewhat recreational fountain of peace and love for me. I must cry every time. Tears of joy, I feel touched to the very core and I sense that I m alive. This is it. There is hope for mankind! Thank you Maestro Rattle, thank you so much Mahler, thanks to all the participants, thanks for uploading, and even thanks to that guy with white shirt behind rattle who seems to get an orgasm...:)
This is glorious, best performance I've heard. Overwhelming, earth shattering, and uplifting. It truly is an emotional experience. I listen to this performance over and over again. A truly exalted work. I saw this when I was a teen as intended with a massive orchestra, double chorus, soloists. It really was transformative.
Wow! I am not a big Mahler fan but this performance will make me one. This is the best performance of this section of Symphony no. 8 I have ever heard.
Saw Mahler 8 in Toronto this week... actually thought I was going to have a heart attack at the end... most amazing, beautiful, epic performance I've ever seen!
LOL! Yes I heard it the first time I listened to it and said WOW! That note does something sublime to that chord. I think this is the most incredible 5 minutes of symphony I have ever heard.
this may well be one of the greatest times in music history,making this video one of the elite videos on CZcams.superior yet human,unbelievable yet so kind. magnificent in every single way.
The Philadelphia Orchestra did this last night and it was incredible. DVD's and CD's do this work no justice. 2000 People rose instantly and gave a 15 minute standing ovation. Not one dry eye in the building. I felt closer to heaven than ever before. Perhaps the greatest work written.
Gifted young musicians directed by the master himself......in a world of dross this gives real hope. Those responsible for cutbacks in musical education should be forced to watch this!! There are not enough superlatives to describe how good this is. Amazing!
All that passes away Is only a likeness; The inadequacy of earth Here finds fulfilment; The ineffable Here is accomplished; The eternal feminine leads us up.
When they begin to sing at 1.12 , I feel so touched then , it gives me goosebumps , it is like I'm somewhere else but in the room .. it is just such a wonderfull piece , no words can ever be enough to describe it .. no composer matches Mahler's music that is my opinion because mahler doesn't write music , he creates something bigger
One of the most impressing endings of a mucic peace ever. A huge orchestra and a huge chorus - this symphony is also known as "Sinfonie der Tausend" because of the number of singers and musicians taking part.
For me, the music -- especially the Chorus Mysticus -- evokes first the scene of a stupendous debacle deep in the background: the utter, fiery ruin of all things harmful in the world. The "camera" then pulls back more and more to images in the foreground. The foreground images are given more and more attention until the columns of smoke that arise from the debacle have been forever lost to view. Now we see only the movement forward and upward of a great crowd of survivors, moving up a mountainside meadow towards divine light with healing rays for the survivors. The survivors are penitent and confident that with God's grace they will realize a new world, a paradise absent all harm.
I'm with you there. This pice of music moves me every time I hear it. I heard it performed live in Chicago back in the early 90's with Eschenbach conducting. Everyone around me, including myself, wept uncontrollably at the climax. I think Mahler tapped into a profound part of the human soul with this music.
Bravo Maestro Rattle and NYOGB! For years I have been wedded to Tennstedt's interpretation and famous recording. But wow...I think this has the edge. I find it incredible that a youth orchestra has helped produce one of the best productions of one of the finest pieces of symphonic art yet written. Gustav Mahler was the master - and these young people know it!
I made listen the ending of this symphony to my father seriously ill for years. He wept. He died 2 days later while asleep finally at peace with the world. I hope that it has believed in Paradise.
Thank you Sinneo91. Your message makes me feel less alone. My late father was a great fan. He once said to me that the final movement of his 3rd Sym is the most beautiful piece of music that he had ever heard. That was actually quite a comment because he had a huge classical record collection on vinyl LP and reel-to-reel tape recordings. I am bending now a lot more towards his appraisal. Thanks again for your response!
Congratulations Sir Simon! I watched this splendid piece of Art several times! Deep thanks! All the very best for all of you. :) YAN AYRTON,ein junge klassikal komponist.
Probably. The NYO are really fantastic. They are definitely one of the best orchestras that I have ever seen. I saw them this year after two consecutive nights of going to a LSO concert then to a Royal Liverpool Philharmonic concert and the NYO knocked both of them into a cocked hat!
+Mike Berman it seems that here everything fits perfect, there is not any dis-balance in sound, there is not any false note or wrong intonation, I think you are right. Despite some criticism Rattle is really a good conductor.
@@geoffthedonkey2295 Well--sure- but, to give the mature orchestras their due- the youth orchestra does have about three or four times the number of players than the other 'regular-size' orchestras do, so it's inevitable that the sheer weight of sound is going to be pretty overwhelming- and that sure doesn't hurt in this piece! But there is no denying their passionate commitment as well. And I keep coming back to these wonderful adolescents again and again and I am moved beyond words...
After listening to this...it's like you've been graced by God. We are SO lucky that we live in a generation and time where we can experience this kind of thing... I don't even know what to call it... you can't call this music, its beyond that.
I agree completely. The invention of the Internet has allowed all of the beauty of classical music to be spread everywhere-and praise be to God for giving sublime composers like Gustav Mahler!
When i was only 8 years old, i sang this symphony , it was the very first time it was done in latinamerica: Teatro Teresa Carreño, Caracas, Venezuela. We were 1200 persons on stage, i'm not exagerating. It's one of the experience i cherish the most, and i can't help but crying everytime i listen to this inctedible piece of Life!
The last time I heard this I was in front of the cathedral in Snatiago de Compostela, Spain along with thousands of others, spellbound. It was accompanied by an astounding firework display as part of the Noche de Santiago: illuminating that beautiful building with shards of brilliant light in all directions. Listening to this and just thinking about it is giving me goosebumps!
Christine Brewer (soprano) Magna Peccatrix Soile Isokoski (soprano) Una Poenitentium Juliane Banse (soprano) Mater Gloriosa Birgit Remmert (mezzo) Mulier Samaritana Jane Henschel (mezzo) Maria Aegyptiaca; Jon Villars (tenor) Doctor Marianus David Wilson-Johnson (baritone) Pater Ecstaticus John Relyea (bass) Pater Profundus
In the early 90's I saw a performance of this symphony in Chicago with Christophe Eschenbach conducting. At the climax, I saw that everyone around me - women, men, middle-aged and old, were not simply crying, but openly weeping. It was the most moving experience of my life. I went again for the next evening's performance and it was the same thing. Mahler tapped into something transcendent here.
I was there last night, singing in the Westminster Symphonic Choir. It was one of the most mind-blowing experiences in the world. I can confidently say from both sides of the stage, this is one of the most monumental pieces in the history of music. It just blows my mind.
I'm a composer, but when I hear something like this, I always think "I wish I could write music."
One day you have your best piece one day... one day.
Yes it will happen,Mahler said"my time will come" when the critics said he couldn't write music and should stick to conducting 💪💪💪🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Where could we hear something that you've written?
I am a painter, but when I hear something like this, I always think “I wish I could paint something like this.”
Same.
"Imagine the whole universe beginning to ring and resound. There are no longer human voices, but planets and stars revolving."
-Mahler on this symphony
It sounds like magic... A short, lonely man sitting by himself in his hut back in 1906, and all of this comes pouring out of him. Outstanding.
+Guilherme Eddino Brilliantly put.
+Guilherme Eddino It shows what he had inside of himself.
This is why AI will never replace the human mind.
Brilliantly pit and so Very true
I know he was physically short, but I just don't think of that word when I think of Mahler. I think giant.
I got one of the most intense chills/goosebumps all over my body when the ending arrived. I felt like crying, but was so in awe at what I was hearing that I froze in place as a whirlwind of emotion built within me. How anyone can compose this is beyond me, but I feel so privileged to listen and experience it.
How the actual heck did a youth orchestra manage this. Like actually how is this recording real, and it sounds incredibly good too. I'm genuinely in shock like how did they manage to do this, let alone for the proms.
Mahler, Mahler, Mahler.............WOW! Tears every time I hear this ending. What can possibly surpass this on earth?
Dmitry Bortnyansky
The ending of the 2nd does it for me also
Or the ending of the Ninth
You know, this is one of the best versions of Mahler's 8th finale I've found on CZcams and it's a youth orchestra! Fantastic stuff.
Maybe reason of one of best versions: This youth orchestra didn't play high polished without soul but with called in German 'Ausdruck' means emotional and deepness. The real star at this evening was this youth orchestra.
@@pega17pl Very Very true
Unreal
At 5:05, you can see an audience member on the bottom left just taking in the moment. Gotta love it. Just an awesome finale.
If every one of us could introduce classical music to just one other person, the world would be a better place.
I saw this live yesterday. It was a defining moment for my life.
do you have a link??
Moments like this don't just happen.Here we see an event that took a tremendous amount of work, planning and talent.
Imagine what it took to make this happen.Hundreds of singers, had to be able to read music and practice this piece. They rehearsed and learned the Latin and followed a director's cues. Think of each member of the orchestra spending years learning to play an instrument well. Again, learning and practicing this enormous piece to perfection.Think of the architects who designed this acoustically superb hall. Think of each instrument. Violins and horns are works of art! The design and crafting of which must be perfect in order for them to play properly.Think of Mahler's monumental ability, his humanity..his soul . All of the human ability and talent and will brought together in one place for one purpose: to translate the marks of ink that Mahler put down on paper and turn them into glorious soul stirring sound.Sound that swells the heart. Sound so powerful that you shut your eyes, press your lips together hard, hold your breath as you are taken higher and higher until you think you can't stand the ecstasy and then Mahler opens wide the doors to heaven...and you have a truly spiritual moment.
This is Art at its best.
Here is humanity at its very best.
Gerald Greenblatt beautiful, sir. humanity at its best indeed
Exactly, and people would rather listen to pop/rap music and all the other garbage today.
How incredibly stated...Bravo to you sir!
You encapsulated this epic, spiritual work most profoundly. Thank you
Well stated. One small correction, they sing German. Not that it changes any of the things you said :).
3:54 - that octave leap by the sopranos is one of the cleanest and most accurate you'll ever hear from such a vast choir - wow!
It's not just the sopranos there, it is the entire chorus as one!
This part makes me cry every time.
Mahler wasn't very popular in his time, but that is because he was a composer far PAST his time. His music is simply other-worldly and like no other, and it is indeed magical.
God, I think it goes beyond the ending of Beethoven's ninth symphony. I've had the fortune of performing this thing, and.. it's overwhelming in every way. I was shaking when I put my bassoon away, doing everything in my power to keep from going to pieces in front of the rest of the orchestra, and afterwards I just wanted to be left alone for a while.
I like how Rattle himself applauds the performers - this is awesome.
The greatest performance of this symphony I've ever heard- the power contrasted with the unbelievably beautiful quiet and reflective moments-Mahler knew what he was doing-sad that it took so long for him to get his due
I was there at that performance! It changed my life.
the choral entrance is marked ppp in the score, and when you have that many singers it truly haunts you and makes a ghostly effect
What an legendary ending! There will never be another part or ending like this in any type or form of entertainment.
This brings tears to my eyes
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you're human, congratulations
I imagine that everything in this piece up until the climax chord at 5:10 is "pre-big bang". Before time. Then BAM! That epic damn chord and the universe bursts into creation and begins expanding rapidly to where it is today.
Mahler knew that his works were huge, that's what he strived for. In all of the Rattle recordings of Mahler works, I say that he knew this too, and appreciates their grandeur to the perfect extent. He doesn't drag them out, he just lets Mahler's eternal emotion that stirs in all of us have its own time to astonish and inspire.
This is hands down my favorite. Mahler was a genius. Rattle is a genius. All these musicians are geniuses. Everytime I listen to this I get choked up. It's the best finale every composed.
Mahler is the number one componist, for me. Rattle is the one of best Mahler conductor. Thanks for this post.
No words. Just tears, gratitude and wonder
It is incredibly moving to me to see all these wonderful young people being able to participate in this glorious experience.
ugghhh. everytime i watch this, first i feel like my body goes numb, and then i cry lol. it's uncontrollable...it's just what the music does to me. you took the words right from my own thoughts... it's just so impossible to describe
I cry every time I hear this - Goethe's text at the end of Faust could almost be a description of music itself - music is feminine, (die Musik, la musique, la musica) and draws us ever onward - only Mahler could set this. I don't think I could have stayed in the same room as him for more than a few minutes - but his music can stay inside my mind for ever.
I just keep coming back to this clip...moving in all sorts of ways...
The great star of this evening was the Youth Orchestra. Who ever watched Simon Rattle conducting a school orchestra knows how many work and patience he investigate to teach them the spirit of the music, what is beyond the notes and chords. - Heinz
Human words don't do justice to this absolutely magnificent universe of sounds.I am praying that I may get the tickets to 8th with Lorin Maazel in Duisburg, Germany on September 12, 2010. It's April now and tickets are already all gone... This will probably be one in a life time chance... I wouldn't even need a seat. Just a ground to set my feet on and wonder about the greatness of this undying composer and the spirit of creation that granted but a mortal the inspiration to put this in notes.
When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one. ~Gustav Mahler~
What a glorious performance! When Mahler hits that stupendous “Amen” cadence, and the organ comes thundering in on top of everything else that’s going on, I just lose it. I performed this back in high school and just lost it at that moment. Totally overwhelmed emotionally and just started crying. The plagal cadence got to me and when the organ came thundering in, I fell apart. I was also exhausted.
The joy the spirit, no greater has our universe ever sounded.
This and Adagietto from Mahler's 5th are just so beautiful! I wish more people my age would appreciate this kind of music!
I know this video for 2 years. Meanwhile I come back, may be, every other week. This ending (and especially this video with all the young musicians in it) has become a somewhat recreational fountain of peace and love for me.
I must cry every time. Tears of joy, I feel touched to the very core and I sense that I m alive.
This is it. There is hope for mankind!
Thank you Maestro Rattle, thank you so much Mahler, thanks to all the participants, thanks for uploading, and even thanks to that guy with white shirt behind rattle who seems to get an orgasm...:)
I too...
Every time I hear this tears drops from my eyes
This is glorious, best performance I've heard. Overwhelming, earth shattering, and uplifting. It truly is an emotional experience. I listen to this performance over and over again. A truly exalted work. I saw this when I was a teen as intended with a massive orchestra, double chorus, soloists. It really was transformative.
This makes me cry every time.
the suspense building when the choir starts to sing is so fantastic, it completes the whole piece.
BRAVO!!!!!!!!
Wow! I am not a big Mahler fan but this performance will make me one. This is the best performance of this section of Symphony no. 8 I have ever heard.
No matter how many times I listen to this, I am moved deeply - and very glad to be a musicician.
This is the kind of piece that makes me want to not listen to anything else for a while.
The soprano soloists are beautiful! Such control! It really does give more shine to a movement that absolutely glows!
Saw Mahler 8 in Toronto this week... actually thought I was going to have a heart attack at the end... most amazing, beautiful, epic performance I've ever seen!
There is so much spirited and emotional brass playing in this video. Amazing.
Please tell me you guys also hear that super duper extra low ass note being sung at 1:29!? You can hear it more with headphones on. It’s INSANE!
This is the first time I've heard it!
Scored for Tuvan throat singer 😁
That's a real basso profondo !
LOL! Yes I heard it the first time I listened to it and said WOW! That note does something sublime to that chord. I think this is the most incredible 5 minutes of symphony I have ever heard.
this may well be one of the greatest times in music history,making this video one of the elite videos on CZcams.superior yet human,unbelievable yet so kind.
magnificent in every single way.
If this glorious music is paying as I am dying, I will die happy. No words can describe such beauty.
P.M.
I had the pleasure to be conducted by Sir Rattle sometime last year. Such an expressive and wonderful maestro.
Magnificent! A whole landscape of harmonic colors and emotional weight, lifts you off the earth. Sublime. Elegant virtuosity from everybody.
i just got extreme goosebumps...amazing
The Philadelphia Orchestra did this last night and it was incredible. DVD's and CD's do this work no justice. 2000 People rose instantly and gave a 15 minute standing ovation. Not one dry eye in the building. I felt closer to heaven than ever before. Perhaps the greatest work written.
Everything is at its best here, the best rendition, ever!!!!
This is beyond beautiful
Gifted young musicians directed by the master himself......in a world of dross this gives real hope. Those responsible for cutbacks in musical education should be forced to watch this!! There are not enough superlatives to describe how good this is. Amazing!
I was very lucky to witness this being performed while on holiday in Berlin. It's rarely performed due to the sheer size of orchestra necessary.
All that passes away
Is only a likeness;
The inadequacy of earth
Here finds fulfilment;
The ineffable
Here is accomplished;
The eternal feminine
leads us up.
In your mind's eye...imagine the world bursting from within to applaud mans ascension to heaven!
When they begin to sing at 1.12 , I feel so touched then , it gives me goosebumps , it is like I'm somewhere else but in the room .. it is just such a wonderfull piece , no words can ever be enough to describe it .. no composer matches Mahler's music that is my opinion because mahler doesn't write music , he creates something bigger
One of the most impressing endings of a mucic peace ever. A huge orchestra and a huge chorus - this symphony is also known as "Sinfonie der Tausend" because of the number of singers and musicians taking part.
Haunts me day and night...beyond description...
For me, the music -- especially the Chorus Mysticus -- evokes first the scene of a stupendous debacle deep in the background: the utter, fiery ruin of all things harmful in the world. The "camera" then pulls back more and more to images in the foreground. The foreground images are given more and more attention until the columns of smoke that arise from the debacle have been forever lost to view. Now we see only the movement forward and upward of a great crowd of survivors, moving up a mountainside meadow towards divine light with healing rays for the survivors. The survivors are penitent and confident that with God's grace they will realize a new world, a paradise absent all harm.
Se pueden imaginar, yo canté en esa obra y ese final se siente glorioso una experiencia inolvidable. Lloré
Mahler........who can possibly describe how unbelievably astonishing his work is? This piece defines epic triumph!!!!
I dream with the day when humanity come together as one and accept each other regardless of our differences... that day we will all be great!!!
Malka yaron
me too. at least that's two of us
+Matthew Cannon you can hold hands and together change the world. And drive a pink van with flowery motives painted all over it.
lol that's nothing like faust
This is so utterly beautiful
Whenever I see youth, I anticipate a mediocre performance at best. And I've really always been right.
It was so amazing to be so completely wrong.
I can't believe this is a youth orchestra. Wow. Seattle Symphony is playing Mahler 8 next week. I'll be there. Can't wait.
Mahler's 8th leaves me speechless. I believe that this is only a glimpse of the music that awaits us.
Impressive. Sounds like magic.......
I'm with you there. This pice of music moves me every time I hear it. I heard it performed live in Chicago back in the early 90's with Eschenbach conducting. Everyone around me, including myself, wept uncontrollably at the climax. I think Mahler tapped into a profound part of the human soul with this music.
Bravo Maestro Rattle and NYOGB! For years I have been wedded to Tennstedt's interpretation and famous recording. But wow...I think this has the edge. I find it incredible that a youth orchestra has helped produce one of the best productions of one of the finest pieces of symphonic art yet written. Gustav Mahler was the master - and these young people know it!
Totally transcendently awesome beyond all belief! Thank you for posting this!
I made listen the ending of this symphony to my father seriously ill for years. He wept. He died 2 days later while asleep finally at peace with the world. I hope that it has believed in Paradise.
I cried the first time I heard this
Thank you Sinneo91. Your message makes me feel less alone. My late father was a great fan. He once said to me that the final movement of his 3rd Sym is the most beautiful piece of music that he had ever heard. That was actually quite a comment because he had a huge classical record collection on vinyl LP and reel-to-reel tape recordings. I am bending now a lot more towards his appraisal.
Thanks again for your response!
this made me realize that life is beautiful!! no matter what ;)
THIS IS SO FREAKING AWESOME
The heaven opens! WOW This is just grand!
Like same author's 1st Symphony "Titan", and ending of 2nd symphony "Resurrection", this is one of the best piece of music I've ever listened.
Congratulations Sir Simon!
I watched this splendid piece of Art several times!
Deep thanks! All the very best for all of you.
:) YAN AYRTON,ein junge klassikal komponist.
This piece gave me chills! bravo! bravo!
Oh dear god ... that was the most wonderful thing I have ever heard
Is it my imagination or is this interpretation and performance better than the NY Phil and the Vienna Phil???
Probably. The NYO are really fantastic. They are definitely one of the best orchestras that I have ever seen. I saw them this year after two consecutive nights of going to a LSO concert then to a Royal Liverpool Philharmonic concert and the NYO knocked both of them into a cocked hat!
+Mike Berman it seems that here everything fits perfect, there is not any dis-balance in sound, there is not any false note or wrong intonation, I think you are right. Despite some criticism Rattle is really a good conductor.
@@geoffthedonkey2295 Well--sure- but, to give the mature orchestras their due- the youth orchestra does have about three or four times the number of players than the other 'regular-size' orchestras do, so it's inevitable that the sheer weight of sound is going to be pretty overwhelming- and that sure doesn't hurt in this piece! But there is no denying their passionate commitment as well. And I keep coming back to these wonderful adolescents again and again and I am moved beyond words...
This is so much better. Simon has a brilliant sense for interpretating Mahler. Love that fast ending.
Ofc, this is played by an EUROPEAN orchestra
Seeing that these aren't old folk that will die, and the music with them, makes me feel better.
After listening to this...it's like you've been graced by God.
We are SO lucky that we live in a generation and time where we can experience this kind of thing... I don't even know what to call it... you can't call this music, its beyond that.
I agree completely. The invention of the Internet has allowed all of the beauty of classical music to be spread everywhere-and praise be to God for giving sublime composers like Gustav Mahler!
When i was only 8 years old, i sang this symphony , it was the very first time it was done in latinamerica: Teatro Teresa Carreño, Caracas, Venezuela. We were 1200 persons on stage, i'm not exagerating. It's one of the experience i cherish the most, and i can't help but crying everytime i listen to this inctedible piece of Life!
Rich ,Beautiful and Splended
The last time I heard this I was in front of the cathedral in Snatiago de Compostela, Spain along with thousands of others, spellbound. It was accompanied by an astounding firework display as part of the Noche de Santiago: illuminating that beautiful building with shards of brilliant light in all directions. Listening to this and just thinking about it is giving me goosebumps!
Music is the greatest gift God has given Mankind.
The ending of this piece is extraordinary. And kudos to Rattle and the NYOGB.
Christine Brewer (soprano) Magna Peccatrix
Soile Isokoski (soprano) Una Poenitentium
Juliane Banse (soprano) Mater Gloriosa
Birgit Remmert (mezzo) Mulier Samaritana
Jane Henschel (mezzo) Maria Aegyptiaca;
Jon Villars (tenor) Doctor Marianus
David Wilson-Johnson (baritone) Pater Ecstaticus
John Relyea (bass) Pater Profundus
Wow listen to this with your headphones in full blast during the last two minutes. It's amazing. Of course, I still want to hear this live!
Headphones are great, but my home sound system moves heaven and earth with this piece. It is UNBELIEVABLE!
I'm sure the floor of the entire building trembled at 5:39.
Reduces me to tears every time
In the early 90's I saw a performance of this symphony in Chicago with Christophe Eschenbach conducting. At the climax, I saw that everyone around me - women, men, middle-aged and old, were not simply crying, but openly weeping. It was the most moving experience of my life. I went again for the next evening's performance and it was the same thing. Mahler tapped into something transcendent here.
Every Mahler Symphony is an event not to be missed!