Mahler - Symphony No. 9 - Abbado - Lucerne Festival Orchestra 2010
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- Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.9
Claudio Abbado, conductor
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, 2010
0:00 - Opening
1:04 - 1. Andante comodo
28:10 - 2. Im tempo eines gemächlichen Ländlers. Etwas täppisch und sehr derb
44:00 - 3. Rondo-Burleske: Allegro assai. Sehr trotzig
56:55 - 4. Adagio: Sehr langsam und noch zurückhaltend
1:27:29 - Ending
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This anthem of total committment to true and pure love in the face of death is all that is best in humanity.
I was almost present. The concert was sold out and the heath inside the KKL Center was said to be unimaginable.
I had the pleasure to sit outside with my wife, on the grass lawn behind the Center, right at the beautiful Lake Lucerne, with thousand other fans, followig the concert from a gigantic screen in perfect audio. The silence outside was as intense as inside. And I don't nees to point out that the atmosphere was pure magic. Music and nature in one near pantheistic symbiosis.
Just curious, how much were the tickets and how fast were they sold out?
I don't even know! We got tickets from members of the orchestra, but it was too hot inside. And as mentioned, experiencing the event outside, behind the KKL Center, was an amazing experience!@balthazarnaylor5874
work in progress
1:25 start
1:40 theme 1
3:06 first dissonance
3:54 hot damn
4:10 triumph
4:24 return to theme
5:10 new concept, pleasant
6:20 contrarian
7:00 whoa
7:38 foreboding
8:38 clarificatio of bad intent
10:00 return to theme
10:52 new thing
11:20 escalation
12:50 uh oh
14:25 we won
14:35 nevermind
15:04 dark days ahead
16:40 maybe not
17:20 actually were kinda screwed
17:50 excellent french horn action
18:50 big moment
19:00 Falling down
19:15 In the hole
19:55 Diplomacy
20:35 Playing with the idea of theme
21:00 Return to theme, but ill
22:11 epiphone
22:50 everything soft
24:05 conflict
24:45 peace theme
28:20 2nd theme
29:20 Danger but its chill
30:50 taking action
32:25 callback
33:25 longing theme
34:00 huh
34:40 Organizing thoughts in second theme
35:00 catharsis
36:20 not a worry
36:40 maybe not
36:55 breezy
37:30 edging
37:55 return to second theme
38:55 oops
39:19 im big time
40:50 Triumph of the lambs
42:13 conflict makes me uncomfortable
42:45 quiet!
43:10 return to theme 2?
44:11 third movement
Lol love this
Yes! Thank you! 😂👏🏻
hilarious
Abbado held 2 minutes and 16 seconds of silence following the ending. The 8 minutes of applause would have gone on much longer had the orchestra not left the stage. A performance for the ages and one of Abbado's greatest!
for some reason i had a great deal of trouble hearing the last few minutes, either with headphones or speakers. but the maestro's whole being was almost as if written into the music. and the silence was...well lovely. followed by one of the very very few standing ovations--and it took some time for it to begin, and continue.
@@brucemiller5356😊
Kudos to the audience for not making a single cough or sneeze. Wish all concerts are like this!
A cough will always be in the audience 😂. I hear it most of the times
Once I attended a performance of this symphony at Walt Disney hall in LA, Gustavo Dudamel was conducting. In the last minutes of the finale, somebody in the lobby decided it's a good time to make a phone call. I think the whole audience could hear the talk.
@@Alexagrigorieff I hate people
to be fair, sometimes a cough or a sneeze can't be controlled, but they should always muffle down it as much as they can.
@@Alexagrigorieff now that's unexcusable behavior
It goes without saying that the ending and the silence that followed was one of the great moments in music history.
Does it?
@@pipster1891 you know who else goes through history as the biggest of a kind?
@@pipster1891 Yes
@@charmoka Yes
@@milesmelz8246 They both come from Austria?
Every moment of my life, when I'm terribly sad, joyful, just on a normal mood, I go back to this symphony's 4th movement and I cry like I never did before.
This is just one of a kind performance that will over survive all of us. Thank you Claudio Abbado.
I've been compulsively downloading to mp3 all those Abbado Mahler live performances because if they're taken down by youtube, I'll miss them greatly. This is perfection.
I cried as a little kid! I became another person after this. The beauty will save the world!!
I am new in Mahler compsositions, I just listened a part of it. it is incredible. For me the the music by Richard Strauss was life changing. Listen to his Alpine Symphony
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The fact that Abbado memorized this score and other Mahler Symphonies while also filling them with such passion is incredible. A truly remarkable feat of humankind. He was the living reincarnation of Mahler.
I think other conductors take that challenge too. Gustavo Dudamel conducts it without score, for example. It may be the common practice to conduct it by heart, and I don't mean simply from memory.
@@Alexagrigorieff completely right, and I respect them all. Just boggles my mind being some sort of simpleton
I saw Celibidache doing rehearsal by heart of Bruckners, knowing all numbers, letters, violin scores etc.. by heart. It
I doubt that there is, in the entire history of classical music performance, a more moving ending than that of Mahler’s 9th Symphony as performed by the Lucerne Festival Orchestra during one of its last concerts under its founder, the incomparable Claudio Abbado (d. 2014). By itself, the mystical ebbing away of those simple, forlorn melodic arcs that the violins extend into the encroaching silence is nothing less than a transformative experience. Yet what gives this transfiguration of sound an altogether magical, incomparable depth is the play of expression on Abbado’s face. Already marked by the cancer that by then he knew would soon take him away from this world, Abbado appears to be carried away, along with those last, searching notes sounded by the strings. When the last note has faded, the vast auditorium in Lucerne is transfixed by two full minutes of total silence. Kudos to the cameraman and editor, who chose to keep the focus squarely on Abbado’s face. Nothing could better visualize for us Mahler’s unprecedented realization of the transition from music (“Klang”) into ultimate silence than Abbado’s gaunt, aged face with its inward-looking expression. The audience, too, appears to have grasped the profundity of what was transpiring before them.
I could not have described the experience any better than you have. I am in total agreement with every word. There was only one Claudio.
I doubt that there is any greater comment in the entire CZcams than this one by Thomas Pfau here. A perfect analysis of Mahler 9 and Abbado. Thanks!
I recommend you check the 1980 and 1982 Karajan recording.
Perfectly written. Absolutely amazing moment to behold.
@@phamthanh4785 I know it well and truly admire it. It happens to be the only live recording by the BPO that Karajan approved for release.
Hail to Mahler for the depth of his heart, hail to Western civilization for having produced such divine music, hail to Abbado and for the orchestra for serving it so devotedly. This performance is for the ages.
And to people who wonder if zombies really exist: you have 109 brain-dead viewers who clicked it down...
It is emotionally devastating to realize that Mahler did not live to conduct this masterpiece. There is a great deal of marvelous music but nothing more wonderful than this. The silence at the end is a farewell to life as well as an ascension to the heavens. The greatness of the music makes the silence even more precious. I can only imagine how Claudio felt at that moment. It may well have been the culmination of his life's work. What an amazing experience in a world full of noise!
Imagine composing the one of the best symphonies of all time and never hearing it yourself. Tragedy, to say the least.
@@2905sid Imagine doing it 3 times! All three of his final symphonies were never performed in his life (Das Lied, 9 and 10). All three are mind-blowing compositions that stand tall as the greats of history and the composer never even heard them. Crazy
@@dfkfgjfg un compositor siempre escucha adentro de simismo lo que compone.
I was there in 2010. It was the high time of my musical journey. Nothing is comparable to this Mahler 9 live.
This music changed my life...
I am new in Mahler compsositions, I just listened a part of it. it is incredible. For me the the music by Richard Strauss was life changing. Listen to his Alpine Symphony
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That’s interesting Jesper, can I enquire as to how this music changed your life?
@@deltanovember1672 I live in a communist country, escaping here is my only dream... Everything is very ugly here, ethics are constantly declining and I harbor lots, lots of hate inside me... Music this beautiful and cigars are the only things in my life that make me happy for existing... It does freeze my hate for my own country.
Im not that jesper guy, sorry for replying you
@@mercy2409oh my God. Which country is it?
I often feel that Mahler’s Ninth is not so much a symphony as an entire universe. And the opening notes are like a door opening to that immense world that it contains, a world long lost to us in the 21st century. An orchestra I was in performed it, many years ago, and I did not listen to it again until very recently; it's not the commonest thing to program. The effort is all too taxing, somehow. But when I heard it again, here, all the sounds came back, across the many intervening years, the sonorities came flooding into my mind: the rising, the falling, the very hugeness of it all. And I cried, and cried again, like so many others; I just could not control myself. There are only a few composers where, sitting in the orchestra, one has this same sense of stunning immensity: Sibelius sometimes, maybe Brahms, Richard Strauss, a few others one might point to, depending on one’s tastes and emotional sensibilities. But Mahler’s Ninth is different, somehow much grander than all the others. It really is a work like no other, and this performance is the most bittersweet imaginable. It’s true that its effect is not like getting married, or having a child, or having a parent die, or having a friend or spouse die, or any of the momentous events of our lives (for those of you who scoff at comments to the effect “it changed my life”). But it does touch the soul in a mysterious way.
Mahler's 9th is its own category. Taken in isolation each movement would rank among the top symphonic compositions of all time - especially the 1st and 4th, but as a unified piece the symphony is absolutely transcendent. As Mahler said himself: "A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything."
This performance makes an extremely compelling case for awarding the title of Greatest Mahlerian Ever to Claudio Abbado. I'd implore him to rest in peace, but I rather hope he and Mahler have met, and are composing and conducting unimaginably greater works.
I wish, oh do I wish heaven were real so that I can see all the greatest musicians
I agree...I used to think it was Lenny- but no longer
@@misterb5073 - IMVHO, Lenny's general tendency was to conduct Lenny, with whatever musical resource happened to be lying around at the time.
@@nerowolfe736 I sort of agree with you insofar as lennys showmanship- but he did have a particular affinity for Mahler and lets not take away from some magnificent performances...Abbado is not the showman but when he does the last bars of the slow movement of the Mahler third, I literally sob, and this performance of the 9th is incomparable!
@@misterb5073 - This is a just assessment, and very reasonable. I certainly can't diminish Lenny's role in fully bringing out into the light what others had been excavating of Mahler. And, though I'm amazed by the 3rd of Andres Orozco-Estrada/Frankfurt, (as well as Boulez and, yes, Lenny), when push comes to shove, Abbado/Lucerne Festival is still my desert island 3rd, I think.
Life changing music. After playing or hearing it one becomes another person.
Well said....as I feel the same.
@@daveatlarge5030 Same here ;-)
Sadly not for everyone. Only for a happy few with a rich musical taste. The bulk of humanity 'dances' at the a-musical beat of the modern 'composers' of this day, the DJs.
yes I went sick , yes I had an opportunity to have a life, yes I should have.....
and also I was in absolutely no possible state to actually do any of this.....
I was a small 26 year old facing a bulldozing couple people over thirty in the prime of their physical and mental development....... they simply went right over me within a half hour or what and then I wa trashed........ and my education right iwth it btw
Life changing? That's a bit much -- but mood changing for sure.
2010 was the 150th anniversary of Mahler's birth, what a performance!
Now it is closer to his 160th!
L'estasi di quella maschera compunta rimarrà nella storia dell'arte mondiale. Il silenzio che si fa musica. Grazie maestro Claudio. Solo il silenzio può esprimere la gratitudine che le dobbiamo.
Grande, hai scritto una delle più belle frasi che abbaia mai sentito su questa interpretazione della 9 di Mahler che rimane la più alta e ben distaccata da tutte le altre.
After 2,5 minutes of impressive silence, people stand up for the orchestra. I know this means a big time compliment, as people living outside my country (The Netherlands) going to concerts usually stay seated when applauding and only stand up when the performance was really exceptional. Even the orchestra knows they were part of sheer magic, almost a once in a lifetime experience, as they congratulate each other on stage. Even when they finally leave the stage after no less than eight full minutes of applause, the crowd is still cheering. I love it that maestro Abbado takes the stage one final time when it is completely musician-free. In The Netherlands, we uphold such a rich and pompous Mahler-tradition thanks to the late maestro Willem Mengelberg - who befriended the composer - and the RCO - of which sound and performances the hugely picky Mahler approved of. I wish we would excercise such a mature and devote concert manner. Over the years I've seen Mahler 9 performed a couple of times in my local concert hall De Doelen in Rotterdam. The performances were always kinda brilliant, but the audience usually can't hold their horses for more than 5-10 seconds before embarking on a wildfire of cheering. They do that at every occasion, even when something simple like a Mozart symphony is played. Also half of the audience leaves before the cheering is done, I suppose to get their coats before queueing up or to not be late for public transportation or have car parking be cheap. When the conductor returns but 2-3 times at most and kindly but obligedly introduces some of the solo players from the symphony, no later than 2-4 minutes since the ending of the final piece, the crowd exits the hall. I'm always wondering how many leave the concert with their minds full of the mood and the music they heard.
When you are lucky to attend one of Abbado's last concerts with his local orchestra playing a Requiem-like finale you don't think of your coats or going back home. You realize that Home is what you feel in your heart.
Im from the Netherlands and go to many concerts and people almost always stand up🤔
most profound, emotional and transcendentional symphony in history of music fades out in the hands of the most profound Mahler-conductor. I am always speechless, deeply moved and in tears after the final movements ending, but Abbado´s version took the pure beauty of the score to another level of intimacy. I am completely overwhelmed yet shocked by this reading. That concert must have been the most memorable moment of the life for everyone in the audience.
Dirk Janßen: Beautiful comment, and I couldn’t agree more. The greatest symphony ever written.
Rehearsed, unnatural ending. The Korean guy is much better.
What's remarkable is there was not a single cough during that great moment, which goes to show every single person in that audience was so affected they didn't even have the anxiety of breaking it.
The best orchestra, the best conductor, the best composer. What more do you want?
Justin Bieber?
😳🤔🧐🤷♂️🥵😴😴😴👀👀👀👀
I would add: the best audience. So much respect...
Popcorn
@@charlesdelair61 100% the best audience. ZERO noise.
Something more about silence at the end... It was lucky moment (serendipity!) that first performance I ever heard of this masterpiece was exactly this conducted by Abbado in 2010. I was struck by fading away of last sound of strings, and that very slow transfiguration of sound to silence. And that meditative silence that continues as maestro slowly moves his right hand with stick to his bosom, and after that the same with his left... And that freezed, still moment that continues, like time no more existing... It was some years ago, but I still remember that moment and feeling of slowly dying away of everything, and that reminds me of what could be the real dying, a moment of quiet leaving, yielding, immersing in a big consolation, in God who is Love... I have trouble with putting this feeling in words, this experience of music I compare only to that when I first heard beginning of the second movement of Beethoven's 5th piano concerto, Adagio un poco mosso... And then I heard this symphony many times from than, and experience is always the same, yet every time more profound. And this morning, when I searched internet on this Mahler's mark "ersterbend" (“dying away”) at the end of score, I found something on Richard Nilsen's blog (richardnilsen.com/tag/ersterbend/). He writes about great music critic Dimitri Drobatschewsky, who said that "the highest experience he ever had in a concert hall was the Mahler Ninth conducted by Abbado in Amsterdam" in 1995. And continues: "As that last note hung in the ether and finally could be heard only in the mind’s ear, Dimitri said he was afraid the mood would be destroyed by the expected applause". That is exactly that astonishing moment when last note vanish, and "could be heard only in the mind’s ear"... Yes, that sound which continues to live "in the mind's ear", that is the moment when we must stay in quiet adoration, in moment which surpasses us, which surpasses our transience. And really, expected applause didn't come, that night in Amsterdam 1995, as it was in Luzern in 2010.
I read posts about that moment in which applause finally come at this performance, and that silence could last longer if someone in audience didn't start first to applaude... Someone could tell that this will be exaggeration to expect that this silence should last, but I perfectly could imagine the situation in which, after "the end" of this symphony (which does not exist, because of that sound which continues to live "in the mind's ear), audience stays in silence, and after some time in meditation, slowly starts to diverge, one by one, or in small groups, accidentally... As at the end of the Holy Mass, which this symphony, specially it's last movement, is comparable to, at the end of this music which depicts death, but is in the same time celebration of life, fulfillment of life, fullness of life.
Nevertheless, it is touching that at the end of this performance, there are musicians which marks the end of the event. After maestro Abbado retreat at what seems to be his last appearance at that concert, and while applause in the audience continues, musicians start to congratulate and greeting each other. That greetings, shaking hands, smiling, all that expressions of comradery between them, is in fact expression of celebration the life, life that streams between them, between all the participants, life that made possible all that what happened in hour and some thirty five minutes that evening. And life that continues to stream in us, who continues to participate in it every time and time again.
And finally, musicians starts to diverge and leave the stage. Audience continue to applaude, and maestro appearing in the top of the hall, waving to them, and than leaves through the door…
Maestro, rest in peace! I'm sure you now enjoy in company of Mahler and all the angels and our Heavenly Father, in the abundance of music, in the abundance of life!
I thought I was done tearing up until I read your comment and here I am once more..
Abbado also used to do a little "trick" in his performance of the finale. I have seen it happen in other performances of his and also this one: The lights on the stage get slowly dimmed down during the final minutes of the movement, so that the stage ends in a twilight, only slightly strong enough for the muscians to read their sheets. And then when the music dies away the whole venue is nearly dark. That helps to extend the silence at the end.
Wonderful explanation, Tomica. Many thanks
@@koronavarro8861 I'm very glad you like it! This silence with echoes of last sound was my obsession for quite a while...
@@Quotenwagnerianer Yes, I notice that in one another comment after I posted my comment. This dimming of light strucked me even more when I try to imagine combination of this with last wanishing sound... How I envy all people who could experience that live, in that and other performances!
Mahler creates such a perfect encapsulation of pure emotion and grief in the final movement that it feels simultaneously sacrilegious to clap right after it and trample on the emotion and sacrilegious not to clap at such a transcendent experience.
Finally the video is back - the gods decided that taking it down was too much of a sacrilege
There is only one God.
@@porkyminch5131 there is no god
@@porkyminch5131And it’s me.
Claudio Abado el amado, menos mal que el conductor más libre por como entendió la música, así como amaba a Mahler, Gustav Malher, como lo amamos y yo también lo amo, es la música del sentimiento, Malher abra que decir mucho más de ti de lo que hasta ahora se sabe, como de mi y el maravilloso conductor que ahora me regala esta lluvia de lágrimas tan hermosa como el amor, Abado tu sabes, un ole olisimo, no te has muerto todavía y no hay, ni abra suficientes gracias para agradecerte lo ! La música!.
❤😂🎉
Sometimes humans can do great things.
That section from 1:06:11 to 1:07:35 is my favorite part, especially because of that immense, larger-than-life eruption from those French horns! 😍😍 I just can't stop listening to it! Such an immense, raw, and emotionally charged build-up that never ceases to send chills down my entire spine. At 1:18:53, it sounds to me like someone resigning themselves to their fate. And finally, at 1:19:46, it seems representative of someone fully at peace and gradually drifting away. Personally, I think Mahler knew he was nearing the end. But even if he didn't, this was still one incredible "farewell" to the world! 👏🏽👏🏽
The passion from the co-concertmaster at 56:33 until the end of the 3rd movement is insane. Ive never seen an orchestral violinist move as much as that. Brings an extra layer of energy to the ending of the 3rd movement.
Einer der wundervollsten und großartigsten Dirigenten
✨✨Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)✨✨
✨ Symphony No. 9 *(1908-09)* ✨
0:01:13 I. Andante comodo
0:06:27 *Etwas frischer*
0:07:36 *Tempo I. Subito*
0:11:36 *Mit Wut. Allegro*
*risoluto [9]*
0:14:20 *Plötzlich langsamer* _(Das_
_Tempo so weit mäßigen,_
_als nötig)_
0:15:52 *Schattenhaft*
0:21:01 *Wie von Anfang*
0:22:49 *Plötzlich bedeutend*
*langsamer* _(Lento)_ *und leise*
_Misterioso_
0:24:42 *Schon ganz langsam*
0:28:21 II. Im tempo eines
gemächlichen Ländlers.
Etwas täppisch und
sehr derb
0:30:57 *Poco più mosso subito*
_(Tempo II.)_
0:33:33 *Tempo III.* _(Ländler, ganz_
_langsam)_
0:37:52 *Tempo I.* _(wie zu Anfang)_
0:44:09 III. Rondo - Burleske
*Allegro assai. Sehr trotzig.*
0:46:04 *L’istesso tempo*
0:47:20 *Sempre l’istesso tempo*
0:48:45 *L’istesso tempo*
0:50:16 *m. 347*
0:53:01 *Nicht eilen*
0:54:26 *Tempo I. subito*
0:56:24 *Presto*
0:57:03 IV. Adagio
*Sehr langsam und noch*
*züruckhaltend*
1:01:30 *Plötzlich wieder sehr*
*langsam* _(wie zu Anfang)_
*und etwas zögernd*
1:03:57 *Molto adagio subito*
1:07:37 *Wieder altes Tempo*
1:10:02 *Stets sehr gehalten*
1:12:11 *Fließender, doch*
*durchaus nicht eilend*
1:14:01 *Tempo I. Molto adagio*
_(Noch breiter als zu Anfang)_
1:19:46 *Adagissimo*
1:25:11 *Silence*
1:27:26 *Applause and Closing Credits*
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Claudio Abbado, conductor
*Lucerne Festival*
*Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre*
*Lucerne, Switzerland 🇨🇭 August 2010*
You will go to heaven!
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I would give anything to have been there in the audience. truly lucky individuals to have attended arguably the most amazing symphony ever performed.
So I just casually decided to listen to this for the first time yesterday. It was like, 9 PM.
I cried for 10 minutes straight and was physically shaking after the end.
Thanks for sharing 🙏 Mahler and Abbado - what a sensational combination!
Mahler will do that to many people
What a sensitive soul you are. The slow mvt of the 6th symphony does the same to me. This is art at its highest form
@@andrewsnow1933 it's really not up to anyone to say it. the andante is a transitional passage from the first mvt/scherzo to scherzo/finale, and the 9th's adagio is philosophical, its a world within itself with its own time. also it's normal for a person to cry after hearing such meaningful and rich music from one of the greatest symphonist of all time, so please be polite.
@@thejokingwizard , how on earth was MY comment impolite in light of how you tried to "educate me" . Get over yourself
I have no words to express the feelings the 9th evokes, only words from a music history enthusiast. This work is the culmination of a century of Romanticism, while pointing the way to a messy dissonant future. The journey that Beethoven began in the Eroica ends here with a whisper.
so it fucked me up, within a half hour....... and my life was basically done right there..........
I guess they realized but psssssssst..........
and years later it's easy as the more power ful ones to "rewrte" the story and state me as the asshole...... good job folks
I don't think it was Mahler who "pointed to a dissonant future". Where Mahler left off, nobody picked up to this day, the entire 20th century was pretty much wasted, just like Russia was wasted on communism, same (more or less) with architecture. Long story :-)
I love your comment, and I agree
@@JanPBtest I don´t agree, because the 20st century is so rich in diverse music, paintings, literature like hardly any one before. The problem for some might be that it seems that what we know about musical harmonies has come to an end, a climax in Wagner, Bruckner, Mahler that has never been surpassed. But something else always follows :-)
@Altonahh10 I think he means to the end of Romantic music. Mahler was pretty romanticism, but was also pretty modernism. His influence lead to the beginning of modernism.
C'est la symphonie testament de l'immense compositeur. Un de ses plus grands interprètes se l'est ici appropriée. Que tous les deux reposent en paix après nous avoir illuminés de leur génie !
To have been there in person for that two minute silence....
The 4th movement is heavy enough, but Abbado's expression at around 1:20:09 is an absolute punch in the gut.
Did angels ever walk on Earth? Yes. And the name of one of them is Gustav Mahler.
Had Mahler been an angel, he would never have searched so broadly or deeply for answers, and his music would never have been what we know it to be.
4:19 it's a very magic moment, bravo!
All the flailing limbs made me giggle
You are absolutely right, and I have always been affected by that marvelous cressendo
Exceptional, what a pleasure listening to Mahler conducted by Abbado. The entire Lucerne cycle is a gift.
This ending by Abbado and the LFO is the most profound ending in the history of the symphony. Nothing else is like it. Bravo!
I'm glad they scrolled the orchestra members' names at the end. The Lucerne Orchestra has been described as the most fantastic pickup band of all time. At 1:28:20 Abbado stood by snowy white-haired Hanns-Joachim Westphal, the Berlin Philharmonic's beloved principal second violinist for many years. Before I tracked down his name, I called him the Smiling Violinist because during especially beautiful passages, a beatific smile would flit across his face.
In my opinion, something amazing from this performance is how Abbado combined at the end of the symphony all the senses. As the last notes were sounding, the lights began to turn off slowly as a symbol of how the life vanishes as a farewell.
Mahler was the culmination of the symphonic tradition.
For me with his symphonic work the sound of a grand orchester continues the thinking of Beethoven's convincing creations in this manner perfectly.
The ending is so mystical it is beyond words; almost as if Abbado becomes Mahler looking toward the afterlife
Greater praise has been drawn below. Mahler was the greatest master of the Adagio and this was the best performance I've heard in my 68 years.
I would like to mention the fact that Abbado has conducted this enormous and exceptionally complex music without any partitura! It is an incredibly rare thing, even among the best conductors. This way, certainly, he could fully give himself to the music and the highest level of performance. That is also an incomparable thing that he was able to achieve such a long time of silence at the end of the symphony, hold the sphere around this powerful and cathartic opus.
He was such a huge and wonderful artist, a genuine genius, best of human with loving soul and spirit, who sacrificed his entire life to the best of classical music. Yes, he was my very favourite conductor. RIP.
The best conductors always conducted without score. At least when conducting their core repertoire.
Rattle, Abbado, Celibidache, Bernstein, Karajan, Kleiber.
Karajan always conducted without score, the others 90% of the time without.
Quotenwagnerianer ... but there is a huge difference to conduct a symphony of Mozart/ Beethoven or a late Mahler. Show me more conductors leading the orchestra without the score of THIS symphony, which is not a typical ‘repertoir’ - opus at all, rather much more longer and complex. Thanks
@@robertjschroff6307 he said something very important though: core repertoire. Mahler was Maestro Abaddo's field of expertise. Probably none of his colleagues and contemporaries have known this music better than him.
Thank you for introducing me to the Spanish word partitura, meaning a musical score.
Róbert János Schroff: Be sure to listen to the recently uploaded video with Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony. This was his last concert as Music Director of the BSO and is a shatteringly beautiful performance of the Mahler 9th. Video production is superb and audio is simply magnificent. And yes, Ozawa conducts without a score. He lives every note. Just watch.
From his obituary in the magazine 'the economist' here - www.economist.com/obituary/2014/02/01/claudio-abbado THERE was, said Claudio Abbado, a certain sound to snow. It did not come from walking on it. If you stood on a balcony, too, you could hear it. A falling sound, fading away to nothing, pianissimo, like a breath. You could hear it only if you listened to what some supposed was silence. " It also went on to mention that that pianissimo was similar to snow falling and landing. And you could hear it if you went out side and listened. And it is true. I never really thought of that until I read that and I realized that if you went outside on a quiet day, you could literally hear snow falling, and it's soft impact as it hit the ground. People are wrong. Snow doesn't fall silently. It has a slight sound., much like the beautiful end of this symphony.
He conducted this piece with such emotion, intensity, and serenity as if he is fully aware of his own impending mortality which, sadly, occurred on Jan. 20, 2014
Una interpretazione magistrale da parte del maestro contemporaneo più vicino alle tematiche mahleriane. Il 4° tempo raggiunge vette assolute. Orchestra di grande professionalità e partecipazione, su tutti i fiati. La pausa finale prima dell'apoteosi denuncia l'emozione provata dal pubblico nell'aver partecipato ad un evento unico e purtroppo irripetibile.
the 4th movement is just like when you are crying in depression. At first you feel depression surrounds you like water surrounds the drowning ones. As your thought progresses, those good memories, bad memories, despair, sorrow, all come together and turn your mind a mess. Then all for a sudden, your emotion breaks out, you finally can't help crying. But crying is also a effective way to relieve, after several minutes, the tide of sorrow calms down, and so do you. You are still sad, but at least, you accept the fact and carry on.
rip Mr. Abbado
I have recently been introduced to the brilliance of Mr. Claudio Abbado. I shall study his life and his work with passion.
Sat here and just watched the entire thing and completely lost track of time. When the lights went dim in the final movement it made me feel the emotions more. I wish I was there to applaud maestro Abbado.
"So soon to the grave? Must it be so soon? But I have so much more to do." This is the meaning I get from the final movement.
I love this symphony a lot!
Gustav Mahler is the Greatest composer ever! Maestro Abbado did an Brilliant job with this masterpiece!
Abbado's performance was the best I have heard.
And that silence was deafening.
Stark reminder that the music must end.
Truly grateful for the upload.
I think life without music is less life, and thé 9th Mahler's sinfonie conducted this time by the fantastic Claudio Abbado is the best proof.
I’ll never forget him conducting this at the 1994 BBC Proms in London - the silence at the end lasted for over a minute - an incredible experience
Love Mahler, Love Claudio Abbado ! mercifully ! 💙🎼💙❤️🎼❤️💫👏👏👏🌷🌷🌷
the appreciation of the audience moves me to tears
The prolonged and profound silence by all concerned after the final notes is extraordinary.
The respect for the meastro and Mahler is unparalleled here. I just went to the Bach Mass in B Minor in Boaron and after the glorious finale, Dona Nobis Pacem, the audience just started applauding and ruined the silence that was desired by the conductor.
EXTRAORDINARIA interpretación de la célebre Novena Sinfonía del compositor del Posromanticismo Gustav Mahler por la Orquesta de Lucerna dirigida por la batuta del GENIAL Maestro italiano Claudio Abbado. BRAVO !!! Saludos desde España.
@32:43 Abbado's arm movements and the violin line match so perfectly. And @4:20 (with his smile!) again aligned so perfectly. The way his left hand lifts @4:26 and the high A of the violins sound, it is visual art!
Silence is a part of the music.
nishi-t Johns ”music is nothing but the space in between the notes.” - Debussy
@@perblendulf which is probably the most misinterpreted and therefore misused quote ever
Hence 433
@@nakanoyuko what does that quote actually represent?
An absolutely Perfect performance. When Beauty becomes Life.
So deeply moving. Thank you. I am weeping - the beauty is overwhelming. I cannot imagine what the experience was to have been in the room, live.
The most gorgeous piece of music I've ever heard. My soul rejoices!
Movement 2 has awesome bassoon and contrabassoon in it
This long dramatic ending which seems for a minute like a pause, and than you get it's the end of it, really amazing how the audience waited without applause, seems like Abbado really feels this music from deep inside of his soul and heart, and he knows the meaning of it, the death of mahler himself. What a great symphony and what a great performance!
My God. It is as though Abbado was congnizant of his own impending death about 3 1/2 years later as Mahler was of his when he composed this farewell.
He's not conducting an orchestra, he's conduction an ocean.
This piece, throughout, manages both to heal and destroy one's mental state.
The number of different emotions that each movement stirs up is unbelievable. Each time also happens to be a different experience altogether.
Pour moi, la fin de cette symphonie représente un téléfilm que j'ai vu il y a très longtemps "La confusion des sentiments" adapté de Stefan Zweig avec Michel Piccoli et Pierre Malet. Le metteur en scène s'est très probablement inspiré de "Mort à Venise" avec la même histoire tragique et la musique de Mahler. Un énorme merci pour ces merveilles.
This performance is a treasure.
He truly captures the moment an what Gustave went through during his writing of the 9th symphony. It is the outmost delightful moment of human experience being summoned in one symphony.
I remember the first time I listened to this. It introduced my into a whole different world that brought me to tears
Such a gift to humanity...
Love this Symphony so much!! Love the one and the only Abbado version!!!❤️
85 segundos desde que para la batuta y aplaude el público.
Abbado was the master and nowhere is that more obvious than in his approach to Mahler. This performance is as masterful and moving as any that currently exist.
Absolutely transcendent experience!!!! Bravo ABBADO
Браво Малер! Браво дирижор Абадо и оркестр! Спасибо!
What other composer could pack so much emotion into so much silence?
He said:
"It was always something I had on the tip of my tongue"
Possibly the greatest movement of any symphony ever written
Stunning, visionary music and performance under Abbado.
Sin duda alguna una de las mejores interpretaciones de esta sinfonía... y, a titulo personal, la mejor sinfonía de Mahler y la que es de mi predilección... el Mtro. Claudio Abbado hace, en esta presentación de la Orquesta Festival de Lucerna una increíble y sublime interpretación de esta grandiosa sinfonía... mis lágrimas surgen al escuchar esta gran gran obra... y lo que hace en los últimos minutos del IV movimiento de obscurecer el escenario... pues... mas aun... Grandiosa obra de G. Mahler... Grandiosa dirección del Mtro. C. Abbado.
1:29:24 Benigni admiring Abbado/Mahler connection.
Es ist unbeschreiblich! Es versagen mir die Worte.
WOW!! It just tears your heart out!
My eyes are filled with tears.
Wow! What a show of well deserved respect for Abbado.
Meraviglioso Maestro Abbado!!
Can not express with words ......... thank you maestro for the music you recreated.
Best performance/recording I've heard. It MOVES!
rip Mr. Abbado. This music changed my life....
The adagio is Mahlers legacy to describe the relationship between death and life.This masterpiece in history of music is heartbumping and in the same time it forces you to think about the sense of life.
Mahler was the leader to put the developement of music into the 20th century.It took a very long time, that the people accepted the ninth, in opposite to his outstanding 8th synphony.
Abbados Iinterpretation is perfekt in every Part.
This is the performance that I treasure above all other Mahler 9ths.
Great!! the 4th movement is the most moving music I have ever heard !!...rises the most beautiful prayer...Sublime...
Abbado is just incredible. Greatest conductor ever
Abbado is by no means the greatest composer ever. He is "a" great composer