The genius of Bernstein was his ability to explain complex musical ideas into accessible language and at the same moment demonstrate his thought on the keyboard. He made understanding the classics available to everyone.

@CapoKabar

9 ай бұрын

I still feel like Salieri after listening

This is a trick Mahler used all the time: creating ambiguity by constantly shifting constantly between major and minor and leaving the listener uncertain where he would go next.

@wolfie71231

Жыл бұрын

Andante movement of his 6th symphony is another great example

@mahlerbartok

Жыл бұрын

Or Nachtmusik I from his 7th

@gerryansel9111

Жыл бұрын

Many composers did that.

@mahlerbartok

Жыл бұрын

@@gerryansel9111 ok

@allonszenfantsjones

6 ай бұрын

Ich bin der Welt

"We just melts away with the pleasure of fulfillment..."

That Bernstein can parse the technical structure of this piece and its emotional effect on the listener, while at the same time continuing to feel those same emotions, demonstrates the requirement for a great musician to play using both his head and his heart.

"We just melt away with the pleasure of fulfilment"......Maestro Bernstein at his sensual best.....!!

I could listen to Mr. B forever

Such a great musical mind he was

LB had and still has a major impact on my life. Not to mention all the in between ambiguities.

Although this was not particularly unique to Mahler as a composer for his time by any means. The opening bars of the second movement of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Sonata No.1 is perhaps even more tonally ambiguous.

There is a third possible chord interpretation for the two note arpeggio that is spread out over several octaves on the harp: An incomplete dominant C 13 chord - C is the root and A is the 13th. Mahler frequently used the dominant 13 chord in his cadences by having them resolve first to a dominant 7 chord and then followed by the tonic chord. The final cadence of the chorus in the last movement of Mahler's Resurrection Symphony No. 2 is but one example.

@inotmark

2 жыл бұрын

By the way, my question was concerning your assumptions about Lydian mode. You did not answer the question. Please respond to the question in the future. I will not respond to further episodes of throwing smoke into the wind.

@annakimborahpa

2 жыл бұрын

@@inotmark Please accept my apologies and Shalom Aleichem.

This is just wonderful. A smile throughout. Brillant.

I love The Unanswered Question

He’s the best teacher of music I’ve ever heard. Amazing. Anyone know if the entire lecture series is on KZread? Links? And any more of Bernstein lecturing?

@abrahanaeoa733

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/head/PLKiz0UZowP2V0mwtNv1lc1_zUSB2O65d7

This is so well analyzed!

To think this was just discussing the first few bars of the piece! Imagine speaking to him long enough to discuss the entire piece!?

For me - interested in the film and it's music - but not an expert in music at all a very insightful analysis.

One can talk about note structure and pick at the elements but when this piece is played, the feeliings one then gets from the sound of all that just cannot be annalised so i think it should be taken for what it is, and what it is, is a masterpiece of music

@douglashott9843

3 жыл бұрын

I agree and yet I love Bernstein explaining things at an intellectual level that I as a non-musician can appreciate and then listen and hear even more after his discussion than I ever was aware of. I love stepping back and only listening. I also love hearing Bernstein explain how I was manipulated, in a good sense, and I love the piece even more for that.

2 жыл бұрын

You miss the fact that a composer can't compose masterpieces of music without knowing structure and musical elements. It is the language they use, as a poet uses words and have to know well his idiom, his craft.

@SamTahbou

5 күн бұрын

Analysis is what helps us understand how someone helped you arrive at the feelings you're having. If you do not want to dig deep, that's fine; but for musicians, conductors and composers - that is literally their job.

AWESOME 👍👍👍❤️

brilliant

I personally find this piece haunting and threatening.

Bernstein is the best if humanity

We are home in F-major indeed.

....we're home in F major....

adagietto 5 mahler

Now we see why Lydia Tar so loved Lenny!

Mahler - Brucknerschüler u. a. - genial

Bernstein does not even play the opening phrase correctly. This talk is misleading and is about some other piece than Mahler's adagietto.

@TheShredworthy

4 жыл бұрын

I don't get your meaning, If you mean it's not verbatim a certain pianist's transcription, it's most likely Bernstein's working from a conductor's perspective. He would have a fundamental understanding from composer's likely intent. Sorry, I will work to understand you if you meant differently. I'd at least like to understand what you meant. Danke, aber ich versteht nicht. Ich brauche verstehen dein Absicht. Entschuldigung für die Verwirrung, oder mein schlechtes Deutsches.

@SarahJones-wy5us

4 жыл бұрын

What ?? is this statement a wind up??

@cgmahony

3 жыл бұрын

But surely he's talking harmony and just talking around aspects the piece. Are you saying he's talking about another piece. What piece is that?

@inotmark

3 жыл бұрын

@@cgmahony whatever piece it is is not the adagietto. the opening is not that hard to play on the piano, and makes use of hypolydian mode. I question whether he even gets that.

@inotmark

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheShredworthy look at the score. itt fits easily on the piano.