We need a “Most badass moments from each Mahler symphony” video! Anyone agree? Nice job with your videos! I always learn so much watching you!

@EElgar1857

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, and there are countless examples from which to choose! Just the 7th Symphony could keep you busy for days. 😁😅

@VincentGiza-Composer

2 жыл бұрын

@@EElgar1857 Absolutely!!! Mahler 2 is my personal favorite, and it has got a TON of badass moments!

@jackdennis9286

Жыл бұрын

@@VincentGiza-Composerthe col legno bit in movement 1 🤩

The finale of the second symphony is one of the most beautiful and breathtaking passages from any piece of music I've ever heard

@henricodeklerk3168

3 жыл бұрын

I was frozen with goosebumps when I first heard it...

@martijnspruit

3 жыл бұрын

Although quite difficult (because you've been silent for over an hour), it is also beautiful to sing in the choir.

@WolfgangXP65-67

3 жыл бұрын

What about the opening to the 5th movement? It starts you up RIGHT after the quiet 4th movement. Not only is it terrifyingly loud, but it's also a very LOOOONG intro. The low strings make a VAST run for it before everything goes downhill, or in this case, RIGHT UP to probably one of the loudest, strongest, most terrifying, and most gorgeous passages ever. The brass play an angry angry fanfare signifying the apocalypse, letting us know that he'll will be upon our lives. The runs on higher instruments go crazy and right after it dies down, the horn plays a stunning and shocking fanfare in the key of Ab. MY LORD is the whole passage gorgeous.

@henryalexander7325

2 жыл бұрын

I'm gonna be singing it in a couple hours for opening night with the Oregon symphony!!!

@TC.....

2 жыл бұрын

dont forget the 8th finale, or even the 3rd finale

Mahler approves of this! Great work my man!

@Richard.Atkinson

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Mahler! I'm honored to have you commenting on my video from beyond the grave!

@Mathi80

6 жыл бұрын

he may add from the grave: "as long as you don't neglect the other 4580 passages of most intense beauty that I crafted into these children of mine"

@vikli5966

4 жыл бұрын

Gustav Mahler Hi! I love your works

@GreenTeaViewer

4 жыл бұрын

@@vikli5966 that's not the real Mahler

@vikli5966

4 жыл бұрын

magicwheel1 yeah lol no shit he’s dead.

0:11 - Symphony #1 4:22 - Symphony #2 8:08 - Symphony #3 11:24 - Symphony #4 16:20 - Symphony #5 20:09 - Symphony #6 23:22 - Symphony #7 26:01 - Symphony #8 28:26 - Symphony #9

@jonyblum

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@Jimbarleyy

3 жыл бұрын

🙏🏻

@estel5335

3 жыл бұрын

Grazie ragazzo

@Richard.Atkinson

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this! I'll use these to create chapters.

@matteogenerani5097

2 жыл бұрын

@@Richard.Atkinson it’s an honor from you, I love your videos, keep doing what you are doing ❤️

The moment @ 14:23 was like literally being gracefully lifted into space to see its ever-wonderous expansion

the adagio of Mahler's sixth symphony is some of the most heart-braking and soul searching music ever written : a real gem !

I was introduced to Mahler as a teenager by a friend. Soon afterward I attended one of the premieres of his 10th by the Seattle Symphony. Why turn of the century romanticism speaks so strongly to me is the constant switching between brooding tragedy and glorious harmony always toying with my mind with out of this world dissonance. These ideas express my own life so closely. Like Bach, Mahler was constantly being compared to other great composers but as the highest paid conductor in the world is loved much more after his time. To me this is evidence his music was not only written for his time, but for our time and far into the future. He taught the great composers of our time how to write haunting and complex melodies with modern dissonance and wrote for the whole orchestra not shying away from innovation.

Its comforting to know that other people get the same intense enjoyment out of this music that I do. Those particular musical passages that you describe have the same effect on me.

I think I've deprived myself of Mahler far too long. I do thank you for your inspiration.

Mahler famously said that he was an outsider in Austria because he came from Bohemia, that he was an outsider in Germany because he was Austrian and that he was an outsider in the whole world because he was a Jew. And yet, and yet...truly he lives on for the whole world because of his wonderful, astonishing, life-giving music, of which there is enough for a lifetime of discovery.

I like that Mahler wrote the Urlicht for alto, not soprano.

@paulbadertscher

7 жыл бұрын

It helps, too, to have a voice like Anna Larsson's... those octaves...wow....

@kubyco

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, what a singer she is.

@shumandaniele

6 жыл бұрын

Amen

@conforzo

3 жыл бұрын

It makes it deeper, both musically and narratively.

Mahler wrote some of the very most beautiful music in history, according to my taste. I adore and venerate Mahler. Thanks to your analysis I got a glimpse into how this out-of-the-worldish wonder happens. Pure genius. Thank you so much.

@Richard.Atkinson

6 жыл бұрын

It's life-changing music!

Absolutely have to agree with Sym. 4. I still get gooseflesh every time I hear that section.

@Richard.Atkinson

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, it's possibly the most beautiful moment in any music...

@debradebello3732

7 жыл бұрын

Agreed! Richard, I sure wish I had had you as my professor in university; I would have gotten an A! :) Can't tell you how much I enjoyed your Mozart 41, 4th mvt. analysis - brought tears to my eyes. Even though I studied that movement in college and realized how special it is, your passion for the music and the color coding you added just brought to my eyes what I had largely experienced in my ears until then. Something about SEEING the thematic material change and combine throughout the duration of the movement was nothing short of wonderful, and lent more to my realization of the genius underlying it all. Thank you so much, and I hope to see even more in the future!

@Michel-eg9eh

4 ай бұрын

You're absolutely right in pointing out the similitude between that ethereal, hallucinatory passage in the first mvt of Mahler's 7th and the 3rd act of Götterdämmerung. I wouldn't have thought of that, not being enough of a wagnerian. But it should be mentioned that Mahler did conduct lots of operas, including Verdi's, if I'm not mistaken.

@uxnosidda

2 ай бұрын

best part of symph 4 will always be the last movement for me

I'm playing Mahler 4 with my orchestra at the moment and when you said "third movement" I was like absolutely my dude.

That horn solo at the very end of the 9th symphony is one that would drive me absolutely nuts in the bars leading up to it. Totally exposed, high risk/low reward and just making that perfect octave leap at the end of a very long and taxing evening of playing. So good when it's perfect like in this recording.

Showing the genius behind Mahler's magnificent works. Thank you.

Thank you , Mr. Atkinson , thank you ..... your work is pure devotion ...... for the most precious flowers blossoming in the most precious garden ..... you are a lover , Mr. Atkinson ..... a lover ...... and this is so important . God bless you .

What makes the modulation to D in the excerpt from the 4th symphony so special is the sudden addition of the low D in the double basses, this adds a whole new dimension of depth to the sound that makes the high ostinato even more amazing. Great video!

I've been listening to Mahler for over 50 years. It's hard to please everyone but your choices are as good as any. Nice, concise analysis with the color coding in the scores. Well done.

That brass chorale in the finale of the 3rd is just.......so beautiful

when i heared Mahler for my first time...i started to love my life! How ever your life sucks...you only need to to hear Mahlers 3rd...

Joy of reading the scores and of appreciating their embodiments by orchestra.

Richard, we listened to your “Mahler’s most beautiful passages” KZread post this evening to celebrate Mahler’s birthday (July 7). What a treat! Deede and I thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

"Most beautiful passages of each Mahler symphony" should just be the entirety of the Resurrection.

@balthazarnaylor5874

3 жыл бұрын

More like the entirety of the symphonies 1-9

Wow! Agree with you on ALL of them. Please keep doing this!

That part in the third symphony just make me cry. It’s so beautiful, the music at some parts cries itself.

Very well done! I especially appreciate that you show not only great moments, but how they grow from their contexts. Greetings from Lucerne.

What a wonderful job Richard- one of the most enjoyable videos I have ever seen on You Tube..I'm a Mahler lover so this really moved me and educated me. Thank you.

This is tremendous, thank you. Not only are your choices excellent, but you get into the why and the how. Very instructive for someone like me with only a little formal training, but a growing appreciation of this music.

I enjoyed that Richard, excellent work, well done.

Now you've done it. I now have to got back and get my CDs out and listen once again to his symphonies. Thank you. It's actually much appreciated.

Beautiful Choices from pieces of Mahler's Symfonies. It inspires me for my own music.Thank you Richard.

Time to go listen to some Mahler

Excellent analyses of this beautiful music by Mahler, Richard. Thanks for posting.

Wow this is the best KZread video ever

@Richard.Atkinson

6 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Bellissimo, stupendo, straordinaria analisi. Grazie di cuore Richard!

Breathtaking, glorious and wonderful .Not only is the music great but your analysis and visuals is wonderful. It , the written score gives you an idea of what conductor have to deal with. You have brought such beauty to my spirit particularly welcomed in the time of upheaval and covid. Thank you very much. I send you kisses and hugs of appreciation

If I had made this list I couldn’t have picked a favorite section. I would just play the whole 9 symphonies and say those are the best sections but amazing job

thank you for your sensibility! delicate, profound and brilliant!

Great analysis and presentation of music and scores. Will be listening to more Mahler from now on.

This was fantastic. Thank you for sharing this with all of us!

I’m relatively new to Mahler and obsessed with Symphony No. 2. This is significantly helpful as I go forward and listen more deeply. Thank-you.

Wonderful work, Richard. Thank you.

Thank you so much for this carefully researched and compiled presentation. I was totally absorbed for the duration. Will definitely watch more of your postings.

Thank you very much for this very interesting video. Terrific work!

I really appreciate and enjoy your presentations, Richard. I really enjoyed your analysis of the Bruckner 5th, and now your work on Mahler's symphonies here is just great. Great use of the scores, great camera work, and intelligent, insightful commentary. All this from a former music major and present listener and student of symphonic scores.

Great video. Having performed all of the Mahler symphonies, what Mahler does amazingly well is to sink into those time bending moments with his superlative orchestration and use of dynamics. He was really in tune with the gestalt of breathlessness and expansion.

Nice work Richard.! What a wonderful introduction into the sublime beauty of this great master's creations !

Hi Richard, Perfect selection. They match with my feelings. Thank you for this work!

Mahler 3's movement 1 has really beautiful moments as well.

How about the 10th? Even though it wasn't completed by him, it's too brilliant to be left unmentioned I think.

@dpbmss

3 жыл бұрын

He was nearly 75% or more there. 1st and 3rd complete with 2nd, 4th and 5th full of notes. The entire melodic lines are there and Dyrek Cooke's version is as close as we're likely to get to one of Mahler's greatest works. There's so much beauty in the 10th that it has now gained a rightful place in the repertoire including a solo piano version.

Great picks! I seriously get goosebumps listening to Mahler!

Very many thanks, Richard! I read music the way a halting 8-yr old reads text. I can follow a single - double, on a good day - line. Your calling out the sections instrument by instrument, by theme, is extremely helpful. At least my eyes and your colors agree as to where I am, so it's working! Next stop - Bruckner?!

@Richard.Atkinson

6 жыл бұрын

Stay tuned. I've been working on-and-off on an extended video analysis of the monumental fugal finale of his 5th for many months. In the meantime, I do have a short video on his 7th: kzread.info/dash/bejne/rINq1LaNZafYYdI.html

Just a personal note of my favorite parts 13:58 Symphony 4 16:40 Symphony 5 27:57 Symphony 8

thank you for this moments of pure beauty

I LOVE IT! Thanks, Richard!

Thank you for this video. Mahler composed so, so much great parts in his symphonies but you managed to chose very interesting and good parts on them.

To me, you've chosen precisely those places that most cut to the soul in these works. When I heard the passage in the 1st, I thought, yes, that's what Mahler is all about...and going all the way through to that incredibly moving passage in the 9th. Just a wonderful video.

Many thanks for your fine taste and wonderful presentation!

Thank you so much for your offering of these passages. I agree with many, although it would be wonderful to see another offering on the most exciting passages in each of the 9 symphonies--of which there are many. Thanks again.

@Richard.Atkinson

6 жыл бұрын

I was already planning to do this before you suggested it! Stay tuned...

Just what I needed. Mahler! By heart: The cello-passage of second mouvement of the fifth, . Also sublime! Etc.. Thanks a lot for the excellent presentation.

This is great! Thanks for compiling these.

Thank you for this musical analysis work. Merci pour ce travail d'analyse musicale

Excellent analysis and awesome channel, I'm glad I found it!

You have inserted sublime moments. In Mahler's music, sublimity and banality (volute) coexist. These two aspects are met happily in Mahler. I love ALL MAHLER

Learnt something new from your point of view. Thank you ❤❤.

Thank you so much for this. As a Mahler lover you have added an extra dimension to his music. I play the viola and it's wonderful to see the tonalities , visualy as well. Thank you

Thank you for your hard work, it makes me want to discover his music.

Great fantastic!!! many thanks for this video I agree with you, very good selection

Fantastic video! Thank you so much for that!

Great job and technical analysis. Personally, I fell in love with Mahler's music through the dark and chaotic side of it. Maybe that's the reason why the 6th's Finale it's my favourite piece of music ever written. Anyways, I hope you consider doing a second part called 'The most colossal passages of each Mahler Symphony'. It'd be great :)

@Richard.Atkinson

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you! That is already on my list of videos to make! Until I do, you might be interested in my list of Mahler symphony movements from greatest to least-great. The finale of the 6th is also first place on my list! richardatkinsononmusic.blogspot.com/2013/02/mahler-symphony-movements-from-greatest.html

@offyougonow1007

6 жыл бұрын

There are so many majestic passages in Mahler's music! -And aside from his glorious adagio movements, he composed the most gorgeous finales I've ever heard, bar none! Is it any wonder that Mahler concerts are still sold out, and that there's SRO (Standing Room Only) at those with a decent orchestra, conductor, and chorus (provided the symphony being performed calls for a chorus).

@dmitrishostakovich2822

6 жыл бұрын

maybe not "the most colossal" - that's could become too superficial ... maybe "the most breathtaking"

@kevinwingfield2007

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for all this. I have to be careful of my own emotional stability when exposed to such powerful music as this. The 6th passage you deal with is so tragic and hurt, it has all the pain of humanity in it. I can't take it unprepared these days. Bruno Walter wouldn't conduct the sixth, he felt it too suffused with despair, if I have it right. Also the Chorale early in the 4th Movement of the Ninth, that has to be a contender, don't you think. Thanks so much for giving us this analysis. Mahler had the measure of the 20th century all right.

@oleflogger6828

4 жыл бұрын

I first heard his 1st Symphony in the late 50s on a "free" record my Mom got for grocery shopping at the Grand Union Supermarket in Farmingdale, NY. I was captivated immediately. I didn't hear his 2nd or 3rd symphonies until decades later, in the late 80s in Berkeley, CA at Tower Records. "Hey, what's that playing? I hear it a lot these days." "Sir, that's Mahler's 2nd Symphony". Ahhhhhhh, I should have known. Now, I have multiple copies of ALL of his symphonies, and, Wesendonck Lieder (Ann Evans' at the 1994 Proms).

Yes, I agree, but also the first part of the sixth movement of Symphony 3. In fact, the whole sixth movement.

Thank you for this splendid presentation.

@Richard.Atkinson

6 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Outstanding analysis and great work Richard!!

The brass repeating that whole theme played by the strings in the opening from the Langsam movement of the 3rd is just stunning. Maybe my favorite Mahler moment of them all. Great compilation.

There are two passages in the finale of the 6th that I find incredibly beautiful: the first is the transition and the first couple of measures into figure 132; the second is the is the 16 measure chorale at figure 161, with Mahler giving such beautiful and lucious chorda through our the lower strings and brass. Loved the video, especially the passages that you showed from the 3rd and the 9th symphonies!

Master orchestrater .. magically musical .. brass chorales.. Thanks for this ..

I saw Mahler's 4th a few nights ago with the New York Phil. The ending of that 3rd movement never fails to bring goosebumps.

@Richard.Atkinson

5 ай бұрын

Stay tuned for one of my next timpani/bass drum videos, that will talk about that moment again (for the 3rd time on my channel!).

the 6th mov. of mahlers 3rd is absolutely exquisite honestly from where you said until the end is gorgeous and as a horn player i love the solo horn playing a pp high Bb it just sits over the orchestra recurring multiple times till the end just beautiful

Wow, I got my degree in music and really miss listening to Mahler. Think I will do some later.

Wonderful... thank you for this excellent and instructive video. Really appreciated.

Thank you so much for making these videos. I can only imagine the work that goes into doing this kind of analysis!

@Richard.Atkinson

5 жыл бұрын

It's definitely quite a bit... that's why my videos aren't as frequent as those of some other KZreadrs.

Excellent video. Need to spend more time with Mahler 7 and 9.

vielen herzlichen dank fuer die ermutigung...Sie haben uns jene schoenen Momente so praezis artikuliert.. Ich denk Sie sind wahrhaftig ein Mahlerkenner. Many thanks to you for leading us close to the beautiful moments in Mahler's work.. You do know Mahler.

It took many hearings of Mahler 1 to grasp that that expanded romance in the last movement is only briefly hinted at in the opening of the 1rst movement as a little seed in winds. Realizing this made that Mahler 1 last movement romance all the more impressive.

Excellent analysis and discussion Richard!

Getting into Mahler can be daunting. Thank you for making this video, Richard

Thank you for this! As a great lover of Mahlers music for more than 40 years, I mostly agree with your chooses.

Thank you so much for such inspiration.

I actually listened to Mahler's 8th for the first time earlier today. It's hard for me to listen to long pieces of music without spacing out a bit, but I can tell you that I very much remember the moment you talked about. The dynamic that the chorus enters in is perfect. It's so quiet, and so beautiful. I am glad I came across this video today. Perhaps, with time and practice, I'll be able to sit down and listen to an entire 1-2 hour piece of music without spacing out. Like I said though, you chose the perfect passage for the 8th.

As soon as I saw the title of this video, I thought of the passage you selected from his 6th symphony. Yay!

I used to have a set of the Groves Encyclopedia, circa 1950's. It was interesting to read the entry for Mahler and how, at that time, there was no consensus as to the strong value of his works. We are so lucky to have relatively easy access to so much music. I hope that Mahler is again discovered by future generations. The existence of so many U.S. symphony orchestras depends upon it.

Thanks a lot for sharing this with us. It must have been a tremendous lot of work to analyse all this in such detail. I share your admiration for this wonderful music.

@Richard.Atkinson

6 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! It was a lot of work, but I enjoy doing it!

Color coded analysis saved my life. Thanks

Thankyou for this video!!! Im only 2 symphonies in and im already adding pieces to my favorite list xD

Wonderful, Richard. Thank you.

Yup, you pretty much nailed what I would consider the most beautiful parts of each symphony. Personally I adore the actual ending of the first movement of the 3rd, but that's more of a triumphant moment rather than straight-up beautiful. For what it's worth, that last bit of your selection from the 9th, with the repeated turn with the celli, bassoon, and horn, is among my favorite 30 seconds of music in the entire classical repertoire. It's such a beautiful, serene, and simple moment and moves me to tears nearly every time I hear it.

Brilliant Richard!!! Many thanks.

I am always in awe of your remarkable musical knowledge, wisdom, precise theory, history, and forth...But in this wondrous presentation, you brought my awe to a zenith as your brilliant musicianship is quite paralled with your amazing taste of true humanistically beautiful celestial music..... Once anew, all of my thanks, Mr. Atkinson - for sharing your brilliance and remarkable soul with us all....

I have never listened to the 4th without crying