Love this performance! Impeccably performed by this legendary orchestra and the late Kurt Mazur. To me this symphony evokes beauty, sweetness and sadness, along with a feeling of hope. Hearing it tonight was a welcome and needed oasis of calm peace, after all the challenges that 2020 has brought.
@lemenyves343 жыл бұрын
Masur was just a great man. Look at the way he smiles.
@tortysoft3 жыл бұрын
So good to have such a great performance saved for ever. RIP,
@sabinewipfler40535 жыл бұрын
Das ist Folter mit der Werbung zwischen den Sätzen!!! So eine wunderbare Interpretation! Danke!!
@alan19638 жыл бұрын
Maestro Kurt Mazur, you are truly a legendary conductor and we sure gonna miss you. You will always being taking care of by Herbert von Karajan, Sir Georg Solti, Erich & Carlos Kleiber, Leonard Bernstein & Lorin Maazel upstairs in heaven, along with greatest composers like Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, Tchaikovsky & Mahler. May he rest in peace. Amen.
@kasha19327 жыл бұрын
What a GREAT man Conductor Masur was!! Great as a musician and Great as a leader in his country! He is doing such a fine job here that I cannot find words that would be special enough to describe this very, very man! This orchestra is superb!! Thank you! Than You You Tube!
@romanitza243 жыл бұрын
Brahms is my favourite composer, still the second symphony was the only one I couldn't quite "get"or "feel". For me it just would not sound like the "Brahms" I knew and so much liked. The first time this impression changed, was with a rendition by Bernstein and now this... What a jewel is this, such clarity! You can hear all instruments, each one in perfection, all melodies and shades! What a conductor and incredible musicians! I can almost say that, in this interpretation, this symphony could even get to be my favourite (although is hard to pick when you have the 3rd and the 4th, but would be inline with them, each one in their own right, this is about a symphony I would normally not listen much. Kurt Mazur understood it well, for sure. It does sound like Brahms to me now :)) ).
@petardundjerski22454 жыл бұрын
What a royalty, what an incredible group of musicians. Thank you for posting.
@itamarferreiradecarvalho4874 жыл бұрын
Adoro Kurt Masur. Grande maestro! Adoro Brahms!!! Excelente programa!!! 😊
@gabrielepresby91205 жыл бұрын
Nur schön. Morgen Abend darf ich diese Musik live hören, gespielt vom Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. Ich freue mich sehr darauf.
@suesmith21838 жыл бұрын
There's such an underlying sadness to this great great symphony - generally regarded as the most 'happy' of all the Brahms four symphonies. And this orchestra!! Have heard them three times now - twice in Musikverein, Vienna and once in their home - the Leipzig Gewandhaus. Maestro Mazur you are much missed. So many wonderful conductors have left us: Maazel, Kleiber, Solti, Tennstedt, Bernstein, Abbado...a long list.
@Khayyam-vg9fw4 жыл бұрын
I agree. I've never seen this symphony as particularly "happy". Brahms was a very serious composer!
@frankeffenberger96983 жыл бұрын
I have always thought of this symphony as autumnal in character.
@Bielostotsky8 жыл бұрын
R.I.P. Maestro
@keithramsell99553 жыл бұрын
BRAHMS: absolute master of the hemiola!!! Every example gets me, every time!
@stefanufer6083 жыл бұрын
A very fine performance - warmly lyrical and free of gimmicks. A worthy tribute to an underrated maestro.
@TheVaccumtube8 жыл бұрын
Mazur have special attachment to Brahms 2, his best performance I yet discovered recently. Warm rendition of melody lines throughout, fervent, enthusiastic finale. Brilliant performance worth praising at last years of his life.
@strathbrock7 жыл бұрын
I had the great privilege of seeing and hearing Masur conducting the Gewandhausorchester in a brilliant Bach programme in Edinburgh's Usher Hall many years ago. It was wonderful.
@teddycoleman72598 жыл бұрын
Rest peacefully, maestro.
@ruigodway16 жыл бұрын
não está descansando; está regente junto a muitos na eternidade !!
@zinam57954 жыл бұрын
RIP GREAT Musician --Conductor ! Bravo Gevandhaus--orchestra !
@JamesDean-ow7qo8 жыл бұрын
I saw him in Paris direct the Orchestre National de France in Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 (Beethoven). We praise you.
@Cherubini478 жыл бұрын
Great performance,great orchestra,and great maestro.yet,my favourite remains Carlos Kleiber's with Vienna philharmonic.
@tahutoa2 жыл бұрын
2:56 this passage just kicks too much ass. Such a great arrangement to introduce the motif with. 15:16 this part is also cool and jaunty. Very good coda for ending the 1st movement.
@giginorman19552 жыл бұрын
Totally beautiful. Thank you Masur.
@yamashitasaitama8 жыл бұрын
Listened this after a long time. This clarified my heart!
A genius for emotional interpretation regarding Brahms!
@zinam57954 жыл бұрын
Great Johannes's symphony--great conductor & orchestra....RIP MAESTRO!
@wingcheng8508 жыл бұрын
R.I.P. Maestro. You are one of my beloved conductors, forever!
@hermannbuerger97488 жыл бұрын
Hermann Buerger His soul and spirit will be forever present. RIP
@benjamincuevaseninde7 жыл бұрын
-- Les Symphonies de Brahms provoquent un torrent d'images. Une musique très expressive, pittoresque. --
@waynepiano8 жыл бұрын
R.I.P. Maestro Kurt Masur. Another classical legend gone in person, but not in legacy.
@Fernando88618 жыл бұрын
Bela interpretação. Parabéns sr Kurt e seus comandados.
@רומןצם-מ1ו6 жыл бұрын
Great great great conductor! RIP Kurt Mazur!!!!
@billinrio7 жыл бұрын
An astounding performace and wonderful HD video quality. Masur seems here to be completely at home - in contrast to New York where, with the Philharmonic, one didn't feel the same empathy between him and the orchestra. Interesting how things can lodge in one's mind: I can never hear that wonderful melody in the first movement without recalling a taping of a rehearsal by Bruno Walter in which, upon approaching that moment he shouts to the orchestra, "Sing ! "
@kianchua78687 жыл бұрын
Kurt masur and Sarah Chang performance
@doraeven43367 жыл бұрын
kian chua
@pauldoerflingerMarcoPolo19475 жыл бұрын
Certainement le compositeur le plus complet Johannesburg Brahms et ...Kurt Masur un chef d’orchestre tellement regretté ! Il était un très très grand chef et si humain dans ses comportements !
@LeighHughesSenlis4 жыл бұрын
Ah, Brahms was South African!
@fonsecorona4 жыл бұрын
@@LeighHughesSenlis 🙂 I'm pretty sure that was a capricious blunder from his freaking phone's text editor... 😅 In other words, a unchecked stupid typo that his phone (probably like mine) persisted on sticking to in the and...it's happened to me so many times.. 😠😎
@barbfrmsf8 жыл бұрын
may he rest in peace thanks for sharing your talent with us.
@christophernunn943 Жыл бұрын
First class performance by everyone. Fantastic sound quality for a church must have been a nightmare setting up the sound system.
@Claude1Rochon4 жыл бұрын
slow. sure. explicit. intensely soft. a relaxed painting. all in your ears. so many pictures . . . they seem to have wings. peacefully revolute and arched towards love. and then. . . majestic and universe all .
@jinnymudlark18156 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting. Beautiful.
@MrMarcoPonton3 жыл бұрын
Kurt Masur, QED, fue la propia encarnación de Johannes Brahms, un director a veces áspero, duro, a veces dulce, soñador, las partituras guardadas en su memoria, le permitían adelantarse y señalar con precisión el instrumento que iba a continuación, impecable presentación.
@bertcarter61768 жыл бұрын
Beautiful performance.
@ddbbel56547 жыл бұрын
yes, for this master piece. this is the best on KZbin so far
@DavidWDNO5 жыл бұрын
it is a good one indeed, but try a rendition by Carlos Kleiber's with Vienna Boys & see/hear for yourself. You `re welcome)
@bronxboy478 жыл бұрын
Straight to the heart of the matter.
@tronduick70288 жыл бұрын
+Bronxboy47 Your comment is exactly right. Nobody ever better to take something this magic and this abstract and make it breathingly transparent. Rest in Peace Maestro Masur and know that you are beloved and sadly missed. You have made my life richer for a long time.
@urmorph8 жыл бұрын
A timely performance of a timeless piece. Thanks for posting.
@gyeonghochoi7103 ай бұрын
Ich denke, Kurt Masur die Brahms-Symphonie am besten repräsentiert.
@alfredoechevarrieta75124 жыл бұрын
Gracias Maestro !. Y de pie me sumo a los aplausos.
@gyeonghochoi7103 ай бұрын
GREAT! Maestro Kurt Mazur,
@maxinedunnett8353 Жыл бұрын
Such wonderful acoustics orchestra so completely in sinc ❤
@felixp76 жыл бұрын
a wonderful performance. you can see the smiles on the performer's faces at times. they are really enjoying it!
@ceglakos9 жыл бұрын
@TroglodyteDiner3 жыл бұрын
The first time I saw Gewandhaus was in Carnegie Hall and the opening number of the program was the Egmont Overture. They were probably the 1st European orchestra I heard live, and the warmth of the sound just melted me! With the possible exception of Cleveland, I've never heard an American orchestra that could capture that sound.
@Kegeljan6 жыл бұрын
Des sonorités somptueuses pour "la symphonie des valses" et un bel hommage au grand Maître de Leipzig.
@lucapop35712 жыл бұрын
26:34 Yes!!! No rit. in the original score!
@miguelgondi38436 жыл бұрын
KURT MAZUR EXCELENTE DIRECTOR Y GRAN MUSICO,,,,,QUE DIOS LO TENGA EN LA GLORIA.......
@rafaelhevia88 жыл бұрын
Requiescat in pace, el Maestro que ha legado a la humanidad, tan buenos registros.
@frereM8 жыл бұрын
+Rafael Hevia Amen.
@maxinedunnett8353 Жыл бұрын
Love the flute !
@kolnidrei46238 жыл бұрын
So schöne Musik
@keithramsell99553 жыл бұрын
March 1951: I was awarded a Violin scholarship to the London College of Music. Later I asked what it was made them select me? "Don't worry lad" was the reply. "You got it when you put the G major Sonata on the stand!".
@keithramsell99552 жыл бұрын
BRAHMS G major Sonata, of course.
@kolnidrei46238 жыл бұрын
Il y a des moments qui font frémir dans cette musique ...
@bomcabedal Жыл бұрын
I must honestly confess I didn't like, or get, a lot of what Masur did. His Mendelssohn and Schumann were weirdly dispassionate, and his Tchaikovsky didn't work at all for me. But when he was on the mark in "his" repertory, he was legendary. The Brahms are all on fire, and his Bruch 2nd Symphony is and will probably always be the reference recording of the work.
@javiervivanco9198 жыл бұрын
Para mí su mejor sinfonía.
@LalehanLale7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for uploading and RIP Masur dear...
@lynton096 жыл бұрын
R.I.P. Kurt Masur. Legend.
@mierea_ursului_prisacii63322 жыл бұрын
Wonderful!
@pauldoerflingerMarcoPolo19475 жыл бұрын
Johannes! Bien évidemment, les correcteurs automatiques de nos instruments nous jouant des tours !
@GrandMasterIsaac6 жыл бұрын
This is a very delightful trip on LSD. I bid you all good day.
@brianstephens49725 жыл бұрын
GrandMasterIsaac 😂😂😂
@Desireyso588 жыл бұрын
Adios Maestro!!!
@kaptaintrips6 жыл бұрын
Happy Birthday, OG maestro.
@droryang8 жыл бұрын
R.I.P Master
@oscarxu14012 жыл бұрын
Horns: 17:46
@Rwsegee3 жыл бұрын
SO much drama Love it !
@herrbrahms3 жыл бұрын
I'm a big fan of Masur's but really wish he had taken the first movement repeat.
@pedroluisruizsarmiento63316 жыл бұрын
Me encanta gracias
@HYEONSOUKIM7 жыл бұрын
Happy with a great interpreter & Maestro Masur!!!
@ebertcalaca61768 жыл бұрын
R.I.P
@foveauxbear6 жыл бұрын
Such a beautiful work, shame Masur could never smile, he always looked grumpy.
@davidgoldin57596 жыл бұрын
Kurt Masur was a superb conductor, a wonderful man, and his expression when conducting is beatific.
@fonsecorona4 жыл бұрын
13:46...Ese man en el French horn sí que se lució ahí...Es uno de los instrumentos más jodidos de tocar..el hombre es un maestro... 👏
@SalvadorFernandezLUQUE8 жыл бұрын
Fantastica
@TheJamesalden8 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU!!!....
@Musicforever30007 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot !
@jlkramer68315 жыл бұрын
Yes
@АлександрБуянов-л7в9 жыл бұрын
Alle deutschen Orchesterklarinettisten gebrauchen keine Instrumente Böhmschen Systems. Woran liegt es? Wer weiß Bescheid darüber?
@СтМе8 жыл бұрын
+Александр Буянов In Deutschland und Österreich ist das "Oehler-System" (auch "deutsches System" genannt) am weitesten verbreitet, während im Rest der Welt überwiegend das "Böhm-System" zum Einsatz kommt. Woran es liegt? Das ist historisch gewachsen. Und natürlich behauptet jeder, "sein" System wäre das bessere ... ;) Mehr Infos: www.die-klarinetten.de/content/deutsch/deutsch-vs-boehm.html
@TimAndyMik9 жыл бұрын
Quite a homecoming for Kurt no doubt....nice!
@편안한삶-e7b6 жыл бұрын
2:57
@TheJamesalden8 жыл бұрын
1st movement begins @00:39
@ceciliabarreira83914 жыл бұрын
Sublime
@LTDANMAN446 жыл бұрын
google doodle sent me here. this is great!! 07.17.2018
@Polymath-xh2pt6 жыл бұрын
Such a paradise performance place... full of fantasy
@javiervivanco9198 жыл бұрын
Recuerdo la (para mí) la mejor 9na de schubert fué con masur
@danieldekok69494 жыл бұрын
and ya couldn't even show the trombones on that last chord...beautiful performance though.
@vincenzomartinisi1833 жыл бұрын
❤️
@jorgealbertobaron26 жыл бұрын
185 AÑOS DE NACIDO EN 2018 DICE JORGE ALBERTO BARON
@dingoflim62489 жыл бұрын
Cellos at 2:50... Goosebumps.
@dabedwards7 жыл бұрын
Ah yes! One of the finest melodies ever written by Brahms, or anyone else for that matter. It's sometimes said a "good tune" is the enemy of symphonic development, but Brahms proves them wrong with the many related melodic ideas in this movement, which are gorgeous as "stand-alone" tunes but fuse together to form a magnificent whole. And what a great performance too, avoiding that "muddiness" of sound which can spoil Brahms (the result of poor playing or poor acoustics).
@fonsecorona4 жыл бұрын
That's Brahms in a nutshell..he'll give you the most outstanding beautiful, brief and stand-alone tunes that'll make you remember the big piece undoubtedly by hearing his so many uniquely phrased passages like this one, be it in his symphonies or his piano concerti..or any composition...His violin concerto is a great example to this too..
@fonsecorona4 жыл бұрын
@@dabedwards That's why you need to listen to this through a good sound equipment..Otherwise, it's not even worthy.. 😎
@zojapetkovamarkovic89638 жыл бұрын
Neka mu e vecna Slava!
@CynthiaAMartz8 жыл бұрын
The best. I enjoyed this.
@Eddie-ho1pd8 жыл бұрын
RIP
@jorgealbertobaron17 жыл бұрын
120 AÑOS DE FALLECIDO EN 2017 CUMPLE BRAHMS DICE JORGE ALBERTO BARON
@olgasurneva40423 жыл бұрын
Какой великолепный зал! Звук и Брамс! Ода жизни!
@alejandrosotomartin97203 жыл бұрын
The concerto consisted in both Overture Egmont and the 2nd of Brahms? Anything more?
@Euroarts3 жыл бұрын
In this playlist you can find the full concert: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZnGo42OZ9eNZ68 Enjoy! :)
@alejandrosotomartin97203 жыл бұрын
@@Euroarts Danke.
@alejandrosotomartin97203 жыл бұрын
@@Euroarts Plenty of works. Old style concerto. Thanks.
@rickfairbank17552 жыл бұрын
Brahms is just freaking underrated as a composer. I'd put his four symphonies up against anybody's.
@georgenorris26573 жыл бұрын
The first movement was definitely too slow. Speeds in Brahms are so crucial because there is always the need to generate at least a little excitement in the faster passages and climaxes. I know there is a strong German tradition of very stately Brahms but to my mind this never quite works.
@coloursandcarousels3 жыл бұрын
rip
@wolfmeyerfeld17688 жыл бұрын
Why does Kurt Masur never use a baton? Anyone know?
@richardbradshaw2889 Жыл бұрын
He had a tendon injury on his right hand as a child which never healed properly and which made it impossible for him to curl his fingers properly. Hence he never used a baton. Which was very unusual for conductors of course but which did not prevent him from attaining greatness in his chosen profession. I'm sorry you've had to wait so long for a reply! I've only just seen this thread and listened to this fabulous performance.