Mahler - Symphony No.5 - Abbado - Lucerne Festival Orchestra 2004

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.5
Claudio Abbado
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, 2004
0:00 - Opening
I.
0:55 - Traeurmarsch. In gemessenem Schritt. Streng. Wie ein Kondukt
13:36 - Stürmisch bewegt. Mit grösster Vehemenz
II.
28:20 - Scherzo. Kräftig, Nicht zu schnell.
III.
45:17 - Adagietto. Sehr langsam.
53:49 - Rondo-Finale. Allegro-Allegro giocoso. Frisch.
1:10:10 - Credits
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[@gustavmahler3840]

One of my compositions. Like that !

[@sfbirdclub]

Yup! Just like that!

[@arkazoo4769]

You're full of it! You stole it from me. I'd sue your rear for plagiarism! I bet my lawyer can beat up on your lawyer with his eyes closed.

[@gustavmahler3840]

What ! Nope

[@percyyang8367]

hello Mahler dad!!!

[@gustavmahler3840]

Hello everyone, I finished my 11th and 12th symphonies now. The 11th's final revision is done but I only finished three movements of the 12th.

[@Manu_007]

2024, anyone here?

[@pyrosanguineous]

Right here!

[@ibish9513]

Until the end of days.

[@francescocardamone3393]

Bawngiorno

[@mihaelaserea6035]

Yes, me! Just listening.

[@kittyonoprich7704]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@DaviSilva-oc7iv]

When I started listening Mahler I just thought it was boring, but now I am discovering a whole new universe of great music, Mahler composed differently from other romantic composers, his music is quite odd but the more I listen to his music the more I realize how great it is. Mahler is an acquired taste.

[@tobilori8824]

true, i think most of his composition is not immediately catchy, but after hearing it a few times, it is very rich and beautiful. If you havent heard it yet, i recommend "ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen" from the Rückert Lieder. That is played in the movie Birdman, and its really nice. :)

[@dhjerth]

Agreed. There's just nothing to grab your attention in Mahler. For a long time, I had no idea how to listen to his symphonies, it all just sounded incoherent and indulgent to me. Then I listened to "Das Lied von die Erde", and loved it, and that made something click, the other symphonies suddenly made sense. Now I love Mahler. I love Maaaahler

[@scottmiller6495]

@@dhjerth He was the greatest composer of Symphonies by anyone of all time. It started with his Symphony No. 1 which is a landmark work that grabs your heart right from the start! Nobody in history of classical music has been able to achieve this brilliance in such a short amount of time! He only lived 51 short years and composed 10 symphonies that are above and beyond Incredible atleast most people finally agree !!!!!

[@Tod_oMal]

No matter what I do, I still find Mahler boring. For how long should a continue to discover it?

[@dhjerth]

@@Tod_oMal Did you try his lieder? Most are very stormy and unboring

[@davidmoss9926]

🟦 1st Movement : Trauermarsch 🔸Five part structure: Main section (A) - Trio I (B) - Main Section (A') - Trio II (B') - Coda (A'') ◾Main Section (A) in C-sharp minor 1:01 First part beginning with trumpet solo 2:10 Second part, elegiac character 3:10 First part again (altered) 4:02 Second part again (altered) 5:14 Third part beginning in A-flat major and closing in D-flat major / D-flat minor ◾Trio I (B) in B-flat minor 6:26 First Part 6:48 Second part beginning in E-flat minor 7:13 Third part (linked to the first) in B-flat minor ◾Main Section (A') in C-sharp minor 8:00 First part (altered) 8:53 Second part (altered) 10:00 Third part (altered) in D-flat major 10:48 Transition ◾Trio II (B') in A minor 11:00 First part 11:27 Second part beginning in D minor 11:59 Third part in A minor with collapselike climax ◾12:30 Coda (A'') in C-sharp minor 🟦 2nd Movement : Sturmisch bewegt! Turbulently Rough! 🔸Sonata Form, thematically linked to first movement ◾Exposition 13:37 Main section in A minor, part 1 14:10 Main section, part 2 (trumpet motif prominent) 14:48 Transition (tritone motif in trumpets and inferno figures in woodwinds) 14:57 Secondary section in F minor (new setting of Trio II, 11:00) ◾Development 17:06 Diminished 7th chord with inferno figures 17:10 Development and combination of the motifs from the main section 17:40 Tritone motifs (trumpets, later trombones); inferno figures (woodwinds); sighing in strings 17:54 Monody of the 'lamenting' cellos in E-flat minor 19:00 New setting of secondary section in E-flat minor; contrapuntal combination with motifs from the main section 20:10 Motifs from the main section 20:22 Return to the 'main section' of the first movement (10:00), now in B major 21:08 March-like section beginning in A-flat major, growing in intensity 21:43 Pesante: anticipation of the chorale (in A major) ◾Recapitulation 21:52 Main section beginning in A minor and leading to E minor 22:25 Secondary section beginning in E minor and leading to E-flat minor 24:25 Wuchtig/Weighty : contrapuntal combination of motifs from the secondary sections 25:13 Pesante: Chorale in D major (Vision of Paradise) ◾Coda 26:30 Diminished 7th chord over a nonchord B-flat, main motif of the movement, inferno figures, sighing motifs 26:37 First part of the main section in D minor (a surge of intensificiation leads up to a collapselike climax) 27:23 Area of resolution in A minor 🟦 3rd Movement : Scherzo ◾Main section 28:29 First period (main theme) 28:45 Second period (main theme with modified contrapuntal restatement) 28:56 Third period (variation of the main theme) 29:10 Fourth period (with a new eighth-note theme and a concise rhythmic counter theme beginning in B minor and leading into the substance of the main theme) 29:44 Fifth period 29:54 Sixth period (beginning with the eighth-note theme and leading into the substance of the main theme) 30:34 Seventh period ◾Trio I (in B-flat Major) 30:51 Period 1 31:15 Period 2 ◾Main section (shortened recapitulation) 31:45 Period 1 31:59 Period 2 32:12 Fugato on the eighth note theme ◾Trio II 32:33 First section (of preparatory character) 32:53 Second section (beginning slow and with growing intensity) 33:31 Third section: four line episode in G minor 34:56 Fourth section: New version of the theme, reminiscent of Trio I 35:32 Fifth section: imitative treatment of the theme 36:39 Sixth section: new version of the theme with added reminisces of Trio I and the main theme) ◾Development 37:50 Development and contrasting of the motifs of Trio I and the main theme ◾Recapitulation (greatly modified) Main Section, Period 1 (38:53), 2 (39:08), 3 (39:20), 4 (39:31) 40:07 Trio I 40:23 Trio II combined with the eighth-note theme 41:23 Strongly, motifs of Trio I and of the main theme developed in two large waves of intensification 42:33 New version of the episode from Trio II ◾Coda 44:21 Stretta 🟦 4th Movement : Adagietto 45:25 ◾Popularized in Luchino Visconti’s film Death in Venice, kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3mlkIyNfryee5o ◾Its mood and certain melodic turns are related to the Ruckert song Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iqutqnyNrc-Lb9E ◾Mahler’s declaration of love for Alma! ◾Middle section: quotes the “gaze motif” from Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde. kzbin.info/www/bejne/npS8m36plJ6irJo @ 3'10" 🟦 5th Movement : Rondo-Finale ◾Introduction 53:51 Presentation of several motifs that play a role in the fugal passages [note bassoon 54:05 = clarinet in Lob des hohen Verstandes from Das Knaben Wunderhorn @0:06 kzbin.info/www/bejne/p6OkhqOsaMplf5Y] ◾Exposition 54:33 Main section, arranged in bar form = Rondo theme in D major: allegro giocoso. Fresh 55:10 Fugal Part I (D Major) [note 55:27 is a transformation of 25:58] 56:38 Main section : Rondo theme in D major 57:15 Fugal Part II (B-flat major, D major, f-sharp major) 57:41 Secondary section (grazioso) in B major [a metamorphosis of 49:39 from IV] 58:36 Epilogue in B major ◾Development 58:45 Introductory section (flowing) 59:18 Fugal Part III 59:54 Section beginning in C major 1:00:26 Section beginning in B major and modulating to D major 1:01:02 Secondary section in D major, partly treated imitatively and partly provided with countermelodies 1:01:59 Epilogue 1:02:08 Fugal Part IV ◾Recapitulation 1:03:24 Main section varied : Rondo theme in D major 1:04:09 Fugal Part V 1:05:08 Development of the main section in A-flat and A major 1:05:59 Secondary section in G major 1:07:10 Transition [gradually and constantly faster] 1:07:34 Chorale in D major ◾Coda 1:08:20 Stretta 1:08:41 Interesting form of the chorale melody in the horns "the mood is at times reminiscent of the second Wayfarer song kzbin.info/www/bejne/bIemoZWDhc2gjbs and its wholesome world, as well as the first movement of the 4th with which the Rondo-Finale share some childlike figures", eg. flute @ 55:35 similar to @1:27 kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5_JmXykj7Ggi7M ◾notes based on Constantin Floros : Gustav Mahler The Symphonies, Amadeus Press (1985)

[@thepianoturtle9347]

you are my hero

[@zoeyadventures2659]

❤

[@jps-fun]

The most valuable player! Not all heroes wear capes!

[@47nalva]

Excelente trabajo!, muchas gracias David!

[@miroslavvilhan8273]

Bro..... good job. You are really into classicall form. I bet you wrote an essay about it

[@knownanonymous1691]

I want to apologise to myself for not discovering Mahler any sooner💔 but I'm celebrating my 20th birthday with this breathtaking piece of music. This is insanely beautiful

[@mohammedtafat1769]

Yes with malher life is wondrful

[@davidchukwuocha7052]

Happy birthday mate !

[@dst0212]

Happy birthday

[@scottmiller6495]

I love Mahler, listen to his Symphony No 1 and you'll be hooked ! His No. 1 is the Best Composed First Symphony of All Time!!!!!

[@felixfourcolor]

If you want to sound smart, just say you love Mahler.

[@ferrisgrummer7337]

I love Mahler

[@medoudou441]

Hummm...two set there buddy?

[@scottmiller6495]

Mahler is now finally considered the best symphony composer of all time Ever !!!!!

[@scottmiller6495]

@@ferrisgrummer7337 So do I Mahler was the best Symphony Composer of all time Period !!!!!

[@jhaymarthortiz9939]

I love Wagner.

[@asl3497]

twoset reccomended them, therefore here i am

[@LuxiferreArt]

You are fast my boi

[@darksiderr_1352]

lol saame

[@pxpeiphang9077]

Same

[@8starsAND]

who the fck is twoset? next yt kid streamer?

[@enriqueandres1998]

@@bies22 no it doesn't matter.

[@gabrielebatista2723]

As an enthusiast of great classical music I came here not only because of Cate Blanchett's exceptional performance in Tár (in her maestro role) but also because I could not get rid of this mesmerizing piece of music. What a gift it is being able to watch and listen to Claudio Abbado! Surprised how I only came to discover him and Mahler this year, for sure I will not forget them so soon.

[@rodrigofurtado5542]

She is beyond perfection in the movie. And also her performance made me curious about conduction of this masterpiece

[@russellbruzek9668]

Saw Film last Month, did not care fot it, but, music, was Wonderful. Listing to Mahler 5th Now.CAN't belive SHE is up for an OSCAR????

[@obbie1osias467]

@@rodrigofurtado5542 "Conduction"?😳😳😳

[@rodrigofurtado5542]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conducting

[@rodrigofurtado5542]

@@obbie1osias467 sorry about my English, Shakespeare…

[@spiritualatheist1]

At the very start, the camera picked out Maestro Abbado's lifelong friend, pianist Maurizio Pollini (the one wearing glasses and blue tie). They tried to never miss each other's concerts and Abbado conducted Pollini on piano on occasion.

[@JohnSmith-ju7xc]

Loved both of them and always tried (and still try with Pollini) to attend their New York appearances. This orchestra with him conducting is stunning.

[@TheSavonarole]

John Smith t

[@lorenzodaponte2827]

Pollini played Beethoven's fourth concert in the first part of evening.

[@TomAngPhoto]

Well spotted!

[@matteogenerani5097]

Chris Doby at 0:43!

[@pipster1891]

Great shot from 22:32 seeing all the musicians swaying around like a sea, putting everything into it.

[@iankclark]

Wow, that is a great shot - a visual metaphor of a storm at sea.

[@joachimsaxer4812]

Yes, right. "Tár" makes use of this when Cate Blanchett talks about "freie Bogenführung" in the talk with her impresario.

[@polaewmvdionadcfrtuoy7054]

so vivid

[@abundance6692]

A Mahler's 5th for the ages. People will be listening to this performance hundreds of years from now. There probably has never been an orchestra so totally suited to play Mahler's music as this version of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, seen and heard at its peak here. The clarity of all the contrapuntal lines in the finale is amazing. No other performance I've heard (there have been many) has achieved this.

[@Tuxedo2680]

I couldn't agree more. For me it was as if I was hearing it for the first time. Unlike you, I hadn't heard any other versions other than Karajan's but in the first few bars of the 1st movement, the contrast is already striking. Like you said, the degree of clarity, detail and sheer musicality of Abbado and the LFO elicits boundless admiration and pure joy. This recording and all the others in this series (Mahler symphonies 1 to 7 - Abbado - LFO) are an absolute must-have for any true connoisseur of Gustav Mahler's music.

[@stewiewonder2601]

Totally agree, however I can't understand why it's not possible to get all of these on CD.

[@Tuxedo2680]

@@stewiewonder2601 I got the 4-disc Blu-Ray set (Mahler Symphonies 1-7, Rückert -Lieder + Prokofiev Piano Concerto No.3) from Amazon for around $60 (a great bargain IMO) but not being able to have it on CD was my main complaint to EuroArts and I would have gladly bought those as well. It is possible however to extract the stereo LPCM sound track from those with AnyDVD + TSmuxer and make your own CD's or MP3's using the WavePad editor. The downsides are that AnyDVD is not free and there's about 20 hours of tedious work involved. All depends how badly you want them.

[@barrysmith1202]

no disrespect here, but i'm very curious about a few things re mahlers' works: ** i'm 64, a rather casual fan of a very wide spectrum of music; ** Melody-- what are your thoughts on Melody? eg, Hummable tunes; i'm just curious; ** in the mid 90s, i saw a movie (an 'independent', 'art-theater' film), a bio-drama about mahler, family, in which mahler proclaimed ''beethoven is dead'; in one scene, his wife is sitting in the front row, opening night of his latest composition; the movie director made absolutely clear, via extreme close-ups, that the wife was thoroughly, seriously, aghast at the whole thing; ** all this so far, is of course, simply (?) a matter taste--eg, your taste, my taste, the movie directors' taste, mahler fans, etc; ** there are a few minutes of a couple of mahlers' works, that i find quite worth listening to-- the rest? i just don't get it, in a world where one COULD be listening to-- what would one call it__ dozens of bubblegum classical pieces?

[@denise2169]

Barry, I understand what you are saying. When I first heard a Mahler Symphony in my university music studies, I didn't appreciate that there was not a 'hummable' melody. I am 68, and only now that I have retired and and been isolated with the Covid crisis, with time on my hands, have I really started listening to Mahler. And I only started listening to his music because it is conducted by Claudio Abbado, who's work am I discovering is truly amazing. What I am learning, as I listen to more and more of Abbado's work - and through the youtube documentaries about him - is that to him, music is about emotion and passion on a deep level - he does not have an ego with this. Now, when I listen to these youtube recordings, I feel these emotions from deep inside ME - they often make me cry, as they are so beautiful and moving. And when I watch and listen to these recordings, I hear and see that Abbado feels and transmits immense joy and energy (as in this symphony) or sublime calm (please listen to Mahler's 3rd symphony with Abbado, especially the beautiful slow 4th movement, starting at about 45:10, I think), and all of the emotions in between. To me, he is the only conductor that truly becomes one with his orchestra and brings out these passions from all of the orchestra members. In one documentary that I saw about him in rehearsal, he tells the orchestra members to listen to one another - his musicians say that he does not think of himself as the boss, but rather, he is able to bring all of the different 'musical lines' together. This means that there is not one melody, but that different instruments have different counter-melodies that are all woven together. So, there is generally no one hummable melody, as there are many all flowing together. These are called contrapuntal lines, and what I am beginning to appreciate in Mahler's music, is that despite all of these different instrumental lines going on at the same time, there is an over-riding passion and emotion that Abbado's orchestra is able to bring together through their conductor. When I look at video shots showing the whole orchestra, I see the musicians all moving intensely together, with the same energy, as if they are one. It's quite magical, and not something I really see with other conductors and orchestras. And looking at Abbado's and their faces, I can see the joy and emotion that they are experiencing. I hope you continue listening to more of Abbado and his work, for I have been learning a lot. Sometimes, I will even get up and listen, when I can't sleep in the middle of the night!

[@luciawu1029]

I am here from TwoSet

[@costinaarama1358]

same here

[@arhamidrish5824]

Hehe boi

[@cuddlingteddybears]

I actually have to watch this and do a concert report on it for a college class, but I also love TwoSet lol

[@jacoblittle1444]

same

[@neil7137]

Why? Is this video referenced in one of their videos?

[@progresso2023]

We miss you Abbado !

[@themike97_58]

+Daniel Oliveira I don't think anybody now or past ever put so much emotion into conducting as did Abbado.

[@progresso2023]

Yes I agree with you

[@mydogskips2]

Valery Gergiev. Perhaps Solti. Dudamel.

[@vincentbourgon2517]

allow me to suggest Yannick nezet séguin

[@TheRemyWagner]

Bien sûr!!

[@rel375]

Genius is a small word to describe Maestro Abbado. What kind of brain made him able to memorize the nine big and complicated Mahler's symphonies and conduct them (without score) with such brilliancy ? I think Mahler himself couldn’t do it. RIP Great Maestro Abbado.

[@megabugginout]

👏 👏 👏 👏

[@Queeen7q]

Mahler was one of the greatest conductors of his time.

[@pascalpoussin1209]

A Google chip was inserted into his brain, brilliant.

[@scottmiller6495]

@@Queeen7q And maybe the greatest composer of symphonies of all time as well! Start with no. 1 and go from there, it,s unbelievable how brilliant he was ! 10 Outstanding symphonies in his short 51 years of life !!!!!

[@GuilhermeMichel]

@@scottmiller6495 Beethoven is more genius, but I like more Mahler's symphonies.

[@slmhcgqu]

abbado's lucerne mahler cycle is incredible

[@scottmiller6495]

His Mahler No. 1 from 2009 is thee best and thrilling with a roaring standing ovation along with his own curtain call after the orchestra leaves, WOW 😳😳😳😳😳

[@alirezapajouhandeh9793]

How could a piece be both intense and comforting at the same time😍

[@scottmiller6495]

Because of Mahler and Abbado!!!!!

[@DavidD-KingWolf65]

@@scottmiller6495 the greats. I really liked Bernstein until seeing Abbado. A conductor of true enjoyment and understanding deserves praise and I wish he was still living by this time that I know of him.

[@scottmiller6495]

@@DavidD-KingWolf65 Agreed.

[@marcwayne9514]

You should listen to Paul Desmond .

[@enriquesanchez2001]

This is THE MOST BELOVED conductor of his generation! May he rest in ETERNAL PEACE and JOY!

[@Tuxedo2680]

I. 0:55 - Trauermarsch. In gemessenem Schritt. Streng. Wie ein Kondukt II. 13:36 - Stürmisch bewegt. Mit grösster Vehemenz III. 28:20 - Scherzo (Kräftig, Nicht zu schnell) IV. 45:17 - Adagietto (Sehr langsam) V. 53:49 - Rondo-Finale (Allegro)

[@DaviSilva-oc7iv]

Is actually Trauermarsch*, not Traeurmarsch.

[@Tuxedo2680]

@@DaviSilva-oc7iv Typo corrected. Thank you.

[@yourmomsfavoritegay]

Reinhold Friedrich is truest a wonderful trumpet player

[@breadh1277]

Read this wrong almost pressed dislike

[@BruceBoschek]

Yes, what a stunning performance!

[@PilekKwiatowy]

Mahlers genius. Abbados one of the greatest. But my comment is for video director. He knows and feels the music and gives us a look on who’s instrument is soloing. Thank you

[@skny2282]

Who came here to receive true enjoyment for our ears and souls?

[@GuneyTuncer]

This is not only the best performance of Mahler's 5th symphony but one of the best performance of whole symphonic history.. RIP Abbado.

[@user-vo9gp2jf2h]

Романтично, впечатляет!

[@brave1671]

😂

[@CutieSenussi]

It’s fairly cheesy music compared to the baroque masters to be honest.

[@ThomasRomanowski]

@@CutieSenussi bro just said Mahler is cheesy

[@karrotkake]

@@CutieSenussisorry, i know this comment is late, but cheesy? how can such complex music be "cheesy"? its very cinematic and energetic/exciting, thats for sure, but what makes it cheesy? i mean personally the only baroque composer i might put above mahler is bach, but no one else made symphonies like mahler and thats an undeniable fact. the symphony didnt even exist in the baroque era

[@suedwestfunk]

Nothing compares to this. Thanks to the musicians and the unforgettable Claudio Abbado: It's my strongest antidepressant, a never failing way back to joy and courage.

[@suedwestfunk]

Und es macht leider süchtig.

[@youngwoo5860]

구스타프말러에 오자 댓글수준이 너무 높아졌네

[@MASKANDPLAY]

It's amazing to see someone in the last few years of their life conducting with such energy. RIP

[@ojtrumpet]

+ Maestro Stefan Dohr

[@DavidClay1206]

lol Martin nice to see you here

[@andrescastilloarce]

Abbado was a true master of Mahler

[@pega17pl]

When Abado was very first time strudent at Vienna he runs into funeral procession with music band by accident. At this moment he knows how to play Mahler. (Told by himself at an interview.)

[@vierto8878]

Mahler & Abbado they still my heros since I was teen, now at 62 I feel the same...

[@antwerpsmerle1404]

@Vierto I agree! My first Abbado concert was Mahler 5 in 1972, and the last was Bruckner 5 in 2011. Both in London. A great musician who just got better and better. RIP, Maestro.

[@scottmiller6495]

@@antwerpsmerle1404 Nobody talks about Abbados curtain calls from the remaining audiences after the orchestra leaves the stage, usually this occured in Europe where the people automatically loved him and immediately gave him standing ovation s that would wake up the dead!!!!!

[@scottmiller6495]

Incredible duo that you won't see anymore. Klaus Tenndstedt was runner up, listen to his performance from 1990 in Chicago of Mahler No. 1 where the audience went crazy for him just like Abbado got !!!!!

[@antwerpsmerle1404]

@@scottmiller6495 yes, curtain calls in Europe can be very prolonged and enthusiastic. Abbado had some wonderful and well-deserved ones when he brought Die Zauberflöte to the Edinburgh Festival. The most extreme I witnessed was on the last night of the Bayreuth Festival, after Tristan with Jerusalem, Meier and Barenboim. The ovations only ceased, after 25 minutes, when Siegfried Jerusalem made a gesture which clearly said “please may I now go and have a glass of beer?”. Klaus Tennstedt was also VERY special to his adoring audience in London. He had a wonderful rapport with the LPO, but they and we all knew that his health was fragile, and that there would be cancellations. A lifetime of smoking had wrought irreversible damage, but somehow that fact added to the unbelievable and almost unbearable intensity of his concerts. Even now my eyes fill with tears when I remember him.

[@brichpmr]

This orchestra under Abbado was an all-star collection of some of the greatest orchestral players on the planet; and Abbado was a sympatico musical genius.

[@mikemiller7957]

I'm here because Steve Vai told me to listen to Mahler's 4th and 5th ten times with an open mind and it would change my life. I'm a rocker for the most part but I must say this is fantastic stuff. I don't really understand classical music but this I am enjoying!

[@Balfour.]

Mike Miller I'm also a rocker and I listen to Mahler since I was a kid. Let me tell you, not being familiarized with classical music and somehow having a genuine interest to get into Mahler's repertoire it's pretty ballsy. Bravo sir! I hope your path in this universe has just begun.

[@mikemiller7957]

Thanks! I have noticed that I hear music differently now that I 've been listening to Mahler for about a month. There is so much in there I hear something new every time I listen.

[@youririnsema1148]

Enjoying the music is more important than understanding it :)

[@michelleclerc3857]

@@mikemiller7957 "There is so much in there I hear something new every time I listen." This is a great sentence, and honestly it tells why there is something in art that justifies our interest in it at all - because if that weren’t the case enjoying and loving Nature and the beauty in humans and animals would be so much more worth our while. As a lifelong listener and humble practitioner of great music may I point out your next steps in Mahler? You will know that he has a darker side that revolves around loss and suffering and death n(Steve Vai did point out to you the to "happiest" symphonies by Mahler. But you may want to listen to the 3rd, which takes one and a half hour and has six movements, first. There is a lot of enjoyment of Nature in it and then it ends with a long slow movement that celebrates human love really (like a grander, more solemn companion to the 5th’s Adagietto. Then, moving towards Mahler’s darker side, listen to the 1rst movement of the 2nd, which is basically a tragic, very serious song of despair at a friend's passing. Steeled by that movement (and by the darker rock music, I’d say) do tackle Mahler’s most severe and bitter Symphony, the 6th - one gigantic struggle against Fate. Your appreciation of that Symphony will lead you into the world of his final symphonies (from 7 to 10 really, as well as the Song of the Earth) who all basically say: "And still I do have hope!” Something appropriate to our times, maybe?

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

"I don't really understand classical music but this I am enjoying!" You don't have to understand it. Enjoying it is more than enough. I grew up with this kind of music. Especially Mahler I loved from my first encounter with him around the age of 6. Do you think I did understand what he does at that age? No. I was just swept away. Now I understand what he does because I studied music and it adds to the enjoyment and appreciation of his genius. But is it necesarry? No. It's just a bonus. So boldly venture forth into the classical repertoire. You'll find lots to enjoy.

[@d1d4d0]

Probably the greatest conductor of the last 40 years...

[@MegaLajeunesse]

Inégalé pour moi dans Mahler. Mahler m'ennuyait avec Abbado j'adore.

[@giuseppeconsonni4768]

minchiata immensa||

[@christophetetu3948]

@@MegaLajeunesse : écoutez la Symphonie no.5, 4ème mouvement : "Adagietto" interprétée par le World Orchestra for Peace et dirigée par Valery Gergiev...

[@castellimariachiaracastell7423]

@@giuseppeconsonni4768 uno che risponde così volgarmente nemmeno è degno di accostarsi a nessuna musica

[@astridarraut9502]

Probably? No he is the greatest period.!

[@planetsoccer99]

I have come back so many times. This symphony is always there for me. Mahler is the king.

[@StefanSchmalhaus]

I couldn't agree more.

[@germangarcia3426]

Best

[@pmlouisjuste]

Mahler is an absolute genius. I like Tchaikovski's 6th as well (among other haha)

[@thylatrash7668]

i'm here after twosetviolin ranked mahler 5 s tier and i can now confidently say: they are right! i'd never consciously listened to it before, but it really is just an incredibly big, epic and truly satisfying piece, this performance was especially enjoyable to listen to i can only imagine how much fun it must have been to play this with such a great big orchestra

[@999a0s]

i performed this piece on tour with an orchestra. during our final performance, i remember tearing up during the adagietto, and i looked around - almost all of the first violins were crying. then i realized everyone was crying. our conductor, impassive, had tears running down her face.

[@karenglenn2329]

Twosetviolin is my latest love. I am so drawn into this performance. Can l say l am numbed by this master piece

[@marshm3llow467]

What a coincidence to find not only another TwoSetter but another trekkie and spirk shipper! That's so cool. Great piece, yeah!

[@hilalaslan897]

#twosetgang 💪

[@yanaikuchuk9714]

I am here because of Eddy and Brett too!

[@denise2169]

And what I also love, is that Abbado allows his musicians to truly be expressive in their own right - I see this in their faces and in their movements! What an amazing feeling this must have been! I wish that I had the talent to have been a member of this fine ensemble!

[@virginiastofler1703]

Ho scoperto Mahler solo ieri ed è nuovo per me, rimarrò all' ascolto per molto tempo lo sento affine. Grazie Maestro❣️🌹🫂

[@organboi]

They're not HIS musicians

[@trupttks]

A musician and conductor who I have always admired, Rest in Peace Maestro Claudio Abbado.

[@Lady-gd8zl]

Must confess, I came here from the movie “Tar”, glad to discover Mahler.

[@nancylee8061]

All of Claudio Abbado's Mahlers have a special place in my heart.

[@scottmiller6495]

Me too his Lucerne Festival Concerts from the early 2000s were fantastic and incredible with enthusiastic fans and roaring standing ovations!!!!!

[@keithyeung9097]

Now at 2021, I still can't find a better conductor than Mr. Claudio Abbado. He is such a great conducting giant.

[@scottmiller6495]

He was and loved by millions all over the world!!!!!

[@aileenteo7027]

Claudio Abbado is in his element. God only made one Claudio for us to enjoy. No comparison. He is a class of his own.

[@301250]

The classical music world has lost one of the greatest conductors who has ever graced the podium. Never a showman, Abbado's interpretations of Mahler (and Beethoven et al) will surely go down in history as being among the best around. RIP, maestro.

[@hhgygy]

Lydia Tár brought me here. Beautiful.

[@simonf8902]

She loves it.

[@gaetanofrancescodesantis1273]

It makes my want to cry to listen to this Symphony, this orchestra, and watch Abbado’s face. So intensely moving…❤

[@deebeeloves]

45:17 🥺🤍 my heart just melts listening to this movement.

[@joseagustincandanedo2998]

Abbado's big smile shows that he is enjoying the experience to the fullest!!

[@adrianagmlima]

I’m 46 years old now and there’s one year I’ve find out this piece. This is simply the most perfect music composed by someone. Thank you Gustav Mahler. The sound of my soul ✨

[@scottmiller6495]

Wait a minute, Mahler was the greatest symphony composer of all time and if you love him the way I do then listen to his fantastic Symphony No 1 which is incredible and if you find it amazing, then listen to No. 7 too. Believe you me it will definitely make you a bigger Mahler fan than you already are!!!!!

[@paulvarn4712]

The 9th Adagio still hypnotizes me every time. Even now over 100 years later it's as modern and inventive as anything written today. Mahler was also the highest paid symphony conductor in the world at the time. He taught world world how to orchestrate the amazing music we take for granted in spectacular movie scores. He taught us how to help the listener feel intensely.

[@itemasylum3185]

ok

[@billsullivan3920]

A great video of the the Lucerne Festival Orchestra 2004 hand picked by Abbado. Some critics called these concerts as some of the best orchestral playing ever recorded. With very good speakers this video is very special. Given the fact that Abbado has passed, this shows him before his health problems. All the Abbado Lucerne concerts show that he wanted to make music with only special people. Some special musicians show up in all his festival concerts. Abbado was a great humanitarian.

[@bernardverner4743]

I have never listened to play " the adagietto " in so emotional, so sensitive a way! It is there an absolute wonder which it will be extremely difficult to surpass! Violins at the top of the workmanship of the bow... Exceptional!

[@mutantbaby1672]

Incredible playing. Simply stunning.

[@leilah219]

+Mutant Baby I agree ! The best combination!

[@onshanma3842]

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[@stridentscrub6753]

5:13. I've never seen a wooden flute playing Mahler in a orchestra. It makes the sound so gorgeous

[@PanProductionsliveit]

I mean, my god! This is exquisite! I'm listening to the 5th from other maestros which I really admire at the same time, but god, there is no comparison. The sound quality, the brass levels, the percussion, EVERY instrument's definition, the ridiculous amount of connection between the whole orchestra and the maestro, the volume control note to note, the expression, everything breaths and expresses freely throughout the whole piece. And when it comes to the second part and on, well , words just fail me. I rarely write comments on KZbin, but I felt the need to express my thanks and my most sincere congratulations to everyone who made this utterly amazing performance happen. This performance will educate and inspire more and more people in the years to come.

[@Crew7340]

I strongly agree, the musicians here are truly extraordinary.

[@bma1955alimarber]

Yes you are right

[@scottmiller6495]

Top of the line all the way Superb !!!!!

[@stanimiradervenova217]

They breathe music and silence. I have rarely heard so much silence played by an orchestra ❤ Bravo, maestro !

[@Wahl95]

What an AMAZING interpretation of this symphony. Reinhold Friedrich is an exceptional trumpet soloist: one of the best I have heard.

[@setharenstein8497]

Agree...never overblows, his solos are understated yet fit the tone beautifully

[@RoyalFizzbin]

Is there a name for the type of trumpet he is using?

[@rgibeli]

@@RoyalFizzbin They use rotary trumpets

[@alandickinson8234]

He IS the best

[@mannsquest9953]

An unbelievable conductor leads an unbelievable ensemble playing an unbelievable composer in a manner which is truly head and shoulders above all else. Ever. Period.

[@tritonneptune3834]

Just visually, that shot 22:29 is so captivating, the way everything is moves. So grateful for the filming of this concert and the upload!

[@user-sh2wz8oe5m]

Yeah this is so amazing

[@SCX2k]

It is my favourite moment in all art

[@Aldous944]

Abbado conducts Mahler without a score. That, to simple old me, is one of the first signs that we are seeing a genius at work. All the superlative conductors can do this. I'm not knocking the conductors who need a score. (I took a summer-long course on conducting, and found it magical to be able to read a score and do anything with it. But I hadn't a hope of conducting anything without the score.) There are some very good conductors who still need the score as an aid. Klemperer conducted with the score, as did Pierre Boulez, both genius conductors. They and Abbado are undoubtedly in the pantheon of the greats, with Karajan, Bernstein, Rattle... I love what Abbado can get out of an orchestra.

[@hornkix]

I think Mahler love the french horn very much !!!

[@maryyueil]

The first cellist is Claudio Abbado's good friend Natalia Gutman, famous Russian cellist.

[@OscarGeronimo]

Everybody there is famous/recognized/respected/a master. That's the point of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra.

[@QA-ut7dd]

I could just listen to that second brass chord at 8:23 over and over and over again wow!

[@kyeongashin]

So miss Abbado..I love his interpretation of Mahler's fifth symphony.

[@Merisi1610]

Claudio Abbado is conducting, one of the greatest italian Director - good is not the word, maybe magnificent is just a bit closer to his art. Enjoy it

[@Jmay6901]

What a conversation is now going between Abbado and Mahler! Gustav and Claudio together at last! VIVA ABBADO!

[@bordaz1]

This is the finest recording of this piece i've yet heard, and I grew up steeped in the tradition of Leonard Bernstein, Georg Solti, and Bruno Walter. I recommend anyone that loves this seek out the Documentary film covering Abbado's music directorship of this festival orchestra (EuroArts). Why? It will be extremely important to understand how the Maestro recruited players to make an ensemble that sounds like this. All i'll say is, I think we have been teaching orchestra backwards for a very long time

[@geoffroymb]

What people probably don't realize is that all these players are super stars in their own rights, soloist-level players, all gathered in one outstanding orchestra, probably the best in the world!

[@hansjurgenmunch9680]

Ich liebe diese Musik, kann garnicht genug davon hören, mit das Schönste was es gibt

[@andrewiwai3881]

The adagietto, with the lovely chords and the beautiful deep notes, stirs some emotions deep inside of me every time I hear it. Amazing.

[@phillipbaritone3843]

Claudio was spectacular, I really wish I had the opportunity to have listened to him live in the flesh. RIP maestro. His style was one of a kind, and the tone he produced was so lush and powerful

[@adude394]

Absolutely spellbinding. I've performed this symphony (French horn player), and I can tell you from the inside just how difficult this music is. The fact that these players made it seem so easy is a testament to their phenomenal skills, and Maestro Abbado's consummate musicianship.

[@garnettlivingston3739]

This performance is astounding! The Maestro told the story from start to finish allowing these fine musicians to do what they do best.

[@galinakrivulin6767]

Stunning performance, fascination and love of Claudio Abbado conducting the orchestra. Watching on tv. Follow everyone’s faces, they are under the spell of magic coming out of the Great Conductor. Total perfection!

[@stephenmessick865]

Remarkable! I have edited my comment concerning audio problems, as I have listened to the piece again and found none. Must have been my laptop. What a performance by dear Abbado and his Lucerne charges.

[@notaire2]

Lebhafte und wunderschöne Aufführung dieser großartigen Sinfonie mit gut harmonisierten und perfekt balancierten Töne aller Instrumente. Der vierte Satz klingt fast himmlisch. Der unvergleichliche Maestro dirigiert das ausgezeichnete Orchester im inspirierenden Tempo mit völlig effektiver Dynamik. Einfach wunderbar!

[@915harry]

R.I.P. maestro Abbado. This is one of the best versions of this symphony!!!!

[@docoftheworld]

one of the greatest symphonies

[@JJHunsecker]

I once heard the Adagio for this piece in a movie and I was wracking my brain trying to find out who composed it. 🎻Now I finally have the answer: Gustav Mahler deserves a place in Heaven for that alone.

[@theingabo212]

Not enough words to describe this Epic performance!

[@bdavis7981]

Thumbs down? I don't even want to know what kind of person that takes.

[@alanc6781]

They are always unhappy because they have small penises.

[@kahzhoylow4352]

LOL, info wars

[@thorstentopp3824]

Fantastic performance. I love Abbado! The orchestra is really great.

[@denise2169]

Every time I listen to this performance, I am overwhelmed by the tenderness and beauty of this interpretation of the Adagietto. Thank you to the orchestra and to Abbado for this gift!

[@flylooper]

My God, how I miss Abbado. A phenomenal director.

[@gianseb]

Now you are with your beloved Gustav Mahler, for ever. Thanks Maestro!

[@isaacm3946]

The fourth movement touches my heart. Respect.

[@jdeeside]

The sheer joy this performance gives is almost overwhelming. It is a stunning performance by an group that play as one and clearly enjoy being together.

[@brunoantonello9478]

Grande sinfonia e grande Abbado, uno dei più grandi che l'Italia abbia avuto!

[@maryyueil]

this #5 Mahler is my favorite, I love the horn playing from the very beginning, the ultimate movement is the Adagietto, the most beautiful movement, one can listen to it again and again , played strictly by strings instruments and harp so hauntingly beautiful and almost perfect.

[@ProgettoMemoria]

The attention to details, phrasing, counterpoint, tempi, colors, structure and story telling is unparallel. Together with this world stars orchestra he has elevated Mahler to the highest level possible.

[@giorgio1948]

Mahler, Abbado, Lucerne Orchestra. Di più non è possibile. Umanamente.

[@mentariorudy]

+giorgio1948 .-De acuerdo en todo Giorgio....pero algunas veces, el Maestro, se combierte en extraterrestre.

[@GilraenSwan]

umanamente, una sottigliezza che Mahler ci ha confessato.

[@guidodeclercq7022]

@@GilraenSwan Niet akkoord

[@guidodeclercq7022]

Bernard Haitink

[@jordanwartell-composer]

Look at the way Abbado begs for more passion from the violins @ 22:29. RIP Maestro!!! Your legacy lives on in these divine performances!

[@animasonscience9132]

You thought it was Mendelssohn's Wedding March from A Midsummer Night's Dream, but it was me, Mahler's Traeurmarsch from symphony No. 5!

[@sim773]

Abbado is the best of Mahler interpreters so far. No one is able to be so faithful to the score and make it so intense, alive and true at each bar. We all keep learning from him and enjoying his creations. We miss you Maestro....but you are still with us.

[@francescopomini6334]

I played this Symphony in 1982 with maestro Abbado many times, English Horn by ECYO... Unforgettable, specially when we performed in GoldenerSaal Wien! But listen please also to the version of Bernstein! Difficult to say better... or worst...

[@siavashshaghighi2655]

This is really the first time I am listening to Mahler music! In the past I only heard the symphonies but this time I got hooked. I listened to the maestro

[@gutri4953]

Fourth movement, the Adagietto, performed with a superhuman, impalpable delicacy, pure poetry evoked by a masterful orchestra. But the rest is also worthy of a giant like Abbado!

[@alexhoffmann3002]

Masterpiece, both from Mahler and from Abbado!

[@dimikireeff]

Man! I've been listening to recordings of this piece since the 80s but, like someone said below, this one is like listening to it for the first time. There's an amazing clarity of the lines and still mesmerizing dynamics and subtlety. Loved it. What an amazing orchestra and what a genius was Abbado.

[@pricla777]

The Adagietto is so incredibly beautiful! It gives me goosebumps.

[@RBP1963]

Really stunning adagio and the whole performance at a highest level !thanks Mr. Abbado, you are unforgettable!

[@barbarabarry3799]

Wonderful performance, beautifully phrased, connected between all members of the orchestra, Abbado in his element and Lucerne Festival at their peak.

[@santiagorubenbilotta7714]

Verdadera obra maestra de la música romántica la 5a. Sinfonía de Mahler, magistralmente ejecutada por la Orquesta del Festival de Lucerna, Suiza, bajo la batuta del organizador y coordinador de la misma el Gran Maestro italiano, que ya no esta con nosotros, Claudio Abbado. Gracias por compartir este video.

[@mgcrick2019]

This is such a phenomenal performance of Mahler's 5th! This group absolutely did the piece justice. You can see and hear the true passion of each member in this group and that's such a shocking rarity today. Their dynamic range is also crazy impressive! Bravo!

[@andreapandypeterpan4062]

I have listened to this stupendous performance now five times! A million comments are possible - but how clear it is that in this symphony Mahler shows with complete rhetorical eloquence how s/he inhabits two vastly separated worlds. That of pre-Great War Vienna, of supreme opulence and exquisite sensibility and philosophical ambition. The world of Klimpt and Schiele, the Vienna Secession, of Karl Krauss, of the symbolist Arnold Schoenberg who wrote "Transfigured Night" and "Pelleas und Melisande". Of Freud, and early Thomas Mann, and the family Wittgenstein. And then it is as if we are ejected out of such decadent refinements, and into the biting world of cynicism, parody and surrealism of post-war Berlin and Vienna .... of shattered empires and crippled veterans on every corner, and rouged yet starved erotic services girls and boys fucking and sucking their way from one day to the next. A vista of millions pointlessly slaughtered, and the grinding bitterness of Otto Dix and Max Beckmann. A world of Dadaism, surrealism, of politicised psychoanalysis, of revolutionary Marxist Leninist politics and art, of Brecht and the Bauhaus. The world also of the Frei Corps and the incipient bacillus of reactionary petit-bourgeois fascism. Where the ideas of rationality and progress were just twisted rubbish, and one could do nothing but mouth and parrot obsolete ideas. One soon to be blessed even further by the economic and social whirlwind of the Wall Street Crash of 1929. That is why Mahler's music is often so simultaneously heartbreaking, and sentimental, and self-consciously bathetic-banal-trashy, and yet sensuous and profound, and full of quotes and echoes and mockeries and parodies. Music of stunning polyphonic brass chorales praising and straining for a heaven lost forever. As if one was taking a cup of hemlock tasting like vintage champagne to celebrate the beauties that once existed. In that way, Mahler is one of the finest and most ironic "socialist-realist artists" of any modern era. Indeed, to hear much of his work, with contemporary ears, is to be (what analogy can one grasp) walking in 1945 through the ghettos of Warsaw and Kraków, haunted by the lives of the millions slain and thrust into the ovens, and the ghastly sight of their cities in rubble. A world of Kafka and absurdism and Sonderkommandos, and the outraged analysis and protests of Hannah Arendt. Mahler is a "pre-figuring prophet and witness" to that complete destruction of the confidence of the Enlightenment which still envelopes and strangles our present world. Our lives are what? An idiotic morally and psychologically depraved "escapade in techno-fantasy", the extolling of masculine emotional infantilism and eroticised depravity, moral and psychical and emotional and political bankruptcy masquerading as an enlightened "absolute novelty" wrought of a vast demented fiction gloriously enrobed as "Virtual Reality". In short, an epoch of revolting masculine and patriarchal "psychical cripples" strutting with huge technical prowess. A globally interconnected world of light-speed rumours and manufactured outright lies, of a million childish perspectives prompted to microscopic focus on complete trivia, of malevolent yet tremulous and timorous government agencies spying upon billions of fools who blindly trust their absolute political and financial masters. Of impending global chaos as the nuclear tipped Yankee Petro-Dollar Empire teeters into collapse. Of the new Nazis in Tel Aviv, murdering and displacing millions of Untermenschen now called Palestinians. How well our Zionist brothers and sisters have become enthralled by this psychotic entrapment, so luridly manifested by the failed painter and paranoid pamphleteer form Vienna. All these worlds are the handicraft of men, and of their ever-ready but misguided co-conspirators, drawn from the ranks of far too many women, who ought to know better. Love, andrea

[@enryclaptone1668]

Grandissima opera... grandissimo Maestro e... grandissima Orchestra! Un regalo. Grazie a tutti!

[@ShoyuTao]

Spectacular performance with inspired playing with world class sound and video. Bravo Maestro Abbado,you are missed but this is a testament to your lasting greatness!

[@annakimborahpa]

Many thanks to Alma Schindler for being Mahler's muse of the Adagietto that he composed specifically for her and which then became the 5th's Symphony's Fourth Movement. From this original stand-alone slow movement, he then devised the scheme for the entire symphony with the Adagietto theme prominently reappearing uptempo in the Rondo Finale. This reappearing theme gives the symphony its joyful, triumphant conclusion, particularly following the Sturm und Drang (storm and stress) of the first two movements. Maestro Abbado & the LFO are brilliant as usual.

[@jenniejung137]

Maestro Abbado breaths Mahler here.. And he is a best server who carries a great dish of Mahler 5th to the world gourmets..