Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor(Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado)

Mahler is the master of symphonies. He completed nine symphonies and left one incomplete - they are all frequently performed.
Abbado, hailed as an interpreter of Mahler, performs this work in an unconventional way. When the symphony was first published, the Scherzo came as the second movement. However, Mahler revised the symphony later and put the Scherzo to be the third movement. Currently, most conductors play the Scherzo as the second movement - as it was first intended. However, Abbado uses Mahler's corrected version here, which helps add contrast between the first movement.
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[@nerowolfe736]

Man and boy, off and on, I've listened to this symphony for 45 years. It has always been my go-to in times of anger, frustration, depression and sorrow beyond words. In this reading by Abbado, I have heard terrible beauties and beautiful terrors that I have never heard before. His position in the front rank of Mahler interpretation is unquestionable.

[@kjohnlu]

You got point, but Karajan's interpretation was more terrible beauties and beautiful terrors you heard than Abbado.

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

@@kjohnlu Karajan was too concerned with sounding beautiful in Mahler. His 6th lacks the rawness that it needs at times.

[@colinpowell6221]

The Andante is one of if not the most beautiful things he has written.

[@Jacob-du5if]

34:37 - one of the beautiful moments in all of music imo

[@andresmorales5111]

Definitely

[@gubbypls]

Yes!!!!!!!

[@nicolassanchez595]

You are right my friend. One of the most awe-inspiring moments ever composed in music. Can't fight back the tears...

[@tlampful]

Totally.

[@rearedevening9283]

It’s my ringtone

[@Trombosilbo]

I love Mahler symphonies, what else can i say

[@erikfurudi975]

Discovered it recently it's getting more and more enjoyable each time ! Didn't knew much about Mahler except his wikipedia page I regret not giving him a try beforr

[@jeffreykalb9752]

I can't understand how the second movement is so under appreciated. Hope, love, despair, exuberance, calm, nature, contemplation, pain, nagging fear, nobility, exhilaration, tragedy... and almost always more than one at a time.

[@removankebabzic887]

You mean the third ?

[@jeffreykalb9752]

@@removankebabzic887 Second.

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

@@jeffreykalb9752 The third. It needs to be played in 3rd place not 2nd. ;)

[@jeffreykalb9752]

@@Quotenwagnerianer Conductor's choice.

[@eduardoaguilar7080]

Simply the best of Mahler´s Works

[@JoseMedina-sv8uy]

Muchas Gracias por compartir esta obra maestra.

[@thelredtheunready1894]

Ohmygod this is epic

[@mookiekins75]

First hammer blow 1:02:06

[@2905sid]

I will eternally wrestle with the question of arranging the Scherzo and Andante... There just isn't a right answer!

[@MikeDrewYT]

There is a musically correct answer, and Mahler rejected it for silly commercial reasons. One of the saddest artistic decisions of his life.

[@antonycooke6402]

Sure there is. The Andante MUST come second. It's all coded in the music-the continuity is beyond doubt. Mahler was talked out of it for all the wrong reasons. Alma knew better.

[@klop4228]

@@MikeDrewYT No, Mahler picked the musically correct one; the one that doesn't make the scherzo feel like a redundancy.

[@marcogarlato6980]

Come fatto giustamente notare anche in altri commenti, l'interpretazione del Maestro Abbado, in tutta la sua appassionata partecipazione, evidenzia meravigliosamente i molti aspetti di questa musica sublime - a differenza di altre pur notevolissime incisioni. Grazie

[@bernhardluecke6437]

Absolutely remarkable.

[@royrequireswifi488]

1:06:40 2nd hammer blow

[@Balfour.]

My all-time favourite 6th recording. 2004 live performance edited and enhanced in studio. I have the original audio feed - at 16:11 first trumpet made an awful mistake and here it's corrected.

[@user-rf9sb1gm4g]

Thanks for your additional information.

[@jamessalepe]

A epic master symphony!

[@NeilRaouf]

Bravo!

[@jorgeledesma7420]

La sexta sinfonía de Mahler es la única de su ciclo que termina con un tono trágico. Fue estrenada el 27 de mayo de 1906 en Essen, Alemania.

[@klop4228]

I don't have time to give this a full listen, but I think this is almost the only performance I've found of the scherzo that doesn't bore me eventually. It's such an apparently haphazard piece of music that it needs a master's touch to make it sound like a single journey, but, at least on this listen, I think Abbado pulled it off. Gotta give it another try as part of the whole symphony next.

[@alejandroestrada8136]

Abbado and Mahler it is a perfect combination

[@texwiller4029]

Mahler is significant because he prepared the way to Shostakovich. A lot of composers adapted Wagner "sound" (Sibelius, Bruckner) but Shostakovich adapted Mahler.

[@jeffreykalb9752]

I love Shostakovich, but it's silly to say that Mahler is just a path to Dmitri. It is far from established fact that Shostakovich is superior to Mahler. I don't even know how I would compare them linearly.

[@texwiller4029]

@@jeffreykalb9752 Mahler's orchestration is original, Shostakovich got influences also from Honegger, Satie and Scarlatti (especially you csn heard it from his op 17 "Two arrangements on Scarlstti".

[@nsdlrlaw]

Gut wrenching

[@jorgeledesma7420]

La 6@ sinfonía en la menor de Mahler interpretada magistralmente por la BPO y bajo la batuta del sucesor de Karajan, el gran director milanés Abbado.

[@hurleypiano3953]

Cool acoustics

[@rubeng9092]

God that first movement is dope!

[@glauberamorim301]

Tem. 7?

[@Hanfgurkenhasser]

Easily my favorite recording of Mahler 6th. The sound of the hammer is just...perfect. Just like I envisioned it.

[@gwenaelherve5675]

Quelle dynamique sonore !!! (La dynamique sonore d'un signal sonore ou d'une musique est le rapport entre sa sonie (volume perçu) maximale et sa sonie minimale.)

[@gwenaelherve5675]

Enregistrement public - 2004 - Philharmonie de Berlin

[@dankafurtw2581]

14:52

[@movinitlikedat45]

I was brought here by "The Hunt"

[@csr4520]

Me too

[@TheNOODLER100]

1:19:00 The only jumpscare in music as I've ever heard before.

[@king31XD]

Hahaha try Tchaikovsky No. 6 the 1st. Movement by Currentzis!! The transition to the second theme jumpscares me every time...start at 9:00 ;)

[@stargazer4790]

The final movement in Mahler's 1st always jumpscares me as well.

[@mozartmahler61]

Stravinsky' s Firebird suite: beginning of Katschei dance after quiet princesses' go-round: another jumpscare!

[@charlesdelair61]

Don't forget Hayden Symphony #94..."Surprise!" A jumpscare coming to you all the way from 1791!😆

[@Nathan-ey3ds]

The hunt (2020) What a weird ass movie.

[@Schwansonian_Townsonian]

I was dying to find out what the music was in the beginning...so glad I found this. But, yes, weird f'in movie. Still fun though.

[@tiritiri-matangi]

1:06:34

[@SeigneurReefShark]

9:50 1:02:01

[@chris2745]

51:10

[@victoriaw7436]

00:32:00

[@chris2745]

48:16

[@schaerffenberg]

What would Mahler has been without Hans Rott? Yet, the former never gave the latter an ounce of credit.

[@jonchaies3006]

He still would’ve been a great composer

[@astridarraut9502]

Geniuses don’t own anything to anybody, they are born genius.

[@jeffreykalb9752]

Maybe you should cut out the slander. They were kindred spirits, but Mahler came to full fruition without Rott. Have you ever heard a musician praise another musician like Mahler praised Rott? Mahler wrote of Rott : "a musician of genius ... who died unrecognized and in want on the very threshold of his career. ... What music has lost in him cannot be estimated. Such is the height to which his genius soars in ... [his] Symphony [in E major], which he wrote as 20-year-old youth and makes him ... the Founder of the New Symphony as I see it. To be sure, what he wanted is not quite what he achieved. … But I know where he aims. Indeed, he is so near to my inmost self that he and I seem to me like two fruits from the same tree which the same soil has produced and the same air nourished. He could have meant infinitely much to me and perhaps the two of us would have well-nigh exhausted the content of new time which was breaking out for music." Thanks to Rott's friends, some of his music manuscripts have survived in the music collection of Vienna's national library. This includes Rott's Symphony in E major, and sketches for a second Symphony that was never finished. The completed symphony is remarkable in the way it anticipates some of Mahler's musical characteristics. In particular, the third movement prefigures the second movement of Mahler's First Symphony. The Finale includes references to Brahms's First Symphony. Mahler also spoke well of Rott's Lieder, of which all eight surviving complete songs have been performed in concert since 2002 and four sung by Dominik Wörner were recorded in 2009 on the Ars label. We also know of a Sextet, which Mahler never heard and has also been lost. In his last years, Rott wrote a lot of music, only to destroy what he wrote soon after writing it, saying it was worthless. Bruckner and Mahler were the first to recognise Rott's talent. Mahler himself included references to Rott's work in his own music. However, in the 20th century, Rott's work was largely forgotten; and only in 1989 was Rott's Symphony in E major finally premiered by the Cincinnati Philharmonia Orchestra under Gerhard Samuel, in a performing edition prepared by Paul Banks. A CD recording followed. (Wikipedia) Rott, sadly, suffered from insanity: Rott began to evidence persecutory delusions. In October 1880, while on a train journey, he reportedly threatened another passenger with a revolver, claiming that Brahms had filled the train with dynamite. Rott was committed to a mental hospital in 1881, where despite a brief recovery he sank into depression. By the end of 1883 a diagnosis recorded "hallucinatory insanity, persecution mania-recovery no longer to be expected." He died of tuberculosis in 1884, aged 25. Many well-wishers, including Bruckner and Mahler, attended Rott's funeral at the Zentralfriedhof in Vienna. (Wikipedia)

[@ashes_menagerie]

Should have been around for Star Wars

[@geckoi8166]

This and Beethoven's 5th...are really not music. They're just anger in a box. Death Metal for erudits and burgeois.

[@johnb6723]

I think you are cheeky!

[@jeffreykalb9752]

It would be fascinating to know where you got your musicology... and your weed.

[@anangryjuicebox2799]

54:18

[@thuandu7950]

1:18:45