'Mahler: Symphony No. 9 on Period Instruments' by Mahler Academy Orchestra & Philipp von Steinaecker

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'Mahler: Symphony No. 9 on Period Instruments' by Mahler Academy Orchestra & Philipp von Steinaecker

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This recording of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony is an event, because it was made with period instruments of the kind the composer used in Vienna. The Mahler Academy Orchestra set itself the task of reconstructing this instrumentarium and researching how musicians of the time played it: ‘We were struck during our rehearsals by the incredibly distinctive characterisation of the woodwinds, the shattering blare of the brass, the perfect balance between the instruments, and the pure and warm sound of the strings. . . They took Mahler’s brilliant orchestration to yet another level’, says Philipp Von Steinaecker, artistic director of this ambitious ‘Originalklang’ (original sound) project and conductor of this orchestra, which brings some fifty young musicians into contact with the finest instrumentalists from the world’s leading formations (Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden, Wiener Symphoniker etc.). Together they made this historic recording in Dobbiaco-Toblach in Italy, where Mahler composed his monumental symphony in 1909, two years before his death.
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@thomasvendetti3742 2 ай бұрын

Listen to the 1938 Bruno Walter / Vienna Phil live recording of the Mahler 9. Listen to the solos of Arnold Rose(Mahler’s brother-in-law). Here you will hear the closest and most reliable Mahler sound. Vibrato was definitely employed. Such experiment though interesting are not definitive.

@bruhbruh2128 2 ай бұрын

But it is also true that Arnold didn't like vibrato in general, throughout his WP term.

@bruhbruh2128 2 ай бұрын

I believe this project is very nice and attracting. Nowdays, finally, many musicians can play period instruments without large mistakes during a live performance (in other words, can give a studio-level performance). The usage of vibrato and other techniques are able to be 'reverted'. There is nothing cooler than listening to perfectly controled string tone in the live performance. And I also believe that it has been presented many times around Europe these days.

@dfdhgtrss212 2 ай бұрын

sounds great

@MarshallArtz007 2 ай бұрын

🙉

@porcinet1968 2 ай бұрын

the string playing is really strange but rather interesting - Mahler writes clear requests for portamentos a great deal in this score but these players are applying portamenti almost everywhere, even the opening major 2nd F#-E is a slide!

@HST3B 2 ай бұрын

Great to see Marinus Komst, former Concertgebouw timpanist.

@BetonBrutContemporary 2 ай бұрын

I always wanted this kind of project! Cool and good... kind of reminds me of Norrington

@michaelmorse7627 Ай бұрын

Except these folks seem to like music..

2 ай бұрын

I wonder what it REALLY sounded like back then?? Older acoustics, stylistic differences, playing/performing techniques, etc

@reamartin6458 2 ай бұрын

It’s not a big mystery, it sounded like the turn of the century music that you can find on radio snippets it sounded like Fritz Kreisler and Jascha Heifetz, wildly expressive and with zero concern for period music performance practices.

@MarshallArtz007 2 ай бұрын

The Mahler 9th recording no one asked for. 😎🎹

@dfdhgtrss212 2 ай бұрын

speak for yourself bro

@davidalderson4980 Ай бұрын

Yup

@vittoriostoraro Ай бұрын

@@dfdhgtrss212 No he's speaking as someone who loves Mahler and knows his intentions. This is garbage, unbearable, a travesty, an insult to Mahler and his music. A 20th century work on period instruments. Give me a f*cking break. Anyone who praises this does not love or understand Mahler. If only Bruno Walter, who knew Mahler were alive to call this what it is: Excrement.

@HenrySosenite 2 ай бұрын

Not only is this the best Mahler 9 I've heard, but you ruined Dave Hurwitz's day when he heard it. You're doing God's work

@MaxPower-grrl Ай бұрын

Lol! 😘

@savis0 Ай бұрын

Out of curiosity, what criteria are you using to be able to say this is the best recording you've heard?

@hectorberlioz1449 Ай бұрын

I do not agree often with Hurwitz , but this time he was completely right !

@MaxPower-grrl Ай бұрын

@@hectorberlioz1449 lol

@MaxPower-grrl Ай бұрын

@@hectorberlioz1449 mm... huh

@corgansow6173 2 ай бұрын

Some people really thinks they interpret the composer better than other musicians

@tomdownes1g 2 ай бұрын

This comment is not clear.

@theophicen7850 2 ай бұрын

Just following the hype of 'authenticity' to sell and make a name. This performance is one big LIE.

@michaelmorse7627 Ай бұрын

Not *entirely*. They are playing some things GM notated that no one else plays, not even Walter..

@michaelmorse7627 Ай бұрын

Why does "period instruments" always have to mean "as denatured as possible"? Our forebears had feelings, you know; some of them even had fun sometimes..

@arthurfunk3104 13 күн бұрын

6:59 Why do the timpani have clear plastic heads?

@reamartin6458 2 ай бұрын

Why?

@tomdownes1g 2 ай бұрын

Mahler is the best

@reamartin6458 2 ай бұрын

Hahah that’s funny. No I’m sorry Mahler is definitely not the best… you know that 😂

@dfdhgtrss212 2 ай бұрын

@@reamartin6458speak for yourself bro.

@Ennah08 Ай бұрын

Out of interest and curiosity!

@DanielKRui 2 ай бұрын

Quite cool. I wonder what say Rachmaninoff's 2nd symphony would sound like on these instruments. Maybe a little more transparent, compared to the thicker sounds of today.

@hectorberlioz1449 Ай бұрын

Go back to the Philadelphia Orchestra recordings under Rachmaninoff himself!

@DanielKRui Ай бұрын

@@hectorberlioz1449 sadly he only recorded his 3rd symphony. I wish I could hear him conduct his others!

@cormaclevinthal3496 2 ай бұрын

This is farcical nonsense.

@user-io1ku8li5d 2 ай бұрын

wonderful i ve waited for a mahler like this

@johannesortmann2789 2 ай бұрын

Maybe in a few years, after practicing a lot on this very special instruments…

@bruhbruh2128 2 ай бұрын

already there are a few.

@Delius1958 Ай бұрын

Original instruments usually sound warm (as on old recordings with the Collegium Aureum). These here sound shrill to my ears.

@hectorberlioz1449 Ай бұрын

Terrible sounding recording under a mediocre conductor. Listen to Mengelberg or Bruno Walter. Vibrato is obliged and required. Listen f.i. to Mengelberg's 1928 rec of ein Heldenleben with the NYPO or his 1926 rec of the Adagietto with the Concertgebouw. Lots of vibrato and slights in the strings. I listened to this cd and this has nothing to do with Mahler or whatever. It sounds more like a barock interpretation of something coming near a Mahler performance , with an orchestra with no Mahler performing tradition at all. Sorry for the negativity.

@themajor2072 2 ай бұрын

Ludicrous. Instruments are far less important than the people that play them. This project is so small-minded in it’s mission; it’s prioritizing a gimmick over the music and the creative interpretation. Mahler said it himself: Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. Edit: As a side note, everything Clive Brown says from 4:48 to 5:10 is complete nonsense. We know how this work was interpreted at its premiere; we have multiple recordings made by Bruno Walter, the man who premiered the 9th. You can’t argue that modern orchestras don’t understand how it was done at the premiere when we have recordings straight from the horse’s mouth. Also, the idea of every single player in an orchestra interpreting their sound differently being presented as a positive really speaks to how ignorant Clive Brown is about how an orchestra actually works. There’s a reason why string players carefully coordinate how they move their bows as a section, or why brass players are taught to listen and blend their tone. Finally, the notion that a pickup orchestra, comprising as many students as professionals, would at all be an authentic representation of how an orchestra like the Vienna State Opera or the Vienna Philharmonic really sounded is patently absurd.