Bernstein rehearses Mahler's First Symphony with the VPO Part 2 of 2

[@sahalexx]

This is Mahler 5.

[@miffy9871]

The trumpet solo is awesome! A masterclass in articulation.

[@oneblueorange]

I could watch Bernstein working all day

[@phuang3]

Well, I didn't know he spoke German so well.

[@MrGiorgioFederico]

terrible accent, ich bin ein berliner, as Jack said

[@Robert...Schrey]

Bernstein is a German name , after all.

[@MrNuss22]

@@MrGiorgioFederico It‘s actually really not that bad

[@grimmrad]

It is very good.

[@paganviodio]

here - they dont rehearse the FIRST but the FIFTH symphony...the Titel ist wrong.

[@ClauCep]

I thought the same.

[@JonathanLehrer]

This is Mahler's Fifth, not the First.

[@charlescoleman5509]

“I don’t care about your ‘acht stunden’.” 😂

[@MrGiorgioFederico]

it's first movement of Mahler V

[@jackwilmoresongs]

That's the Fifth Symphony not the First.

[@marcfranke4254]

To see all those boared grandfathers with their "leave-me-alone-faces" must have been hell for Bernstein ! What a fight.

[@markokassenaar4387]

Don't worry. It's a matter of concentration. Most orchestras look like this when at work. Or do you wish the musicians to look overexcited, all the time? Now, thát would be hell!

[@grimmrad]

Also, Bernstein was of course jewish as was Mahler while of course the Viennese at that time were still a bit, lets say, caught in the old ways...

[@HenryMollicone]

The greatest musician of his time. period. The thousands of us we are privileged to work with the master forever blessed

[@HenryMollicone]

He will be remembered as a legend!

[@nikodemus7777]

"I dont care about your 8 Stunden..." Great! :o)

[@kelsocampbell1301]

I find it admirable, that although his German was really bad, he really tried to communicate with German musicians in their own language...much better than James Levine, who always spoke English,...despite Lennie's terrible German, the players really knew what he wanted just by his soul...he was one with Mahler, and the musicians knew this, no matter what language he spoke...he spoke Mahler...what a great human being!

[@BenjaminStaern]

7:03, karate-chop on the last note!

[@tripletto2001]

It is mahler 5th symphony

[@adesorcuppy4225]

This is Mahler's 5th, not 1st!

[@c.a.schulze1251]

Bernstein spricht toll Deutsch

[@tdkinser]

That’s Mahler 5

[@hectorberlioz1449]

Mahler V NOT THE FIRST!

[@andreashoppe1969]

How about those huge eye glasses

[@viniciuspanegacci8128]

5

[@lyolevrich]

die Noten können sie spielen das weiß ich….🙏🙏🙏

[@zerksepraga]

Das iz suveil.

[@heinzweixelbraun682]

Bernstein rauft sich die Haare..

[@Skidoo22]

The Viennese here can't be bothered with Mahler.

[@Mooseman327]

Yeah, the VPO has this dislike of Mahler that's hard to explain. I don't get it.

[@jasonhurd4379]

Val It could possibly be traceable to the deeply ingrained anti-semitism, not only of the Viennese, but of much of Central Europe. The Viennese, in particular, are willing to tolerate Jews who are not too ethnically demonstrative, like Mendelssohn, Freud and Schoenberg, but so much of Mahler's music is Jewish to a great degree (I am thinking of the klezmer-style episodes in some of the symphonies), that I am sure it grates against the Viennese tendency toward ghettoization. I could be wrong.

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

Playing Mahler in Vienna with all these antisemites in the orchestra was the major error of Bernstein's career . I wonder why he doesn't see and feel it ....

[@rossini9mozart10]

@@Fritz_Maisenbacher Bernstein knows that the VPO was anti-Mahler, and some parts of the orchestra was still antisemits yeah he knows. One time he heard a musician says "what a shitty music" but he wanted to give to the orchestra the deepness of this music ! And time after time Vienna (and the world) was more and more interested by Mahler, thanks Bernstein !

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

@@rossini9mozart10 Ok, thank you for the explanation, but I am not convinced that Bernstein succeded .....