Repertoire: The BEST and WORST Mahler Symphony No. 9

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For a work of such emotional richness and complexity, Mahler's last completed symphony has been remarkably lucky on disc. We're truly spoiled for choice, so get ready to explore a wide range of rewarding recordings worthy of your consideration.
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My favorite symphony for 60+ years now. Always so emotionally exhausted after listening! Haitink/Concertgebouw 1969❤

wcw
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This was an interesting and entertaining video.
I have a major love for Giulini’s Mahler 9 with Chicago. It has remained my favorite for nearly 40 years. Thanks for your insight.

burke
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The Chailly is daringly devastating, the best and most moving performance I ever heard. I sat for a long time in silence after the final bars. The orchestra is beyond magnificent.

bil
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Thank you for this wonderful description and listing of your favorite performances of the 9nth. I think that with these standalone masterpieces, the random very first recording one hears of them will often leave an imprint for one's entire life. I was 16 when I borrowed Solti's LSO 9th from my school library and listened to it in bed on headphones the same night. After listening, I thought that this was the most profound and moving work of creation a single human had ever made. Almost 50 years later, I feel the same way, loyalty to this piece of music has been an anchor and a compass to my life. I was pleasantly surprised to see that old performance make your list.

thomasronkin
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Rewatching this, excellent David. This series has been one of the true bright spots of the pandemic. I have enjoyed this for months. I love your editorial comments about the music and performances. Mostly, I love hearing someone else sometimes say the same things I did about a recording I've listened to for years! That happens all the time!

JackBurttrumpetstuff
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There are loads of reasons why I am grateful for these videos, and not least of these is making me aware (or more aware) of conductors like Karel Ancerl and Jean Martinon. Huzzah! Listening to Ancerl's Mahler 9 right now.

lesonyrra
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Sir: I'm very pleased you mentioned the Klemperer and Ancerl recordings, they are truly special. But the two that stick in my guts more than any other was, Haitink with the Concertgebouw on Phillips. I was blessed to attend the Amsterdam Christmas Concert in 1987 I believe it was, and that live performance literally stabbed one in the heart at the very end. I immediately got his Phillips recording and it left a great, yes even overwhelming impression on me. Even so, my first experience with Mahler 9th was the old Columbia Bruno Walter recording. Even today all these years later, whenever I hear a Mahler 9th, I'm always in the back of my mind taken back to that old Walter Recording near the end of his life. If there ever was one that's "imprinted" in one's soul, that one is imprinted in mine. I have to say I'm kind of disappointed you didn't mention it even in passing. Still, I look forward to exploring some of your inspired choices. Thank you!

maximisaev
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Hi David thanks so much for your very helpful and informative recommendations of great Classical repertoire.
Simon from Manchester UK

simoncaplan
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I would concur with most of your selections, but one that will always be in my top 4: Barbirolli with Berlin.

martinhaub
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When I was ten back in 1984, discovering Jonathan Schwartz on WNEW AM changed my life as listening to his Sinatra Saturday program for three or four hours a week opened up my entire world, not just to Sinatra, but everyone he worked with: from the arrangers (Riddle/Costa/May) to all the other giants he worked with like Basie and Ellington. THIS YouTube channel - I am feeling - is going to do that for me in terms of Classical Music. I am 47 and found this channel and I am just over the moon for it. Thank you for inspiring us, for teaching the world your passion. Its a joy! Many thanks....

brianhughes
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Am totally addicted to your enthusiasm, wit and wisdom, mr. Hurwitz.

Toggitryggva
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Hi David, this video is a you tube recommendation that has led me to your other surveys. What a blessing to have these videos during the pandemic. It's like sitting in on a master class.
I discovered Mahler at the turn of the century and shortly my wife printed out Tony Duggan's reviews of Mahler's symphonies. Rest his soul, he was really about Horenstein. I thought I was an idiot because I have always found that conductor unlistenable.
So what joy I found in your saying the same thing about Horenstein.
Keep up the good work as I begin to listen to your Bruckner videos.

theremin
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I followed your indication for Ancerl...terrific! And the sound and consistency of Tczech Phil is out of this world!

michelangelomulieri
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Just discovered this channel! Thank you for making these marvelous vids!

simonkawasaki
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Dave thank you for this review on what stands for me ( and no doubt many others) at the very pinnacle of Western classical music. I concur wholeheartedly with your comments concerning the recording by Karel Ancerl. It is a wonder that having been subjected to the full horrors of what war had to offer and having looked death in the eye more times than we can ever imagine he was able to have such a meaningful career after hostilities had finished. Having listened to you extol his virtues on many occasions I have started to collect his recordings. There is something special about each one and this Mahler 9th is no exception. If Mahler's life is summed up in the writing then it is easy to see that Ancerl's life is there in this recording. It feels as though he has poured his life and soul into it warts and all. To me it goes far far further than merely playing the notes.
Sincerely
Richard Duffin

richardduffin
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I played it with Bernstein and the Israel Philharmonic. he took the last movement VERY slow, explaining to us that it should have this Zen mood where nothing's moving and that other conductors just don't have the patience for that. there's a recording of him with the Berlin Phil. and in the middle of the finale you can hear some noise and then people talking followed by brass players not playing their parts. the story was that someone from the audience sitting behind the trombone section died (!!!!) and fell from his chair so people started calling for help and a doctor arrived, moving the trombone players BUT the music didn't stop!!!! the show must yada yada yada

davisbone
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At the last count I have thirty recordings of Mahler 9. I love your top four: I was at the Gilbert concert from which the BIS recording comes and it was his farewell to the Royal Phil, Stockholm in 2008 and yes they played as if their lives depended on it. The 1982 Salzburg Festival radio broadcast was mind-blowing for a recent Mahler convert. And the Ančerl/Česká fil recording is a wonderfully anguished performance, though I listen a lot on the move, so Haitink's Bavarian Radio performance is a safer 'everyday' recording: I don't want to be blubbering!!

sbor
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I've taken far too long to get round to listening to no 9. So far especially impressed the Klemperer recording. This video is very helpful.

andrewhCC
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Thank you Dave! The Karajan version has been my desert island recording for Mahler 9. I bought it when it was first released as CD in late 1980s, and have been enjoying it for years. Got to listen to your recommended Chailly version. Thanks!

jazzsmit
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Ancerl! I learned the piece from his recording, a Crossroads LP set where some genius tape editor cut out the first of the four big tympani strokes at the climax. I was very happy indeed when the CD came out and it was fixed.

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