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

One of my compositions. Like that !

Grandissimo Maestro Abbado ❤️

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この交響曲の、終わり方、大迫力だなあと思う。😂

I love this symphony. It feels like a person’s brain in a psychotic paranoid episode, trying to figure out what to do with her life.

abbado's lucerne mahler cycle is incredible

Vengo por Okupas xD

Mahler often 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 Succession, 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 in 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, 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 heart-breaking and sentimental and trashy and sensuous and profound, and full of quotes and echoes and mockeries and parodies. 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 "socialist-realist artists" of any modern era.

Indeed, to hear much of his work with contemporary ears, is as if one were 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.

That complete destruction of the confidence of the Enlightenment still envelopes and strangles our present world - an idiotic morally and psychologically depraved escapade in techno-fantasy, of masculine emotional infantilism and erotic naivety masquerading as "Virtual Reality". 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

I think that Mahler was ironic with that last pizz. D in Trauermarch. It sounds so ,,unprofessional” :) (No hate Mahler is my fav. composer after all but i just wanted to highlight that)

Strugente E comovente riposa in pace nel Mondo dei dei visto Che Ai fatto tanto emosione Al mondo❤❤❤❤

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!

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

Who’s here from IG?

I strongly believe Cate and Nina Hoss were here too a year ago 😂😂😂

Buenas TÁRdes 🤭

Merci pour ce chef d'oeuvre !

Le début est ennuyeux mais après du bonheur

Нежная, тревожная, волшебная...

Прекрасная музыка, благодарю❤

Back decades ago, Abbado conducted the Chicago Civic Orchestra (a Chicago metropolitan orchestra that plays on the same stage as the CSO). He came for a 1 session run of the Mahler 5th Symphony. I was a 2nd violinist in that orchestra and I only recall that we had no stop and his conducting style was a full swinging arms. He didn't even speak much (maybe he is Italian?). I couldn't give any compliments about the man except he was a big-name conductor. It was in the last days of Solti w/ the CSO.

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the third movement itself can be considered as a great horn concerto!

Toquen loco! Alguien más que esté aca por Okupas?❤

Какая то психопатическая билиберда! А публика пришла "показаться". Видать, того требует их положение. Как же может такое нравится? Не понимаю.

Really only needed the 3rd movement...it's like one movement too many with the stormy 2nd movement.

Qrico❤

Все симфонии Малера - это потрясающая музыка гения симфониста , но поскольку у меня это была первая мною услышанная , я ценю её более всех.

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Great symphony ❤
Very good performance 👏

Mahler is a genius!But Abbado reveals this to us by power of his genius!👑

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

Abbado rende tutto insuperabile

Great War redux anyone?