Name: Wiener Philharmoniker Bernstein
Start: 1974-10-01T00:00:00.000Z
End: 1974-10-09T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Wiener Konzerthaus

Organization

Wiener Konzerthaus

Conductor

Leonard Bernstein

Orchestra

Wiener Philharmoniker

Wiener Philharmoniker / Bernstein

Vienna

Austria

Großer Saal

At the beginning of his second year as opera director in Budapest, Gustav Mahler was asked by the Hungarian capital's philharmonic orchestra to conduct a new symphonic work in the 1889/90 season. Mahler complied with this request with a symphonic poem, which eventually became the First Symphony. It premiered on November 20, 1889.

A striking feature of all Mahler's symphonies is their origin in song, particularly in Austrian folk tunes and dances. All four movements of the First Symphony each have at least one orchestrated vocal piece. The theme of the first movement and parts of the finale are based on a simple, folk-song-like tune from the second of his "Songs of a Journeyman". The second movement's rhythm echoes that of Ländler, and a central trio parodies a soulful waltz style. The third movement is rhythmically similar to a funeral march, which leads into a minor-key version of the children's song "Bruder Martin". The last movement contains a motif from Mahler's earlier work "Das klagende Lied".

Leonard Bernstein was the first conductor to record all of Gustav Mahler's symphonies not only on disc but also on video. The Mahler cycle, realized between 1971 and 1985 for the most part with the Vienna Philharmonic, was the first project in Leonard Bernstein's twenty-year collaboration with Unitel. Bernstein's recordings of all Mahler symphonies are not only a unique musical document, but they also contributed to a new understanding of Mahler's work.
"All Mahler symphonies, all Mahler works by the way, are full of extremes. Extremes in dynamics, in tempo, in emotional meaning. If the music is bare, then it is very bare; if it is dense and powerful, it is denser and more powerful than the Götterdämmerung as a whole; when it suffers, it suffers as has never been suffered in music." (Leonard Bernstein)

Wiener Philharmoniker / Bernstein: Concert Various

Public

Symphony No. 1

Approved

Wiener Philharmoniker / Bernstein by Mahler, Fra (1974/1974), Dirigent Leonard Bernstein, Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna, Austria

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