The last 5 minutes of Abbado's Mahler 9th at 2009 Lucerne Festival
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- Опубликовано: 24 янв 2019
- One of the greatest ending to a live concert ever. That 2 minutes of absolute silence after it ended was magical.
5:20 - ish music ends
7:44 applause 
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I have dreamt of an audience as sensitive as this, but I never knew it was possible. Unforgettable!
This is Mahler awareness of death finally approaching. It's one of the most emotional pieces of music ever written.
He had inoperable heart problems. Today- no problem. He would live another 20-30 years.
Romans 8:26 )
"In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans."
I doubt that there is, in the entire history of classical music performance, a more moving ending than that of Mahler’s 9th Symphony as performed by the Lucerne Festival Orchestra during one of its last concerts under its founder, the incomparable Claudio Abbado (d. 2014). By itself, the mystical ebbing away of those simple, forlorn melodic arcs that the violins extend into the encroaching silence is nothing less than a transformative experience. Yet what gives this transfiguration of sound an altogether magical, incomparable depth is the play of expression on Abbado’s face. Already marked by the cancer that by then he knew would soon take him away from this world, Abbado appears to be carried away, along with those last, searching notes sounded by the strings. When the last note has faded, the vast auditorium in Lucerne is transfixed by two full minutes of total silence. Kudos to the cameraman and editor, who chose to keep the focus squarely on Abbado’s face. Nothing could better visualize for us Mahler’s unprecedented realization of the transition from music (“Klang”) into ultimate silence than Abbado’s gaunt, aged face with its inward-looking expression. The audience, too, appears to have grasped the profundity of what was transpiring before them.
The Lucerne Festival Orchestra started in 1938 by Arturo Toscanini. Claudio Abbado did restart it again after year 2000, according to Wikipedia.
Silence was never more beautiful
Mr. Abbado was the only conductor to understand forte silence.
If there was ever a piece which puts me at peace with death, this is it.
" me too " ... pure beauty !
so beautiful
Jesus said, "I am the ressurection and the Life, whoever believes in Me, though He may die, will Live"
(John 11:25)
Despite being such an important message of Christ, through music this saying of His can be inteperted as both a mahler 9 finale or a mahler 2 finale
Isnt that awesome?
Silence is also music. Abbado at his best. Life has some gifts like this.
INDIMENTICABILE
I love this conductor. And this silence is something what I can't describe with words.
Breathtaking!
Preparing one's last breath in awe to the beauty of life. Rarely can musical pauses and a final silence be so intense and meaningful.
Mahler-Abbado: two giants.
This is not about the beauty of life, it is a farewell to life and crossing over to whatever comes after
Absolutely amazing how the audience kept silence at the end. Mahler's emotional outpouring held to the
very end.
That thunder of applause began and I felt a kind of sadness. It was over. There was finally peace, but it was time to wake up.
....even the musicians stay still for a while.
I live in Bologna and every time I pass under his last home in Piazza Santo Stefano I always dedicate him a fast prayer.
I really honor the fact that Maestro Abbado stood there in silence, letting the music settle into the air. He allowed everyone to realize that even silence is such an impactful thing. What a beautiful ending to a very great piece of music!
A few years ago I suffered a silent heart attack and was rushed to hospital in an ambulance with screaming sirens. My blood pressure plummeted and I was dying. I was calm and registered every moment. I remember saying to the paramedic "Can I go now?" and he said "No, hang in there, we'll get you back!"
I was okay with dying. I have always loved the Mahler 9.
Claudio Abbado was a saint.
In the zen tradition of Japan, great masters would know when their last day had come. They would dine and laugh with their students and friends, and at dinner's end, tell everyone "I must go now." The students would find the master sitting in meditation the next morning, smiling, and already passed.
Ich hoffe es geht Dir gut, Gott schütze Dich
Mir geht es gut, Gott sei Dank. Vor ein paar Wochen hat mein ältester Enkel geheiratet, fast genau acht Jahre nach diesem Herzinfarkt und ein paar Wochen zuvor wurde mein 15. Enkelkind, ein wunderschönes kleines Mädchen, geboren. Ich bin froh, dass ich die Möglichkeit hatte, mit meiner Familie zu leben und mich zu freuen. Mahler schrieb nicht nur die Neunte, sondern auch die Zweite Symphonie. Jeder Tag, an dem mein eigener Tod näher rückt, ist ein unermesslicher Mehrwert. Mit den Worten von „Der Abschied“: Ewig, ewig.@@DSdt63
Have you cut down on sodium since?
@@mvygantasNo. And I also smoke again.
Abbado was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2000. This concert happended nine years on into his battle with the disease. I would imagine his struggle with this serious illness and with his mortality had something to do with the emotion and utter silence at the end of this symphony. Absolutely riveting.
Abbado truly embraces the moment of being In unison with his orchestra and the audience. Such a rare, beautiful and deeply moving experience. I wish I were there... thank you for posting this.
He was in unison with the music, which took him to the threshold of death and he had a long road to get back to the living.
What an amazing state of bliss he must have felt, and what is more astonishing, you can feel it too, just by seeing him.
Maestro Abbado leaved us on this day! You're always in my heart. I remember you every seconds. We missed you Claudio! 😢 R.I.P Maestro!
How I loved this conductor. There is a hole in the world where he was. How he held this in the circle of his will, so delicately . . .
I love it! Only Abbado could make a 5 minute video that lasts over 11 minutes!He was magical.
This is one of the very few performances of Mahler's Ninth Symphony in which one forgets that the composition was never given the finishing touch by Mahler himself on the basis of first performances conducted by the composer. Just as Mahler used to do with new orchestral compositions of his own.
Mahler completed this Ninth in 1910 and only after his death (1911) did the work premiere in Vienna on 26 June 1912 under the direction of his young friend and protégé Bruno Walter. The Adagio-finale with its 'dying' last bars is generally considered to be Mahler's 'Abschied vom Leben'-gesture, due to the tragic developments of his health in the last period of his life.
As von Karajan said of the Ninth - "it is music coming from another world...it is coming from eternity". Thank you for uploading this. It is a treasure beyond words.
Classical music's most profound ending.
Perfect command of the entire hall.
Wonderful so moving. Quite a sophisticated audience to hold their applause.
The silences were a regular thing when Abbado conducted. Especially late career. Anything with a piano ending. The Lucerne audience was well trained in this.
Without doubt the best performance of this work. Watching this one can finally understand the profession of being a conductor. Their work is not so much in the concert, but at the rehearsals, when they can "teach" the orchestra to perform with such sublime perfection.
This is what we need. Best for ever. Silence in its deepest art. Thank you Mr. Abbado.
it's been 10 years, we miss you claudio
Claudio Abbado died on Jan. 20th aged 80 and on his passing the economist magazine wrote in their obituary
"There was, said Claudio Abbado, a certain sound to snow. It did not come from walking on it. If you stood on a balcony, too, you could hear it. A falling sound, fading away to nothing, pianissimo, like a breath. You could hear it only if you listened to what some supposed was silence."
and he was right. There is a very quiet sound to falling snow that you don't realize until you're outside standing in a snow storm and listening to it fall.
Absolutely brilliant piece if music, and wonderful leadership by the fantastic Claudio Abbado. The fact that this concert was in 2010, it's sad to hear that four years later he would come to die in his home country if Italy (in Bologna, he was born in Milan). The way the audience and orchestra sat in silence knowing that this would be the last concert Abbado would conduct, and the way the silence was created, the way he made the music flow and the gratitude he received from the public must have been so magical. Thank you for this upload - more people really need to see this!
I was moved to tears watching this. Abbado was truly one of the greatest. Magic!
I think Abbado very much had the feeling that his life was coming to an end when he conducted Mahler 9th. Nevertheless it wasn`t his last concert, he conducted until 2013, one year before his death...
Wonderful and reminding me of a concert in Cologne 1991 or later with Abbado as the new head of the Berlin Philharmonic and this symphony. The same silent respect after the close. It was breathtaking - noone was doing anything. It was a transcendent moment without time...
I think this must have been a sacred moment for all players and people present... Lucerne capacity is 2044 seats... 🙏
Claudio! forever in my soul
It is easy enough to understand. The silence is the offering. The offering of the exquisite last hour and a half to the Great Silence. Solemn, and full of all human understanding. The silence is extended in hope of response and it is sustained for as long as a human can do so. For us all on this plane, it is all we can do.
0:40 to me, that quartal m7 chord is everything. I compare this way of interpreting it with Bernstein's and you can see here in the conducting gestures all the differences a different human being's life can make. Abbado clearly comes to a stop, explicitly asks for a silent measure, index finger in front of his lips, then he doesn't count the chord for the orchestra, he just let them go with it, accompanying with long, high, minimal gestures, like a rarified atmosphere. Conversely, see Bernstein; his vision is made more clear from his commentary, but he's more rhythmical; his baton is held downward and then the chord comes and he counts it with a very linear, horizontal, crossed gesture, like he's painting some invisible but firm spider web from the center to each limits.
Abbado's is something suavely coming up, something that is already going downwards before that moment; Bernstein's is something declaring a statement IN that very moment, like it's from that very moment it is going to fade out.
Truth is, all in all, at the end of the day you have to let it go, and in these ways of interpreting we get a glimpse, perhaps, of what life is worth.
As interesting as your analysis is, there is a seven second delay between the audio and the visual (see the violins at 1:18 for a clear proof of this). In fact what you see when Abbado stops conducting is actually for the silence that has just happened, and not for the quartal chord. In fact none of the gestures in this video relate to what you are hearing.
yes as the other commenter said this video/audio is off. See Jose Manuel's upload "Mahler - Symphony No. 9 - Abbado - Lucerne Festival Orchestra 2010"; Abbado puts his index finger in front of his lips when the high celli bend the Ab up to an A (the upward hand motion he does right before the finger on lips signals the bend). Then the sound dies as he lifts his left hand higher and then back down, with such sad eyes, before his right hand signals the downbeat again and the camera moves to see the violin section and the music sounds again.
i droped my tear while i m enjoying the silent
Abbado was one of the very few conductors to play the last page of the Finale slower than the main Adagio tempo. It's marked ”Adagissimo ” by Mahler. Most conductors actually speed up especially when they've taken a ridiculously slow tempo for the rest of the movement.
It is really amazing how some well-known musicians simply don't know how to read a score properly. It's sometimes the equivalent of reciting Shakespeare as if you were a football commentator... Mahler was exceptionally precise in what he wrote down in his scores, as was Beethoven for that matter. It is a real crime not to bother becoming at one with the intentions of great composers. They were not fools, after all - it's the least one can do. It takes a lot of homework, but just look at what the result can be...!
What a journey this piece is. One of my all time favorite symphonies to play or listen to!
AND this is the reason why I LOVE MUSIC--- BEING TRANSCENDED RIGHT INTO HEAVEN--- and actually, wishing that I COULD STAY THERE-- the effect this music has on the conductor, after so many many years--- and the effect it has on me--- I AM TOTALLY SPEECHLESS.
As a great conductor used to know the value of the appropriate silence.
The silence is so utterly, utterly overwhelming.
Its wonderful.
Touching! Thanks for posting this excellent clipping to show the last 5 minutes of music playing, 2 minutes of entire silence, plus 4 minutes of passionate audience applause. Actually there are 3~4 more minutes audience applause after this clipping. It would be even better to show them all to reflect the significance of this performance conducted by Maestro Claudio Abbado.
I miss abbado. What a treasure❤️❤️❤️
O vídeo mais emocionante da história do RUclips! Chorei muito. Abbado nos comove profundamente. Momento que ficará marcado para sempre em meu coração.
Allyne, penso o mesmo que você.
Probably the most beautiful Italian-Austrian embrace since Mozart.
Mahler's perfection could only be Abbado. Abbado's last goodbye could only be Mahler.
Who would want to be the first to clap in such a miraculous silence... I didn't think modern audiences were capable of this.
The most magical moment in the hands of the most magical human being and musician. Maestro, you’re terribly missed.
Return to Earth after the ending these 5 wonderful minutes…
Thank you, all audiences, for holding in your cough
What a sensitive Person. Maestro Abbado you was great!
El legado de Mahler y la dirección de Abbado en Lucerna son Gigantescos.😊😊
Emocion pura!!gracias maestro!!
Quelle émotion !
Merci Maestro Abbado
Thanks Kjell Westö, recommending this specific performance in your novel ”Tritonus ”
Danke für den musikalischen und optischen Ausflug, ein eindrucksvolles Stück
You can't truly explain awareness but you can sometimes in a moment of particular grace experience it. This is one of those moments.
Moltes gràcies per tot Claudio! 🥹🤍
This was a sublime concert; best Mahler 9 ever. A slight correction, though: It was August 2010, not 2009.
Lo sublime habita en el silencio. Gracias Mahler, Gracias Maestro Abbado, Gracias Vida.
La 8va,9na y 10ma de Mahler son muy emotivos sus finales, por eso sensibiliza y moviliza tanto al oyente, adicionalmente Abbado q fue un gran director y buena persona generó tanta admiración por parte del público y de los mismos músicos.
No es casualidad que los últimos mov de sus sinfonías sean tan intensos, personalmente este junto al último de la 2da (resurrection) me matan .
The gives me soo much peace and melancholy 😢😢
I had never seen such a thing in my life.
Immense génie, dans Mahler, incontournable. Merci Maestro !!!!
This is sensational.
Amazing - absolutely stunning. There's nothing quite like a long silence in a room with hundreds or thousands of people.
(Also, did anyone else notice the actor Bruno Ganz, who played Hitler in the famous movie Downfall, in the audience? You see him at 8:42 )
Concerto maravilhoso!
Parabéns ao Regente e a todos os músicos.
Gratidão
I feel like Abbado believed that the spirit was still making music after the last sound of the orchestra, and if we listen hard enough, it goes on forever (ewig).
Celebration of Silence
Maestro, ¡cómo te echamos de menos!
The respect for the performance, for the art….remarkable. What an amazing experience this must have been.
Imposible no emocionarme. Ojalá hubiera podido conocer al maestro.
I‘ve been there and will never forget it ❤
Magical!
Maravilloso! Que silencio más respetuoso, profundo y emocionante!
Insuperabile! Grazie!🌈
Very beautiful, very sad, and very hard to play!
At the time of this performance Caludio had already been battling cancer. This will go down as the most compelling performance of Mahler's 9th and last Symphony ever performed, and it comes with irony in that Mahler's emotions in this work contrast hope with despair - he was thinking about death. The depth of Caludio's emotion in this performance is beyond words. How utterly profound and compelling. This, for me, is my favorite Symphony ever composed. Astonishing that this music was banned during the period of the Nazi's. Those last 5 minutes was so intense - he was so deeply immersed in the Symphony.
Cancer puts your nose up against the glass of your own mortality...
Mahler's symphonic conclusion of a life. I like to think of it as a transition into and of the continuum 🙏
Incredible!!!
What a powerful communion.
Incredible..... breathtaking.....
🌟 Sublime....
Ogniqualvolta ascolto questo brano e gurdo quest'uomo staordinario mi commuovo fino all'inverosimile.!
Sublime et bouleversant.
Wow.... just amazing. !
8:43 that's Bruno Ganz!!!!
Mahler sums up the meaning of Mahler.
Que emoción indescriptible celestial
stunning
Bravo I was there 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🥰🥰🥰❤️❤️
Can you imagine an american audience waiting this long to clap?!
Actually, this was in 2010.
Wonderful, imperishable end.
Greetings from East Anglia in England.
legend!
You can really hear that violin at 0:28 crying
Sublime...
Such a tribute to Mahler!
Like a testament, his beautiful extraordinary unique last will. We always adore you
This silence was simply epic!
il savait !et en depit de tout une présence magnifique ! un grand Chef et homme digne
Me gustaria que estos inmortales cinco minutos sonaran en los últimos minutos de mi vida.
Oggi, 10 anni dopo la sua morte, ho la pelle d'oca e le lacrime agli occhi come allora.
R.I.P. Maestro