UE Mahler Interview with Herbert Blomstedt

Conductor Herbert Blomstedt talks to Universal Edition about the life and music of Gustav Mahler.
This interview is included in our new book Gustav Mahler: The Conductors' Interviews
Edited by Wolfgang Schaufler
www.universaledition.com/mahle...

[@grandisdavid]

This is the type of conductor one can only love.

[@sheebafan13]

He brought the San Francisco Symphony back to the black.

[@classicalperformances8777]

just thinking the same thing

[@noreply7892]

there is nothing more precious than blomstedt talking about mahler and bruckner

[@pega17pl]

There is saying you can't be a Mahler fan and a Bruckner fan. What a stupid statement. - Heinz

[@thiagoancelmo.clarinet]

"Beethoven speaks for us all", by far this one of the most beautiful explanation of Beethoven's music.

[@pietstamitz1]

Love that man! A very modest, serious, profound, kind and very great conductor and human being.

[@301250]

Blomstedt is not only a great maestro but also a philosopher.

[@HerrMichaelKohlhaas]

This was a really sincere interview. Thank you maestro for your insights!

[@robertmanno5749]

Fascinating and great responses by Blomstedt.

[@BytomGirl]

I was lucky to have season tickets to SFS for a few years when he was it's artistic director and conductor.

[@leestamm3187]

His comments regarding the conducting style of the mature Mahler are totally correct. Many accounts and reviews from his late era performances remark about his quite restrained, yet dominating presence on the podium. Though we know Mahler today as a great composer, he was regarded in his own time as one of the world's best conductors.

[@pega17pl]

Blomstedt's comparison of Bruckner and Mahler is very interesting and amazing, too :)
06:35

[@johannesortmann2789]

The most just statement about Lenny Bernstein (2:04).

[@caginn]

"Change characterized Mahler's life; constancy Bruckner's. In a certain sense this is also true of their work. Bruckner sang of his God and for his God, Who ever and unalterably occupied his soul. Mahler struggled toward Him. Not constancy, but change ruled his inner life, hence also his music."

[@candy9986]

Enjoyed the Bernstein comments.

[@pega17pl]

(6:35) Blomstedt's comparison of Bruckner and Mahler is very interesting and amazing, too :) - Heinz

[@quinto34]

Very wise words on Bernstein, I like him

[@caginn]

Reminds Bruno Walter's paper 'Bruckner and Mahler' He also states same kind of ideas in that paper.

[@detectivehome3318]

1:38
Directly referring to Bernstein's approach. (Which I happen to love)

[@pega17pl]

Lot of thanks for this very valuable information. "Bruckner and Mahler" is worth to be read by any of Bruckner and/or Mahler fan. To all Brucknerians don't like Mahler and to all Mahlerians don't like Bruckner: you do not know what you missed!
Once more many thanks for your valuable hint :)

[@xapaga1]

Whenever he appears on NHK, Blomstedt speaks German unlike other conductors like Paavo Järvi, who always responds in English. This is the first time for me to see Blomstedt speak English. I understand his first language is Swedish, though.

[@caginn]

Does he say 'Turkey' at 10:50 ?

[@pega17pl]

to your info: at 2010 Herbert Blomstedt was one of jurors at International Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition by Bamberger Symphoniker
if you want to watch finale, please watch?v=cBqoilbBQpI&feature=endscreen&NR=1
to get more info about this famous conductor competitiion please search at web

[@brooklynchorus8377]

Good interview. The captions are awfully full of mistakes though...

[@uemahlerinterviews]

The captions are automatically generated by RUclips, I'm afraid there's nothing to be done there. However, our transcript is available in the book: www.universaledition.com/sheet-music-and-more/Gustav-Mahler.-The-Conductors-Interviews-Diverse-UE26311

[@brooklynchorus8377]

Thanks for your information!!!

[@caginn]

Your welcome, is my pleasure. Then let me quote from it : "is symphonies also (and these before all) sprang from this fundamental religious feeling that swayed Bruckner's entire spirit. He did not have to struggle toward God; he believed. Mahler sought God. He searched in himself, in Nature, in the messages of poets and thinkers" &

[@olivierbeltrami]

Interesting, being in one’s “Beethoven late quartets period” and not connecting immediately to Mahler’s music. I would have thought one was a gateway drug to the other.

[@Infidelio]

He's probably referring to the Armenian genocide.

[@classicalperformances8777]

at which moment?

[@michaeldoyle6702]

The maestro looks so much like the American playwright Edward Albee. Albee was an adopted lad.
Blomstesdt was born in NYC. Wierd. Very same mannerisms.

[@MrKlemps]

+Michael Doyle Actually he looks much more like the American journalist George Will.

[@MrKlemps]

+Michael Doyle Actually he looks much more like the American journalist George Will.