[quote=Sungoon]@Xreniya: There's 9 completed ones, and a 10th unfinished (with a few finished versions)
I'd definitely start with the earlier symphonies (1-4 are the Wunderhorn symphonies) and here are their programs:
Symphony 1 "Titan" has 4 movements: 1st where the world thaws after a long winter 2nd (original second is "Blumine", a flower movement that was omitted even though it's very good and material from it appears in the finale) 2nd, "full sail ahead" 3rd, "shipwrecked" (also Frere Jacques in minor) 4th in which the hero experiences trial and failure many times before triumph
Symphony 2 "Resurrection" has 5 movements: 1st movement makes up part 1 and the rest make up part 2. The cadence of the second theme in the recap of this movement foreshadows the final cadence of the whole symphony. 2nd movement: the composer asks the conductor to observe a 5 minute pause before this movement because he thought the audience wouldn't be able to handle how light this movement is compared to the heavy 1st movement (but turns out to be pretty weighty). Most conductors bring in the soloist at this time, who will wait until the 4th movement to sing. 3rd movement comes from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, this time without the text. In Wunderhorn, it's about a sermon by a priest to all types of fish. The sermon was so hyped, but no one left inspired. Near the end of this movement, the symphony starts back up again with a reminder of the underlying weight of the whole thing. 4th movement is sung by the soloist. "Man lies in deepest need, man lies in deepest pain." The narrator sings to a little red rose that life is too unbearable and that she'd rather be in heaven. 5th movement is this epic finale.
Pretty much, the 2nd symphony is really heavy. Every single movement constantly builds up hope where it is smacked back down a few bars later, so the underlying emotion for about 1h 15 minutes is pain. Then at the very end, the choir comes in. 1h15m of pain and suffering then a choir comes in and it sounds subtly like heaven and it has me in tears all the time. Then the last of the symphony is a triumphal ending in which the hero final returns to heaven. Last text of this symphony: That which you suffered, to God it will lead you (like holy crap this one is good)
Symphony 3 ~"What the universe tells me" my favorite The program to this symphony is so beautiful. 6 movements, 1h45m making it his longest symphony. 1st movement - what the Earth tells me (Pan awakes, this is where Be Our Guest from Beauty and the Beast comes from) 2nd movement - what the flowers in the meadow tell me (holy crap this movement is so complex) 3rd movement - what the animals in the forest tell me 4th movement - what man tells me 5th movement - what the angels in heaven/morning bells tell me 6th movement - what love tells me (my what a beautiful and natural progression, but originally Mahler intended this to be the 2nd movement)
Symphony 4 - a spin off of the 3rd Symphony, this time the world through the view of a child 1st movement (classically structured and melodies reminiscent of Mozart) 2nd movement (very sardonic and harsh mistuned violin solo) 3rd movement (pastoral) 4th movement ("The Heavenly Life"/ what the children in heaven tell me) the original ending to Mahler 3, so it has bits of Mahler 3's 2nd and 5th movements in it
another good one is Symphony 8 "Symphony of a Thousand" This symphony is in 2 parts, 2nd part is set to text from Goeth's Faust. It's super good, especially the ending. Without a question the most beautiful music I've ever heard. Similar to the ending of Mahler 2. Mahler didn't give it its name, but the premier had close to 1000 performers. Half an hour before he was to go on stage to conduct, his wife told him that she loved another man. __Can you imagine the anxiety he must have faced before performing this?__ This piece is no cakewalk, either, it's very emotionally draining, just like every one of his other symphonies.
Going in order would work just fine. If you're going to listen to 2 first, just listen to it in one sitting. It makes the ending that much more worth it[/quote]
@Xreniya: There's 9 completed ones, and a 10th unfinished (with a few finished versions)
I'd definitely start with the earlier symphonies (1-4 are the Wunderhorn symphonies) and here are their programs:
Symphony 1 "Titan" has 4 movements: 1st where the world thaws after a long winter 2nd (original second is "Blumine", a flower movement that was omitted even though it's very good and material from it appears in the finale) 2nd, "full sail ahead" 3rd, "shipwrecked" (also Frere Jacques in minor) 4th in which the hero experiences trial and failure many times before triumph
Symphony 2 "Resurrection" has 5 movements: 1st movement makes up part 1 and the rest make up part 2. The cadence of the second theme in the recap of this movement foreshadows the final cadence of the whole symphony. 2nd movement: the composer asks the conductor to observe a 5 minute pause before this movement because he thought the audience wouldn't be able to handle how light this movement is compared to the heavy 1st movement (but turns out to be pretty weighty). Most conductors bring in the soloist at this time, who will wait until the 4th movement to sing. 3rd movement comes from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, this time without the text. In Wunderhorn, it's about a sermon by a priest to all types of fish. The sermon was so hyped, but no one left inspired. Near the end of this movement, the symphony starts back up again with a reminder of the underlying weight of the whole thing. 4th movement is sung by the soloist. "Man lies in deepest need, man lies in deepest pain." The narrator sings to a little red rose that life is too unbearable and that she'd rather be in heaven. 5th movement is this epic finale.
Pretty much, the 2nd symphony is really heavy. Every single movement constantly builds up hope where it is smacked back down a few bars later, so the underlying emotion for about 1h 15 minutes is pain. Then at the very end, the choir comes in. 1h15m of pain and suffering then a choir comes in and it sounds subtly like heaven and it has me in tears all the time. Then the last of the symphony is a triumphal ending in which the hero final returns to heaven. Last text of this symphony: That which you suffered, to God it will lead you (like holy crap this one is good)
Symphony 3 ~"What the universe tells me" my favorite The program to this symphony is so beautiful. 6 movements, 1h45m making it his longest symphony. 1st movement - what the Earth tells me (Pan awakes, this is where Be Our Guest from Beauty and the Beast comes from) 2nd movement - what the flowers in the meadow tell me (holy crap this movement is so complex) 3rd movement - what the animals in the forest tell me 4th movement - what man tells me 5th movement - what the angels in heaven/morning bells tell me 6th movement - what love tells me (my what a beautiful and natural progression, but originally Mahler intended this to be the 2nd movement)
Symphony 4 - a spin off of the 3rd Symphony, this time the world through the view of a child 1st movement (classically structured and melodies reminiscent of Mozart) 2nd movement (very sardonic and harsh mistuned violin solo) 3rd movement (pastoral) 4th movement ("The Heavenly Life"/ what the children in heaven tell me) the original ending to Mahler 3, so it has bits of Mahler 3's 2nd and 5th movements in it
another good one is Symphony 8 "Symphony of a Thousand" This symphony is in 2 parts, 2nd part is set to text from Goeth's Faust. It's super good, especially the ending. Without a question the most beautiful music I've ever heard. Similar to the ending of Mahler 2. Mahler didn't give it its name, but the premier had close to 1000 performers. Half an hour before he was to go on stage to conduct, his wife told him that she loved another man. __Can you imagine the anxiety he must have faced before performing this?__ This piece is no cakewalk, either, it's very emotionally draining, just like every one of his other symphonies.
Going in order would work just fine. If you're going to listen to 2 first, just listen to it in one sitting. It makes the ending that much more worth it
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[quote=Sungoon]@Xreniya: There's 9 completed ones, and a 10th unfinished (with a few finished versions)
I'd definitely start with the earlier symphonies (1-4 are the Wunderhorn symphonies) and here are their programs:
Symphony 1 "Titan" has 4 movements:
1st where the world thaws after a long winter
2nd (original second is "Blumine", a flower movement that was omitted even though it's very good and material from it appears in the finale)
2nd, "full sail ahead"
3rd, "shipwrecked" (also Frere Jacques in minor)
4th in which the hero experiences trial and failure many times before triumph
Symphony 2 "Resurrection" has 5 movements:
1st movement makes up part 1 and the rest make up part 2. The cadence of the second theme in the recap of this movement foreshadows the final cadence of the whole symphony.
2nd movement: the composer asks the conductor to observe a 5 minute pause before this movement because he thought the audience wouldn't be able to handle how light this movement is compared to the heavy 1st movement (but turns out to be pretty weighty). Most conductors bring in the soloist at this time, who will wait until the 4th movement to sing.
3rd movement comes from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, this time without the text. In Wunderhorn, it's about a sermon by a priest to all types of fish. The sermon was so hyped, but no one left inspired. Near the end of this movement, the symphony starts back up again with a reminder of the underlying weight of the whole thing.
4th movement is sung by the soloist. "Man lies in deepest need, man lies in deepest pain." The narrator sings to a little red rose that life is too unbearable and that she'd rather be in heaven.
5th movement is this epic finale.
Pretty much, the 2nd symphony is really heavy. Every single movement constantly builds up hope where it is smacked back down a few bars later, so the underlying emotion for about 1h 15 minutes is pain. Then at the very end, the choir comes in. 1h15m of pain and suffering then a choir comes in and it sounds subtly like heaven and it has me in tears all the time. Then the last of the symphony is a triumphal ending in which the hero final returns to heaven.
Last text of this symphony:
That which you suffered, to God it will lead you
(like holy crap this one is good)
Symphony 3 ~"What the universe tells me" my favorite
The program to this symphony is so beautiful. 6 movements, 1h45m making it his longest symphony.
1st movement - what the Earth tells me (Pan awakes, this is where Be Our Guest from Beauty and the Beast comes from)
2nd movement - what the flowers in the meadow tell me (holy crap this movement is so complex)
3rd movement - what the animals in the forest tell me
4th movement - what man tells me
5th movement - what the angels in heaven/morning bells tell me
6th movement - what love tells me (my what a beautiful and natural progression, but originally Mahler intended this to be the 2nd movement)
Symphony 4 - a spin off of the 3rd Symphony, this time the world through the view of a child
1st movement (classically structured and melodies reminiscent of Mozart)
2nd movement (very sardonic and harsh mistuned violin solo)
3rd movement (pastoral)
4th movement ("The Heavenly Life"/ what the children in heaven tell me) the original ending to Mahler 3, so it has bits of Mahler 3's 2nd and 5th movements in it
another good one is
Symphony 8 "Symphony of a Thousand"
This symphony is in 2 parts, 2nd part is set to text from Goeth's Faust. It's super good, especially the ending. Without a question the most beautiful music I've ever heard. Similar to the ending of Mahler 2. Mahler didn't give it its name, but the premier had close to 1000 performers. Half an hour before he was to go on stage to conduct, his wife told him that she loved another man. __Can you imagine the anxiety he must have faced before performing this?__ This piece is no cakewalk, either, it's very emotionally draining, just like every one of his other symphonies.
Going in order would work just fine. If you're going to listen to 2 first, just listen to it in one sitting. It makes the ending that much more worth it[/quote]
ohhh awesome thanks
@Xreniya: There's 9 completed ones, and a 10th unfinished (with a few finished versions)
I'd definitely start with the earlier symphonies (1-4 are the Wunderhorn symphonies) and here are their programs:
Symphony 1 "Titan" has 4 movements:
1st where the world thaws after a long winter
2nd (original second is "Blumine", a flower movement that was omitted even though it's very good and material from it appears in the finale)
2nd, "full sail ahead"
3rd, "shipwrecked" (also Frere Jacques in minor)
4th in which the hero experiences trial and failure many times before triumph
Symphony 2 "Resurrection" has 5 movements:
1st movement makes up part 1 and the rest make up part 2. The cadence of the second theme in the recap of this movement foreshadows the final cadence of the whole symphony.
2nd movement: the composer asks the conductor to observe a 5 minute pause before this movement because he thought the audience wouldn't be able to handle how light this movement is compared to the heavy 1st movement (but turns out to be pretty weighty). Most conductors bring in the soloist at this time, who will wait until the 4th movement to sing.
3rd movement comes from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, this time without the text. In Wunderhorn, it's about a sermon by a priest to all types of fish. The sermon was so hyped, but no one left inspired. Near the end of this movement, the symphony starts back up again with a reminder of the underlying weight of the whole thing.
4th movement is sung by the soloist. "Man lies in deepest need, man lies in deepest pain." The narrator sings to a little red rose that life is too unbearable and that she'd rather be in heaven.
5th movement is this epic finale.
Pretty much, the 2nd symphony is really heavy. Every single movement constantly builds up hope where it is smacked back down a few bars later, so the underlying emotion for about 1h 15 minutes is pain. Then at the very end, the choir comes in. 1h15m of pain and suffering then a choir comes in and it sounds subtly like heaven and it has me in tears all the time. Then the last of the symphony is a triumphal ending in which the hero final returns to heaven.
Last text of this symphony:
That which you suffered, to God it will lead you
(like holy crap this one is good)
Symphony 3 ~"What the universe tells me" my favorite
The program to this symphony is so beautiful. 6 movements, 1h45m making it his longest symphony.
1st movement - what the Earth tells me (Pan awakes, this is where Be Our Guest from Beauty and the Beast comes from)
2nd movement - what the flowers in the meadow tell me (holy crap this movement is so complex)
3rd movement - what the animals in the forest tell me
4th movement - what man tells me
5th movement - what the angels in heaven/morning bells tell me
6th movement - what love tells me (my what a beautiful and natural progression, but originally Mahler intended this to be the 2nd movement)
Symphony 4 - a spin off of the 3rd Symphony, this time the world through the view of a child
1st movement (classically structured and melodies reminiscent of Mozart)
2nd movement (very sardonic and harsh mistuned violin solo)
3rd movement (pastoral)
4th movement ("The Heavenly Life"/ what the children in heaven tell me) the original ending to Mahler 3, so it has bits of Mahler 3's 2nd and 5th movements in it
another good one is
Symphony 8 "Symphony of a Thousand"
This symphony is in 2 parts, 2nd part is set to text from Goeth's Faust. It's super good, especially the ending. Without a question the most beautiful music I've ever heard. Similar to the ending of Mahler 2. Mahler didn't give it its name, but the premier had close to 1000 performers. Half an hour before he was to go on stage to conduct, his wife told him that she loved another man. __Can you imagine the anxiety he must have faced before performing this?__ This piece is no cakewalk, either, it's very emotionally draining, just like every one of his other symphonies.
Going in order would work just fine. If you're going to listen to 2 first, just listen to it in one sitting. It makes the ending that much more worth it
[quote=Sungoon]Mahler Symphonies
Beethoven too[/quote]
which mahler symphonies do you think are the best
ive been meaning to listen to them but theres like 12 of them idk where 2 start
Mahler Symphonies
Beethoven too
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