第八期：Who is Gustav Mahler

概要
这期伯恩斯坦做了一个马勒的导览。这期视频的年份1960年正好是马勒诞辰100周年，而且50年前他开始自己在纽约爱乐乐团的指挥生涯。在那期视频播出的时候，马勒应该还没有今天他在古典音乐届的地位，而且他的地位和伯恩斯坦的极力推广有很大的联系（如有不对欢迎纠正）。从伯恩斯坦的讲解中感觉可能是同为指挥加作曲家，伯恩斯坦对于马勒可能有一种特殊的惺惺相惜的感觉🤔讲座重的关键词是double man（“双面人”）。伯恩斯坦谈论了马勒的各种矛盾：指挥vs作曲家，极致的快乐vs极致的痛苦，成人的复杂vs孩童的天真，西方vs东方，传统vs现代，伯恩斯坦认为这些矛盾正是他独创性的来源。另外伯恩斯坦还提到了他作曲中的两个矛盾，一是他非常喜欢人声，交响乐歌剧化，但是没有写过歌剧；二是传统印象中他的交响乐规模都很大，但其实也有一些很像室内乐的部分，但他没有写过室内乐（看弹幕提到其实在学生时代有写，有可能是视频当时还没有被发现之类）。这期还是蛮精彩的，尤其对我这个迄今还没有连上马勒wifi的人有激发兴趣的作用～

喜欢的Quote
I am very proud to stand here on the same stage, with the same great orchestra, because Mahler was one of the greatest conductors that ever lived.

But it means something else too: It is like Mahler's own personal farewell to the old romantic kind of German music, as if he knows it's all over, and now he must begin a new kind of music, which he begins right then and there. And it comes out sounding very original. But at the same time he doesn't want to say goodbye to the old music; he loves all that Wagner and Schubert so much. So he says goodbye sadly, unwillingly, so that at the end of the piece, when the singer says the German word ewig, meaning forever, she sings it again over and over as if not wishing to let go of this beauty.

曲目
1. Mahler - Symphony No.4
2. Mahler - The Song of the Earth
3. Mahler - Symphony No.2

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