Romance from The Gadfly op 97 by Dmitri Shostakovich - Jonathan Carney, violin.
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- Romance from The Gadfly op 97 by Dmitri Shostakovich - Jonathan Carney, violin.
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London
Frank Shipway, conductor
London 1995
The most beautiful "Romance" written in the entire 20th century. Shostakovich is so under-rated.
Really underаted by whom?! By Western society who prefers Conchita?😂😂😂. In Russia everyone rates him high
@@talo7005 Indeed, he is the leading Russian (Soviet) composer of the XX century.
I agree 100%
My favorite
@@talo7005 Yes, I think that had it not been for this and his waltz No. 2, he would not be known at all in the west because these melodies are not really typical of his work which at times can be quite spikey and challenging. Even though he was constrained by the Soviet authorities from writing they way he really wanted to a lot of his work is quite personal.
Despite our differences, we can all agree on one thing - that this is beyond beautiful.
I had this to walk down the aisle 16years ago. The best day of my life.
Wonderful taste you have.
I first heard this piece of music in the series Riley Ace of Spys - it ripped my heart out & still does every time I hear it - absolutely beautiful so very beautiful ❤❤❤
Same here! I'd never heard of it till that series. I was so 'shocked' when I saw that it waa by Shostakovich!I I had much to learn. :-)
Yep. I was just a kid in high school when this show first came to America on PBS. Melody has stuck with me forever.
I share the same feelings. Almost too beautiful to bear
I get chills everytime I hear it.
Iwas just the same,after Riley Ace of Spies,I was Smitten,it’s so soothing,I’ve decided to have it played at my Funeral I don’t want to be morbid but it’s so soothing,I’ve heard just about every recording of this tune and believe me there is a lot I think this will be the one,
This is the best version on TH-cam.
Such a brilliant piece . Mr Shostakoovich gave the world a great gift with this composition.We owe him a lot.
Got to be one of the most Beautiful Melodies ever ,could listen forever
I agree, Shostakovich is so underrated. Beautiful music.
And. he was Russian O'Reilly ace of spies series music - Sam Neil not sure he knows whether he's an Ozzie or a kiwi
As a kid I watched "Reilly" ...my first contact with Classic music...and it has never gone. This composition is very close to me. It gives me a cry every time.
First heard this from "Reilly Ace of Spies" theme. Absolutely beautiful. Never found the name of the piece until 2018. Roughly 35 years later. Worth the wait.
I first heard it on that programme too, loved it and still listen to it everyday
Bliss, no matter how many times I hear it.
I can't listen this music without crying, once and again...
Am I odd in listening to this masterpiece at least once a day, and sometimes even more?
No, you are not odd at all, I listen to it every single day!!!
I listen to this almost everyday. Beauty takes all different forms.
Absolutely not!
I too listen to this everyday
NO
Romance from the gadfly would have to be the best this man has ever written Greetings from Australia
I caught myself stopped breathing while listening. It took my breath away, again and again....
Reilly: Ace of Spies was one of the best series ever shown on PBS and the theme song added so very much to the showings forty years ago!!
You sound like ignoring the title of the video! This music was written for the Russian movie “Gadfly” inspired by novel “Gadfly” by Voynich.
Same here I first heard it from Reilly ace of spy's and I love even more each time I hear it, beautiful and uplifting and heart warming and thanks for putting out the video and have a great day
Most beautiful music. Heartbreaking and uplifting
❤
This piece is just so beautiful... it gives me shivers every time I listen to it.
Aliénor Lebret and I listen often. Never gets tired of it.
I heard this on my card radio in 1993 while my-wife- to-be was in her car too also listening - so it’s become out ‘theme’. Notwithstanding that Dmitri Shostakovich was a very brave man as well as being one of the world’s greatest composers.
Shostakovich wrote some great music, but this is far an away his most beautiful. I'm 72 and love classical music and this is the first time I've heard this. Why did I wait so long?
Played this at my partners funeral, brings tears to my eyes every time i hear it .
Dear Steve, I fully understand you, your wife and love-one fade away, however now she is a twinkling little star, waiting for you, and welcome you, until your time has come…….
I see there's quite a lot of people here who know this piece only as a theme from "Reilly Ace of Spies" TV series. Here's a bit of an interesting trivia for you, folks: this piece was originally written by Shostakovich for a Soviet film based on the book by British writer Ethel Voynich (nee Bool -her father was George Bool of the boolean algebra, for all of you programmers out there :)) called The Gadfly. Voynich knew Sidney Reilly personally and used some of his autobiographical facts and stories for her title character. Reilly knew that and didn't object. The book became extraordinarily popular in the Soviet Union. So when they made the film in 1953, Shostakovich wrote an entire orchestral suite that became the soundtrack and has since taken on the life of its own. Thirty years later they made the series about Reilly's life. The piece chosen as the theme? Romance from "The Gadfly".
Quite right
This must be one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written.
No matter how bad life gets, you can't listen to this and not think it's good on the balance
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Absolutely STUNNINGLY BEAUTIFUL!! No matter how much hear this one could NEVER tire of such Beauty!
This is the clearest recording I've heard of this piece. Thanks for the full version.
I remember this from Reilly, Ace of Spies. Beautiful.
Yes mee too. Love it
I have heard most versions of this lovely tune and I think that this is the best, Barry Willis,U K.
One of yhe most beautiful pieces of music ever written ,very Romantic
Only a musical genius could create such a magnificent masterpiece. Bravissimo.🎻🎻🎵🎵🎺🎺🎹🎹💝🌹❤️💋
Only a true romantic
One of Shostakovich’s very best melodies; this arrangement and performance are truly superb.
I remember years and years ago lying in bed at about 2am listening to the World Service and hearing this music and falling in love! Wrote to the world service asking for the name of the piece and they kindly provided me with it and since then, well I sooo love it.
Good old British Broadcasting Corporation.
My my gosh, the best rendition of heard this played....and I've heard a few. Just beautiful 💗
Heart warming music
The most beautiful melody I have ever heard with the possible exception of the "Londonderry Air" Both stir emotions in me that I didn't know I had . I weep every time I hear it. How can one create something so beautiful is beyond belief.
I walked down the aisle to this piece, Still gives me goose bumps, love it!
You couldn't have chosen a better piece!
Sooo Beautiful!(Soothes the Russian-parts of my Scandia-Russo-Soul.) Thank You!
Among the most beautiful melody ever written. The middle part in minor key is very touching.
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Le rêve ´ la beauté « idéale
Le talent à contempler ❤️très sensible à écouter 👂 cette romance de tous ces musiciens! Quelle richesse ´ « congratulations ***👍
How about the resolution back into major and transition to the main theme? It’s just one subtle shift from F natural to F sharp, changing the whole mood. With organ (brass section?) accompanying it afterwards and the whole string section playing the theme? It is out of this world! If you read the book, you probably remember that Gemma already knows who Rivares is, but she just doesn’t take that final step to admit this to herself until it is too late, and the second rendition of the main theme after the middle part is a fantasy of what could have happened between them.
SPLENDID. A PERFORMANCE THAT TOUCHES MY HEART
A divine piece,
This lovely 😊 piece of a masterpiece is so heavenly.....I don’t believe it is of this planet. So uplifting.
This was my late son-in-laws favourite piece and always brings tears to my eyes.
I stopped playing violin after a decade of commitment and now I am trying to relearn it. I picked this piece to try and love classical music again...
Per me è la colonna sonora di un grande amore
❤ 😢😢😢❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😢😢❤
What a fantastic tune!
Beautiful from beginning to end. Brings tears to my eyes every time I listen to it!!
This, the Coppelia theme, "September Song" and "O Sole Mio" are among the most beautiful pieces of music ever written.
When the violin cries and so will I. Superb symphonic orchestra.. magnificent violin playing. ❤️👏😊👌😍💝👍😋
Such a beautiful heart-rending peeve of music, it tugs at the heart strings
Beautiful beyond words,!Soul shattering !
Such a beautiful song to come floating out of Russia in the last century. Thankyou.
Absolutely gorgeous!!!!
I've overheard this so many times in a bookstore it makes me think of books I've read! I love this!. It's beautiful!
What an extraordinary talent! In spite of much competition, and some less than inspiring works, I guess Shostakovich could be considered the finest composer of the 20th century.
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I find myself doing the same thing - no you’re not odd at all, this is hauntingly beautiful
so beautiful i could listen to this all day brilliant and graceful as well as being uplifting as also so sad
Shostakovich may be a very controversial composer because of him and a certain 'leader' that shall not be named but he wrote gorgeous music and that talent good or bad needs to be recognized.
Hermosa pieza. La busqué durante años, desde que la escuché como tema musical de la miniserie británica Reilly as de espías. Una verdadera caricia para el alma. Gracias.
Gosebumps all the time
So heartbreaking and beautiful!!!
This Music lifts the Soul.
Playing this for my grade 5 violin! What a beautiful piece! 🎻
I do adore this music! This version is magnificent. Thank you with all my heart!
A beautiful piece of music a pleasure to the ear to her is well played, But the orchestral sound for this music is always best to hear, for me at least.
Gorgeous music! One of my very favorite pieces!
Sublime è pieno di struggenti sentimenti
beautifully played the violin just sings
What can I say just wonderful
Merveille de la musique classique ....Beauty can make us cry.....After 4 minutes i climb to heaven ....
Superb heavenly, heartwarming,divine melody accompanied by a majestic philharmonic orchestra. Can one ask for more. ❤️❤️🎻🎻🎺🎺🌹🌹
Heartbreaking, heartwarming, comforting how can a beautiful piece of music do all this at once but it does.
This reminds me of two loved husbands sadly dead and makes me cry. Sylx
For me,listening to this brings comfort.
Божественно!
Exceptional piece of music, beautiful.
Indeed
Thanks for the beautiful music you guys gives us,
Somewhere in the 1980s I viewed a few episodes of Reilly Ace of Spies and the theme music tugged at my heart strings but I didn't know Shostakovich was the composer and for sure didn't know of Op 97, Thanks to the WWW and your efforts, my long mystery is resolved. I thank Jehovah God for you and all the people who have made the WWW. My humble thanks; ya done good!
That was a fantastic series and it was also my first exposure to this work. It brings to mind how I also discovered Vaughn William's Sixth Symphony from the intro music for A Family at War.
Reilly Ace of Spies from my distant youth brought me to this. Loved it then. Love it now. Thought it was composed for the series (LOL!). Puts it all in context for me now. One for my Wake, along with Nimrod - played at our wedding.
I still have this on a 45 single.
Superb. Stops me in my tracks every time I hear it.
So sad and so wonderful. I absolutely love it.
Não canso de ouvir, não existe definição apropriada para esse diamante musical. Belíssima!!!!!!!!!
Fantastic Phil playing my favourite piece of music ever 😊
Très agréable romance, à écouter 👍🙏
Listen to it every night!!
Wonderful just wonderful
Well done to the musicians and conductor.
An utterly heavenly divine melody. So uplifting and lovely 😊. Superb rendition of a magnificent masterpiece. Love ❤️ it. 😍😍😍😘
Just beautiful! Thank you!
Sublime!
때로는 슬프게 때로는편안하게ㅡ지금은목이메이네요ㅡ이렇게매혹적인 아름다운선률을선물하신 쇼스타코비치님!!헝복합니다.
Magic and so romantic 🌹❤️🙋♀️
So romantic and beautiful! Thank you!
You are not at all odd I love this too...its so beautiful🤗🤗🤗
Wonderful music. Bravo London Orchestra & Bravo maestro Shostakovich.
So beautiful…I love it!
… and that was my 6-year old commenting! 🙂
Que maravilloso. romance.
Muchas gracias y feliz miércoles🌿
excellent tempo. wonderful.
I also adored Reilly Ace of Spies. Did read Shostakovich was absolutely terrified of Stalin wanting the composer dead. (guess the composer survived.)
even a dead will rise and listen carefully to this piece...
Une si « merveilleuse qui m’entraîne 🧒en douceur dans ce monde-là ´ L’art divin «’’
Une si merveilleuse « mélodie « 😂harmonieuse « L’art divin de l’artiste: une œuvre qui irradie 🌹l en douceur romantique et admiration 🌺💐🌗
Such beautiful, haunting music. No comparison.
Beautiful
Most beautifull!