That polka was just outstanding, the entire score is just phenomenal. I only watched the polka because I'm familiar with it via the Emerson String Quartet. I will watch the whole thing over the summer, but right now I'm busying writing a paper on Shostakovich.
I found an article from The Guardian "Bolshoi rocked by scandals and intrigues": Rinat Arifulin left the Bolshoi in 2010 and now works together with Anastasia Volochkova.
Brilliant dancers, I watched this all the time when I trained as a dancer what a Repertoire 1:04:00 this whole section is powerful the amount of strength here is amazing, the 2 male soloists at the front are outstanding they're a great example for young male ballet students to follow
Okay. I've found out that the conductor is Pavel Klinichev. What orchestra is this? Who is the ballet company? THIS ROCKS! I mean, I've never heard anything like this! Everything about it, including the dancing is BEYOND MODERN! This is truly exciting stuff. Please! I need to know the orchestra and the ballet company!
If you have 30 minutes, a youtuber named Tantacrul made a really great, short, documentary piece on Shostakovich which puts this ballet (as well as other works) into the context of its particular moment in history. th-cam.com/video/MCxzMYVvHBg/w-d-xo.html
In October 1927, the conductor Nikolai Malko challenged Dmitri Shostakovich to do an arrangement of the song after the two listened to it on record at Malko's house. Malko bet 100 roubles that Shostakovich could not completely re-orchestrate it from memory in under an hour. Shostakovich took him up and won, completing it in around 45 minutes. His "Tea for Two" arrangement, Opus 16, was first performed on 25 November 1928. It was incorporated into Tahiti Trot from his ballet The Golden Age first performed in 1929.
So, this version mixes music from different parts of Shostakovich's output (including pieces from the 1950s) but still calls it "The Golden Age". Can somebody who knows the history of this production tell me what happened?
The plot is also different from the original, i think, this version is about a seaside town and it’s problems with criminal gangs and not about a soviet football team coming to a western city. I couldn’t really find any information on these changes other than on the website of the Bolshoi Theatre itself, maybe it helps answering your question a little bit.. www.bolshoi.ru/en/performances/2001/details/
Well, that certainly WAS interesting! I've been familiar with the AOG Suite for over 50 years; one of my early purchases was an LP with the AOG Suite and Shostakovich's First Symphony recorded in 1959 by Jean Martinon and the LSO (RCA Red Seal re-release). I've always liked Shostakovich (and Prokofiev) and have recordings of many of his/their works. I found the ballet very strange - it would be interesting to know what the original choreography was like, but a great deal of this production looked like large practice classes - as if too many people were on stage to be able to figure out what was going on. Probably by 1930 DS had not yet lost his faith in Communism, so a hearty nod to the Workers & Peasants was de rigueur, but despite this, Stalin, had he seen the ballet, would probably NOT have approved of the music - hence the censorship (as there was of the DS opera "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk". The costuming was interesting; I especially envied the parti-colored evening wear of the men, ESPECIALLY the dapper gent weating the white boater! In "Tea for Two," at least two of the women had hair styles that harked back to Elsa Lanchester in "Bride of Frankenstein." Overall, worth the investment of time to watch. However . . . information about the production and a synopsis or precis of the movements would have been useful; hard to tell who was on first!
Shostakovich had faith in communism? Where did you get this idea? This ballet (and his other ballets) is a parody on communism. I suggest you find a libretto and read up about it
@@celestialceilagor3802 He feared the system and hated it, always had a packed suitcase in case they came for him. Those who think he was a communist because he composed some music for Stalin propaganda films don't know anything about him. He didn't have a choice if he wanted to survive and had to make some money to feed the family.
Arifulin is retired and indeed it's hard to find anything about him, even in Russian language there isn't much. Used to be a solid character dancer of Bolshoi Ballet.
Николай Цискаридзе танцевал Конферансье три раза в 2006 году - 23.03, 19 и 29.09 (по его книге). В 2007 у него эта роль не упоминается. К сожалению, не указаны исполнители основных ролей.
de 1932 Se trata de una ballet realista y socialista, una sátira sobre el fascismo y el capitalismo,Shostakovich escribió una partitura jazzística e ingeniosa al estilo de Prokofiev.Cuando el allet fracaó ,debido sobretodo, a que el público encontraba el tema rídiculo,tomo cinco de sus fragmentos(introducción, valsadagio,polca, y anza rusa) y los convirtió en una JOVIAL suite orquestal, una de sus obras más exuberantes.
интересно, современники Шостаковича поняли или оценили сарказм автора балета?.... В то время это было бы бомбой! Музыка просто кричит об ироническом отношении композитора к действительности, даже без постановки и хореографии все понятно же! Может быть спасло название - "Золотой век"??
well spoken CordobaMs! Here's the english translation: Interestingly, Shostakovich's contemporaries understood or appreciated the author's sarcasm? .... At that time it would be a bomb! Music just screams about the composer's ironic attitude to reality, even without staging and choreography everything is clear! Maybe the name "The Golden Age" saved?
you just do not know the history and culture of that time; Shostakovich's contemporaries were themselves jokers; he was the most serious of them, in the end.
Hello. Have you found the live captured of don quixote presented in cinemas in 2011 with osipova and vasiliev. I know this version isn´t the best, but i love it. I hope you could help me to find it.
@@jdiwkall It's crazy. The work takes on a whole new color when you realize who the expected audience was when this was written. Mitya had some serious guts putting out some of the work he did. Absolutely terrifying.
@@paulnewton2284 I'm not a historian, but my impression is that he was committed to the communist ideals, and to his country, but was very critical of the government. And how could he not be? It's a miracle that he survived Stalin's regime. I remember reading that at one point, he was so sure he was going to be arrested that he started sleeping in the hallway of his apartment to protect his family from what he expected would otherwise be a forced entry by the police.
Just even the corps in the first five minutes is totally amazing. But that's the Bolshoi for you! I don't get the blue video though. Why is it blue just monochromatic it doesn't make any sense to me.
Il fallait l'imbécilité chronique du régime soviètique pour interdire la partition du compositeur et certaines encore plus célèbre comme la 5e symphonie! Ne jamais laisser la culture tomber aux mains des politiciens, ce sont les plus incultes du monde, on en voit le résultat aujourd'hui en France!
***** The Golden age is a ballet composed by Shostakovitch during the autumn of 1929 in Leningrad. It was completed in February of the next year. It was created on October 26th 1930 at the Academy theater for opera and ballet in Leningrad un der the direction of Alexander Gaouk. Following protests of the soviet integrists first some elements were suppressed then the ballet as many other works of the composer were banned from concerts and theater although it was a huge success at the premiere. It seems that Shostakovitch had not realized at that time that he was pulling too far the accommodating attitude of the regime and Staline in particular on his behalf. In a letter to one of his friends the composer qualifies his work of "anti artistic", he says that his music is a perfect achievement but that he considers the ballet a failure because of its libretto.He adds " from now on I'll compose only on themes and librettos which really interests me." The ballet was never performed again till 1980. The production of 1980 has been done after huge alterations of the libretto. You can check this in the remarkable biography of the composer by Krzysztof Meyer published in German and edited in French in 1994. There is most probably a English translation available ot this book which is considered a must read about the great composer.
jvdesuit1 Hey I'm looking for further information about this ballet and it looks like you're vey informed. Do you know where I can find something? Thank you!!
***** Sorry to contradict you but the ballet encountered many problems at the time as I explained moreover It is a specialist who met the composer and his son who explains all this. The composer had at the time a lot of problems with the regime, and he was in danger to be arrested for his ideas in composition. And he has never had the courage many other Russian musician had to leave the country. His submitting to the regime is rather shameful. I love his music, but I'm not blind too.
***** I see that you're from Russia unless wrong; typical negativism attitude of your country and its population. Poutine is a genius and a saint, probably Staline as well! You should be ashamed of yourself and your country after what that filthy regime has done for years and still doing not to mention many other horrors which came into knowledge since the end of WWII.
I’ve always been a big Shostakovich fan. I don’t know if he was going for a Gershwin sort of feel to reference the west. But, If It were up to me... a few Exiles would have been dished out after this piece premiered. Also the costumer here, who put the tails on the men’s coats and those ghastly skirt panels draped from so many of the dancer’s waists. They don’t move in sync with dancers and they’re totally distracting.
Originally a ridiculous "Agitprop" pro-communist ballet, depicting a Soviet soccer team touring the West and being corrupted by capitalist values and in the end the decadent system being overthrown by the victorious athletes and workers. But the music by Shostakovich, who was then a music student, and was a life-long soccer fan, is excellent.
@Samvel Hasan-Jalalyan Then work 12 hours for 2 meals a day cause that what capitalism initially looked like without resistance from the working class. Don't mistake Socialism with Communism.
Vo Ba, in socialism you would be lucky to have 2 meals a week. Socialism and communism are exactly the same, just achevied in a different way, one by voting, other by revolution, results are exactly the same.
1:22:02 is the best part
Yes!!
@@pablomonteagudolopez1300 what is it called?
@@pablomonteagudolopez1300 I just found it th-cam.com/video/FagNOVmZfhQ/w-d-xo.html
You can find the piece of 1:20:27 min. like "Jazz Suite No. 1: III. Foxtrot".
Love Shostakovich and entire ballet but especially Polka with remarkable Nikolai Tsiskaridze as Master of Ceremonies
the 1.34.30-Pas de Deux is one the most sublime piece of art of the history. so touching and sublime.
Than You Sergei Druschinin for posting. Is amazing beatifull.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That polka was just outstanding, the entire score is just phenomenal. I only watched the polka because I'm familiar with it via the Emerson String Quartet. I will watch the whole thing over the summer, but right now I'm busying writing a paper on Shostakovich.
I'm now a student at Temple and am sitting with the score in hand!
31:29 Will always be my favorite part! Short but beautiful section
Elias Roldan best suggestion yet.
But those costumes are just so messy.
еще раз - браво-браво! всем создателям этой красоты - спасибо огроменное! Обожаю эту музыку! :)
I found an article from The Guardian "Bolshoi rocked by scandals and intrigues": Rinat Arifulin left the Bolshoi in 2010 and now works together with Anastasia Volochkova.
Love PDD at 39.30 and especially the piano part, so beautiful.
Лучшее исполнение смотрела Михальченко, Мухамедов.. Таранда невероятен.. Смотрела первые репетиции до премьеры и после много раз, Григорович гений!
19:36 is where the polka starts!
И молодой Цискаридзе.
Sovsiem nie tako molodoj, emu zdies 33 goda
Thank you!
THANK YOU!!! I couldn't find it. Its such a fun xylophone excerpt.
1:35:30 The second movement to the 2nd piano concerto!
Bravo Bravo Bravo!!!!
1:34:39 will always be one of the most beautiful moments in ballet I’ve ever seen
Gorgeous adagio! My favourite!
musique attrayante et ballet remarquable
I love 15:53. It’s such a funny piece - espessialy the harmonic changes
Brilliant dancers, I watched this all the time when I trained as a dancer what a Repertoire 1:04:00 this whole section is powerful the amount of strength here is amazing, the 2 male soloists at the front are outstanding they're a great example for young male ballet students to follow
Okay. I've found out that the conductor is Pavel Klinichev. What orchestra is this? Who is the ballet company?
THIS ROCKS! I mean, I've never heard anything like this! Everything about it, including the dancing is BEYOND MODERN! This is truly exciting stuff.
Please! I need to know the orchestra and the ballet company!
this is a performance of the Bolshoi ballet. And the orchestra from Bolshoi.
Yashka-Mikhail Lobukhin, not Arifullin
If you have 30 minutes, a youtuber named Tantacrul made a really great, short, documentary piece on Shostakovich which puts this ballet (as well as other works) into the context of its particular moment in history.
th-cam.com/video/MCxzMYVvHBg/w-d-xo.html
@@zoyakotelnikova4716 Performed to celebrate Grigorovich's 80th birthday
And the composer is Dmitri Shostakovitsh. And the Bolshoy Akademic and States opera is in Moskau. The ballett company is the greatest in the world, .
Fantastico
48:28 Tea for Two
I wonder now how much in royalties they have to pay to Vincent Youmens' estate with the new copyright laws.
In October 1927, the conductor Nikolai Malko challenged Dmitri Shostakovich to do an arrangement of the song after the two listened to it on record at Malko's house. Malko bet 100 roubles that Shostakovich could not completely re-orchestrate it from memory in under an hour. Shostakovich took him up and won, completing it in around 45 minutes. His "Tea for Two" arrangement, Opus 16, was first performed on 25 November 1928. It was incorporated into Tahiti Trot from his ballet The Golden Age first performed in 1929.
Have you seen the ballet Bolt? It also has a wonderful score by Shostakovitch
19:38 polka
...and 'tea for two' at 48...magic
Shostakovich is da man!
So, this version mixes music from different parts of Shostakovich's output (including pieces from the 1950s) but still calls it "The Golden Age". Can somebody who knows the history of this production tell me what happened?
The plot is also different from the original, i think, this version is about a seaside town and it’s problems with criminal gangs and not about a soviet football team coming to a western city. I couldn’t really find any information on these changes other than on the website of the Bolshoi Theatre itself, maybe it helps answering your question a little bit.. www.bolshoi.ru/en/performances/2001/details/
Well, that certainly WAS interesting! I've been familiar with the AOG Suite for over 50 years; one of my early purchases was an LP with the AOG Suite and Shostakovich's First Symphony recorded in 1959 by Jean Martinon and the LSO (RCA Red Seal re-release). I've always liked Shostakovich (and Prokofiev) and have recordings of many of his/their works.
I found the ballet very strange - it would be interesting to know what the original choreography was like, but a great deal of this production looked like large practice classes - as if too many people were on stage to be able to figure out what was going on. Probably by 1930 DS had not yet lost his faith in Communism, so a hearty nod to the Workers & Peasants was de rigueur, but despite this, Stalin, had he seen the ballet, would probably NOT have approved of the music - hence the censorship (as there was of the DS opera "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk".
The costuming was interesting; I especially envied the parti-colored evening wear of the men, ESPECIALLY the dapper gent weating the white boater! In "Tea for Two," at least two of the women had hair styles that harked back to Elsa Lanchester in "Bride of Frankenstein." Overall, worth the investment of time to watch. However . . . information about the production and a synopsis or precis of the movements would have been useful; hard to tell who was on first!
Shostakovich had faith in communism? Where did you get this idea? This ballet (and his other ballets) is a parody on communism. I suggest you find a libretto and read up about it
He didn't ever have faith in communism, those closest to him were very adamant- all of them.
@@celestialceilagor3802 He feared the system and hated it, always had a packed suitcase in case they came for him. Those who think he was a communist because he composed some music for Stalin propaganda films don't know anything about him. He didn't have a choice if he wanted to survive and had to make some money to feed the family.
@@BytomGirl yes, I'm aware
@@BytomGirl patriotism and party co operation was not a choice in those times for people like him, people who think it was are out of touch
Bellissimissimo sotto ogni aspetto !
yes
Arifulin is retired and indeed it's hard to find anything about him, even in Russian language there isn't much. Used to be a solid character dancer of Bolshoi Ballet.
Simplesmente belíssimo. Quem é o regente?
Николай Цискаридзе танцевал Конферансье три раза в 2006 году - 23.03, 19 и 29.09 (по его книге). В 2007 у него эта роль не упоминается. К сожалению, не указаны исполнители основных ролей.
please add here version of simonov..
de 1932 Se trata de una ballet realista y socialista, una sátira sobre el fascismo y el capitalismo,Shostakovich escribió una partitura jazzística e ingeniosa al estilo de Prokofiev.Cuando el allet fracaó ,debido sobretodo, a que el público encontraba el tema rídiculo,tomo cinco de sus fragmentos(introducción, valsadagio,polca, y anza rusa) y los convirtió en una JOVIAL suite orquestal, una de sus obras más exuberantes.
El ballet es puro "agitprop" pero la música es muy buena.
Boris is Denis Matvienko not Andrei Merkuriev
19:36 Polka
Eine tolle Aufführung, just missing a bit crazy Charleston-dancers , .(Ccocaine filled) Congrets to Grigorovitsh!
Could anyone tell me who the Master of Ceremonies and the conductor are in tis version?
Conductor is Pavel Klinichev
Master of Ceremonies is Nikolai Tsiskaridze.
интересно, современники Шостаковича поняли или оценили сарказм автора балета?.... В то время это было бы бомбой! Музыка просто кричит об ироническом отношении композитора к действительности, даже без постановки и хореографии все понятно же! Может быть спасло название - "Золотой век"??
i tugodumstvo vlastej?
well spoken CordobaMs! Here's the english translation: Interestingly, Shostakovich's contemporaries understood or appreciated the author's sarcasm? .... At that time it would be a bomb! Music just screams about the composer's ironic attitude to reality, even without staging and choreography everything is clear! Maybe the name "The Golden Age" saved?
you just do not know the history and culture of that time; Shostakovich's contemporaries were themselves jokers; he was the most serious of them, in the end.
С Тарандой и Бессмертновой это да!!!!!
Is it possible to buy this version on dvd?
You can download from this site. Requires registration only. All for free
rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2396819
Сергей Дружинин Many thanks. Would you have other ballets by Shostakovich or those by Schnittke perhaps?
***** Stalin wanted to execute everyone
Hello. Have you found the live captured of don quixote presented in cinemas in 2011 with osipova and vasiliev. I know this version isn´t the best, but i love it. I hope you could help me to find it.
@@jdiwkall It's crazy. The work takes on a whole new color when you realize who the expected audience was when this was written. Mitya had some serious guts putting out some of the work he did. Absolutely terrifying.
Ngl the west gets the best lines.
Kinda feel like that was intentional
It was, if you look into the history, Shostakovich wasn't exactly sympathetic towards his home country at that time.
@@Caio0_057 He wasn't exactly sympathetic towards the Communist regime ever, for that matter. Except maybe when Lenin was still in charge.
@@paulnewton2284 I'm not a historian, but my impression is that he was committed to the communist ideals, and to his country, but was very critical of the government. And how could he not be? It's a miracle that he survived Stalin's regime. I remember reading that at one point, he was so sure he was going to be arrested that he started sleeping in the hallway of his apartment to protect his family from what he expected would otherwise be a forced entry by the police.
am I the only one who likes the Soviet parts better
@@BrassicaRappa I believe Shostakovich was a communist, but was highly critical of the government for their conservatism when it came to music.
Lyuska is Ekaterina Krysanova.
15:53-17:09 Conversations (שיחות)
Rita: Anna Antonicheva
Boris: Andrei Merkuriev
Yashka: Rinat Arifulin? I cannot find anything about this dancer in the internet.
The actual Age of Gold peice is only about 20 minutes long. What other material is in this production?
The entire ballet is Golden Age, you probably just know shortened suite
Just even the corps in the first five minutes is totally amazing. But that's the Bolshoi for you! I don't get the blue video though. Why is it blue just monochromatic it doesn't make any sense to me.
오후9교시요
7:11
22:37
오전3교시
Il fallait l'imbécilité chronique du régime soviètique pour interdire la partition du compositeur et certaines encore plus célèbre comme la 5e symphonie! Ne jamais laisser la culture tomber aux mains des politiciens, ce sont les plus incultes du monde, on en voit le résultat aujourd'hui en France!
***** The Golden age is a ballet composed by Shostakovitch during the autumn of 1929 in Leningrad. It was completed in February of the next year. It was created on October 26th 1930 at the Academy theater for opera and ballet in Leningrad un der the direction of Alexander Gaouk. Following protests of the soviet integrists first some elements were suppressed then the ballet as many other works of the composer were banned from concerts and theater although it was a huge success at the premiere. It seems that Shostakovitch had not realized at that time that he was pulling too far the accommodating attitude of the regime and Staline in particular on his behalf. In a letter to one of his friends the composer qualifies his work of "anti artistic", he says that his music is a perfect achievement but that he considers the ballet a failure because of its libretto.He adds " from now on I'll compose only on themes and librettos which really interests me." The ballet was never performed again till 1980. The production of 1980 has been done after huge alterations of the libretto. You can check this in the remarkable biography of the composer by Krzysztof Meyer published in German and edited in French in 1994. There is most probably a English translation available ot this book which is considered a must read about the great composer.
jvdesuit1 Hey I'm looking for further information about this ballet and it looks like you're vey informed. Do you know where I can find something? Thank you!!
***** Sorry to contradict you but the ballet encountered many problems at the time as I explained moreover It is a specialist who met the composer and his son who explains all this. The composer had at the time a lot of problems with the regime, and he was in danger to be arrested for his ideas in composition. And he has never had the courage many other Russian musician had to leave the country. His submitting to the regime is rather shameful. I love his music, but I'm not blind too.
***** I see that you're from Russia unless wrong; typical negativism attitude of your country and its population. Poutine is a genius and a saint, probably Staline as well! You should be ashamed of yourself and your country after what that filthy regime has done for years and still doing not to mention many other horrors which came into knowledge since the end of WWII.
jvdesuit1 Hmmm not sure that comment or trail of thought
has a lot to do with ballet!
I’ve always been a big Shostakovich fan. I don’t know if he was going for a Gershwin sort of feel to reference the west. But, If It were up to me... a few Exiles would have been dished out after this piece premiered.
Also the costumer here, who put the tails on the men’s coats and those ghastly skirt panels draped from so many of the dancer’s waists. They don’t move in sync with dancers and they’re totally distracting.
A different technique.
1:20:26
서준이가엄마에게해주는말^^
"장서준 아니고,김서준이야.엄마."
서준-
미국발레리나
김서준
Originally a ridiculous "Agitprop" pro-communist ballet, depicting a Soviet soccer team touring the West and being corrupted by capitalist values and in the end the decadent system being overthrown by the victorious athletes and workers. But the music by Shostakovich, who was then a music student, and was a life-long soccer fan, is excellent.
O what we missed when Stalin destroyed the Russian Revolution, and probably the hopes for socialism for ever
@Samvel Hasan-Jalalyan Then work 12 hours for 2 meals a day cause that what capitalism initially looked like without resistance from the working class. Don't mistake Socialism with Communism.
Vo Ba, in socialism you would be lucky to have 2 meals a week. Socialism and communism are exactly the same, just achevied in a different way, one by voting, other by revolution, results are exactly the same.
오짬먹고톡할겡ㅋㅋㅋ
대변1/소변1
Ouais ! Ce n'est pas ce que je préfère ! Je me suis ennuyée...
I prefer music with orchestra than this dance
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