And so ends one of the greatest pieces of music ever written, probably my favourite (along with the 5th symphony). The man was a genius with a musical language like no other. How do those harmonies work? They shouldn't but they do. He had an amazing talent for tearing up the rules of tonal harmony yet somehow making it all sound so coherant, a sort of illusory tonality. One in a million.
Shostakovich was born in September, 1906. If the video dates from 1940, he would have been about 34 years old, and he hardly looks any older than that. Whenever I see this clip, I try to picture him when he was still a conservatory student trying to make a little money in hard times by playing the piano for silent films at movie houses.
Shostakovich was quite the pianist and this is great archival footage showing just how good he was, joining his fellow Russians, Prokofiev, Stravinsky---and Rachmaninoff, who was, of course, the best of all of them. If only we had this kind of footage of Rach playing. One can only hope there's something lying around somewhere just waiting to be discovered.
Russian school of piano playing has always been one of the strongest in the world. Most Russian composers were excellent world class pianists in their own right and rarely even considered themselves very good at playing the instrument (because they were studying with people who were considered much better at it).
Shostakovich I listened to him for 7 years every day. I also dedicated one of my compositions to him and made a portrait of him that appears in the video on TH-cam.
Amazing example of a composer playing one of his compositions better than other pianists. What technique! His tempo is faster than any other performance I've heard. Shostie, you are amazing!!!!
E così finisce uno dei più grandi brani musicali mai scritti, probabilmente il mio preferito . Quest'uomo era un genio con un linguaggio musicale come nessun altro.
@@stevej71393 Censorship was a real issue, especially during the Stalin era were hurting the feelings of the party could easily cost you your life. However, the education system there must have done a pretty good job at discovering and assisting new talents.
@@uzefulvideos3440 No, it was the opposite. Education system didn't encourage or assist talents but instead pushed people into the jobs they didn't want but the government needed. "Artist" was not even considered to be a job. When Prokofiev died, only a few people showed up to his funeral, many famous artists were killed or sent to GULAG. That's why most of them had to flee Soviet Union in order to survive. I wonder how many potential composers we lost because of this butcher's regime.
Now a day you only see pianist perform great master work you don't find any pianist can compose their works and also perform shostakovich not only a great pianist and a great composer perform his works.
Interestingly, I read an article that recounted a 3-way interview with Martha Argerich, Stephen Kovacevich and a reporter from Gramophone. At the end of the interview, Argerich insists the three listen to a recording of Shostakovich's performance of the final movement of his first concerto and she remarks how the cadenza is unbelievable --- so she definitely gets it. I think both are incredible but I think Argerich's rubato actually makes it hit harder for me...
Unfortunately the only live footage of Rachmaninoff we have is of him in social settings. We have audio recordings galore but no video of him playing like this one of Shostakovich. Too bad. It would have been fascinating to see him walking out on stage bowing and then sitting down and playing.
Same. I do hope that there's some unknown live footage (with sound) somewhere of Rachmaninoff playing, just waiting to be discovered, so we can finally see AND hear him play.
Wonderful composer--I don't know how he managed to write music--and good stuff it is-- living under a constant cloud of fear--but he did--an inspiration for courageous citizens everywhere.
Да врёте вы всё. Если все художники жили тогда под страхом - в СССР не было бы такой культуры! Сейчас по-вашему в РФ нет страха - дерьмократия сплошная - а никакого творчества нет совсем - только дешёвые поделки за бабло из жизни правящих крупных и мелких уголовников.
I see that nobody has noticed that this video is speeded up a 25% aprox, look at the movements of the orchestra players, they are not natural and the music in not understandable. I know this piece note by note. If you like you can see my performace in my channel.
Do you say "fear"? But don't you see a humor in this music? No? Indeed? Meantime Shostakovich has a brilliant sense of humor! Simply western public is not capable to understand this... ;)
Very great document. Why can't we see the arm moving during the glissandi? Does somebody have an idea? Maybe a post recording by the composer? it might have been necessary to get a sound so crisp for the time. Unless this fabulous technique prevents us from seeing these movements.
@@Itapirkanmaa2 I think so. Therefore, the sound recording is not that of the concert; however, the rest is extremely synchronous. We don't know a lot about this fabulous recording
Common misconception. Very few composers were good performers of their own music and Shostakovich most certainly wasn’t one. And this is not even counting composers who wrote music for instruments they couldn’t play themselves.
At least one of the downvotes for this video must surely have come from a Steinway salesman. Dmitri is performing on a dreaded "piano-shaped object" built in Berlin.
Robert Switzer, who is this arrogant fool --one "Richard Mohr," a nobody, compared to Dmitrii? Yet, whoever he may be, he must be so much more than you, since you use his pompous mockery as shelter for your own timid, implied agreement to them. History has already proven you and your Mohr mentor wrong: neither real audiences (the ones who actually pay for their concerts --unlike you) nor real musicians (the ones who actually can play an instrument well --unlike you) neither of these, I say, care to hear or play any serial music. I said "ANY", ite est: none, no serial music. You are stuck in the dogmatic aestheticism of the 1960s --pity that your brain got calcified so long ago ...
And so ends one of the greatest pieces of music ever written, probably my favourite (along with the 5th symphony). The man was a genius with a musical language like no other. How do those harmonies work? They shouldn't but they do. He had an amazing talent for tearing up the rules of tonal harmony yet somehow making it all sound so coherant, a sort of illusory tonality. One in a million.
@Seth Killian Learn more about music, sir.
@@rumataastorskiy5734 Shut up, Bach!
one in a million? go talk to a million people right now, i promise you won't find one person near his level. he was more than one in a million
Do anyone know another composer like shostakovich?
@@user-IllIllIlI Prokofiev is probably the closest in style.
Shostakovich was born in September, 1906. If the video dates from 1940, he would have been about 34 years old, and he hardly looks any older than that. Whenever I see this clip, I try to picture him when he was still a conservatory student trying to make a little money in hard times by playing the piano for silent films at movie houses.
Yes, playing the can can in funeral scenes XDDD
There is a picture of him when he is about 18/19 years old. He looks like thirteen :'D
Is his grandson
@@girlwithoutpearlearring and he looks good doe ngl
Yes- I just saw this clip on another posting, and he is certainly not 33/34 years old here.
Only Shostakovich can better than Shostakovich
ДA!!!!
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What does that even mean, I don't know. But I agree!
Thank you, friends! Our Soviet composer is really great and his music is beautiful forever!
Shostakovich was quite the pianist and this is great archival footage showing just how good he was, joining his fellow Russians, Prokofiev, Stravinsky---and Rachmaninoff, who was, of course, the best of all of them. If only we had this kind of footage of Rach playing. One can only hope there's something lying around somewhere just waiting to be discovered.
Same! I'm glad we have the audio recordings of him playing, but I wish we had videos (with audio, of course) of him playing his own piano pieces.
Russian school of piano playing has always been one of the strongest in the world. Most Russian composers were excellent world class pianists in their own right and rarely even considered themselves very good at playing the instrument (because they were studying with people who were considered much better at it).
@@kosmosyche”Always” is word used by Russian nationalists. Actually Russian classical music tradition is not that old, not even 200 years.
@@pawelpap9come on
Shosty is slaying
that trumpet player is a beast!
The conductor tuns to Shostakovich and says, "Dimitri, can you play it a little faster?" One of my all time favorite composers!
Super.
Shostakovich would love this
Shostakovich I listened to him for 7 years every day. I also dedicated one of my compositions to him and made a portrait of him that appears in the video on TH-cam.
Боже ,какая виртуозность. Шикарно.
Wow! It's so interesting to see Maestro Shostakovich playing his own piece! :)
One of my musical idols! Thank you.
Sometimes I forget, he was not only an amazing composer, but an incredible pianist too.
I'm impressed shostakovich could play such piece with a straight face...
SHOSTAKOVICH IS GENIUS
Amazing example of a composer playing one of his compositions better than other pianists.
What technique! His tempo is faster than any other performance I've heard.
Shostie, you are amazing!!!!
It is not possible to listen to this without the hairs on the back of your head prickling up!
Невероятно виртуозно!!! 💥👌
Thank You, Thank You! Now we know for sure how good a pianist he was. Wonderful!
Невероятно...
This is awesome, very rare to see him actually performing. Thank you for uploading
I have seen this clip so many times, and it never ceases to be absolutely thrilling. Too bad we don’t have more than this spectacular finish!
E così finisce uno dei più grandi brani musicali mai scritti, probabilmente il mio preferito . Quest'uomo era un genio con un linguaggio musicale come nessun altro.
Shosty is amazing!!! a true honest dark pianist.
no ur amazing
@@DmitriShostakovichDSCH no you're amazing
@@tooktookishereNo you’re amazing
Great Hero Shosti. So good! So great! He was playing for his Life!
A very eerie feelings this video gives me.
A lot bad things came out of the USSR but DS was one of the great ones...
Most of my favorite composers lived in the Soviet Union.
@@stevej71393 Censorship was a real issue, especially during the Stalin era were hurting the feelings of the party could easily cost you your life. However, the education system there must have done a pretty good job at discovering and assisting new talents.
@@uzefulvideos3440 No, it was the opposite. Education system didn't encourage or assist talents but instead pushed people into the jobs they didn't want but the government needed. "Artist" was not even considered to be a job. When Prokofiev died, only a few people showed up to his funeral, many famous artists were killed or sent to GULAG. That's why most of them had to flee Soviet Union in order to survive. I wonder how many potential composers we lost because of this butcher's regime.
Amazing 😭😭💕💕💕
Гений
Now a day you only see pianist perform great master work you don't find any pianist can compose their works and also perform shostakovich not only a great pianist and a great composer perform his works.
I come here when ever I feel the need to have my spirits raised.
People should listen more to this. There is no rubato à la Argerich WHATSOEVER. It's harder that way, but it's the right way.
Interestingly, I read an article that recounted a 3-way interview with Martha Argerich, Stephen Kovacevich and a reporter from Gramophone. At the end of the interview, Argerich insists the three listen to a recording of Shostakovich's performance of the final movement of his first concerto and she remarks how the cadenza is unbelievable --- so she definitely gets it. I think both are incredible but I think Argerich's rubato actually makes it hit harder for me...
0:50 I don't know why but I'm laughing so hard at this
The cellist 😌
Кто поставил Шостаковичу дизлайк ???????!!!!!!🧐
Как кто....идиоты!!!!
Stalinnn
Именно из за этого ютуб убрал видимость дизлайков. DSCH надо уважать...
Idk but he must be dead by now lmao
Прокофьев наверно
Absolutely fascinating film !!!!!!!!
He was a beast at the piano
Fenomenal
The playing just gets faster and faster and you question how his hands still keep up somehow
From the first season of "Moscow's got Talent".
В нашем зале перед войной🎉❤
Dmitry is one of the GREATEST COMPOSER IN HISTORY OF MUSIC. PROUD OF RUSSIAN CULTURE.
BRAVO-BRAVISSIMO! ❤
Unfortunately the only live footage of Rachmaninoff we have is of him in social settings. We have audio recordings galore but no video of him playing like this one of Shostakovich. Too bad. It would have been fascinating to see him walking out on stage bowing and then sitting down and playing.
Same. I do hope that there's some unknown live footage (with sound) somewhere of Rachmaninoff playing, just waiting to be discovered, so we can finally see AND hear him play.
Greatest composer, awesome music. 👌 🎶 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏
Wonderful composer--I don't know how he managed to write music--and good stuff it is-- living under a constant cloud of fear--but he did--an inspiration for courageous citizens everywhere.
Да врёте вы всё. Если все художники жили тогда под страхом - в СССР не было бы такой культуры! Сейчас по-вашему в РФ нет страха - дерьмократия сплошная - а никакого творчества нет совсем - только дешёвые поделки за бабло из жизни правящих крупных и мелких уголовников.
Omg so brainwashed western propaganda
Wishing for the whole concerto / video clip...
Absolute madlad
zamechatel'no! Spasibo za posting!
look at my boy go! bravo!
This footage is the treasure of this our world
Er war das größte Genie unserer Zeit.
This video should simply be renamed “actual fire”.
His playstyle wasnt dry at all...
MARAVILLOSO GRAXIEEE..SIEMPRE
Genius 👏🏼👏🏼 🤓
С днем Рождения! happy bithday!!! 25.09.2020
I see that nobody has noticed that this video is speeded up a 25% aprox, look at the movements of the orchestra players, they are not natural and the music in not understandable. I know this piece note by note. If you like you can see my performace in my channel.
I'm glad somebody has mentioned this. If you watch back at 75% speed, you get a better idea of how it probably actually sounded.
¡Brutal! Un auténtico genio
Oh for the rest of it ! Please !
And you thought Yuja was already quite fast.
すげえテンポ！
Do you say "fear"? But don't you see a humor in this music? No? Indeed?
Meantime Shostakovich has a brilliant sense of humor! Simply western public is not capable to understand this... ;)
If there's no fear, why is he always wearing a star on his lapel?
Hard to imagine that War didn't happen yet, and 7 and 8 symphony weren't created....
The Second world war began in 1939.
Very great document. Why can't we see the arm moving during the glissandi? Does somebody have an idea? Maybe a post recording by the composer? it might have been necessary to get a sound so crisp for the time. Unless this fabulous technique prevents us from seeing these movements.
The audio and the video might have become separated during the modern processing. Often happens.
@@Itapirkanmaa2 I think so. Therefore, the sound recording is not that of the concert; however, the rest is extremely synchronous. We don't know a lot about this fabulous recording
MENUDO VIRTUOSISMO
WOW
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it's obvious he plays this piece well: it was composed by him himself!
Common misconception. Very few composers were good performers of their own music and Shostakovich most certainly wasn’t one. And this is not even counting composers who wrote music for instruments they couldn’t play themselves.
Genius
LO ADOROOO
Such a limpid style, even in the more powerful and voluminous areas ...
OMGGGG
wow i slayed this ngl
Yeah you definitely did. I think you're my favourite composer now
bet 🎉
The 4000th liker is me, I made another milestone today yay.
Is this at the Moscow conservatory?
Yes
Grande Shostakovicht, la música por encima y mucho, de la tiranía
Not many people can say that they’ve shredded their own concerto on stage lol
Fantastic! Anybody know who the trumpet player is?
Юрьев!
@@aleksandrsergeev5721 Leonid Yuriev - thanks
@a1s2d3f4g5q1w2e3: Tак указано в документальной хронике "DSCH. Дмитрий Шостакович" (CD-ROM), изд. Оксаной Дворниченко и др. в 2000 г.
The Beethoven of the 20th century
Conductor Gregory Hamburg
How does he do those high glissandi without moving his right arm? Something amiss here.
The audio and video aren't really in sync
Вот он поливает, где тут рядом современные пианисты, а это композитор!
Apparently Lady Mac was the upstting one.
그는 그만의 개성이 있는 음악을 가지고 있어? 안그래 형?
Да
At least one of the downvotes for this video must surely have come from a Steinway salesman. Dmitri is performing on a dreaded "piano-shaped object" built in Berlin.
Is there more of this?
Otkuda izvestno chto eto 1940? Spasibo, AL
이때까지만해도 음악가가 천재인지 아닌지 보통 사람들도 분간할수 있었고 감동받을 수 있었는데... 현대음악은 뭔가 길을 잘못 들은것 같은 느낌... 한번 잘못 발을 들이고서는 그냥 그 방향으로 쭉 나가는 느낌이다...
ショスタコーヴィチのピアノ協奏曲第1番、は、トランペット、分散和音的なアルペジオ演奏のピアノ、そして、行進曲風の弦楽合奏、のための、キリスト教（カソリックでは無い）音楽。
これは、キリスト教の軍隊理論の限界、を表現している。
Idk why, but the part from 0:54 to 1:03 is so earwormish for me.
yeas it is because the technology back then was bad so the camera is not so good with sound. i can a agree with that 🙃
Who's conducting ?
Pobre hombre explotaron su talento durante años y ¿como le pagaron? Censurandolo
what xD!!!!!!
Shostakovitch never quite manged to get beyond the ditty. He might have been saved, if anything could have saved him, by serialism. -- Richard Mohr
Robert Switzer, who is this arrogant fool --one "Richard Mohr," a nobody, compared to Dmitrii? Yet, whoever he may be, he must be so much more than you, since you use his pompous mockery as shelter for your own timid, implied agreement to them. History has already proven you and your Mohr mentor wrong: neither real audiences (the ones who actually pay for their concerts --unlike you) nor real musicians (the ones who actually can play an instrument well --unlike you) neither of these, I say, care to hear or play any serial music. I said "ANY", ite est: none, no serial music. You are stuck in the dogmatic aestheticism of the 1960s --pity that your brain got calcified so long ago ...
Yeah that makes about as much sense as saying cage could have been saved by minimalism m8. Same time period doesn’t mean one style.
Whats wrong with dittys if theyre well written?
Прямо таки кавалерийская атака.
Кто-нибудь знает, кто трубач и дирижер?
penchevpd трубач Юрьев, дирижёр Гинзбург
@@user-yn6sg2on3n спасибо!!!
Yikes!
y doesn't the video match with the audio. illuminati confirmed
lag maybe? it seems pretty legit to me
which part? or the whole thing
the middle glissando part. i hear the glissando but i don't see him doing it at all
oh yeah................... .-.
Its shostakovich...maybe he could do a glissando that u cant see cuz of how good he is
or maybe, its fake
피아노 자체도 ㅈㄹ 잘치네