Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 8 with score - Borodin String Quartet
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มิ.ย. 2019
- Shostakovich's "Dresden" Quartet from 1960 scarcely needs an introduction. Its official dedication as a memorial to the victims of the 1945 Dresden fire bombing has long been supplanted by a focus on the obsessive use of Shostakovich's own DSCH motif (D - Eb - C - B), plus its references to a convoy marching to Siberia from his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, and the revolutionary song "Tortured by grievous unfreedom", as well as other works.
0:04 -1st movement (Largo)
4:57 -2nd movement (Allegro Molto)
7:48 -3rd movement (Allegretto)
12:02 -4th movement (Largo)
17:25 -5th movement (Largo)
This performance by the Borodin Quartet is from a studio recording made in Moscow, with the players Rostislav Dubinsky, Yaroslav Alexandrov, Dmitri Shebalin and Valentin Berlinsky.
I am hugely grateful to olla-vogala for publishing this score initially, and I hope his version with, I think, the Emerson Quartet reappears on TH-cam soon.
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"Are you ok?"
"why do you ask?"
*The music in my headphones:*
"No, I'm not."
imagine if a string quartet was told to play canon in d for a wedding and then busted out this piece out of nowhere
imagine if they did that for a funeral
@@leonardochang6148 imagine being told to play canon in d for a funeral tho...
they deserve it for wanting canon in d
I agree
instead they get canon in DSCH
It's MY mental breakdown and I get to choose the music
9:52 the viola just chillin while the cello graciously playing while the violins are bumblebees going through the five stages of grief
Lmfaooo
Classical music is relaxing, they said. It helps them study, they said.
Underrated 😂😂🔥
Me: hey, teach. Can I listen to music while doing the assignment?
Teacher: what music
Me: Shostakovich
Teacher: Say sike right now
I truly believe that the penguin in the profile picture made this comment
@@sweetmonnik03 haha!
@@sweetmonnik03 lmaooo
WARNING: Do not listen to this piece while driving as your foot will instinctively press down hard on the accelerator as you believe wholeheartedly that everyone driving behind you is actually following you.
did you learn that the hard way? cuz I did
General Kenobi I did indeed, the first time I heard this I was driving on the freeway with my daughter and she put it on-anxious moments followed.
LOL thanks for the warning
@@Kafkaworld739 wtf bro
Or it'll make you want to run people over
Shostakovitch makes really good wedding songs.
Red Wedding.
p i e c e s
@Breanna Zumhof-Harthan oh- um
okay
@Breanna Zumhof-Harthan aw wait that’s actually really sweet.
I mean- it’s sad and all. But still awesome
•/////•
You mean pieces
5:58 and then Shostakovich said *bass drop*
ahhahah for sure
@random you made me spit out my goddamn drink, but it's so true
4:58 lmao this works way better than caffeine
yep, and i don't drink caffeine, especially the transition, so calming, then AHHHHHHHHHHH. when i first listened to this and got there, i literally fell out of my chair while trying to continue with homework
Listen to it there at 1.25x speed
I laugh until my head falls off -Shostakovich knew
Ikr!? I'm not even a musician but It's Really SatisfyingXD!
Someone: Classical music is all so boring, im sorry but its just relaxing to me.
Shastakovich: Hold my vodka
Tchaikovsky: you called?
@@Killerbee4712 "let me get my cannon"
@@Killerbee4712 fr
i’m sick of people generally thinking that classical music is just relaxing. the stereotypes of music
Mozart: AHAHAHAHA that's so cute. Just dropping by to get my Requiem in D
Mapping of some quotations and allusions
I. Largo 0:05
0:05 opens with the DSCH motif in the cello
0:41 quotation of a theme from the First Symphony followed by the DSCH signature (also heard at 4:15)
2:45 allusion to a theme from the Fifth Symphony (also followed by the DSCH signature)
II. Allegro molto 4:55
4:55 allusion to the toccata (3rd movement) from the Eight Symphony
5:58 allusion to the Jewish dancing theme from the Second Piano Trio (also at 7:34)
III. Allegretto 7:48
9:40 almost direct quotation of the First Cello Concerto main theme (also at 11:26)
11:45 Dies Irae head-motif
IV. Largo 12:03
14:21 quotation of the old Russian song "Tormented by Grievous Bondage" (original title: "Zamuchen tyazholoy nevolyey")
15:53 allusion to the aria "Seryozha, my love" from the opera "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District" (extreme sorrow, no "light" or "hope" here - the original aria is sung by the lady who has been betrayed by her lover and shortly before her death)
V. Largo 17:26
all works by Shostakovich except "Zamuchen tyazholoy nevolyey" - th-cam.com/video/7hyS_AiDaQw/w-d-xo.html
5:58 also sounds like part of the 7th symphony. Probably just his technique.
Thank you
Thanks for the homework help :)
Thank you.
Isn't there also a quotation of Siegfried somewhere?
Can you imagine how many emotions he had? Whenever I look at him I can't help but think that he always looks expressionless, sort of lost. But music is his emotion. He didn't need to show it, he could just write a piece like this one.
*tears up*
I mean, he was supposedly planning on killing himself while writing this.
You should read The Noise of Time
i think he was just feeling numb from the pain that he and many others had to face
what I think is interesting is how soft spoken he is in videos I've seen of him speaking...such angry and powerful music coming from such a shy, quiet man!
i did my best
this is when you walk in rain for hours, weep and scream your lungs out, come home and sit on the couch, water dripping from your clothes and soaking into the fabric of the couch, your throat sore and your eyes red, you can just feel your body getting sick, and it is great
Your use of words is incredible
Very good analogy.
yes
I love the rain. I can dance while I'm outside when it's raining.
But of course, that's because since I was a kid, I was told to love the rain.
I just have it on when I'm hoovering but yeah it's nice like
15:50 actually reduced me to tears when I listened to it after writing a paper on Shostakovich last year... while the specifics of his personal feelings towards his situation and country at that point are debated, it's clear that this piece is a reflection on his own life and the horrible things he had to endure. Ironic enough that one of the only major-key sections in this piece is the most heartwrenching.
As for that last sentence- only Shostakovich could pull of something like that!
arinetic AWWWW 😭
I know
@@viridianaalexandradiazmend9212 me too!
The idea that major = happy and minor = sad is a western concept.
I find it so cool he uses those 4 notes from the beginning as a base to this whole piece
Even cooler when you find out those are his initials.
Genius
Yeaaaa
It's been half a century since I first heard this iconic recording. Such powerful, profoundly emotional music! I'll always treasure the memory of performing this quartet 45 years ago as then violist of the young (at that time) and passionate (they still are!) Kronos Quartet.
Take a look at this extract from Shostakovich Memories:
" When i wrote the Eight Quartet, it was also assigned to the department of "exposing fascism". You have to be blind and deaf to do that, because everything in the quartet is as clear as a primer. I quote Lady Macbeth, the First and Fifth Symphonies. What does fascism have to do with these? The Eight is an autobiographical quartet, it quotes a song known to all Russians: "Exhausted by the hardships of prison"
And there is also the Jewish theme from the Piano Trio in this quartet. I think, if we speak of mussical impressions, that Jewish folk music has made a most powerful impression on me. [...] Its almost always laughter through tears.
Page 156
Supposedly the "knock", is supposed to be a reminder of the knocking of the Soviet secret police in the middle of the night to take you away.
what knock
@@vegas6824 The motif of three repeated quavers at the start of the 4th movement and continuing throughout.
@@vegas6824 The mii theme
@@Poempedoempoex what?
@@Poempedoempoex lmao can't unhear it now
A good tune to weep uncontrollably to while contemplating the futility of human existence
He just kept quoting himself!!
This is a work of a genius.
Eb C B D
A pure genius
Omg D Eb C B
@@thatsEforEveryone listen to this String Quartet No. 19 "Dissonance", K. 465
the D Eb C B is actually quoted from Mozart!
@@AbdulazizShabakouh Where exactly? Do you know the measures? I'm interested.
@@Ivan_1791 nearly the whole piece. look out for DSCH in german notation, his signature. as well as the twisted jewish klezmer dance in the allegro section, a quote from his piano trios. as well as the first movement quoting his first cello concerto in quite a few places. there is a lot to unpack in this piece tho and thats just the start of it.
such a bop it slayed so hard left no crumbs
thanks i did my best
real
I love classical music its so calming!!!
The classical music:
Very calming.
Jokes aside, the first movement is very calming. It's ominous but it's not tense.
Lol
Indeed
Agree, I put this on my beat to chill/relax to
I came here because of a comment below a meme that said this was the best musical representation of fear.. I'm not disappointed
not fear , acceptance
I was humming a lullaby washing the dishes and then, DSCH DSCH DSCH !
0:04 -1st movement (Largo)
4:57 -2nd movement (Allegro Molto)
7:48 -3rd movement (Allegretto)
12:02 -4th movement (Largo)
17:25 -5th movement (Largo)
Thanks a lot @Andrea Ignjatic. I copied into the description.
4:57 is when the KGB starts to chase you.
And 12:02 is when the КГБ knocks on your door
Thanks!!
Magical work of music. Such beauty, fear and darkness at the same time. Sad to realise how much terror Shostakovich had to live through.
Just remember... someone always has it worse
Love how TH-cam sticks ads right in the middle of the piece.
You could use an Ad blocker. You can do this on mobile device as well...
I like how despite you could get revenue off of ads, you still promote ad blockers for the sake of our listening
:)
@@kindanooby2988 I have never placed an ad on anything I have posted. That's not why score video makers do it. Sometimes rights holders place ads, which is fine as the video remains online.
Use youtube vanced it's great no ads +it has features of TH-cam premium too
The quartet was premiered in 1960 in Leningrad by the Beethoven Quartet. In the liner notes of the Borodin Quartet's 1962 recording, music critic Erik Smith writes, "The Borodin Quartet played this work to the composer at his Moscow home, hoping for his criticisms. But Shostakovich, overwhelmed by this beautiful realisation of his most personal feelings, buried his head in his hands and wept. When they had finished playing, the four musicians quietly packed up their instruments and stole out of the room."
Mii channel theme but more intense
Omg 😭🤣😂😂😂😂
Mii in hell
This is my favorite comment on youtube
not at all fuck you
@@kvnyegvmp plz go away.
5:58 easily the most iconic theme from shostakovich.
Pure chaos in one piece. You can really feel the anguish.
So I've been looking for the 2nd movement of this thing without knowing who made it for months now and just could not find it anywhere. Finally, here it is. Such poignant dissonance and vigor. I'm tired.
Ah it was there by your side all along, your true mentor. Your guiding moonlight.
The voicing of this quartet creates seething angry voices in the beginning. So dark and such strong passionate loss is brought out through the music.
The 4th movement is literally one of the most beautiful and emotionally powerful pieces of music I’ve ever heard!
1 часть
Гл. П. (Монограмма) -0:06
П. П. -1:09
Средний раздел
1 тема-2:11
2 тема-3:17
2 часть
1 тема-4:58
2 тема-5:58
3 тема(монограмма) -6:23
3 часть
Тема(вальс) -8:03
Центральный раздел
1 тема-8:41
2 тема-9:19
2тема(тема из виолончельного концерт №1) -9:40
3 тема-9:52
4 часть
1 тема-12:03
2 тема-12:51
Средний раздел
1 тема(цитата из кинофильма "Молодая гвардия":" Замучен тяжелой неволей") -14:21
2 тема(реплика Катерины Измайловой из оперы "Леди Макбет":" Сережа, хороший мой") -15:54
5 часть
Тема-монограмма-17:28
Молодец!
Пять по анализу
Да, молодец, очень спасибо!!
СПс
@@ein4325 вообще, эстетика тут не главное. Это произведение, по сути, есть вся жизнь Шостаковича с начала его творческого пути и до 60 года. То есть сочинял он квартет не как ребус, а скорее, как автобиографию. Почитайте обязательно, что сам Шостакович писал о 8 квартете. Он его без слез исполнять не мог
А касательно эстетики
Квартет, не смотря на то, что это, грубо говоря, набор цитат, скреплённых монограммой "d-es-c-h", удивительно целостен. Даже если бы это произведение существовало в отрыве от всех других произведений Шостаковича, то оно всё равно оставалось бы эстетичным, красивым и целостным
2:59 A good way to avoid using parallel fifths...
How much DSCH motiv do you want?
Shostakovich: YES
The pure essence of art expression.
Am I the only one who wants that in my wedding?
Nope. We, too, want it
@Things Things who said weddings were joyous
we all want it but are we all really going to have one?
yah it's like about the kgb dani
Well, propose it & see if anybody really wants to marry u...
12:35 dies Irae 😳
IT'S EVERYWHERE AHHHH HELP!!!!
I, a metal head, have begun to head bang to classical music. That’s how you know it’s good.
You'd love the rest of Shostakovich, then. The guy was all about retaliation against an oppressive system.
may I suggest the fifth brandenbourg concerto? the harpsichord solo certainly is metal. Also BWV 532 has metal parts
I play both classical (violin) and rock (guitar) and dude , welcome , it’s great
Similar position as me, i've been listening to The rite of spring, for a week now \m/
There's so much classical influence in metal, I don't think any modern genre compares!
I really love how in the 4th movement at about 13:34 there is tension build up and resolves on a major chord.
The whole piece is just absolutely unbelievable; the amount of emotion, both joyful and painful, expressed throughout the piece is completely unparalleled by all other compositions!
5:58 remember this Evan it’s the part you want
@Evan Schubert but... I w a s t a l k i n g t o y o u
Damn, thanks past me
One of the few not maniacally serial chamber works that I still enjoy. That's my fault I burnt myself out on Brahms and Beethoven, Prokofiev, etc etc
Arranging this for a metal band right now, thank you for the upload!
lmk when thats finished. sounds badass
Can I listen to your arrangement?
have you done it yet???
@@wandamaximoff4091 i think we're never going to hear it :(
First time listening to this! My first thought was "this is trash metal for string quartet!".
some of the most powerfull stuff ever written imo
props to the people who can calmly sit through this without having a panic attack
I use this to stay awake in my car when I go home from work
I can't have a panic attack when I'm head-banging so hard
Bum bum bum
why did this get 40 likes
If you listen from 9:40 you can hear the main theme from the first movement of his first cello concerto
Daniel Fleming wow I seriously haven’t noticed it. Thanks for pointing out :)
Júlia _ yea it’s pretty cool right
12:03 you can listen Stravinski
This is my favourite quartet
4:53 greatest transition in music history
Shostakovichs quotes his first violin concerto at 6:23-6:33 in the first violin part .
And in the violin concerto he quotes his signature, D S C H (D, E flat, C, B). Such a genius! Layering quote upon quote!
he also quotes the 4th movement of his 2nd piano trio at 5:58
Evan Schubert the eS is a typo, so it should be eS. But in German note notation, D=D, S=E flat, C=C, H=B
Evan Schubert never mind I’m doing a really shitty job of explaining this lmao.
D=D
S=E flat
C=C
H=B
The “eS” in my original comment was a typo. I changed it just now. The “B=B” is also a typo. It’s meant to be “H=B.” I changed it there too. Sorry, sometimes my brain thinks faster than my hands do!
@Evan Schubert The German system uses the same letters from C to A, but instead of B, we say H (and what would be B flat we call B). I guess now that I think about it it really doesn't work with the alphabet lol. The S comes from the way you would pronounce E flat in German (which is "es", like the pronounciation of the letter S). Hope that helped :)
Although Shostakovich had a long and loyal relationship with the Beethoven String Quartet, who premiered most of his quartets under his close supervision, he ultimately preferred the playing & interpretations of the Borodin quartet. So if you're looking for "definitive" recordings, this set by the Borodins is the one. (I'm not big on the definitive performance thing - I am happy to have different interpretations available - but I think the Borodins are great.) People seem to think the Emersons do Shostakovich well; I'll check them out. I usually find their performances are pretty much focused exclusively on technical playing, which has its place, I guess.
In the largo section to the end... I wonder if having the first violinist have a prominent solo line in the very bottom of their range and then the cellist have a solo at the very top of their range in this happy style was his way of saying that the veneer of happiness on display by the soviet government was covering up an ass backwards reality. It's been many years since I visited this piece but I get it now.
Loved the 3rd movement! You can hear bits from his 1st cello concerto in it. Highly recommend you listen to that too.
@AIDAN NG Yes
It wasn’t even just a motif, he put the whole theme. Even the greatest composers run out of original ideas eventually.
Mr MangoBerry It wasn’t that he ran out of material for compositions, he was deliberately quoting himself. This is the piece that’s infamously known to be his suicide letter after all.
I wanna play this tbh
It is a rush to play this piece. If you ever get the shot, take it!
hope it went well.
Imagine an ad in the middle of this piece
*BUM BUM BUM*
Feeling very depressed at the moment, this makes me feel better.
I can spot with my little eyes a...
*twosetter who came here right after twoset's latest video*
Don’t call me out like this
@@larrywhopissesoncars5277 too l8 , you're exposed
I gotta man, the piece sounded sooo damnn fireee 🔥
twoset gets people educated
I am already a fan of Shosty b4 Twoset's vid hahaha XD
One of my favorite pieces of all time, if someone would to ask me why, I really wouldn't know how to explain it. I keep coming back to it every so often and its like hearing it for the first time again...
I love this quartet so much. Especially from No53 to No63.
Bernard Herrmann loved DS! It shows in many of his film scores!
They need to play this piece at my funerals.
Just out of curiosity... why multiple funerals?
@@annushkasrebornbabies5709 I’m a none-native English speaker-in french, we tend to say « les funérailles » (funerals) of someone
But yeah thank you for correcting
@@kacemchawqi5787 I didn't mean to correct you, just, my mother's French too, we just joke alot... I hope I haven't offended you! And we appreciate your learning English!
Also, yes, I agree... I need this played at my funeral too!
He would've been an amazing composer for horror movies
You know he actually composed for movies as well.
He wrote about something far scarier. The soviet union.
Dresden bombings basically were straight from the worst horror movie.
Try Stravinsky
He lived in real horror almost every day
Es una experiencia super agradable escuchar esta música ❤️👌🏻
Un Capolavoro!!!! Shostakowich uno dei Grandi Compositori del 900
Not only great chamber music, equal to any; e.g., Beethoven's Late Quartets, but the Borodin may have been among Shostakovich's finer interpreters, if not the best I've ever heard.
Sounds like insanity
When did I comment this
@@lucydoodles2020 Yesterday
@@lucydoodles2020 See you next year
5:59, best part
Спасибо за квартет
Listen to this after reading the gulag archipelago.
How to get PTSD in two steps!
Oh god...
I'm reading that rn fuck it's so depressing I love it
6:51 viola becoming psycho
So powerful indeed. It's a shame violas are so underused in solo form, it's the composers fault many potentially talented violist end up settling on violin instead
@@rodrigoodonsalcedocisneros9266 I actually play viola and I’ve been playing it for 3 years now. I originally wanted to play violin but then learned no one was playing viola so I switched over. I love the instrument but it’s disappointing that my entire part is usually switching back and forth between the cello and violin only when they don’t have the melody.
TwoSetters, play this at 2x it’s nuts
Ling Ling workouts
¡La mejor interpretación para mí !
Me: * having this as my ringtone *
My friends when I get called: * looking behind them to see if there isn’t a murderer with a knife creeping up *
Everyone: 0_0
Violin Benjamin
Are you from Boston?
Asking because of the way you used the word “isn’t”. I thought that was just a Boston thing and that anyone else would say “to see if there IS a murderer...”
Bruh you have the big gay
Pues tu amigo tiene una gran sesibilidad😜
@@zeb236 I am the big gay
True...they Know....fearing that 'Knock on the Door'....but YOU are the one who Knocks!
11:53
The Dies Irae here reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut's "so it goes" in The Children's Crusade/Slaughterhouse-Five, especially how both of these works are largely about Dresden.
Absolute genius
Esto es muy hermoso, es una de mis piezas favoritas entre todas.
Great one! Thanks for the upload
Thanks!
Please share!
@@DreamlessSleepwalker Thankyou.
Classical Music is just Metal without electricity
Simplemente majestuoso y muy triste.
Absolutely amazing!
Wow! I hear both his first symphony and his cello concerto in this
He actually wrote 2 cello concertos, the first of which is quoted in the 3rd movement. I totally recommend checking out the second if you haven't it's an incredible piece.
I'm listening to this secretly here in the Insane Asylum!! and now I'm feeling MUCH BETTER HA, HA, HA!!!!
le epic moment
so far, id say second movement was my fav
Feels oddly appropriate for the 4th of July in America in 2019
“In memory of the victims of fascism and war”
Très beau !
This is awesome!! Thanks. I studied this piece with Dubinsky at IU in the mid 80's
Tout Chostakovitch est dans son 8ème quatuor, sa 5ème symphonie et dans son concerto n°1 pour violon.
Magnifique interprétation du quatuor Borodine !
All Shostakovich is in his 8th quartet, his 5th symphony and in his concerto No. 1 for violin.
Beautiful interpretation of the Borodin quartet!
Love it
Shostakovich: "Me? Depressed under Stalin's rule? Pfft! No way- Hahahaha! *Sobs in Russian*"
EDIT: ...Okay, he was depressed when he wrote this due to some tramatic events- Stalin died in 1953 according to Big Lemons! I'm sorry, Mr. Shosty, I'm dumb! R.I.P.
P.S. Where can I find more info on Dmitri? All I can find is his life under Stalin's rule. Like I wanna know more than just "HE LIKED SOCCER AND WAS LIKE, PARANOID CONSTANTLY!" So if anyone can help out that'd be great!
EDIT 2: GOSH GUYS, THANKS FOR ALL THE LIKES! I ended up reading The Symphony of the Dead and it was shockingly good (like this piece). Thanks for all the advice!~
P.P.S. Poor Shosty man, shit was pretty hard for him and yet he kept composing. Takes guts! Let's now just appreciate this art.
EDIT 3: HOLY CRAP, Y'ALL REALLY LIKED THIS CRAPPY COMMENT, DAMN! Thanks for all the likes, again!
*adjusts glasses* Ah, as you can see from this pie chart, Stalin clearly died in 1953, and this quartet was written in 1960.
That's a good question, as Shostakovich biography has been a battleground of competing Cold War ideologies. Avoid for instance Ian McDonald's trashy 1990 book, which is dumbly anti-Soviet and riddled with inaccuracy. Although I haven't read it, Elizabeth Wilson's book looks good, beginning by extricating itself from the point-scoring travesties. Richard Taruskin's "Defining Russia Musically" has a very good essay on Shostakovich.
@@ContemporaryClassical Ah! Thank you! As an art history geek I wanna get into music history too! This will surely help!
How Shostakovich Changed My Mind, by Stephen Johnson, might be the book you're looking for.
Try this video I think it has exactly what you are looking for th-cam.com/video/MCxzMYVvHBg/w-d-xo.html
playing first two movements rn; pretty fun
Omg I've heard the 2nd movement so much and I've literally played it (sightreading with friends)... and yet I somehow didn't realise/forgot it was part of this piece!! I was so shocked!!
Oh man, this is too good!! Ive ADORED rachmaninoff for the better part of this past decade and i am hearing equally expressive and hard hitting composition yet so completely his own!! This is incredible!
Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich are also my 2 fav composers lol
Stupendo l'allegro!!
every movement is a BANGER