@@songbird2383 There was no standard frame rate back then. Many old films are played back and digitized at 24 FPS despite having been filmed at a lower frame rate. This also leads to a faster playback of the audio track, which also makes it higher pitched.
2:59 translated: My 7th Symphony was inspired by the terrible events of 1941. Our fight against facism, are coming victory over the enemy, my hometown of Leningrad, I dedicate this work. Now I will play an excerpt from the first part of the 7th Symphony.
@@rafreyes5140 If I remember correctly, the communist party of Russia doesn't exactly like him and most of his pieces because they kinda criticize the government of the country. Shostakovich lives under tge fear that he may soon be arrested by the KGB. Some sources said that he sleeps on the stairs outside his apartment so just in case the KGB finally arrests him, his family especially his children won't see him getting picked off never to be seen again.
@@raphaelclado8153 i feel bad for him that he has to go through all those threats, stress and anxieties.. his music makes me feel some kind of relief through escapism..thanks for sharing 🤍🤍
Stravinsky and Prokofiev ducked out and went to Paris, but Shostakovich stayed and courageously faced up to the horrors of Stalinist Russia. One of the greatest artists in history.
but Sergei Sergeevich then returned to his homeland and died there. I think that Sergei Prokofiev is one of the best Soviet composers! Greetings from Russia 🇷🇺
On piano it sounds like silent film music, kind of humorous. In full orchestral sound, however, it sounds terrifying and aggressive and kind of crazy. I love it
My guess would be, they were getting ready to film him playing one of his pieces and these are some luckily survived outtakes before they started (they probably started filming to check that the camera works properly and everything is in order or something like that). So while the camera crew was getting ready and doing their test run of the equipment, he just sat there smoking and chilling.
Love the clip at 1:10. He's playing an interlude from his opera "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" (1934). This was filmed before Stalin banned the opera in 1936 and declared Shostakovich an "Enemy of the People". Amazing that this footage survived.
He never was declared an enemy of the people. Enemies of the people were considered huge criminals and were supposed to be executed. Stalin just said his oppinion that he didn't understud Lady Macbet and musical society made an article blaming Shostakovich for his experiments. That caused some troubles for him, his workes were poorly played for couple of years. But then Stalin decided to send Shostakovich to America for a representative cultural trip and Shostakovich said to him how can I represent USSR if I'm not played. Stalin was amused because he still considered Shostakovich the composer number 1 and made him played again and made him the main representative during that trip, where besides Shostakovich met Stravinsky if I'm not mistaken. Maybe I am not very correct in some details, but in general the history was that. That bullshit about Stalin hating Shostakovich is absolutely lies! The pressure on Shostakovich was mainly because he was the leading person not just as a composer but as a govermental cultural functioner also. And that's tough, that's the real responsability in such country like USSR which is politicaly very harsh. And Shostakovich depicted that preassure in his music. Could he be arrested or canceled? Yes, of course! That's why his music is so much controvertial.
I once spent a day with Sir Peter Pears (after Britten's death) and we chatted briefly about Dimitri Shostakovich, who they both knew well. I'm honoured to have met someone who met Shostakovich! (I saw recently, that his apartment in St Petersburg was for sale! Imagine living there!) My favourite work is the 5th Symphony, by the way.
It's a small miracle he grew old. Most of his colleges were put in camps i.e. killed. Sjostakovitsj was famous in the west. Probably that's why Stalin thought it was a bad idea to put him away. Imagine to have to live in the fear of being arrested any day, just because you can't help being a genius!
You wrote: "Imagine [living] in fear of being arrested any day, just because you can't help being a genius!" That's NOT why he feared he might be arrested. it was because he was not writing pretty/patriotic music like Tchaikovsky or Mussorgsky. Stalin had very conservative tastes in music and could not understand or appreciate the new direction Shostakovich wanted to take. Nor could he understand any music that was not rooted in 19th century tonality.
Composers all lived well, including returned Prokofiev. It's ridiculous to think they were not content. These people were admired, venerated, cherished.
@@Johannes_Brahms65 it's widely available in books, etc. Even in this documentary it's evident. It is regrettable that this myth about the Soviet composers misery is perpetuated by the propaganda sources. Composers were never prosecuted, perhaps because their art is not easily translated in ideas. Writers, poets - that's a different matter. But not composers. Prokofiev also enjoyed a very privileged life, even though his wife was sent to GULAG. He married a younger well-connected girl instead. Anyway, Khachaturian, Khrennikov, Dunaevsky, etc. all lived very well in the USSR.
@@annashlimovich I read and heard differently. There's a documentary about Sviatoslav Richter here on youtube. He was there at the time. He explains certain things there. Sjostakovitsj was quite happy until Stalin came to listen to his very successful opera Lady Macbeth. After that he always kept a suitcase ready, with toothbrush, pyama's etc. Prokofjev and Katchkarturian collaborated. Emil Gilels worked with the kgb so he wasn't bothered. And oh yeah, there's a war going on in Ukraine, did you happen to know that? (Sorry to be nasty, nothing personal. Just giving air to my own frustration. There's free press in my country).
People always say he was too simple, but he was forced to be by the harsh regime. His chamber works, which were under much less scrutiny, were much more complex as well as some of his works in late the Lenin, early Stalin regimes, before the greater powers began censorsing his great works.
Are these performances of excerpts from the Seventh Symphony and the Second Piano Trio, or are they perparatory improvisations?? A pity there are no subtitles.
I've just finished reading Volkov's "Testimony", Shostakovich's memoirs; some doubt its authenticity but it is consistent with other things I've read about Shostakovich. The ending is very bleak, but I am not at all surprised. Shostakovich was crushed by Stalinism. Shostakovich himself seems to feel that, as death approached, he was broken. From my comfortable Western perspective, his life was an utter triumph. In just over a week, I'll hear his third string quartet live, and I can't wait.
does anyone know anything more about the cigarettes? both here and on a Richter documentary he appears to be lighting the filter! any one know the story behind this? lol
He's smoking soviet cigarettes called Belomorkanal (White Sea Canal) which actually had more filter than tobacco ... meant to be smoked with thick gloves in Siberian winter, I suppose. You can still buy those cigarettes in Russia today. I have two packages :-)
@@larvaconvivialis wow! thanks, you learn something new every day. Bruce Willis had one like that in Fifth Element but I thought it was a joke, for the cigarette to be "ultra mild" in the futuristic setting!
He drdicated this simphony his motherland City Leningrad AT time of ww2 in easten Front AT 1941,for oll People Who was Fought with NaZi, and take victoty
"My 7th symphony comes as an echo of the threatening events of the year 1941. I dedicate this composition to our war on fascism, to our upcoming victory over that enemy, to my home city of Leningrad. Now I'm going to play an extract from the first part of the 7th symphony."
He doesn't, he appears to be smoking a Belomorkanal cigarette. The darker colored portion is filled with tobacco and the lighter colored part is a cardboard tube. It is one of strongest/harshest cigarettes I've ever smoked. Like smoking tobacco from a field that was hastily harvested, dried on top of RBMK reactor, and then shredded by hand in a hap-hazard way. Highly recommend, I don't think you'll get addicted because the uncomfortable feeling of death permeates your being and the dizziness makes your feel like a conifer tree pushed by the blast of a Siberian wind. I order these on ebay from time-to-time when I feel depressed.
Whenever I hear him speak, I am always surprised at how much lighter and higher-pitched his voice is than I expect.
What an INCREDIBLE talent he was
it's because it's sped up. That's why his voice sounds like that
Lilibeth Gambong it’s not
something to do with the recording. His actual voice wasn't like that.
older recordings seem for some reason to make voices sound higher pitched, i dont know why tho
@@songbird2383 There was no standard frame rate back then. Many old films are played back and digitized at 24 FPS despite having been filmed at a lower frame rate. This also leads to a faster playback of the audio track, which also makes it higher pitched.
2:59 translated:
My 7th Symphony was inspired by the terrible events of 1941. Our fight against facism, are coming victory over the enemy, my hometown of Leningrad, I dedicate this work. Now I will play an excerpt from the first part of the 7th Symphony.
Thanks you
@@Dylonely42 yoooo
@@jspianomusic4462 hey
My ears pleased
🙏🎖🕊❤
2020 and the only thing that makes sense is to keep myself alive to listen to Shostakovich
I know right!!
2023 and the only thing that makes sense is to keep myself alive to listen to Shostakovich.
2024 and the only thing that makes sense is to keep myself alive to listen to Shostakovich
My mom: Drink your soup, it's not that hot.
The soup:
Fimp
Yes.
What the actual f*ck!?
@@dmitrishostakovich7561 ITT: we simp for Shostakovich
@@dmitrishostakovich7561
8 MINUTES OF PURE HANDSOMENESS
SOMEONE ELSE AGREES
yes
The things I'll do/let this man do to me, what a mf snacc
@@Enrobdoolb this comment right here
Yessd
Reading these comments and all these people thirsting after him makes me feel better about myself lol
I'm not alone
@@fernandatavares5175 same
everyone horny for the dead russian man 💔
I mean, you could really admire how good looking he is, but please, not to the point that you're thirsting about him.
@@rollsroycegriffon2375 why not tho
He looks so uncomfortable to be on film, though I'm not surprised about it considering what he's been through
what happened to him?
@@rafreyes5140 If I remember correctly, the communist party of Russia doesn't exactly like him and most of his pieces because they kinda criticize the government of the country. Shostakovich lives under tge fear that he may soon be arrested by the KGB. Some sources said that he sleeps on the stairs outside his apartment so just in case the KGB finally arrests him, his family especially his children won't see him getting picked off never to be seen again.
@@raphaelclado8153 i feel bad for him that he has to go through all those threats, stress and anxieties.. his music makes me feel some kind of relief through escapism..thanks for sharing 🤍🤍
Apparently he was very shy too.
Now I'm wondering whether he ever smiled in his whole life.
He did! There is a photo of him actually, with his daughter, holding a lil pig and smiling
Type "Shostakovich smiling" into Google Images. You'll be glad you did.
There’s also a picture of him smiling with his friend, Benjamin Britten
@@yowzephyr lmao
There wasn't much to smile about back in the day I'm afraid.
His voice is definitely not how I expected it to be hahaha
Love you Shosty ❤
he voice is not like that is just a old recording problem lol
ua-cam.com/video/Jzfq_FSjeMk/v-deo.html
This is his voice.
@@amandaneves435 thank you!
I LOVE HIM VERY MUCH
Hello Shostakovich, i from Norway =)
Hello Edward Grieg, and I'm from Russia =)
rate from 0 to 10, please =) ua-cam.com/video/ZAiEPUu0iO4/v-deo.html
@@user-no6nq9dj2v you wanna fight
@@sergeisergeyevichprokofiev802 ты здесь откуда?!
It is wonderful to hear him play his own stuff. Now I know what his music is supposed to sound like--we are all just sort of playing it.
Very classy, very edgy, very unique. Simply hoooot 😍🔥
um ok
@@DmitriShostakovichDSCH bruh shut up stop pretending to be him its weird
Very handsome and great composer
Stravinsky and Prokofiev ducked out and went to Paris, but Shostakovich stayed and courageously faced up to the horrors of Stalinist Russia. One of the greatest artists in history.
but Sergei Sergeevich then returned to his homeland and died there. I think that Sergei Prokofiev is one of the best Soviet composers! Greetings from Russia 🇷🇺
@@nikitos3610 Hello Nikita! Yes, Prokofiev is a wonderful composer as well. The Romeo and Juliet ballet is perhaps my favourite piece. ♥
@@10dennis10 yeayeaprokirecomenduproksonata4
"Faced the Horrors"
Bruh his life there was infinetly better than in most places in the rest of the world
@@dwarow2508 That's a bad joke right?
He can play piano very fast but only his arms are moving. I like his music and I think he was an important composer, Спасибо Шостакович!
i would say its because when he aged he could no longer use his right hand .. but he is rather young in some of these recordings, aha.
For anyone curious of what he’s playing at 1:11 , the piece is called Lady Macbeth Act III, Scene 6
On piano it sounds like silent film music, kind of humorous. In full orchestral sound, however, it sounds terrifying and aggressive and kind of crazy. I love it
@@garrysmodsketcheswell, he wrote music for that as well.
I had a ticket to see that in January and tested positive for Covid on the morning of. I was so disappointed to give my ticket to a friend.
I love the first clip. I have to wonder why they decided to film him just sitting there smoking, as opposed to performing or speaking.
My guess would be, they were getting ready to film him playing one of his pieces and these are some luckily survived outtakes before they started (they probably started filming to check that the camera works properly and everything is in order or something like that). So while the camera crew was getting ready and doing their test run of the equipment, he just sat there smoking and chilling.
Everybodys simping over a guy born in 1906
Yes and Shostakovich finds it very weird coming from heaven same with me
I love him
@@millky3634 simp alert
what a juvenile thing to say
Not a guy... a musical genius, the Hendrix of the symphony orchestra
Love the clip at 1:10. He's playing an interlude from his opera "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" (1934). This was filmed before Stalin banned the opera in 1936 and declared Shostakovich an "Enemy of the People". Amazing that this footage survived.
He never was declared an enemy of the people. Enemies of the people were considered huge criminals and were supposed to be executed. Stalin just said his oppinion that he didn't understud Lady Macbet and musical society made an article blaming Shostakovich for his experiments. That caused some troubles for him, his workes were poorly played for couple of years. But then Stalin decided to send Shostakovich to America for a representative cultural trip and Shostakovich said to him how can I represent USSR if I'm not played. Stalin was amused because he still considered Shostakovich the composer number 1 and made him played again and made him the main representative during that trip, where besides Shostakovich met Stravinsky if I'm not mistaken. Maybe I am not very correct in some details, but in general the history was that. That bullshit about Stalin hating Shostakovich is absolutely lies! The pressure on Shostakovich was mainly because he was the leading person not just as a composer but as a govermental cultural functioner also. And that's tough, that's the real responsability in such country like USSR which is politicaly very harsh. And Shostakovich depicted that preassure in his music. Could he be arrested or canceled? Yes, of course! That's why his music is so much controvertial.
Extraordinary file of the last most great russian composer
I have to put in a good word for Nikolai Kapustin.
7th Symphony adagio is the most wonderful music I have ever heard.
best comment here
This comment section scares me.
He can speak. Like a real human.
All composers can, unless they are mute (unlikely)
One of the greates musicians of all time. ❤
I once spent a day with Sir Peter Pears (after Britten's death) and we chatted briefly about Dimitri Shostakovich, who they both knew well. I'm honoured to have met someone who met Shostakovich! (I saw recently, that his apartment in St Petersburg was for sale! Imagine living there!)
My favourite work is the 5th Symphony, by the way.
Thank you for posting!
In a way I'd say he is more of a force now than when he was alive since this way his name and image will continue to be spread
It's such an odd feeling to hear him speak
It's a small miracle he grew old. Most of his colleges were put in camps i.e. killed. Sjostakovitsj was famous in the west. Probably that's why Stalin thought it was a bad idea to put him away. Imagine to have to live in the fear of being arrested any day, just because you can't help being a genius!
You wrote: "Imagine [living] in fear of being arrested any day, just because you can't help being a genius!" That's NOT why he feared he might be arrested. it was because he was not writing pretty/patriotic music like Tchaikovsky or Mussorgsky. Stalin had very conservative tastes in music and could not understand or appreciate the new direction Shostakovich wanted to take. Nor could he understand any music that was not rooted in 19th century tonality.
Composers all lived well, including returned Prokofiev. It's ridiculous to think they were not content. These people were admired, venerated, cherished.
@@annashlimovich where did you get the information?
@@Johannes_Brahms65 it's widely available in books, etc. Even in this documentary it's evident. It is regrettable that this myth about the Soviet composers misery is perpetuated by the propaganda sources. Composers were never prosecuted, perhaps because their art is not easily translated in ideas. Writers, poets - that's a different matter. But not composers. Prokofiev also enjoyed a very privileged life, even though his wife was sent to GULAG. He married a younger well-connected girl instead. Anyway, Khachaturian, Khrennikov, Dunaevsky, etc. all lived very well in the USSR.
@@annashlimovich I read and heard differently. There's a documentary about Sviatoslav Richter here on youtube. He was there at the time. He explains certain things there.
Sjostakovitsj was quite happy until Stalin came to listen to his very successful opera Lady Macbeth. After that he always kept a suitcase ready, with toothbrush, pyama's etc.
Prokofjev and Katchkarturian collaborated. Emil Gilels worked with the kgb so he wasn't bothered.
And oh yeah, there's a war going on in Ukraine, did you happen to know that? (Sorry to be nasty, nothing personal. Just giving air to my own frustration. There's free press in my country).
5 Years listening to Classical, Never heard Shostakovich speaking.
The man that has inspired the creation of Harry Potter
i AM harry potter
@@DmitriShostakovichDSCH you're a composer Harry
The sound is very poor but the document is priceless.
Thank you very much !
This is great. Thanks for sharing this
@ 2:57 he just stops playing and turns to the camera and begins talking in a high pitch
What an amazingly talented artist. And courageous, too.
Rest in peace.
His voice 🤩. I fell in love with him (Again).
His musical art was really amazing
2:18 I can relate to that
same
People always say he was too simple, but he was forced to be by the harsh regime. His chamber works, which were under much less scrutiny, were much more complex as well as some of his works in late the Lenin, early Stalin regimes, before the greater powers began censorsing his great works.
Oh did you watch tantacrul's video as well?
Yes
I'm dumbfounded when people with no talent have the gall to criticise Shostakovich.
@@ChrisWrightOM1 It's Stalin he's facing with. He can't really do much because he might get executed by Stalin's purge..
Incredible to see a living genius
His hands were fast more than I expected, Incredible!
No hate or anything, but it seems you’ve missed the 2 minute footage of him playing his own Piano Concerto 1. Am excellent video nonetheless.
A man haunted by his own genius.
🐈
Wow! This is so cool!
Do you happen to remember where you got this footage from for citation purposes? Thank you so much!
Hey...I edit the footage from several movies, docs and archive images...almost alll of them are here, in youtube ;-)
Are these performances of excerpts from the Seventh Symphony and the Second Piano Trio, or are they perparatory improvisations?? A pity there are no subtitles.
I've just finished reading Volkov's "Testimony", Shostakovich's memoirs; some doubt its authenticity but it is consistent with other things I've read about Shostakovich. The ending is very bleak, but I am not at all surprised. Shostakovich was crushed by Stalinism. Shostakovich himself seems to feel that, as death approached, he was broken. From my comfortable Western perspective, his life was an utter triumph. In just over a week, I'll hear his third string quartet live, and I can't wait.
Read Symphony for the City of the Dead. It explains a lot of the things we can take away from the Volkov, but puts others into context.
I will simp for this man even after I am dead.
i am dead
@@DmitriShostakovichDSCH and yet i still simp
the same hahahah
#NoFapOnShosta
😳
I have no idea what that means.
@@dmitrishostakovich7561 no simping on mr dimitry
Sorry it's shosty
best video on the internet
Haha it was posted on my birthday :D I admire the piano piece at 1:10
WHAT IS IT CALLED
...it's the Galop from Lady Macbeth of Mzensk
1941 Leningrad op .60 this is your birthday ?
what is the piece for 3:19?
I don't understand Russian, I tried. I only understood Symphony
1st movement of 7th symphony
The plataform for the First movement...He was until finished
3:29 I love this excerpt and the frenetic courage of it.
Does anybody know what he was playing?
Anyone knows the piano piece at 2:11?
I BELIEVE IN YOU DIMITRI
no i believe in YOU
does anyone know anything more about the cigarettes? both here and on a Richter documentary he appears to be lighting the filter! any one know the story behind this? lol
He's smoking soviet cigarettes called Belomorkanal (White Sea Canal) which actually had more filter than tobacco ... meant to be smoked with thick gloves in Siberian winter, I suppose. You can still buy those cigarettes in Russia today. I have two packages :-)
@@larvaconvivialis wow! thanks, you learn something new every day. Bruce Willis had one like that in Fifth Element but I thought it was a joke, for the cigarette to be "ultra mild" in the futuristic setting!
These were extremely toxic Belomorkanal, they must have caused his lung cancer.
What is the piano piece at 2:02 ?
Helel Melekotawi lady Macbeth of the Mtensk district, I think.
The "Entrace" of Act No. III. From Lady Macbeth.
I know it as his 2nd prelude from opus 34
I C O N IC
Does there other Ling ling wannabe here? 😳
ME!
@@kareraisu7327 niceeee !
Me
InTeReStiNG
Meeee!
2:10 piece?
His 2nd prelude of opus 34. It’s slowed down for some reason.... I love all of them
Amazing he is talent very ❤
His voice is just what I expected…
Perfecto
Please Tell me the piece at 6:21
piano trio no 2
@@cartolaia5233 first movement. I'm lucky to have played all the 4 movements at 16 years old and experienced his music in a previleged way.
@@vascoferrao you lucky bastard that piece is everything
I feel so weird when he plays but it's awesome and genius
Pain.
Didnt expect him to smoke
I always imagined his voice darker
Yeah same 😂
What piece is that at 1:13?
Pretty sure it’s from his opera Katerina Ismailova (Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District)
@@Pvviolinist Thank you! It sounds so haunting..
...Посмотрел на портрет Сталина и саркастично улыбнулся. )
whats the song at 2:00?
Ismael Aros Laby Mcbeth Inturlude 4
The Voice..
What's the piece at 2:47
Symphony No.7
He looks (and sounds) a little like Radar O'Reilly
TRUE!!! I was wondering where I heard a voice like Shostakovich's before
What’s the piece at 3:21
It’s an excerpt from the 1st movement of his Seventh Symphony
Wow, and he was filmed by Darth Vader, himself!
the title should have obviously been ONLY WATCH WHEN STONED AF
Nothing is anymore into force in art music . The all-new art music is ante portas and will kill every thing else .
what is the piece that mitya is playing at 5:42???
it's the third movement of the 7th symphony! do you want the link of that part?
@Clara J His mother, sisters, and close friends all did though...
@Clara J It's okay to be attracted to him, but maybe take a step back and remember his was a real living human being that you have no claim over.
@Clara J Uh,Shostakovich's parents,sisters,family members,and friends all called him 'Mitya'.
@@hellothere-dv5me Not to mention his actual wives (he was married three times, and his third wife is still alive).
4:30 what is he playing?
That's dope
Symphony no. 7. first movement
🖤
I’m obsessed
What piece is this? 6:26
Piano Trio no.2, i think it's the Largo movement
Can someone translate the bit at 2:56?
He drdicated this simphony his motherland City Leningrad AT time of ww2 in easten Front AT 1941,for oll People Who was Fought with NaZi, and take victoty
"My 7th symphony comes as an echo of the threatening events of the year 1941. I dedicate this composition to our war on fascism, to our upcoming victory over that enemy, to my home city of Leningrad. Now I'm going to play an extract from the first part of the 7th symphony."
1. Beethoven
2. Debussy
3. Schubert
4. Satie
5. Shostakovich
Shosty and The Cure always make me get in my feelings 🩵
3:42 I wonder if this actually became a piece, if so, does anyone know?
Symphony 7 (leningrad) first movement
why does he always light his cigarette backwards
He doesn't, he appears to be smoking a Belomorkanal cigarette. The darker colored portion is filled with tobacco and the lighter colored part is a cardboard tube. It is one of strongest/harshest cigarettes I've ever smoked. Like smoking tobacco from a field that was hastily harvested, dried on top of RBMK reactor, and then shredded by hand in a hap-hazard way. Highly recommend, I don't think you'll get addicted because the uncomfortable feeling of death permeates your being and the dizziness makes your feel like a conifer tree pushed by the blast of a Siberian wind. I order these on ebay from time-to-time when I feel depressed.
Не понял, почему он молчит все время?
Why does he sound like Anton Yelchin
Hey, it is Robert Fripp’s long lost brother!
I started with King Crimson and landed on Shostakovich.
МИТЯ Я ЛЮБЛЮ ТЕБЯ!!!!!!
Мы все любим этого гениального человека!
J'écoute actuellement la symphony No 7
Mariss Jansons
St Petersburg Philharmonic orchestra 🎵🎶
Orchestration grandiose 👋🏻
Hey ladies....dudes dead he's handsome but...come on y'all laying it thick.
My thoughts exactly.
Ikr they're simping over dead Harry potter lookalike
Dimitri Thirstakovich
Pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase tell me the piece at 2:02
Hi National Revisionist! It's the Prelude for piano nº2, op. 34.
Harry Potter's secret muggle career as a Soviet Russian composer 🦉
Esse homem vivia com medo!
Based
想要同款烟。