As a violist and a conductor, I must thank Shostakovich for his use of violas in this piece. Important Soli moments in the first movement, linking along with both the violins and cellos to create challenging lines, but fortunately, not as challenging as his other symphonies.
the most touching part of this symphony ( for me ) comes after the climax of the first movement. beginning at around 13:30, the wailing of the orchestra fades into a sweet dialogue between the flute and the french horn, so sweet that I always almost cry when we run through it in rehearsals lmao.
BBC Music Magazine had it placed at number 17th on the world's greatest Symphonies of all time. They had asked 151 conductors to give their top three and from that they made a top 20 list. Of course it's not definitive, but it is interesting to get that kind of feedback from so many conductors.
@maxgregorycompositions6216 how so? As far as I'm concerned shosty has delivered some of the most moving and important peices of the 20th century. I dont see it as to much of a stretch to have this as an all time favorite.
Cool thing about Shostakovich symphonies is that everyone has a different favorite. And for a lot of people, Shostakovich has several top tier symphonies. I love this one, but the 10th is probably my favorite.
I've listened to a lot of symphonies, but here, 49:25, and to the very end, these timpani steps just amazed me. In no other work have they been so clearly visible, in my opinion.
Very strong music, in harmony with the time of fear when it was composed. I feel a lot the influence of Mahler in the second movement. 49:16 We are lucky we can correctly sing "la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la" (hopefully 252 has many divisors so it is convenient for copy paste)
Yeh that's odd i felt the same about the second movement resembling to Mahler's second symphony's third movement (same kind of bassline style in a certain passage) and not taking about the violin solo's resembling the burlesque character of some of Mahler's violin solos, a kind of mahlerian darkness for this movement etc... I think we can find a lot of similarities and I wouldn't be surprised if Shostakovich was inspired by Mahler at least a little bit for this movement (now should listen to it enterely, not just the second movement)
@@brightlin777 Honestly you're going to call me a peasant but Beethoven's 9 man. Just sayin. The level of cliche takes away from how groundbreaking and epic it was and is.
Not only is he abslolutely terrible at composing anything remotely musical, never achieving music, he is also far surpassed by his contemporaries Rachmaninoff and Scriabin.
Der 4 Teil ist echt gewaltig, wälzt komplett um. Wenn der Marsch im ersten Teil die Richtlinien sorgfältig durchschlägt, zieht der vierte unaufhaltsam mit...
17:56 I can see my self during Halloween with a Knight costume going down the streets with this in the background and my girlfriend dressed as a princess.
I don't think this is Shosty's best (or second, or third, or fourth for that matter.) But it does have the most hilarious ending of any of his, perhaps in the entire literature. I think a lot of conductors make the mistake of trying to speed through it fast enough that you don't notice just how over-the-top and stupid it is, and actually try to sell you on it. But Sanderling makes the prescient decision to draw it out, to give you an exact idea of just how many times that screeching octave D is pounded into your ear and just how many unnecessary cymbal crashes on the I take place. A lot of people's ideas about what this symphony is supposed to represent comes from the likely apocryphal account in Testimony and Shostakovich's actual political and artistic inclinations were likely more complicated and ambivalent. But it is impossible for me to hear the ending of this symphony as anything other than tongue planted firmly in cheek and the recording does a great service to that reading. In a way, it's a lot more interesting to consider why Shostakovich did choose such an undercutting ending to a symphony that is otherwise mostly quite serious and even a little dour. Is the joke on the Soviets for their well-known indifference to most of the musical content as long as it had a loud triumphant ending? Is it on audience for wanting a clean resolution to issues that are clearly much more complicated and perhaps unresolvable? Is it on the hero of the story as this is cast as a "Hero's death and transfiguration" story and yet the moment of that transfiguration is a complete joke? Is it on the composer himself for putting so much effort into the rest of the symphony just to be forgotten and overshadowed by whatever the ending turns out to be? Shostakovich was never the greatest technical or most innovation thinker of the early 20th century. But it's for works like this that he was one of the best musical storytellers of any era.
Hearing this really gives you the feel of being in Russia. A great piece to reflect a national passion for one's country. Very deep. I would be interested in hearing some Russian opinions on the piece? For me, I can't say it's a favourite but it's interesting. Not really in the style I prefer. But that's just personal taste. I also found it too up and down in its delivery. A bit off putting.
I think it's meant to be off-putting. The last movement, apparently according to Shostakovich himself, is a picture of how Communists beat people up, at the same time telling them that they should rejoice because they are "free."
It's interesting. Shostakovich wrote this piece after being cancelled for writing music that was too experimental and bourgeois for Stalin's socialist-realist taste. The patriotic elements are defintely intentional (and perhaps a bit contrived) in my view. Not Russian though, just my two cents.
@@eggomylego2278 I am from Russia and, like many of my friends, I associate this music with the Great October Socialist Revolution and the struggle for Soviet power during the Civil War of 1918-1922
De fato! A 5a Sinfonia de D. Shostakovich é um misto de emoções em quatro movimentos. Diferentemente do que quis Stálin, a música se alinha a algo única: a liberdade de expressão e a as dores que a permitiram.
If I had to guess id say either the piccolo playing eighth notes would be too chirpy or too top heavy and the clarinet is supposed to support the piccolo OR Shostakovich wanted quarter notes but put most parts on eighths to give it some motion which would work as the clarinet and piccolo can be loud together OR both but it could also simply be he wanted downbeats to be stronger
As a clarinetist, playing high notes in that third register is hard, and tonguing them consistently for a while is almost impossible. If you tried, you'd probably squeak.
BTW the symphony sounds cinematic: sometimes it evokes pictures of that revolutionary time in Russia, intonation of marches and songs of that epoch are heard in the last movement and even battles with horse cavalry and sabers are seen.)
The last movement is indicative of Communism - the soldiers marching through the street, beating the people over the heads saying "You must rejoice!" It's a powerful musical picture of just how evil Communism is.
This was by design, if I remember correctly. Shostakovich wrote this symphony to ne more "popular" or "proletariat" after some of his more experimental stuff got cancelled by Stalin
I should send this to someone who wants to hear a calm piece of classical music… Along with The Rite of Spring, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, and Carmina Burana! THEN THEY SHALL KNOW THE TRUE STRENGTH OF CLASSICAL MUSIC!
What's up with the lack of subtle emotion in every movement? I feel like this recording just flies by the piece instead of exploring each section. This is a story of oppression and a historically dark time. We need to feel the music.
That's on the composer and the listener. Not all music is intended to connect with various passions. I'd hardly describe Shostakovich as "soulful" no matter how slowly the conductor might try to squeeze that from every moment.
^ Then I am not sure you understand Shostakovich or what you even like about his music. By and large, his music is reflective of his struggle with the oppressive communist regime of the Soviet Union. This piece is most definitely part of that, and is a response to his opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, which had been decried and denounced by the Soviet authorities just earlier.
As a violist and a conductor, I must thank Shostakovich for his use of violas in this piece. Important Soli moments in the first movement, linking along with both the violins and cellos to create challenging lines, but fortunately, not as challenging as his other symphonies.
Whatever
that divisi solo in 1 mov is quite something to be really in tune isnt it?
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@@Balls4339 I don't remember why I commented that oops
1. Moderato - Allegro non troppo: 0:00
2. Allegretto: 17:41
3. Largo: 23:15
4. Allegro non troppo: 38:56
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the slow movement is severely underrated, it has some really lovely harmony and string writing!
Bass double stops
the slow movement is severely underrated, instruments are playing and some of them have strings.
who underrated it? widely considered to be a top masterpiece even among Shosti's ones. it's, like, in music history textbooks :-)
Neither the slow movement nor the this symphony are underrated: it's Shostakovich's most popular work.
It reminds of the slow movement Beethoven' Third in many ways,
5:04 love this part
One of my favorite composers. What a work of art.
the most touching part of this symphony ( for me ) comes after the climax of the first movement. beginning at around 13:30, the wailing of the orchestra fades into a sweet dialogue between the flute and the french horn, so sweet that I always almost cry when we run through it in rehearsals lmao.
This part always gets me too.
This piece is by far one of the greatest symphonies of all time.
BBC Music Magazine had it placed at number 17th on the world's greatest Symphonies of all time. They had asked 151 conductors to give their top three and from that they made a top 20 list. Of course it's not definitive, but it is interesting to get that kind of feedback from so many conductors.
That's quite a claim.
It's great, def number two on my list beside his 11th symphony
@maxgregorycompositions6216 how so? As far as I'm concerned shosty has delivered some of the most moving and important peices of the 20th century. I dont see it as to much of a stretch to have this as an all time favorite.
Cool thing about Shostakovich symphonies is that everyone has a different favorite. And for a lot of people, Shostakovich has several top tier symphonies. I love this one, but the 10th is probably my favorite.
My favourite is his 11th symphony
@@sofiaspiano789211th is my favorite too, nothing can top that.
24:50 chills here, every time... damn, third movement is so beautiful, terrible and sad! I love this symphony
I've listened to a lot of symphonies, but here, 49:25, and to the very end, these timpani steps just amazed me. In no other work have they been so clearly visible, in my opinion.
1 часть:
Вступление 0:03
ГП 1:17
ПП 5:04
Разработка 8:26
Кода 13:08
2 часть:
Раздел А 17:42
Раздел В 18:36
Раздел трио 19:34
Кода 23:00
3 часть:
ГП 23:17
ПП 29:20
Кода 35:45
4 часть
ГП 38:56
ПП 42:37
Разработка 45:32
Кода 49:15
В 4 части ПП 41:15
Koba? Stalin?
Спасибо тебе добрый человек
@@aldoringo439 Coda🙃
Thank you
Very strong music, in harmony with the time of fear when it was composed. I feel a lot the influence of Mahler in the second movement. 49:16 We are lucky we can correctly sing "la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la" (hopefully 252 has many divisors so it is convenient for copy paste)
U ok
Lol
Yeh that's odd i felt the same about the second movement resembling to Mahler's second symphony's third movement (same kind of bassline style in a certain passage) and not taking about the violin solo's resembling the burlesque character of some of Mahler's violin solos, a kind of mahlerian darkness for this movement etc... I think we can find a lot of similarities and I wouldn't be surprised if Shostakovich was inspired by Mahler at least a little bit for this movement (now should listen to it enterely, not just the second movement)
RIP us strings 😂
By far, my all-time favorite symphony❤️
Same
7th way better tho
Not to disagree, but i also love Mahler 7 and 10.
@@brightlin777 Honestly you're going to call me a peasant but Beethoven's 9 man. Just sayin.
The level of cliche takes away from how groundbreaking and epic it was and is.
Shostakovich is undoubtedly the greatest and best composer of the 20th century! A great artist!
Nah Villa Lobos 🤣
Nah its gotta be villa lobos come on
Not only is he abslolutely terrible at composing anything remotely musical, never achieving music, he is also far surpassed by his contemporaries Rachmaninoff and Scriabin.
That's only your opinion, not a statement of fact.
COULDN'T AGREE MORE!! 😁😁😁
That fourth movement takes off quick, never heard it so fast.
One of my 10 favorite classical pieces. This is an experience.
An utter masterpiece of the first order.
TMEA 2020
-Violin/Viola
----11:21-12:28
-Cello (Thanks Andrew for the start part)
----33:55-35:00
-Bass
----9:35-10:21
Thanks
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Der 4 Teil ist echt gewaltig, wälzt komplett um. Wenn der Marsch im ersten Teil die Richtlinien sorgfältig durchschlägt, zieht der vierte unaufhaltsam mit...
5:04 - 5:55
7:46 - 8:17
13:42 - 14:49
What a beatifull melody and it's development (actually this is development of main theme)
So dark
Great Symphonies all, 🎶 🎶 🎶 🎶 🎶
Last movement is powerful
Yes, it has so much parody, so much criticism To His authority
Just realized the opening melody is quoted in princess mononoke, it's such an effective and dramatic line!!
17:56 I can see my self during Halloween with a Knight costume going down the streets with this in the background and my girlfriend dressed as a princess.
There's something downright sacred about this piece, specifically the labored, heavy ending.
nothing sacred about 2nd mov hahaha
Yes. And done at great peril by the composer. Thank God he didn’t wind up in a gulag!
38:57 IV. Allegro non troppo
39:14 A
39:37 B
40:06 C
40:20 Allegro
40:34 D
40:58 E
41:16 F - Più mosso
41:45 G
42:08 H
42:36 I
43:13 K
43:17 Poco animato
43:36 L
43:58 M
44:31 N
44:58 O
45:28 P
46:12 Q
46:46 R
47:19 S
47:52 T
48:19 U
48:34 V
48:59 W
49:15 X
49:43 Y
50:13 Z
23:15 III. Largo
24:48 A
26:24 B
27:22 C - a tempo
28:48 Poco più mosso
29:17 D
30:01 E
31:05 F
31:59 G
32:38 H
33:20 I
33:56 K
35:02 L
35:45 M
36:54 N
37:22 O
37:54 P
Yeah, that's f-ing amazing.
I looooove the melody at 5:00
You wrote it lol
@@OhioStudiosOG And? He can still love it. :)
@@wesleycolemanmusic I wrote that comment before I wrote music, so now I understand lol
17:42 II. Allegretto
17:58 A
18:12 B
18:27 C
18:37 D
19:03 E
19:35 F
19:57 G
20:19 H
20:43 I
21:08 K
21:23 L
21:39 M
21:54 N
22:04 O
22:29 P
22:59 Q
cello excerpt 33:55
I don't think this is Shosty's best (or second, or third, or fourth for that matter.) But it does have the most hilarious ending of any of his, perhaps in the entire literature. I think a lot of conductors make the mistake of trying to speed through it fast enough that you don't notice just how over-the-top and stupid it is, and actually try to sell you on it. But Sanderling makes the prescient decision to draw it out, to give you an exact idea of just how many times that screeching octave D is pounded into your ear and just how many unnecessary cymbal crashes on the I take place.
A lot of people's ideas about what this symphony is supposed to represent comes from the likely apocryphal account in Testimony and Shostakovich's actual political and artistic inclinations were likely more complicated and ambivalent. But it is impossible for me to hear the ending of this symphony as anything other than tongue planted firmly in cheek and the recording does a great service to that reading.
In a way, it's a lot more interesting to consider why Shostakovich did choose such an undercutting ending to a symphony that is otherwise mostly quite serious and even a little dour. Is the joke on the Soviets for their well-known indifference to most of the musical content as long as it had a loud triumphant ending? Is it on audience for wanting a clean resolution to issues that are clearly much more complicated and perhaps unresolvable? Is it on the hero of the story as this is cast as a "Hero's death and transfiguration" story and yet the moment of that transfiguration is a complete joke? Is it on the composer himself for putting so much effort into the rest of the symphony just to be forgotten and overshadowed by whatever the ending turns out to be?
Shostakovich was never the greatest technical or most innovation thinker of the early 20th century. But it's for works like this that he was one of the best musical storytellers of any era.
Great!
41:45 this is the best part of the symphony for me
Me too!
The trumpet part is 👌
Shostakovich 5 symphony så klart den bedst af Shostakovich symphony.
11th and 7th are slightly better
27:21 the best minute and a half of the whole thing 😁
That cello/bass soli is so powerful
9:55 Shostakovich trying not to switch keys for 0.069 seconds
The 2nd movement begins at 17:42.
A timpanists dream solo at the very end
33:57 just beautiful
第一樂章
0:04 前奏
5:01 第二主題
8:24 發展
13:40 再現
17:42 A
19:31 B
23:12 a
25:32 a1
26:17 b
27:22 a,
28:49 a+b
33:56 c
36:54 b+c
38:55 A
41:14 B
41:40 B
46:45 A最後一段
0:00 I daļas stīgu kanons
0:30 I daļas G.p
5:04 I daļas Bl.p
17:42 II daļas pamattēma
49:15 IV daļas fināls
7:47 viola excerpt
11:24 Violin Excerpt #3 TMEA
Haha same
11:20
12:05
Wtf is up with the horns? Where did those 3 notes come from? There's things there that aren't written in the score
Which measures specifically are you referring to? Because it sounds fine
Шостакович : Perhaps the greatest russian composer of all times.
Parts of this sound like the Pigmask/Porky’s theme from Mother 3.
16:20
this video is going to get many more views by stressed out TMEA kids
lol
What is TMEA?
@@Greentrees60 Texas All-State
@@danielcastorena01 ah did you guys get to perform this?
@@Greentrees60 no because of covid in 2021, but this year the sinfonietta is playing it at tmea 2022
Viola, CO all state- 7:16 - 8:21
A squid eating dough
in a polyethylene bag,
is fast and bulbous, got me?
That's right, The Mascara Snake. Fast and bulbous! Also, a tin teardrop!
10:29 my favorite part
39:48 , DID THE FIATI JUST SLUR ALL THOSE NOTES?? 😭
Hearing this really gives you the feel of being in Russia. A great piece to reflect a national passion for one's country. Very deep.
I would be interested in hearing some Russian opinions on the piece? For me, I can't say it's a favourite but it's interesting. Not really in the style I prefer. But that's just personal taste. I also found it too up and down in its delivery. A bit off putting.
Hey I'm from Malaysia
I think it's meant to be off-putting. The last movement, apparently according to Shostakovich himself, is a picture of how Communists beat people up, at the same time telling them that they should rejoice because they are "free."
It's interesting. Shostakovich wrote this piece after being cancelled for writing music that was too experimental and bourgeois for Stalin's socialist-realist taste. The patriotic elements are defintely intentional (and perhaps a bit contrived) in my view. Not Russian though, just my two cents.
@@eggomylego2278 I am from Russia and, like many of my friends, I associate this music with the Great October Socialist Revolution and the struggle for Soviet power during the Civil War of 1918-1922
I think, that in the 4th Movement, U hear the criticism against the USSR authority
MY OPINION: The best recording of this great masterpiece is the 1959 recording by Leonard Bernstein and the NY Philharmonic.
7:50
don’t mind just the part I’m playing for audition
Excerpts
7:50
39:47
A versão do pp Shostakovitch é vigorosa, "cheia" de decisão. Stálin não impediu o vigor de Shostakovitch.
Giusto
De fato! A 5a Sinfonia de D. Shostakovich é um misto de emoções em quatro movimentos. Diferentemente do que quis Stálin, a música se alinha a algo única: a liberdade de expressão e a as dores que a permitiram.
Is this score blurry because of copyright issues?
Not my video, just a re-post, but I will look at putting up an HD version, since you ask.
its much better if you set it to 480p
49:22 Does anyone have an idea why the piccolo clarinet plays crochets while every other instrument is playing quavers?
Idk, maybe something to do with the technicality of the instrument
If I had to guess id say either the piccolo playing eighth notes would be too chirpy or too top heavy and the clarinet is supposed to support the piccolo OR Shostakovich wanted quarter notes but put most parts on eighths to give it some motion which would work as the clarinet and piccolo can be loud together OR both but it could also simply be he wanted downbeats to be stronger
As a clarinetist, playing high notes in that third register is hard, and tonguing them consistently for a while is almost impossible. If you tried, you'd probably squeak.
Shostakovich!!!!!!
The second movement sounds so much like Mahler
23:16
28:48
37:26, contrabajos
Tell me 10:29 doesn't sound like a Bowser fight theme
Why was I literally listening to that exact part when I clicked your timestamp? The chance of getting it within 2 seconds is literally 3000/1
Because it's a mother 3 battle theme
BTW the symphony sounds cinematic: sometimes it evokes pictures of that revolutionary time in Russia, intonation of marches and songs of that epoch are heard in the last movement and even battles with horse cavalry and sabers are seen.)
The last movement is indicative of Communism - the soldiers marching through the street, beating the people over the heads saying "You must rejoice!" It's a powerful musical picture of just how evil Communism is.
This was by design, if I remember correctly. Shostakovich wrote this symphony to ne more "popular" or "proletariat" after some of his more experimental stuff got cancelled by Stalin
You're delusional
@@DeeCeeHaich you're a troll.
for pmea all-state violin 39:47 40:58
¡Hola! ¿alguien sabe dónde puedo conseguir la partitura? (si es gratis mejor)
1:39 why can I hear someone breathing? Why's the resolution of this score so fucked up?
Musicians breathe with the music. In performance if you sit close enough you will hear a lot of that.
@aldoringo it’s a rescued score video from a deleted channel
27:30 19:34
7:51
11:24
12:14
12:33
27:00 noting for later
33:00 also
42:15
48:00
25:05 delicious
33:40 West Side Story
And of course Bernstein was all about Shostakovich 5.
5:04
11:20
39:46
10:09
10:53
12:08
11:21
18:56
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39:06
#3 - 9:20
Mvt I plus march
I should send this to someone who wants to hear a calm piece of classical music…
Along with The Rite of Spring, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, and Carmina Burana! THEN THEY SHALL KNOW THE TRUE STRENGTH OF CLASSICAL MUSIC!
Dramatic.
The 3rd movement.......
Der 1-te Teil ist bissle zu langsam.
49:15
#1: 14:30
#2: 21:57
#3 38:56
5:04
9:13
11:21
What's up with the lack of subtle emotion in every movement? I feel like this recording just flies by the piece instead of exploring each section. This is a story of oppression and a historically dark time. We need to feel the music.
Couldn't agree more! Its largely clean and accurate, but this recording doesn't come close to capturing the soul of this symphony.
That's on the composer and the listener. Not all music is intended to connect with various passions. I'd hardly describe Shostakovich as "soulful" no matter how slowly the conductor might try to squeeze that from every moment.
Sounds like Stalin died during the performance.
i mean, shostakovich wanted to represent the lack of true emotion and keeping a false farce of happiness, which he has completely nailed.
39:00 porky jumpscare
The ending is probably Shostakovich's greatest music.
A response to just criticism indeed..
No me gusta !. No significa que el compocitor esté mal. Yó estoy más acostumbrado a la música Renacentista, incluso Barroca. 👴Ya estoy chocheandoo
Bueno, toma la oportunidad para aprender
Soll das ein Witz sein?
Was genau?
i love shostakovich but i dont get this piece
Stalin crushes composer (and half of Russia). They resurge.
I feel like it includes some modernistic aspects especially in that last movement, maybe that’s what makes it a bit odd
^ Then I am not sure you understand Shostakovich or what you even like about his music. By and large, his music is reflective of his struggle with the oppressive communist regime of the Soviet Union. This piece is most definitely part of that, and is a response to his opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, which had been decried and denounced by the Soviet authorities just earlier.
A poor interpretation. What's the use of the score if you're going to ignore the directions?
Following the score
long live russia!!!
07:50 09:34
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9:38
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32:24