Leonard Bernstein Discusses Shostakovich's 9th Symphony

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  • @jefferyshih6535
    @jefferyshih6535 4 роки тому +317

    To all those wondering about Dvorak’s new world: for a long time, and during much of Bernstein’s lifetime, it was actually known as “symphony no. 5” because 4 of his symphonies were not published during his lifetime and not integrated into the repertoire until relatively recently.

    • @avon623
      @avon623 4 роки тому +18

      Thanks. I did wonder about why he skipped Dvorak.

    • @AndreyRubtsovRU
      @AndreyRubtsovRU 3 роки тому +2

      So Bernstein was a bit ignorant

    • @omegamale7880
      @omegamale7880 3 роки тому +4

      Forgot Ralph Vaughan Williams and Malcolm Arnold as well. They also wrote 9 symphonies.

    • @AndreyRubtsovRU
      @AndreyRubtsovRU 3 роки тому +21

      @@omegamale7880 well, he was talking about first rate composers 😂😂😂

    • @ApsisApocynthion
      @ApsisApocynthion 3 роки тому +3

      @@AndreyRubtsovRU You're kidding yourself or you're ignorant if you think Dvorak was anything less than a first rate composer. Easily the equal of Brahms.

  • @warsd4
    @warsd4 9 років тому +423

    I love Bernstein's voice. What an amazing teacher he was....

    • @markemanuele1929
      @markemanuele1929 6 років тому +20

      @GreyGear Indeed he was. I was a student of his (and I still consider myself one thanks to the magic of the Internet...)

    • @falstaff63
      @falstaff63 5 років тому +4

      warsd4 I agree with you! What a voice!

    • @vittoriostoraro
      @vittoriostoraro 3 роки тому +6

      His voice was a bit ravaged by this point by years of smoking, but yes an amazing man and voice.

    • @derekkoch8777
      @derekkoch8777 3 роки тому

      Whenever I think of the latter half of the 20th century when it comes to the terms of classical, my mind always thinks of Bernstein and Gould.

    • @petermerelis
      @petermerelis 2 роки тому +2

      it was even better before becoming obviously distressed from a lifetime of smoking

  • @Bobbnoxious
    @Bobbnoxious 3 роки тому +170

    Fun Fact: Bernstein was Shostakovich's favorite American conductor. They met in Moscow in 1959 when Bernstein brought the NY Phil there to perform his 5th Symphony, and then made a great recording of it for CBS. It was classy of Lenny to not brag about meeting the composer and discussing his music with him.

    • @sarahjones-jf4pr
      @sarahjones-jf4pr 3 роки тому +4

      American conductors? how many in the 50s?

    • @henryseidel5469
      @henryseidel5469 2 роки тому +12

      Right in the middle of the Cold War period Leonard Bernstein took the NYP to Moscow, and as far as I know there was a guest performance of Moscow's Bolschoy Theatre in America about the same time. That's how it should be: When tensions rise there should be people to work against them. Leonard Bernstein was one of them.

    • @byzongahtrum107
      @byzongahtrum107 Рік тому +1

      Shostakovitch live listen Bernstein conduct the 7th to

    • @srothbardt
      @srothbardt 7 місяців тому

      @@sarahjones-jf4prnot that many

  • @estherszalay5921
    @estherszalay5921 9 років тому +222

    How tragic that we have lost Bernstein at age only 72. What a great man! Thank you for the upload.

    • @jakeforrest
      @jakeforrest 3 роки тому +18

      Chain smoking and long living don’t go along...

    • @insight827
      @insight827 2 роки тому +10

      @@jakeforrest 72 is pretty long, it's the average for the time

    • @sarahjones-jf4pr
      @sarahjones-jf4pr Рік тому

      @@jakeforrest Better to die at72yrs ,with such a rich life than linger into 80 and 90s with nothing but pain and misery.

    • @andreaguarino8207
      @andreaguarino8207 Рік тому

      ​@@jakeforrest alcholol as well

    • @billinrio
      @billinrio Рік тому +1

      @@andreaguarino8207 Put down that drink and learn to spell "alcohol".

  • @aurahyel4700
    @aurahyel4700 8 років тому +91

    Superb analysis. Bernstein was an excellent commentator on such music.

    • @mrinman7407
      @mrinman7407 8 років тому +3

      True, but (luvvie alert) part of the joy of Bernstein was that, while he made and illustrated his points wonderfully, he still made the odd mistake.

    • @AndreyRubtsovRU
      @AndreyRubtsovRU 3 роки тому

      Cant agrre

    • @markhughes7927
      @markhughes7927 Рік тому

      100% - there’s always a sense of privilege in hearing what he has to say.

  • @Mask-pb3ly
    @Mask-pb3ly 9 місяців тому +2

    More than 40 years ago I learnt about Leonard Bernstein listening the performance of Mendelson's symphonies recorded on the vinyl disc. In USSR it was easy to find vinyl discs with the world famous classical music.

  • @nadiva
    @nadiva 6 років тому +52

    "a solo bassoon responds to this severe challenge with a very personal answer" --- "and again the bassoon replies, shaking his head" ---- "same mournful bassoon, very very slyly, slinks into a catchy little tune" immortal analysis 😄

  • @nzpers
    @nzpers 8 років тому +41

    Wonderful!
    Those like me who do not have much exposure to Western Classical Music (and with our rooting in Indian Classical Music often interfering with our own expectations and interpretations) this is a very valuable set of talks/lectures.
    Actually this collection is a treasure house.
    Thanks for the upload

    • @bassist789
      @bassist789 3 роки тому +1

      The western modes are basically analogous to the seven note scales found in Indian Classical music. It is a joy to come to the realization that all music is the same. There is only one type of music, but many types of people.

  • @benjiusofficial
    @benjiusofficial 5 років тому +206

    I love Shosty's humor. I'm sure Stalin loved it too.

    • @instinctbrosgaming9699
      @instinctbrosgaming9699 5 років тому +20

      He might have enjoyed it when it wasn't directed at him, but yeah.

    • @ashiapmanman
      @ashiapmanman 4 роки тому +30

      I heard this (maybe not true), Shosty's humor actually makes him an "enemy of the people" by Stalin, because it was too circusy, not appropriate for the end of the war.

    • @Edgelordess
      @Edgelordess 4 роки тому +12

      I mean once you create an opera called the "nose", your basically one dark comedian as well as musician.

    • @Ivan_Preobragenskiy
      @Ivan_Preobragenskiy 4 роки тому +7

      @@ashiapmanman Well, the enemies of the people were executed. SHostakovich was lucky, he became just a bad composer and was prohibited and sent to the countryside for the next 8 years until the death of Stalin. However, as Bernstein said, this is just a musical joke, because the people after war felt liberty -- nobody has expected, that Stalin became more cruel again.

    • @Ivan_Preobragenskiy
      @Ivan_Preobragenskiy 4 роки тому +1

      @@Edgelordess "Nose" is the name of N.V. Gogol's mystic story written in the 1-st half of XIX-th century, you can find it here: en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Nose_(Gogol/Field) .
      It's ubicated in Russian school programms. The most curious, that this style is denomined a typical exmple of realism.

  • @willowsparks4576
    @willowsparks4576 4 роки тому +58

    shostakovich's 9th is the most sarcastic piece ever written

    • @btat16
      @btat16 4 роки тому +4

      Including Mozart’s “Ein musikalischer Spaß”?

    • @mr.clasher-clashofclansboo7286
      @mr.clasher-clashofclansboo7286 4 роки тому +5

      @@btat16 damn thats even better

    • @thegameslayer2966
      @thegameslayer2966 4 роки тому +15

      @@btat16 i mean, this piece is more of a contextual sarcasm than a musical joke.

    • @normsaunders4980
      @normsaunders4980 9 місяців тому

      ​@thegameslayer2966 consider the time it was written. The world was finally exhaling after holding it's collective breath for so many years. He was expressing the relief that everyone was feeling.

  • @61vladimira
    @61vladimira 4 місяці тому +1

    Genialne razlage gospoda Bernsteina. Najboljši učitelj! Poslušati in razumeti .

  • @corvinsound1760
    @corvinsound1760 7 років тому +45

    Today I wrote my German A-Level Exam (called Abitur) in Music about Schostakowitsch's 9. Symphony, 1. Movement.
    And I wrote amasingly much Mr Bernstein also said. Now I feel proud :D (and I hope the person who corrects my exam watches this video)

    • @XHitsugaX
      @XHitsugaX 7 років тому

      Corvinsound meanwhile I wrote my a level in fucking economics since we had no choice ..

    • @europeanbourgeois8223
      @europeanbourgeois8223 6 років тому +2

      Meanwhile I did no a-levels because I was too busy actually listening to the music.

    • @ianletbey
      @ianletbey 5 років тому

      i don't even live in germany lol

  • @wolfgangresch1650
    @wolfgangresch1650 Рік тому +4

    Incredible wisdom! So thankful that generation after generation get to hear these great videos from this OUTSTANDING conductor, teacher and GREAT composer 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️

  • @PeterBrodie
    @PeterBrodie 8 років тому +49

    Bernstein's insight is fascinating. It's not so much a matter of right or wrong, but his own penetrating understanding of the music he discusses.

  • @dmntuba
    @dmntuba 2 роки тому +9

    Louis Armstrong, Clifford Brown, Coltrane, Elvis, The Beatles, Sting, J.S. Bach, Mahler, and Bernstein...all my musical heroes/ Gods.
    Lenny was so talented, smart, and had a great understanding of "The Big Picture."
    I could listen to him talk about any subject all day long.

  • @macree01
    @macree01 6 років тому +77

    I feel a great metaphor for this symphony is that meme of two overlapping images of Steve Harvey, one where he is laughing his ass off, and the other where he looks deeply concerned over something. lol

    • @instinctbrosgaming9699
      @instinctbrosgaming9699 5 років тому +8

      Tfw you write a sarcastic 9th Symphony but Stalin thinks you insulted him

    • @rockifythis
      @rockifythis 5 років тому +15

      tbh that's shostakovich's career in a nutshell

    • @deviousjupiter8606
      @deviousjupiter8606 10 місяців тому

      @@instinctbrosgaming9699 shostakovich knew that he was insulting stalin. wasn't that the whole point of it?

  • @rredhawk
    @rredhawk 4 роки тому +13

    9th was Vaughan Williams last symphony but was written in the late 1950s. A very dark and anxious symphony, unlike that of Shostakovich. Usually it's the other way around.

    • @andreistoriei2050
      @andreistoriei2050 2 роки тому +1

      Vaughan Williams defined British music and changed symphonic music forever. I consider him a great composer for his lasting influence on film music, his dedication to folk music preservation, and his defiance against the long-exhausted teutonic tropes of European classical music. He captured the essence of war better than almost any composer in his 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th symphonies... which are diverse masterpieces ranging from hauntingly gorgeous, furiously brooding and atonal, and blissfully sublime. He also crafted a sound more distinct than most composers ever could, using unique harmony and modes to create shockingly beautiful music I believe deserves more respect. His 9th is absolutely stunning, a different kind of 9th from a different kind of composer that deserves more recognition. The piece isn't meant to be a 9th of 9ths, as Bernstein puts it, but more of a solemn and heart-breaking goodbye as well as a conclusion to work. Very good piece, go listen to it if you haven't. To people who've listened to all of Vaughan Williams's works, this one packs an extra punch. Again, highly recommend.

    • @earlofderbycharlesworth1975
      @earlofderbycharlesworth1975 Рік тому

      @@andreistoriei2050 Yes, I like Bernstein's analysis but it's strange how often British music gets overlooked. You mention VW but there is also a 9th symphony of Edmund Rubbra (1972), Havergal Brian (1951) and Alun Hoddinott (1992).

  • @henryseidel5469
    @henryseidel5469 Рік тому +2

    Bernstein visited Moscow at the climax of the Cold War directing Schostakovich's 'Leningradskaya'. What a great man. One of the few people that really contributed to the benefit of mankind - regardless from any political idiotism.

  • @inazuma3gou
    @inazuma3gou 9 років тому +163

    0:39 Wait, Bernstein is Yoda?

    • @AdamantSeraph
      @AdamantSeraph 5 років тому +6

      Nope...he is actually Mystique from XMen having some fun 0.47

    • @petarruzevic3401
      @petarruzevic3401 5 років тому +8

      Yes, Bernstein is Yoda. And he does yoga. Peace.

    • @NoahSpurrier
      @NoahSpurrier 4 роки тому +5

      Yoda was Bernstein.

    • @Edgelordess
      @Edgelordess 4 роки тому +4

      No Yoda IS Bernstein

    • @dexblue
      @dexblue 4 роки тому +2

      ... you're a comedian .... :)

  • @YThome7
    @YThome7 4 роки тому +5

    Great man, I love his voice, amazing command of English, and convincing, interesting he explains complex things.
    A giant!

  • @mehmetgokalpberk
    @mehmetgokalpberk 10 років тому +9

    Thanks for uploading!

  • @aprokhozhy
    @aprokhozhy 5 років тому +19

    I want a commentary from Lenny on all music I listen to... ahh, notice how Cobain subtly supplants the fourth with a peculiar and pathos-filled ninth... truly a unique and personal touch, so characteristic of the composer...
    Truly, Leonard is the Bob Ross of musical education

  • @bluetortilla
    @bluetortilla 11 місяців тому

    Bravo! Bernstein is the best commentator of all (besides being the greatest American conductor).

  • @DariusSarrafi
    @DariusSarrafi 3 роки тому +3

    Eruditely great teacher and an entertaining story-teller.

  • @lotusbuds2000
    @lotusbuds2000 9 років тому +17

    What an American legend....bygone era?...class, intellect, passion, long list of talents and personality...

  • @joeyfitz9
    @joeyfitz9 5 років тому +10

    Among other titanic talents, Bernstein is an outstanding lecturer. Riveting!

  • @bronzekoala9141
    @bronzekoala9141 4 роки тому +68

    For an also also interresting analysis of Shostakovich's motives, I encourage you to watch Tantacruls video about him (Shostakovich - How to Compose Music Despite [ R E D A C T E D ])

    • @BloggerMusicMan
      @BloggerMusicMan 4 роки тому +13

      That video is amazing.

    • @willowsparks4576
      @willowsparks4576 4 роки тому +6

      tantacrul* but yeah he's great

    • @rusted_ursa
      @rusted_ursa 4 роки тому +4

      I'm here because of that, and I assure you I'm going to watch it many more times

    • @tianarmas1665
      @tianarmas1665 4 роки тому

      That is a great analysis. I encourage everyone to watch it

  • @wilsonharpe4280
    @wilsonharpe4280 2 роки тому +1

    Love insightful interpretations of music.

  • @aydenrodriguez5355
    @aydenrodriguez5355 5 років тому +17

    sometimes I wish Shostakovich really wrote a massive 9th of 9ths. just to see what he could’ve given out and put in

    • @juangregory
      @juangregory 3 роки тому +1

      Nothing exceeds or surpasses DSCH13

  • @jerzystruczak782
    @jerzystruczak782 Рік тому +1

    grand maestros-dmitrij and lenny, eternal!!!

  • @lxr0913
    @lxr0913 9 років тому +7

    16:30 what passage from which Mahler symphony does the second basson episode quote??????

    • @Quotenwagnerianer
      @Quotenwagnerianer 8 років тому +2

      The 3rd. It's a slight variation but still recognizable quotation of a motif that permeates the entire 3rd.

    • @osamusakura
      @osamusakura 7 років тому +1

      I guess it is the 4th movement. The beginning part of it.

  • @Twentythousandlps
    @Twentythousandlps 2 роки тому +1

    In a 1966 Young People's Concert, Bernstein presented analysis and performance of the Shostakovich Ninth - this is a re-do. In his last years Bernstein began a series of analysis/performance videos but only did two more beside this, one of Shostakovich's Sixth and one of Ives' Second.

  • @ilovemahler8348
    @ilovemahler8348 8 років тому +232

    He forgot Dvorak's 9th.

    • @swordsheldhigh7934
      @swordsheldhigh7934 8 років тому +4

      mozart also have a 9th

    • @JFF35753
      @JFF35753 8 років тому +27

      People seem to forget Dvorak which I do not understand. He is as good as anyone else. His music is absolutely beautiful!

    • @danielsimmons7970
      @danielsimmons7970 8 років тому +6

      Agree on Antonin's "New World". I also admire Vaughan Williams' moving 9th in e minor, written at the end of life. Also want to mention the neglected Joachim Raff (1822-1882), credited with 11 symphonies--very popular in their day--plus 6 operas that were never produced!

    • @mrinman7407
      @mrinman7407 8 років тому +4

      Great music, not really a great symphony, though, nor strictly mainstream as a symphony, either. Up until Mahler, symphonies in the 'correct' sense tended to be the province of teutons (not including Czechs). After Mahler, they rather gave up on the form and at this point the 'mainstream' of symphonies progressed more internationally, for example with Sibelius, Vaughan-Williams and, of course, Shostakovich.

    • @PeterBrodie
      @PeterBrodie 8 років тому +5

      Dvořak not included??? Since when? And did this sweeping dismissal of non-teutonic symphonic composers include Tchaikovsky? I find it difficult to associate Bernstein with prejudice on this scale!

  • @franciscoespinozagamboa6490
    @franciscoespinozagamboa6490 3 роки тому +5

    ...que gran docente fue el maestro Bernstein

  • @godofspacetime333
    @godofspacetime333 6 років тому +4

    He just gets it, man.

  • @instinctbrosgaming9699
    @instinctbrosgaming9699 5 років тому +34

    Leonard Bernstein is Mister Rogers, but with music.

    • @NoahSpurrier
      @NoahSpurrier 4 роки тому +2

      Fred Rogers was a composer, too.

    • @stephenkutos6400
      @stephenkutos6400 3 роки тому +8

      I can think of no one less like Fred Rogers than Leonard Bernstein.

  • @srothbardt
    @srothbardt 7 місяців тому

    I read that Shos had played piano versions of Haydn symphonies with friends before he wrote the Ninth. Lenny was a genius teacher! Great conductor!

  • @ffadiff000
    @ffadiff000 4 роки тому +2

    thank you very much

  • @dexblue
    @dexblue 4 роки тому

    Thank you for posting this .....!

  • @TheFunkyKingston
    @TheFunkyKingston 9 років тому +6

    O γίγαντας Μπερνσταϊν αναλύει με απλότητα και σαφήνεια τη συμφωνική μουσική...πολύ διδακτικές οι συνεντεύξεις του!

  • @Invert_Scrub
    @Invert_Scrub 2 роки тому +1

    Where can one go to watch these Leonard Bernstein programs? I would love more of this content

  • @spamaccount1513
    @spamaccount1513 4 роки тому +20

    Its wierd that Bernstein was almost 40 when the 9th came out

  • @nicksm7980
    @nicksm7980 8 років тому +3

    What's about Antonin Dvorak and Nikolai Myaskovsky? Dvorak wrote his 9th symphony in 1893 and Myaskovsky did it in 1927. Both are widely regarded as great composers. And their 9ths are beautiful compositions.

    • @jenniferbenson7782
      @jenniferbenson7782 8 років тому +9

      +Nick Sm Who says he had to list every composer???

    • @yassinet.benchekroun5087
      @yassinet.benchekroun5087 7 років тому +1

      Jennifer Benson he's obviously aware of those, especially Dvorak's, it's really a masterpiece.
      I think he does not mention it because he just wants to make his point about the pressure of the 9th; which is true I think.

    • @ProgRockNerd
      @ProgRockNerd 6 років тому +1

      AIUI, Dvorak regarded his first three or four symphonies as "practice"; IIRC, they weren't published in his lifetime, and the "New World" Symphony went out (I think) as No. 5.

  • @BytomGirl
    @BytomGirl 5 років тому +7

    Some of the first movement reminds me of Spartacus, the entry of Crassus, I wonder if Shostakovich was inspired by Khachaturian, they spent some time together in Georgia. Or vice versa, most likely Khachaturian borrowed it from Shostakovich as the 9th symphony was most likely first

  • @claricechen563
    @claricechen563 4 роки тому +2

    This old man is so charming...

  • @JohnJApanovitch
    @JohnJApanovitch 2 роки тому +1

    The composer/conductor Leif Segerstam has over 200 symphonies, but they are all written in 1 movement each, I believe.

    • @garrysmodsketches
      @garrysmodsketches Рік тому

      Bernstein talks about great, well known composers, not Segerstams

  • @vegrl
    @vegrl 2 роки тому

    what part of mahler 9 is he quoting at 16:35?

  • @wcsxwcsx
    @wcsxwcsx 8 років тому +11

    What a slap in the face his 9th must have been after his 8th. But in retrospect, we can understand the passive aggression. I'm sure people were anticipating something like his 12th. But even that takes the forced positivism of his 5th to a new extreme.

    • @mrinman7407
      @mrinman7407 8 років тому +1

      Yes it was gung-ho and (apparently) nationalistic, but the 12th isn't one of Shostakovich's greatest symphonies.

    • @davidcohen6872
      @davidcohen6872 5 років тому +3

      He waited to celebrate with his tenth till after that wonderful day in 1953 when Stalin died.

  • @Noobovitch
    @Noobovitch 10 років тому +137

    WTF...he forgot Dvořák´s 9th!!!! How could he??

    • @JT29501
      @JT29501 9 років тому +14

      Noobovitch Indeed, kind of weird he forgot in my opinion the second greatest 9th, especially when it quotes Beethoven so obviously in the Scherzo.

    • @thefrankonion
      @thefrankonion 9 років тому +1

      Noobovitch Indeed, he completely overlooked Dvorak.

    • @lxr0913
      @lxr0913 9 років тому +5

      Noobovitch shostakovich didn't, try to listen to the 2nd movement of his first cello concerto. the beginning is a literal quote from the beginning of Dvorak's 9th.

    • @JT29501
      @JT29501 9 років тому +5

      罗逍然 Shosty does love a good quote

    • @lxr0913
      @lxr0913 9 років тому +1

      Lenny mentions that in the scherzo, Shostakovich also quotes Mahler, do you know from what section of what Mahler symphony?

  • @pandoraefretum
    @pandoraefretum 3 роки тому +1

    I think of Schubert's 9th : He knew exactly how good he was "I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done." ths plus numerous others suggested he knew exactly how good he was

  • @endiche
    @endiche 10 років тому +20

    Final words in this video was the joke said with serious face.

  • @markhughes7927
    @markhughes7927 Рік тому +1

    Find that both Bernstein and Gould when they give their knowledge and experience come across as adepts in what they find to say.

  • @paxwallacejazz
    @paxwallacejazz 6 років тому +1

    So editing out all the music why?

  • @zewensenpai
    @zewensenpai 3 роки тому +1

    Amazing

  • @michaelhewitt23
    @michaelhewitt23 2 місяці тому +1

    "war and peace...or whatever" - LB

  • @reflexojustin
    @reflexojustin 7 років тому

    Totally enthralling

  • @petarruzevic3401
    @petarruzevic3401 5 років тому +2

    His voice reminds me on my grandpa's.A bit.

  • @Edgelordess
    @Edgelordess 4 роки тому +4

    Bernstein: what do you think when I say 9th symphony?
    Me: Dvorak's New World?

    • @neil7137
      @neil7137 4 роки тому +1

      @Saint Martin of Tours Catholic Church Just asking: do you know Bernstein or something? Because all the documentaries about him make the impression that he was not a lazy person, in fact a very hardworking person.

  • @jackyli992
    @jackyli992 4 роки тому +13

    Bernstein died after writing 3 symphonies

  • @fiacchi
    @fiacchi 2 роки тому

    Which theme of Mahler's Ninth Symphony is quoted? Where is this theme?

  • @tcaw8813
    @tcaw8813 8 років тому +9

    Haydn wrote 104, some say the same symphony 104 times

    • @hoangkimviet8545
      @hoangkimviet8545 8 років тому

      What does this mean?

    • @sebastianwang9498
      @sebastianwang9498 8 років тому +5

      Haydn wrote a staggering 104 complete symphonies in his lifetime, but most of them don't deviate very far from a very predictable formula when it comes to structure or instrumentation. I've heard the same joke told in a different way about Vivaldi's concertos.
      The joke is that all of Haydn's work is quite pleasant, and often funny, enough, but listening to five Haydn symphonies is like listening to one symphony played slightly differently five times in a row.
      This is in stark contrast to some of Haydn's symphonic successors, like Mozart, Schubert, and especially Beethoven, whose works (most people agree) are many times more ambitious.

    • @metroidfoosion73
      @metroidfoosion73 7 років тому +7

      +Sebastian Wang Sorry, but if you think Hayden’s symphonies are predictable you clearly haven’t heard a single one of them. Haydn might be the most unpredictable composer there is.

    • @michaweinst3774
      @michaweinst3774 6 років тому +1

      Critics of Vivaldi used a close sentence: Vivaldi composed the same concerto 500 times

    • @memedreams8558
      @memedreams8558 5 років тому +1

      Metroid Foosion no, they are very predictable. He was writing for the same dude for most of his life.

  • @hoangkimviet8545
    @hoangkimviet8545 8 років тому +7

    Shostakovich was luckier than many great composers because he passed the Symphony no 9 destiny. Meanwhile, Beethoven, Schubert, Bruckner, Dvorak, Mahler and Vaughan Williams couldn't.

    • @PeterBrodie
      @PeterBrodie 8 років тому +1

      Vietnamese Bomber, it's not that Beethoven couldn't - he established it in the first place, although he began work on his tenth as well.

    • @hoangkimviet8545
      @hoangkimviet8545 8 років тому

      Peter Brodie But you know the Symphony no 10 by Beethoven was unfinished and now so many people don't know it.

    • @PeterBrodie
      @PeterBrodie 7 років тому

      Vietnamese Bomber Yes, I know. And I don't think Beethoven would have been satisfied with the two movements that have been completed for him using his sketches. To my ear they're rather aimless. I appreciate that he'd achieved a degree of personal peace in his later years, but there's no real struggle left, especially in the second movement with its recall of the slow movement theme from the Pathétique piano sonata. Beethoven without struggle doesn't sound like Beethoven!

    • @hoangkimviet8545
      @hoangkimviet8545 7 років тому

      I'm sorry for Beethoven. Perhaps God felt the the great meaning of the Symphony no 9 and he thought that it was enough so he took Beethoven out of life.

    • @XHitsugaX
      @XHitsugaX 7 років тому +1

      Hoàng Kim Việt he died of lead poisoning from excessive wine consuming.not a heavenly way to die

  • @iwavns
    @iwavns 3 роки тому

    怎么会有中文字幕呢?🤔

  • @Mars_architects_bali
    @Mars_architects_bali 3 роки тому +1

    Chaplin is such a potent reference .. in grainy black and white playing both eternal vagabond and dancing with the world on his fingertips as Hitler himself....

  • @YThome7
    @YThome7 4 роки тому +1

    Leonard Bernstein and Rischard Taruskin -two modern pillars

  • @BytomGirl
    @BytomGirl 5 років тому +2

    He missed New World (9th of Dvorak) :)

  • @cloud-w2v
    @cloud-w2v 9 років тому +7

    How did you get the Chinese subtitles? I need them for my Chinese parents!

  • @kamvysis
    @kamvysis 7 років тому

    Please somebody upload the 9thdirected by Mraninsky.

  • @standarduser101music5
    @standarduser101music5 7 років тому +38

    Anyone else hear 'Just a cabbage' when Bernstein says 'Shostakovich'

    • @petarruzevic3401
      @petarruzevic3401 5 років тому +6

      I heard just a cabbage. Maybe bcause I was eating cabbage, while listening to Shosta. I dunno.

    • @ian_b
      @ian_b 4 роки тому +1

      I do now!

    • @gabbyhyman1246
      @gabbyhyman1246 4 роки тому +1

      Yes, but Shosty called him Byernstyin.

    • @juliee593
      @juliee593 Рік тому

      ​@@gabbyhyman1246lol, how do you know?

  • @chriscarpenter1920
    @chriscarpenter1920 5 років тому +3

    What part of Mahler 9 does he quote from?

  • @kennybradshaw2122
    @kennybradshaw2122 5 років тому +3

    A genius of earth's harmony!

  • @davidhollingsworth1847
    @davidhollingsworth1847 3 роки тому

    Well actually, Nikolay Myaskovsky wrote his Symphony no. IX in 1927, some 18 years before Shostakovich's and 18 years after Mahler's.

    • @garrysmodsketches
      @garrysmodsketches Рік тому

      Well actually, Bernstein talks about great, well known composers, not Myaskovskys

  • @Nibstapha
    @Nibstapha 6 років тому +2

    6:15

  • @jeffhowey6871
    @jeffhowey6871 6 років тому +1

    He said they were going to play it. I didn’t see anything

  • @jakeforrest
    @jakeforrest 3 роки тому +1

    When I listen to Bruckner’s 9th symphony, I can help thinking about the 3th Reich and Hitler, it really associates to that time in history, I think....

  • @sinpi314
    @sinpi314 3 роки тому +1

    Didn't know Bernstein was a pianist too! He plays really well!

  • @TGMGame
    @TGMGame 5 років тому +6

    0:18 DVORAK

  • @carlogavazzeniricordi1494
    @carlogavazzeniricordi1494 7 років тому

    My Uncle Nanni Ricordi in the very early 80s was about to do a JV Then aborted because D. G had an apoling recording policy///// they maintain that there was no need to have high quality Recording since the average listener was using a Grunding.

  • @dubio77
    @dubio77 Рік тому

    What year is this from?

  • @shnimmuc
    @shnimmuc 7 років тому +6

    He is wrong. Vaughan Williams completed a 9th symphony.

  • @paxwallacejazz
    @paxwallacejazz 6 років тому +1

    All hail the comic little protagonist J. Alfred Prufrock, Chaplin, Walter Mitty etc. After All when was the last time you woke up feeling like Alaxander, or Nepolean?

  • @HelloooThere
    @HelloooThere 4 роки тому +1

    Is this ok?

  • @iconoclastic12007
    @iconoclastic12007 Рік тому

    After his colossal 8th Symphony, it would have been impossible to write something “bigger”.

  • @isaiahcruz3431
    @isaiahcruz3431 8 років тому +8

    Did he forget the Dvorak 9th

  • @carlpuhl
    @carlpuhl 6 років тому

    wow (amazing)

  • @gswilmore6755
    @gswilmore6755 6 років тому

    What about Vaughn Williams - 9th ?

  • @joelkaranikas7314
    @joelkaranikas7314 5 років тому +1

    Bernstein sounds like Dustin Hoffman

  • @homeofcreation
    @homeofcreation Рік тому

    The tenth was a real kick in the dead ass of Stalin. Especially the second movement. Short but loud.

  • @petarruzevic3401
    @petarruzevic3401 5 років тому +1

    I heard ,,Jehovah'', when he said Chekhov. Did anybody else...?

  • @7beers
    @7beers 7 років тому +9

    John Lennon. Number Nine. Number Nine. Number Nine. Number Nine. Number Nine.

    • @SadieMy
      @SadieMy 4 роки тому +1

      Too many beers

  • @mickeylara2111
    @mickeylara2111 4 роки тому +4

    The number nine is a very interesting number because in binary notation it has (1001) which symbolizes the devil, two horns and two eyes in the middle.

  • @mrinman7407
    @mrinman7407 8 років тому +14

    "After Mahler, none of the succeeding twentieth century symphonists got past their seventh or eighth. ...until Dmitri Shostakovich."
    Doesn't Miaskovsky count?

    • @MartyMusic777
      @MartyMusic777 8 років тому +5

      Mr Inman Let's keep it to the composers that anyone remembers, yeah?

    • @mrinman7407
      @mrinman7407 8 років тому +5

      MartyHasNoLife: You mean, "Let's resort to my ignorance to support an argument."? Please yourself.

    • @MartyMusic777
      @MartyMusic777 8 років тому +2

      Mr Inman I know who Miaskovsky is, but insofar as well-remembered composers, he ranks near the bottom. His students are well-remembered (Khachaturian and the like), but the last time I saw his name for a live performance of his music was in 2010.

    • @mrinman7407
      @mrinman7407 8 років тому +4

      We minions can think what we like, but if the aim is to understand what influenced Shostakovich, then the point is this: Bernstein seemed to suggest that the notion of writing a ninth symphony was daunting to a composer post-war because nobody had done it for a long time. There is plenty of documented evidence to suggest that Shostakovich knew and respected Miaskovsky as a composer, so it is doubtful he would have seen this as "a path untrodden since the Great Romantics".

    • @annakimborahpa
      @annakimborahpa 7 років тому +1

      May I add this to your Bernstein quote? " ...and then Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1958."

  • @markhughes7927
    @markhughes7927 Рік тому

    p.s. 9th symphony Malcolm Arnold.

  • @geoffroymb
    @geoffroymb 5 років тому +2

    Hi hope someday technology is advanced enough to somehow clone Bernstein to the state just before he died, with all his memories and the true belief that he would just have been there dying just seconds ago yet in fact 30 years ago... help him stay live for about another 50 years and enjoy his performance and educative videos like he does best and loves it. Maybe one day he will read this comment and laugh at its consistency, but also laugh because I was wrong: he won't just live 50 more years, he knows that his consciousness and mind can just always be uploaded on a robiological new body and still have a individual sense of continuity. He will virtually be immortal, or at least medically. So will be for all the fortunate people on earth. But we'll have to make less children than... or find another world to live in, be it underground or something... ok bye

  • @scottstrang1583
    @scottstrang1583 9 місяців тому

    I always liked Dvorak 9

  • @mcrettable
    @mcrettable 7 років тому +1

    raff symphony no 9!

  • @izabellamardo1074
    @izabellamardo1074 Рік тому

    Pena que NÃO entendo o que ele fala. Por não saber o inglês

  • @G.v.5049
    @G.v.5049 Рік тому

    I adore Lenny‼️

  • @Rahatlakhoom
    @Rahatlakhoom Рік тому

    Love that seductive Bassoon.

  • @yes-iu1tz
    @yes-iu1tz 3 роки тому +1

    "the 9th of 9ths"
    -bernstein