Shostakovich was quite the pianist and this is great archival footage showing just how good he was, joining his fellow Russians, Prokofiev, Stravinsky---and Rachmaninoff, who was, of course, the best of all of them. If only we had this kind of footage of Rach playing. One can only hope there's something lying around somewhere just waiting to be discovered.
Russian school of piano playing has always been one of the strongest in the world. Most Russian composers were excellent world class pianists in their own right and rarely even considered themselves very good at playing the instrument (because they were studying with people who were considered much better at it).
And so ends one of the greatest pieces of music ever written, probably my favourite (along with the 5th symphony). The man was a genius with a musical language like no other. How do those harmonies work? They shouldn't but they do. He had an amazing talent for tearing up the rules of tonal harmony yet somehow making it all sound so coherant, a sort of illusory tonality. One in a million.
Shostakovich was born in September, 1906. If the video dates from 1940, he would have been about 34 years old, and he hardly looks any older than that. Whenever I see this clip, I try to picture him when he was still a conservatory student trying to make a little money in hard times by playing the piano for silent films at movie houses.
Shostakovich I listened to him for 7 years every day. I also dedicated one of my compositions to him and made a portrait of him that appears in the video on UA-cam.
Amazing example of a composer playing one of his compositions better than other pianists. What technique! His tempo is faster than any other performance I've heard. Shostie, you are amazing!!!!
Interestingly, I read an article that recounted a 3-way interview with Martha Argerich, Stephen Kovacevich and a reporter from Gramophone. At the end of the interview, Argerich insists the three listen to a recording of Shostakovich's performance of the final movement of his first concerto and she remarks how the cadenza is unbelievable --- so she definitely gets it. I think both are incredible but I think Argerich's rubato actually makes it hit harder for me...
@@stevej71393 Censorship was a real issue, especially during the Stalin era were hurting the feelings of the party could easily cost you your life. However, the education system there must have done a pretty good job at discovering and assisting new talents.
@@uzefulvideos3440 No, it was the opposite. Education system didn't encourage or assist talents but instead pushed people into the jobs they didn't want but the government needed. "Artist" was not even considered to be a job. When Prokofiev died, only a few people showed up to his funeral, many famous artists were killed or sent to GULAG. That's why most of them had to flee Soviet Union in order to survive. I wonder how many potential composers we lost because of this butcher's regime.
Unfortunately the only live footage of Rachmaninoff we have is of him in social settings. We have audio recordings galore but no video of him playing like this one of Shostakovich. Too bad. It would have been fascinating to see him walking out on stage bowing and then sitting down and playing.
Same. I do hope that there's some unknown live footage (with sound) somewhere of Rachmaninoff playing, just waiting to be discovered, so we can finally see AND hear him play.
Now a day you only see pianist perform great master work you don't find any pianist can compose their works and also perform shostakovich not only a great pianist and a great composer perform his works.
E così finisce uno dei più grandi brani musicali mai scritti, probabilmente il mio preferito . Quest'uomo era un genio con un linguaggio musicale come nessun altro.
Do you say "fear"? But don't you see a humor in this music? No? Indeed? Meantime Shostakovich has a brilliant sense of humor! Simply western public is not capable to understand this... ;)
I see that nobody has noticed that this video is speeded up a 25% aprox, look at the movements of the orchestra players, they are not natural and the music in not understandable. I know this piece note by note. If you like you can see my performace in my channel.
Wonderful composer--I don't know how he managed to write music--and good stuff it is-- living under a constant cloud of fear--but he did--an inspiration for courageous citizens everywhere.
Да врёте вы всё. Если все художники жили тогда под страхом - в СССР не было бы такой культуры! Сейчас по-вашему в РФ нет страха - дерьмократия сплошная - а никакого творчества нет совсем - только дешёвые поделки за бабло из жизни правящих крупных и мелких уголовников.
Common misconception. Very few composers were good performers of their own music and Shostakovich most certainly wasn’t one. And this is not even counting composers who wrote music for instruments they couldn’t play themselves.
Very great document. Why can't we see the arm moving during the glissandi? Does somebody have an idea? Maybe a post recording by the composer? it might have been necessary to get a sound so crisp for the time. Unless this fabulous technique prevents us from seeing these movements.
@@Itapirkanmaa2 I think so. Therefore, the sound recording is not that of the concert; however, the rest is extremely synchronous. We don't know a lot about this fabulous recording
At least one of the downvotes for this video must surely have come from a Steinway salesman. Dmitri is performing on a dreaded "piano-shaped object" built in Berlin.
Sometimes I forget, he was not only an amazing composer, but an incredible pianist too.
Only Shostakovich can better than Shostakovich
ДA!!!!
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What does that even mean, I don't know. But I agree!
Thank you, friends! Our Soviet composer is really great and his music is beautiful forever!
Shostakovich was quite the pianist and this is great archival footage showing just how good he was, joining his fellow Russians, Prokofiev, Stravinsky---and Rachmaninoff, who was, of course, the best of all of them. If only we had this kind of footage of Rach playing. One can only hope there's something lying around somewhere just waiting to be discovered.
Same! I'm glad we have the audio recordings of him playing, but I wish we had videos (with audio, of course) of him playing his own piano pieces.
Russian school of piano playing has always been one of the strongest in the world. Most Russian composers were excellent world class pianists in their own right and rarely even considered themselves very good at playing the instrument (because they were studying with people who were considered much better at it).
@@kosmosyche”Always” is word used by Russian nationalists. Actually Russian classical music tradition is not that old, not even 200 years.
@@pawelpap9come on
And so ends one of the greatest pieces of music ever written, probably my favourite (along with the 5th symphony). The man was a genius with a musical language like no other. How do those harmonies work? They shouldn't but they do. He had an amazing talent for tearing up the rules of tonal harmony yet somehow making it all sound so coherant, a sort of illusory tonality. One in a million.
@Seth Killian Learn more about music, sir.
@@rumataastorskiy5734 Shut up, Bach!
one in a million? go talk to a million people right now, i promise you won't find one person near his level. he was more than one in a million
Do anyone know another composer like shostakovich?
@@user-IllIllIlI Prokofiev is probably the closest in style.
Shostakovich was born in September, 1906. If the video dates from 1940, he would have been about 34 years old, and he hardly looks any older than that. Whenever I see this clip, I try to picture him when he was still a conservatory student trying to make a little money in hard times by playing the piano for silent films at movie houses.
Yes, playing the can can in funeral scenes XDDD
There is a picture of him when he is about 18/19 years old. He looks like thirteen :'D
Is his grandson
@@girlwithoutpearlearring and he looks good doe ngl
Yes- I just saw this clip on another posting, and he is certainly not 33/34 years old here.
that trumpet player is a beast!
The conductor tuns to Shostakovich and says, "Dimitri, can you play it a little faster?" One of my all time favorite composers!
Super.
Shostakovich would love this
Shosty is slaying
Shostakovich I listened to him for 7 years every day. I also dedicated one of my compositions to him and made a portrait of him that appears in the video on UA-cam.
Wow! It's so interesting to see Maestro Shostakovich playing his own piece! :)
It is not possible to listen to this without the hairs on the back of your head prickling up!
One of my musical idols! Thank you.
Боже ,какая виртуозность. Шикарно.
Amazing example of a composer playing one of his compositions better than other pianists.
What technique! His tempo is faster than any other performance I've heard.
Shostie, you are amazing!!!!
SHOSTAKOVICH IS GENIUS
People should listen more to this. There is no rubato à la Argerich WHATSOEVER. It's harder that way, but it's the right way.
Interestingly, I read an article that recounted a 3-way interview with Martha Argerich, Stephen Kovacevich and a reporter from Gramophone. At the end of the interview, Argerich insists the three listen to a recording of Shostakovich's performance of the final movement of his first concerto and she remarks how the cadenza is unbelievable --- so she definitely gets it. I think both are incredible but I think Argerich's rubato actually makes it hit harder for me...
Thank You, Thank You! Now we know for sure how good a pianist he was. Wonderful!
Shosty is amazing!!! a true honest dark pianist.
no ur amazing
@@DmitriShostakovichDSCH no you're amazing
@@tooktookishereNo you’re amazing
A lot bad things came out of the USSR but DS was one of the great ones...
Most of my favorite composers lived in the Soviet Union.
@@stevej71393 Censorship was a real issue, especially during the Stalin era were hurting the feelings of the party could easily cost you your life. However, the education system there must have done a pretty good job at discovering and assisting new talents.
@@uzefulvideos3440 No, it was the opposite. Education system didn't encourage or assist talents but instead pushed people into the jobs they didn't want but the government needed. "Artist" was not even considered to be a job. When Prokofiev died, only a few people showed up to his funeral, many famous artists were killed or sent to GULAG. That's why most of them had to flee Soviet Union in order to survive. I wonder how many potential composers we lost because of this butcher's regime.
Невероятно виртуозно!!! 💥👌
I have seen this clip so many times, and it never ceases to be absolutely thrilling. Too bad we don’t have more than this spectacular finish!
0:50 I don't know why but I'm laughing so hard at this
The cellist 😌
From the first season of "Moscow's got Talent".
Невероятно...
Гений
This is awesome, very rare to see him actually performing. Thank you for uploading
A very eerie feelings this video gives me.
Unfortunately the only live footage of Rachmaninoff we have is of him in social settings. We have audio recordings galore but no video of him playing like this one of Shostakovich. Too bad. It would have been fascinating to see him walking out on stage bowing and then sitting down and playing.
Same. I do hope that there's some unknown live footage (with sound) somewhere of Rachmaninoff playing, just waiting to be discovered, so we can finally see AND hear him play.
Now a day you only see pianist perform great master work you don't find any pianist can compose their works and also perform shostakovich not only a great pianist and a great composer perform his works.
I'm impressed shostakovich could play such piece with a straight face...
Great Hero Shosti. So good! So great! He was playing for his Life!
This video should simply be renamed “actual fire”.
Кто поставил Шостаковичу дизлайк ???????!!!!!!🧐
Как кто....идиоты!!!!
Stalinnn
Именно из за этого ютуб убрал видимость дизлайков. DSCH надо уважать...
Idk but he must be dead by now lmao
Прокофьев наверно
Wishing for the whole concerto / video clip...
E così finisce uno dei più grandi brani musicali mai scritti, probabilmente il mio preferito . Quest'uomo era un genio con un linguaggio musicale come nessun altro.
В нашем зале перед войной🎉❤
Amazing 😭😭💕💕💕
Do you say "fear"? But don't you see a humor in this music? No? Indeed?
Meantime Shostakovich has a brilliant sense of humor! Simply western public is not capable to understand this... ;)
If there's no fear, why is he always wearing a star on his lapel?
The playing just gets faster and faster and you question how his hands still keep up somehow
Dmitry is one of the GREATEST COMPOSER IN HISTORY OF MUSIC. PROUD OF RUSSIAN CULTURE.
I come here when ever I feel the need to have my spirits raised.
Absolutely fascinating film !!!!!!!!
I see that nobody has noticed that this video is speeded up a 25% aprox, look at the movements of the orchestra players, they are not natural and the music in not understandable. I know this piece note by note. If you like you can see my performace in my channel.
I'm glad somebody has mentioned this. If you watch back at 75% speed, you get a better idea of how it probably actually sounded.
Er war das größte Genie unserer Zeit.
And you thought Yuja was already quite fast.
His playstyle wasnt dry at all...
Wonderful composer--I don't know how he managed to write music--and good stuff it is-- living under a constant cloud of fear--but he did--an inspiration for courageous citizens everywhere.
Да врёте вы всё. Если все художники жили тогда под страхом - в СССР не было бы такой культуры! Сейчас по-вашему в РФ нет страха - дерьмократия сплошная - а никакого творчества нет совсем - только дешёвые поделки за бабло из жизни правящих крупных и мелких уголовников.
Omg so brainwashed western propaganda
He was a beast at the piano
Greatest composer, awesome music. 👌 🎶 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏
Hard to imagine that War didn't happen yet, and 7 and 8 symphony weren't created....
The Second world war began in 1939.
@a1s2d3f4g5q1w2e3: Tак указано в документальной хронике "DSCH. Дмитрий Шостакович" (CD-ROM), изд. Оксаной Дворниченко и др. в 2000 г.
Absolute madlad
This footage is the treasure of this our world
Such a limpid style, even in the more powerful and voluminous areas ...
Genius 👏🏼👏🏼 🤓
Fenomenal
С днем Рождения! happy bithday!!! 25.09.2020
Oh for the rest of it ! Please !
BRAVO-BRAVISSIMO! ❤
The 4000th liker is me, I made another milestone today yay.
look at my boy go! bravo!
Grande Shostakovicht, la música por encima y mucho, de la tiranía
크
zamechatel'no! Spasibo za posting!
MARAVILLOSO GRAXIEEE..SIEMPRE
¡Brutal! Un auténtico genio
Unfassbar gut🎉🎉
it's obvious he plays this piece well: it was composed by him himself!
Common misconception. Very few composers were good performers of their own music and Shostakovich most certainly wasn’t one. And this is not even counting composers who wrote music for instruments they couldn’t play themselves.
Very great document. Why can't we see the arm moving during the glissandi? Does somebody have an idea? Maybe a post recording by the composer? it might have been necessary to get a sound so crisp for the time. Unless this fabulous technique prevents us from seeing these movements.
The audio and the video might have become separated during the modern processing. Often happens.
@@Itapirkanmaa2 I think so. Therefore, the sound recording is not that of the concert; however, the rest is extremely synchronous. We don't know a lot about this fabulous recording
Not many people can say that they’ve shredded their own concerto on stage lol
Conductor Gregory Hamburg
MENUDO VIRTUOSISMO
WOW
OMGGGG
すげえテンポ！
wow i slayed this ngl
Yeah you definitely did. I think you're my favourite composer now
bet 🎉
The Beethoven of the 20th century
Apparently Lady Mac was the upstting one.
Genius
ショスタコーヴィチのピアノ協奏曲第1番、は、トランペット、分散和音的なアルペジオ演奏のピアノ、そして、行進曲風の弦楽合奏、のための、キリスト教（カソリックでは無い）音楽。
これは、キリスト教の軍隊理論の限界、を表現している。
At least one of the downvotes for this video must surely have come from a Steinway salesman. Dmitri is performing on a dreaded "piano-shaped object" built in Berlin.
LO ADOROOO
Is this at the Moscow conservatory?
Yes
그는 그만의 개성이 있는 음악을 가지고 있어? 안그래 형?
Да
Fantastic! Anybody know who the trumpet player is?
Юрьев!
@@aleksandrsergeev5721 Leonid Yuriev - thanks
이때까지만해도 음악가가 천재인지 아닌지 보통 사람들도 분간할수 있었고 감동받을 수 있었는데... 현대음악은 뭔가 길을 잘못 들은것 같은 느낌... 한번 잘못 발을 들이고서는 그냥 그 방향으로 쭉 나가는 느낌이다...
How does he do those high glissandi without moving his right arm? Something amiss here.
The audio and video aren't really in sync
Esto fue grabado o 1935 ó 1933.
Вот он поливает, где тут рядом современные пианисты, а это композитор!
Otkuda izvestno chto eto 1940? Spasibo, AL
Idk why, but the part from 0:54 to 1:03 is so earwormish for me.
yeas it is because the technology back then was bad so the camera is not so good with sound. i can a agree with that 🙃
Pobre hombre explotaron su talento durante años y ¿como le pagaron? Censurandolo
Is there more of this?
Прямо таки кавалерийская атака.
Who's conducting ?
what xD!!!!!!
Кто-нибудь знает, кто трубач и дирижер?
penchevpd трубач Юрьев, дирижёр Гинзбург
@@НиколайШаманский-я9й спасибо!!!
피아노 자체도 ㅈㄹ 잘치네
Yikes!