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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2023
- The Fascinating - and complex - story of Shostakovich's 7th Symphony, "The Leningrad"
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Leningrad First movement 'Invasion theme': • Shostakovich 7 • Invas...
Leningrad final movement 'Victory': • Shostakovich 7 • Final...
And for the entire symphony: • Shostakovich Symphony ...
I fall in love with this symphony with the perfomance of the Hr Sinfonie Orchester and Klaus Mäkelä... pure genius in my opinion. Shosty is definitely without doubt one of my favourite composers, his symphonies are all amazing!!
By far one of the greatest pieces of music ever written. I had the pleasure of seeing it performed about ten years ago. I still think about it.
Thank you for this video! For the longest time, this symphony has scared me deeply, to the point of not wanting to listen to it, due to it's realism and brash yet true message. But it is just that which makes Shostakovich such an important composer! There's no more romanticized "triumphs over adversity" like we've seen for centuries before, but real human struggle, met by real human victories, and sometimes real human defeats. And the way he (and yourself in this video) present it make it so important and interesting to study! I can't believe that this symphony was actively being discussed at it's debut, even on time magazine! What a triumph.
Fascinating! The first movement is, in all music I know, the one that mooves me the most (something like the best catharsis for me). Thank you!
thanks i feel honored
Are you composing or de-composing?
both! at the same time
That demented-Bolero section in the first movement is famously parodied in the fourth movement of Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra.
Furtwangler did NOT fight Toscanini to do the American premiere. It was Serge Koussevitzky.
Indeed. Furtwängler would have had to escape from Berlin to conduct this premiere.
From the Wikipedia article on the premiere: "Loudspeakers broadcast the performance throughout the city as well as to the German forces in a move of psychological warfare, a "tactical strike against German morale". One German soldier recalled how his squadron "listened to the symphony of heroes". Eliasberg later met with some of the Germans who camped outside Leningrad during the performance, who told him that it had made them believe they would never capture the city: "Who are we bombing? We will never be able to take Leningrad because the people here are selfless"."
Tchaikovsky: When Frenchmen invaded Russia.
Shostakovich: When Germans invaded Russia.
You got this a bit wrong. In the bolero like development there is no stalin. The theme is very much about triumphant reich fanfares meandering around smug self confident fritz march. Mindless marching dolts bringing harmony gradually to absurdist dissonanses. Then suddenly you get a very typical russian folk based motif which is very depictive of infantry running against germans. Very similar to Prokofievs Nevsky battle on ice in that regard. I am saying, this work is very much about war and not about stalin
The Russians have learned their lesson and have been testing their skills in Ukraine since 24 February 2022. What a capable nation they are!
First off, the adamancy to call the Soviet Union 'Russia' and the soldiers who fought in Leningrad 'Russians' is infantile. The Soviet army and the men who fought in Leningrad comprised not only of Russians, but of Ukrainians, Belarusians, Kazakhs and others of the Soviet nationality fighting alongside each other. The siege of Berlin itself was mainly conducted by soldiers of Ukrainian and Belarusian regiments. So to repeat the sweeping claim of 'Russian' soldiers defending 'Russia' in Leningrad over and over again is ignorant at best, not only on a semantic level.
Secondly, Shostakovich was a communist. A member of the party, whose father fought in the revolution - his quarrels and hot and cold relationship with Stalin began when he attended a premiere of Shostakovich's 'Lady Macbeth of Mzensk' opera, which Stalin disliked so heavily that he wrote a critique of it which was published to the Pravda. Obviously, the opera tanked. Later on, when Shostakovich premiered his Fifth symphony, it was well received both by the general public and Stalin alike. He received numerous accolades. His Second symphony was commissioned to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the revolution, which triumphantly celebrates the freeing of the Soviet people from the Russian feudal state both in musical and lyrical content. A bit after the fifth symphony, his relationship with the state apparatus degraded due to Shostakovich's unwillingness to compose for the soviet realism movement. And... that was the end of his quarrels with the state. He joined the party, received numerous medals and awards from the state itself. He died in Moscow from lung cancer as one of the most decorated individuals in the history of the Soviet Union, let alone composers.
These two episodes were milked so thoroughly by Western forces during the Cold War in attempts to frame him as some sort of 'Musical Martyr' that was suppressed by the state. The most well-known book that supports the view of Shostakovich being anti-government was published by Mr. Volkov after Shostakovich's death, who was too afraid to publish the book in Russian in fears of people realizing the alleged 'memoirs' it was based off of were nothing but a forgery that did not match up with Shostakovich's manner of speaking/writing. Shostakovich's wife herself says he did not have a close relationship with Volkov.
Last of all, think of how idiotic your general consensus is. A man in the middle of the largest conflict in human history - a man whose hometown is surrounded by the Nazis, who slayed his kith and kin in the name of eugenics and 'race supremacy', whose people, the Soviet people, stood as the last obstacle between the Nazis and their total conquest of the European mainland continent - this man, you are claiming, would rather be concerned in that moment with making some sort of general 'anti-authoritarian' statement against his government and not against the horrors of war, the most grim pathos to ever exist on this Earth? Juvenile.
I very much welcome debate and argument, but when that descends into insults and unnecessary invective, I'm sorry but you've lost me. I'd ask everyone here to please keep things civil.
Господи боже, когда вы угомонитесь делать хайповые видосы на те темы, в который только черт не ковырял? Бич послековидовых контентмейкеров
А что не в порядке с видосом?