@@schneiderFFF he starts a movement with an easy bass clef theme, throws in a few changes to tenor clef, then it just becomes complete madness when he only use treble clef. That’s why Shostakovich is my favorite composer.
Yeah, what is that sound- it sounds like loose rattling strings? A mixture of percussion and strings?, it's different. Kinda sounds like a Brazilian berimbau. Any ideas?
This and symphony 11 I think are reflect examples of underrated pieces. Everyone knows about waltz no. 2, symphony 5 and 7, but how many people know pieces like his eighth string quartet, 2nd piano trio, this concerto or symphonys like no. 10 and 15? Such wonder - keep on exploring all!
string quartet 8 is his most famous haha. Try string quartets 10, 12 (my favourite), 13 and 15 edit: here are some more underrated works Piano sonata 1, piano trio 1, two pieces for string octet, symphony 13, symphony 6
Sorry, I was a little mistaken when I wrote that comment! I guess what I meant to say was that Shostakovich is one of those composers in which all his works (I think at least) are equally brilliant in how he was able to create music under scrutiny of Stalin and the rest of the Soviet Union. People criticise his works a lot, but those who are willing to find some of the best music by him, it's usually the stuff that not many people know! I do like the piano trios, basically all his symphonys, a couple string quartets, his piano and cello concertos (violins also but not as much) plus a lot of solo piano sonatas/suites. There is so much stuff by him and to know and love his works I think is a real honour. Thanks again for the advice @Patrick Draper and @Joao Gabriel :)
I think the most heavy met so- sorry I met ochrestral piece with lots of power would be Stravinsky rite of spring. But this piece is very close to the same heavy metal fealing.
Those Bass Clef notes originally sounded a 4th Higher than Written (Played 8va throughout), but that changed over the years. We do have Horns in every key which do extend our catalogue & allow us to arrange lots of music.
the mistakes make a lot of musical sense to the point of which i had to rewatch it twice while looking at the cello part carefully to actually figure out what it was. id forgive anyone for that tbh
Elijah I can imagine. Me and my sister had to copy out the harpsichord part for Alfred by Arne which too forever. This must have taken so much longer, especially with syncing it to the music.
I wonder why Rostropovich played the beginning so slow although it is marked 100 per quarter note. Of course Shostakovich must have agreed, but it’s almost half tempo. I’m confused as to whom trust more: Rostropovich or the score … still great recording!!
Подобно первым лучам зари, эта музыка открывает вам глаза на новые обещания и на все чудеса природы. Вызывая невероятные силы, эти произведения трогают струны сердца, вызывают ностальгию и пробуждают любовь, ободранные жизни и оцепенение измученных стражников
Hi Damon, massive thanks for all the work you've done up until now, discovering plenty of new music thanks to your channel! I noticed something's off, and that would be the transition between the second and third movement. The last two As from the horns are missing, making the transition a little bit awkward (was it to avoid copyright strikes or something of the kind?). Anyhow massive thanks again, great upload, I madly love this Concerto, it's like the introvert and very morbid brother of the first one.
Does this piece get performed much? I'm partial to Concerto #1, which I've heard endlessly for 30+ years but this #2 is good. I'd actually never heard it before, thinking not many people played it.
This is 2 years late, but: dont know how much it is actually placed worldwide, but yesterday i hear the wonderful Daniel Müller-Schott playing Concerto 2 in Copenhagen🫶🏼 we clapped so much my hands still hurt
@@emmapanvil Tonight it will be performed in Berlin for the third time within 1 year. By the third orchestra and soloist. It seems that is has become quite popular recently.
@@Altonahh10 I think the Queen Elizabeth contest helped a lot in that regard, although the candidates that played this concerto were not the best (on was third though) and I wasn't really fond of how the accompanying orchestra played, the power of what is to me the best piece to ever be written has been put on the forefront by it.
CAN SOME ONE PLEASE TELL ME THE NAMES OF THE PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS IN THE FINAL MOVEMENT!!!! I need to know for my own composing means. I need their sound!
But if you want to know my opinion, I'd recommend you to listen also to Shostakovich's 15-th symphony: there're many interesting and unusual examples of use of percussion. ua-cam.com/video/tNwttkJ1ECY/v-deo.html I hope, my commentary will help you to reach your "own composing means". Sincerely yours, Ivan P
@@Ivan_Preobragenskiy Oh yeah, I saw the 15th too. Shostakovich really has an ear for percussion. I just really wanted to know what those clicky sounding and water droplet sounding instruments were. Once again, many thanks!
Every time I look at Shostakovich's scores I'm left wondering....did he have a fetish for accidentals? I mean this sincerely, did he get off on them in some way? Did he not trust musicians to know what notes to play from a key signature? I mean he has written pieces with the 6 sharps key signature and then proceeded to write every chord with a whole bunch of flats. The key signature didn't serve any purpose. The only thing I can come up with is some sort of obsessive compulsive need to make sure his music was as complicated looking as possible.
Perhaps, editors wanted to make sure that right notes are played, or maybe the key signature or a particular accidental is a later addition. Or some chords and notes bear some additional importance that Shostakovich wanted to underline for whatever reason. Maybe even because of aesthetic and symbolic congruence, when one can say that _"this figure just looks and feels right in this particular context as written in this particular way"._ Maybe some notes and figures are meant to be sticking out of the context this way.
Please explain what your problem is. This particular piece uses no key signatures at all because the harmonic language is very chromatic and they wouldn't be of any use. And please explain your quote "pieces with the 6 sharps key signature and then proceeded to write every chord with a whole bunch of flats" - I don't know of any Shostakovich piece that does this. To accuse him of having a "fetish for accidentals" is just silly. It's simply the way his harmonic language works.
![Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 9 [With score] (Reupload)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/qynu8yNiTrY/mqdefault.jpg)
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22:43 sick beat man
the 'fate motive' plus the 'Turkish' flavor. I think it's a kind of scorn shown by the composer against whatever antagonist in the piece.
Ay Ay Ay Ay
Boots and pants and boots and pants and...
@@DamonJHK Very neat easy to play on a drumset if you're using a piano reduction score, the percussion part would have to be played on a Drumset.
@@jeanparke9373 OMG I GOT THAT REFERENCE I CHOKED
shostakovich: *sees a cello* ah a violin.
Its why his concertos are so hard to play, the beging of a phrase is normally easy, but just way gets harder.
And why is that?
@@rogerwilliams6058 he wrote them for rastropovich and he was able to play them
@@schneiderFFF he starts a movement with an easy bass clef theme, throws in a few changes to tenor clef, then it just becomes complete madness when he only use treble clef. That’s why Shostakovich is my favorite composer.
Check out rautavaara’s second cello concerto for more treble clef insanity
The first concerto is a winter piece, but this is all summer. Hazy, grotesque summer, but undeniably still summer.
Funny how it evokes seasons... I feel the same about Symphony 14
27:50 is some of the most maginificent orchestration ive ever seen
I have to agree. Prob the best page of this work!
Shostakovich is a super badass I love him
16:29 that is the most scary musical sound ever
Yeah, what is that sound- it sounds like loose rattling strings? A mixture of percussion and strings?, it's different. Kinda sounds like a Brazilian berimbau. Any ideas?
Or I guess it sounds to me like strings through a trumpet mute, and then realized maybe it's muted brass :P
Finally, the buzzy attack kinda sounds like a harpsichord strike. I have no idea- the sound really caught my ear too though.
@@pnut212002 That's the power of three, reedy bassoons for you!
9:07 is another great part
That first image is the only time I’ve seen Shostakovich happy.
I understand that Russians have an aversion to looking happy, which includes laughing in pictures.
0:00 is a good place to start.
grancassa, tamburello e violoncello.... surreale! un urlo di angoscia dell'uomo, non solo di DDS❤
Such a brilliant work of art.
love the opening picture :)
OMG HI is this the famous undergrad composers club im ur biggest fan
This ending makes me always extremely thoughtful...
Love that cadenza for cello and tambourine lol
My personal favorite parts
1st movement:
6:16 - 7:26
9:08 - 10:02
2nd movement:
14:10 - 14:26
14:53 - 15:32
16:34 - 16:46
3rd movement:
19:58 - 20:16
20:23 - 21:49
21:49 - 22:58
24:04 - 24:32
24:40 - 25:11
25:12 - 26:06
26:44 - 28:12
The bass drum at the solo passage at 9:00 sounds insane!
are you fucking joking?
This and symphony 11 I think are reflect examples of underrated pieces. Everyone knows about waltz no. 2, symphony 5 and 7, but how many people know pieces like his eighth string quartet, 2nd piano trio, this concerto or symphonys like no. 10 and 15? Such wonder - keep on exploring all!
His 8th string quartet is quite famous tho
string quartet 8 is his most famous haha. Try string quartets 10, 12 (my favourite), 13 and 15
edit: here are some more underrated works
Piano sonata 1, piano trio 1, two pieces for string octet, symphony 13, symphony 6
Sorry, I was a little mistaken when I wrote that comment! I guess what I meant to say was that Shostakovich is one of those composers in which all his works (I think at least) are equally brilliant in how he was able to create music under scrutiny of Stalin and the rest of the Soviet Union. People criticise his works a lot, but those who are willing to find some of the best music by him, it's usually the stuff that not many people know! I do like the piano trios, basically all his symphonys, a couple string quartets, his piano and cello concertos (violins also but not as much) plus a lot of solo piano sonatas/suites. There is so much stuff by him and to know and love his works I think is a real honour. Thanks again for the advice @Patrick Draper and @Joao Gabriel :)
@@phoebedraper3046 quartets 10 and 15 all the way
@@phoebedraper3046 and the cello sonata
I discovered this concerto around two or three years ago, I have no doubt in my mind : from what I have heard, it is by far my favourite piece.
0:00 I
13:59 II
18:19 III
straordinario, tragico e sublime. Interpreti ineguagliabili
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS!!!
27:10
CELLO CONCERTO NO 1!
Its very similar but not the same thing (I belive)
Shostakovich is the best composer of the century XX.
27:18 my favorite build up to a climax ever!!!!!
21:23:03 y un 1/5 dividido por 4,341 es mi parte favorita cuando el tercer decimal del logaritmo neperiano es un número inpar no primo
The best of Heavy Met... I mean... Orchestred Music.
I think the most heavy met so- sorry I met ochrestral piece with lots of power would be Stravinsky rite of spring. But this piece is very close to the same heavy metal fealing.
@@schneiderFFF didn't know this one. Thanks for the recommendation :)
Those Bass Clef notes originally sounded a 4th Higher than Written (Played 8va throughout), but that changed over the years. We do have Horns in every key which do extend our catalogue & allow us to arrange lots of music.
Le largo est magnifique
Малер 3:59 11:16 Децимы
Годунов 24:38
Купите бублики 14:00
Монограмма Ш. 7:17
Баркаролла 20:16
Трепак 21:16
Валторны 18:19
Мотив первой части 30:32
32:12 кода, сопровождения ударных инструментов
26:44 Подход к кульминации
Amazing
26:24 32:15 small accidents but I forgive the legendary Rostropovich
The accidents are so small that it's of bad taste to point them out
the mistakes make a lot of musical sense to the point of which i had to rewatch it twice while looking at the cello part carefully to actually figure out what it was. id forgive anyone for that tbh
I always come to this piece every now and then just for this sick beat 22:43
That sounds oddly reminiscent of something else…
A truly phenomenal work. Thank you so much for the upload 😊😊💚💚
S DW Thanks took me a lot of hard work to write this cello peice
Elijah I can imagine. Me and my sister had to copy out the harpsichord part for Alfred by Arne which too forever. This must have taken so much longer, especially with syncing it to the music.
S DW i meant it took a while for me to compose this peice back in 1966
Elijah 😂😂
I wonder why Rostropovich played the beginning so slow although it is marked 100 per quarter note. Of course Shostakovich must have agreed, but it’s almost half tempo. I’m confused as to whom trust more: Rostropovich or the score … still great recording!!
Rostropovich-Shostakovich gave performers of his music great liberty. The metronome markings aren’t too important.
Подобно первым лучам зари, эта музыка открывает вам глаза на новые обещания и на все чудеса природы. Вызывая невероятные силы, эти произведения трогают струны сердца, вызывают ностальгию и пробуждают любовь, ободранные жизни и оцепенение измученных стражников
Спасибо автору видео,ваш труд очень важен для людей,поверьте
truly underrated
Hi Damon, massive thanks for all the work you've done up until now, discovering plenty of new music thanks to your channel! I noticed something's off, and that would be the transition between the second and third movement. The last two As from the horns are missing, making the transition a little bit awkward (was it to avoid copyright strikes or something of the kind?). Anyhow massive thanks again, great upload, I madly love this Concerto, it's like the introvert and very morbid brother of the first one.
31:16 This ending is so confusing to me...
Classical music is so profound.
Someone: classical music is sooooo relaxing
Me: 27:29
*shows them Shostakovich String Quartet 8*
@@hermannthefisherman2960 and 8th symphony
Amazing. The ending is very similar to Symphony #15!
3:32 Ebmaj13b5 with the #9 in the winds resolving to Dmaj7#11 :0
#musictheory
ГП - 0:06
ПП - 3:58
Разработка - 6:19
Реприза ГП - 8:40
Каденция - 9:07
Реприза ПП - 11:13
Кода - 12:12
Such an oddity, love it
21:20-21:43 [, a little funk beat hehehe
27:48 ORGASMIC PART!!!!!!!!!! XD
隠れた名曲
31:01 shouldnt there be a clef change to bass clef?? it is played like that
Yup you're right!
Haha..... I noticed that too.
Браво!!! Мне музыка очень понравилась!!!😍😍😍👍👍
awesome, so many things to comment
21:17 - The invention of drums?
Does this piece get performed much? I'm partial to Concerto #1, which I've heard endlessly for 30+ years but this #2 is good. I'd actually never heard it before, thinking not many people played it.
I see the first everywhere but I only see like 5 performances of this one
This is 2 years late, but: dont know how much it is actually placed worldwide, but yesterday i hear the wonderful Daniel Müller-Schott playing Concerto 2 in Copenhagen🫶🏼 we clapped so much my hands still hurt
@@emmapanvil Tonight it will be performed in Berlin for the third time within 1 year. By the third orchestra and soloist. It seems that is has become quite popular recently.
@@Altonahh10 I think the Queen Elizabeth contest helped a lot in that regard, although the candidates that played this concerto were not the best (on was third though) and I wasn't really fond of how the accompanying orchestra played, the power of what is to me the best piece to ever be written has been put on the forefront by it.
It’s not that unknown. Many cellists including yo yo ma, sol gabbeta, Gautier capucon, sheku kanneh Mason and Micha miasky have performed it.
Yes, Rishi Puri - change to bass clef is missing in the second bar of fig 110. I don't have a miniature score to check though.
CAN SOME ONE PLEASE TELL ME THE NAMES OF THE PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS IN THE FINAL MOVEMENT!!!! I need to know for my own composing means. I need their sound!
Dear Mason Guy,
You can observe carefully the score to see many musical instruments. Shostakovich uses here such percussion instruments as:
Timp. = Timpani;
Frusta = Whip;
Legno = Woodblock;
T.-tom = Tom-tom;
T-no = Tamburino = Tambourine;
T-ro = Tamburo = Concert Snare drum;
Cassa = Concert Big drum;
Sil. = Silofono = Xylophone.
But if you want to know my opinion, I'd recommend you to listen also to Shostakovich's 15-th symphony: there're many interesting and unusual examples of use of percussion.
ua-cam.com/video/tNwttkJ1ECY/v-deo.html
I hope, my commentary will help you to reach your "own composing means".
Sincerely yours,
Ivan P
@@Ivan_Preobragenskiy Thank you very much! Appreciate it!
@@mason11198 You're welcome!
@@Ivan_Preobragenskiy Oh yeah, I saw the 15th too. Shostakovich really has an ear for percussion. I just really wanted to know what those clicky sounding and water droplet sounding instruments were. Once again, many thanks!
26:48
the motifs (timpani etc) in the 2nd mvt sound a bit like the finale of his 6th symphony...
PDF please?
25:59 personal
28:13 this sounds like sexual anger
I think you've had one to many doses of scriabin music.
For me the best part is at 27:20
Someone have pdf file?
It is unfortunately not on IMSLP, but you can find it on Boosey and Hawkes website or buy the scores (or use the video)
1. Satz
0:05
2. Satz
13:59
16:25
3. Satz
18:19
19:45
31:26
27:48 - xylophone excerpt
Does anyone know where you can buy this music
International music company
Ennuyeux et pénible. Excellent remède pour l'insomnie.
28:13
Where do I get the score?
23:50
Technically the cello solo part could be played on horn, with inverted multiphonics for the double chord notes...
At R78, is that a fucking trap beat?
Every time I look at Shostakovich's scores I'm left wondering....did he have a fetish for accidentals? I mean this sincerely, did he get off on them in some way? Did he not trust musicians to know what notes to play from a key signature? I mean he has written pieces with the 6 sharps key signature and then proceeded to write every chord with a whole bunch of flats. The key signature didn't serve any purpose. The only thing I can come up with is some sort of obsessive compulsive need to make sure his music was as complicated looking as possible.
Perhaps, editors wanted to make sure that right notes are played, or maybe the key signature or a particular accidental is a later addition. Or some chords and notes bear some additional importance that Shostakovich wanted to underline for whatever reason. Maybe even because of aesthetic and symbolic congruence, when one can say that _"this figure just looks and feels right in this particular context as written in this particular way"._ Maybe some notes and figures are meant to be sticking out of the context this way.
Please explain what your problem is. This particular piece uses no key signatures at all because the harmonic language is very chromatic and they wouldn't be of any use. And please explain your quote "pieces with the 6 sharps key signature and then proceeded to write every chord with a whole bunch of flats" - I don't know of any Shostakovich piece that does this. To accuse him of having a "fetish for accidentals" is just silly. It's simply the way his harmonic language works.
@@jestemqiqi7647 He might be referring to the 14th quartet. Not that I agree with the original comment but I did find it rather amusing.
Masks off. Great ending.
I'd prefer reading it from the Piano Reduction Score.
The last piece is good the rest is not so good.
19:09
26:31
27:50