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Who’s the horn player?

"DAS IS KEINE GUTE MUSIK, DAS IST MIKEY MOUSE MUSIK!!" (PROF. ANDRE NAVARRA) ICH BIN NICH GANZ SICHER DAZU ABER ES IS WAS WAHRES DRIN .... GANZ SICHER

NOBODY has a sound like that. Nowadays this piece is played so short and ugly…Rostropovich gets the intensity and the drama but is never hacky

I am an aging Australian who like many others of us love Shostakovich, Prokofiev etc. When I found this on RUclips, played by Rostropovich for Shostakovich, conducted by my favourite conductor when I was a young student at university many years ago, I was ecstatic! I had goosebumps and teared up with the beautiful, sad experience of this magical performance of a great work of art! I loathe Stalin for the way he treated Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Katchaturian, three of the greatest 20th century composers. Thank you so much for this unforgettable piece of beautifully filmed black and white record of one of the great musical creations of the 20th century.

Yo Yo Ma just turned green!

Есть режим. Есть человек, страдающий от этого режима, человек несогласный с ним, в конце концов восстающий против этого зла.... Дмитрий Шостакович воплотил циклично повторяющееся, из столетия в столетие, страдание русского народа. К сожалению, эта музыка ВСЕГДА актуальна, до боли близка русскому человеку.

Imo, the best moments of the first movement are when the cello plays “accompanist” to the wind section. 2:35 and 4:55, specifically. I especially love 2:35; the counterpoint is so good and gives the impression of “something dark lurking underneath.”

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is there any information about the conductor and the orchestra?

Does anyone know the orchestra and conductor in this video please?

Who is the conductor, please?

What orchestra? Who's the conductor? Who's the solo-horn? I can see we are in London!

Conductor and orchestra?

This recording is great! I was at YoYoma’s performance with BSO yesterday. Feel grateful for this music.

Master

Шостакович - гений! А ведь его музыку запрещали в России. Критики говорили, что это не музыка а "набор звуков", но не смотря на непонииание со строны критиков Шостакович стал одним из самый великих русских композиторов!!!

Ужасное исполнение.

I love Shostakovich since I was a teenager - the music is so uneasy, melancholic, intense and thrillingly austere, but with a dynamism that never wavers.

This performance is fantastic and still one of my favourite videos!

Maravilloso!

Очень хорошо ❤

watched this in class today. this is absolutely fantastic!

I too was at the US premier at the Academy of Music sitting in the Pit.The Afternoon of the concert Rostropovich visited Settlement Music School in South Philly and he grabbed me(Paul Weinberg) and Judy Dorph(we were both studying Cello with Joseph Druian at Settlement) for a photo. Unfortunately, the photo didn't come out). One other thing about Rostropovich. He was very much a man who detested the Soviet regime and was treated shabbily by it-reduced to playing the cello on a tour boat in the Caspian Sea, before he left Russia for the US. A great cellist, musician and human being.

12:07

Bloodborne?

Please, tell, who the conductor is.

Classic <3

Favorite part at 22:26 when he glances over at conductor because he knows exactly whcih note the orchestra is supposed to start, then a few seconds later hits that high note and pulls bow back with masterful force.

No es umano es el diablo

Orchestra and conductor please?

my friend who’s a senior at my school is playing this tomorrow (as the cello soloist) for our local youth orchestra which i am also a part of, albeit in a lower ensemble. unfortunately i’m not able to go to his performance, but I do wish him the best luck in performing such a prestigious piece!

I feel prvileged to have heard him from 1975 until 1993 in various programmes around europe. Certainly a most fascinating musician and the most influential cellist of the 2nd half of the 20th century. Thank you,slava

Glorious. Amazed that this has been here since 2012 and the details of this performance remain stubbornly out of the Description field. Namely, the year performed, performance venue, the name of the conductor and orchestra, and any other details of possible historical interest. This kind of content is YTs saving grace. It should do more to protect and promote it.

Great Rostropovich, but what about the Orchestra and the conductor? And what about this wonderful footage (who made it, year, place)?

Beyond words! Just listen and absorb this greatness; then throw to dumpster all "stars" and starlets.

With all due respect to Mr. Rostropovich, who was insanely talended, I can't help but think he looks like Dr. Eggman from Sonic with his long arms. More seriously, this is a beautiful performance, and extremely well recorded for the time.

4:55 to 5:34 is the most iconic for allegro in my opinion

4:54 I saved this for myself. I love this part.

Fuck man what a madlad. Gotta be my fav piece ngl

Wish he composed for guitar.

Both soloist and orchestra need to be as tight as possible. No wishy-washy Romanticism here! This concerto will highlight any small mistake and miscalculation, especially with the very dry acoustic of this performance with all the curtains absorbing the sound! Lutoslawski also wrote a Concerto for him. I urge you to listen.

I was in the audience when Rostropovich gave the western premiere of this concerto with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra in about 1959 (I think). Almost as exciting as Rostropovich's performance, was the big parade of top Soviet and American composers led, of course by Shostakovich, walking on stage. You can imagine the thrill for the audience of hearing those opening notes for the very first time!

In Oct. 1959, when I was 17, we attended a Philadelphia Orchestra Youth Concert, conducted by Ormandy. It was on a Monday. The previous Friday, Rostropovich had done the US premier of this concerto, in the same hall. He had spent the weekend in his hotel nursing a cold, but when he heard that Ormandy was doing a youth concert, he expressed his liking for young audiences, asked if he could play. Ormandy said yes, and so we got to see this. We were a bunch of preppies, mostly who knew little of music, but we had the feeling that we had seen something very special and cheered wildly at the end. I have been a Rostropovich fanatic ever since.

It's a hurrican this interpretatiion it's a work o f art for us only comparable yo mozarts requiem

Спасибо! Замечательно! Планка критерий начинает подниматься! Здорово!

Среди музыкантов тех времён, на мой взгляд, самым совершенным был Растрапович! Сам Шостакович мог делать замечания скрипачу Ойстраху, когда тот играл его музыку. А, вот, Растраповичу никогда не делал.

wonderfull, but who's hte director and when with london symphonic orchestra ? thank you

WHO IS THE CONDUCTOR???

00:22 : Premier mouvement

That horn just rips through those lines in the first movement, doesn't it? If any of you've ever picked up a horn, you know how damned hard that is. Also props to the piccolo player for not pissing me off.