"The story goes, Leonard Bernstein was in failing health and he knew he was never going to stand in front of the Chicago Symphony ever again. Apparently there has been a long standing tradition of never encouraging the brass section of the CSO; not even looking at them or else they'll blow you off the stage. During the end of this concert, and being a helpless romantic himself, good ol' Lenny not only looked at the Chicago Brass (Bud Herseth on principle trumpet, Arnold Jacobs on tuba), but he asked for everything they had. And the rest is history! Enjoy!"
I was present when this music was played and recorded live at Orchestra Hall that warm summer night, June 21st, 1988. It remains the most memorable experience I have ever had at a classical music performance. The ovation that followed was as thunderous as this music and lasted a long while! Maestro Bernstein, spent and crying, hugged nearly everyone in the orchestra-- everyone knew something special has just occurred. The brass were absolutely amazing and unbelievably loud.
Damn. June 21st 1988 I was only 25 miles from Orchestra Hall on Michigan Avenue and could have bought a ticket to hear this monster of a performance. What a loss.
maybe this is the wrong feeling to have, but I really like that this kind of captures all of the nuance of a military victory. There’s something horribly terrifying to me about this. There’s a happy sound, but underneath it is total and awful despair. It feels like realizing you’ve won, only to look at the corpses on the battlefield before you and realize they were all people
I agree. Everyone talks about the feeling of victory but to me this sounds like an out of the mind and anguished warning shriek in the face of humanity, pointing at the terrifying consequence of war, intertwined with a resignation that we are doomed to repeating the carnage.
вы, как раз, ближе всего в своем восприятии к тому, как чувствуем эту симфонию мы, те, кто родился в Ленинграде. НО только победили наши деды для того, чтоб жить.
Trombones were amazing in this! Charlie peeled paint!! But it was good playing, not just loud. Solid. My wife was playing on this recording. Go Jeannie!!! But even without that connection, this would still be one of my favorite recordings. Bud sounded fabulous, especially at the end, after that incredible blow! And the strings? Incredible!!!!!! Amazing.
I agree with you on the status of reference recording. However, you might want to reconsider the last part of your statement, unless you have listened to just 10 classical music recordings in your life.
@@michaelgray3643 Then you are fond of hyperbolic language. Hyperboles are extravagant and dramatic overstatements that can sometimes even be ridiculous.
@@alighieroalighieri404 Give it a rest. It’s my opinion. That’s what comment sections are for. I’ve probably listened to classical music longer than you have been alive!
update: my ears did not stop ringing for 15 minutes. I do not recommend, unless you think 15 minutes of your hearing sounding like the content aware scale+tinnitus is worth the absolute joy that filled my low brass soul as I listened to this
From 2:36 - 3:09, it sounds like a life and death struggle between the low brass and the rest of the orchestra. Three times the unison brass melodically attempt to dislodge the key of C Major but the orchestra keeps hammering away on the C Major chord with a triplet figure in a show of defiance. Finally at 3:10 the brass relent and join in the swelling harmony for the triumphant finish. Leningrad had successfully resisted the German siege.
@swiftybone My father is Jeff Taylor. My dad was a substitute bass trombonist, although Charlie Vernon was one of his teachers.. (Along with Edward Kleinhammer, Arnold Jacobs..)
Absolutely staggering in every way. The meld between composer, conductor, and orchestra has seldom been surpassed as demonstrated in this marvelous recording.
What actually happened (I actually personally know somebody who attended this recording) is that they held off the applause until after the recording was completely finished. It is in fact a live recording.
A reviewer I know attended a concert of this work, with the same pairing (Bernstein, CSO) the same week in '89. He reported that the audience didn't hold off applauding so much as they were rendered deaf by the sheer magnitude of the sound, that they could not hear their own applause.
@efmusic5 I told my dad this, and he just laughed slightly and replied "When Bernstein got up to give hugs to all the principal players, he exclamed to Jacobs (the tubist) "You're too good, you can't go!" Jacobs replied "But I can't see anymore, I have to." Arnold Jacobs did have sight problems, and he was quite old, but he was not blind and he most definitely did not play by ear.
From 02:10 to 02:20 is one of the most spectacular orchestrations I've ever heard. The sound of the violins surrounds the sky, like falling debris in an explosion.
My father, an army veteran, asked what this was called. I told him that the 4th Movement's name was "Victory". He said that this is what it sounded like.
Damn. Overwhelming. The acoustic in Chicago Symphony Hall is pretty amazing in this recording, not as dry and dead as normal. But that brass.... overwhelming.
No puede tocarse mejor.Devastador final que en manos de un iluminado Bernstein alcanza la cima de una sinfonía llena de simbolismo. La orquesta de Chicago en estado de gracia. Sencillamente genial.
UNBELIEVABLE!!!! This is some of the greatest of Lennys performances! Wauw what an incredible ending. So powerful seldom heard. And what a powerful intense rendition in all. Bernstein was a Big personality one of a kind that comes so seldom in this life
Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60, titled Leningrad, was completed in Samara in December 1941 and premiered in that city on March 5, 1942. At first dedicated to Lenin, it was eventually submitted in honor of the besieged city of Leningrad, where it was first played under dire circumstances on August 9, 1942, with the siege by Axis and Finnish forces.
I love this part. when I started to listen symphony, it's the first one that I listened. At first time whole music was difficult to listen, but as I reached here, I noticed that this part is super awesome, and started to fall in love with classical musics.
The first performance was given on March 5, 1942 by the Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre, which had also been evacuated to Kuibyshev, conducted by Samuil Samosud. But before Leningrad heard the work, it was broadcast by the BBC on June 22, 1942 - the first anniversary of Russia’s entry into the war - conducted by Sir Henry Wood.
@@nealhines4476 все остальные представления не так и важны, будем честны. Ведь именно там играли верящие в победу умирающие от голода люди... барабанщика, вообще, незадолго до представления достали из морга, случайно заметили, что он пошевелился...
The review from that night in the tribune: articles.chicagotribune.com/1988-06-22/news/8801090564_1_leningrad-symphony-leonard-bernstein-great-recording
Bernstein was a big name for at least 20 years before Solti took the helm in Chicago, so either there was tension between Bernstein and Defauw, Rodzinski, Kubelik, Reiner, Martinon, and Hoffman too, or it was a case of incompatible schedules more than anything.
My youngest brother had Bernstein's recording of this with the NYPhil. That was the first I ever heard of Shostakovich's 7th. Since that time, this is my favorite symphony, period! And, my heart really feels for those poor Leningradans of the seige. ruclips.net/video/LjPjLOr5JCA/видео.html
This was, I think, the only time that Leonard Bernstein conducted the Chicago Symphony. What was the reason that he never conducted them earlier? Was there tension between Solti and Bernstein?
"The story goes, Leonard Bernstein was in failing health and he knew he was never going to stand in front of the Chicago Symphony ever again. Apparently there has been a long standing tradition of never encouraging the brass section of the CSO; not even looking at them or else they'll blow you off the stage. During the end of this concert, and being a helpless romantic himself, good ol' Lenny not only looked at the Chicago Brass (Bud Herseth on principle trumpet, Arnold Jacobs on tuba), but he asked for everything they had. And the rest is history! Enjoy!"
Played this the other night underneath the belly of Concorde Foxtrot-Alpha - It was an incredible piece and what an opportunity to play it in a hangar containing such a piece of history!
Shostakovich uses two FULL sections of Brass. A double brass section. When I first heard this symphony, I mistook the second brass part at 2:15 for a church organ part. Knowing that Shostakovich doesn't seem like the composer who uses Organ in his music, I checked the score. To my surprise, I saw the second section of brass for this enormous piece of beautiful music.
@cobaltsls: That definitely explains why he got to record with the Chicago Symphony only once. But I'm still curious as to why he never guest-conducted the Chicago Symphony before this concert, and why Solti, who premiered and frequently performed a ton of American music, never once conducted a Bernstein piece during his tenure there.
Please tell you Dad it was this recording that made me sell my tenor trombone and never look back. I had to buy a second copy of this CD, as I wore out this exact clip on my first copy.
When I was in undergrad at U of Fla, I decided to take a lesson from the bassbone of TFO in Tampa. During the beginning of the lesson he had asked me what my top three recordings were (trying to get a sense of what my ideal sound was.) This recording was in that list. He lit up. Why the grin, I asked? He was Harold van Schaik. He was the antiphonal bass bone that night in 1988. I couldn't concentrate the rest of the lesson.
It is not so clear "why this was written". Yes, it was dedicated to Leningrad, but was written earlier - maybe as hidden condemning of the Leninisme. Ambiguity of Shostakovich's works is obvious..;)
@jltrbn: Do you happen to have any inside information as to why this was Leonard Bernstein's only appearance with the Chicago Symphony? Was there a specific reason why Sir Georg Solti didn't invite him to conduct earlier?
My father was the bass trombonist on this recording.. he said it was a great experience to have Leonard Bernstein as a conductor.
Your father is Charlie Vernon?
I think Charlie impregnated a lot of women during this performance.
There are 2 bass trombonists. All of the brass parts except for the tuba are doubled. So his father would have been playing with Charlie Vernon
@@meanathradon That trombone does arouse me, so I don't blame them.
Su padre tuvo mucha suerte por haber participado en esta gran grabación de la séptima de Shostakovich y de marca DG.
"The story goes, Leonard Bernstein was in failing health and he knew he
was never going to stand in front of the Chicago Symphony ever again.
Apparently there has been a long standing tradition of never encouraging
the brass section of the CSO; not even looking at them or else they'll
blow you off the stage. During the end of this concert, and being a
helpless romantic himself, good ol' Lenny not only looked at the Chicago
Brass (Bud Herseth on principle trumpet, Arnold Jacobs on tuba), but he
asked for everything they had. And the rest is history! Enjoy!"
Where exactly did you find this quote? I would really like to know!
@@andrewnix6480 One of my trumpet teachers Howard Engstrom who was the former Principal Trumpet of the Calgary Philharmonic told me this too.
Thanks
And Clevenger on French Horn too!
Love it!
A highlight of my career. Playing this with Bernstein and CSO in Chicago and NY…❤
Wow!! How amazing!! Which instrument did you play?
@@theoedwards7805 I played the 6th part, bass trombone.
I played the 6th trombone part.@@theoedwards7805
Bass trombone, of course!
@@theoedwards7805
I was present when this music was played and recorded live at Orchestra Hall that warm summer night, June 21st, 1988. It remains the most memorable experience I have ever had at a classical music performance. The ovation that followed was as thunderous as this music and lasted a long while! Maestro Bernstein, spent and crying, hugged nearly everyone in the orchestra-- everyone knew something special has just occurred. The brass were absolutely amazing and unbelievably loud.
¡Que afortunado es usted por haber estado en esta grabación de la séptima de Shostakovich con Bernstein y la orquesta de Chicago!
envy you!!!!!!
Damn. June 21st 1988 I was only 25 miles from Orchestra Hall on Michigan Avenue and could have bought a ticket to hear this monster of a performance. What a loss.
Just dual exhaust 426 hemi purple cams if the perf. Was a muscle car. Thank you …. I listen to this at least once a month
maybe this is the wrong feeling to have, but I really like that this kind of captures all of the nuance of a military victory. There’s something horribly terrifying to me about this. There’s a happy sound, but underneath it is total and awful despair. It feels like realizing you’ve won, only to look at the corpses on the battlefield before you and realize they were all people
I agree. Everyone talks about the feeling of victory but to me this sounds like an out of the mind and anguished warning shriek in the face of humanity, pointing at the terrifying consequence of war, intertwined with a resignation that we are doomed to repeating the carnage.
вы, как раз, ближе всего в своем восприятии к тому, как чувствуем эту симфонию мы, те, кто родился в Ленинграде. НО только победили наши деды для того, чтоб жить.
My husband says you have just hit the dichotomy on the head. This is the essence of Russian art.
It doesn't matter how many times in a row this is listened to, it still brings out raw emotion from within the musical soul.
James Crixell amen brother!
This symphony changed my life.
Thomas Caprino I understNd. When I need a place of strength to go, I come to listen to this massive finale.
Trombones are fucking sick
Beautiful. Sends chills down my spines every time and make me proud to play a brass instrument
The brass are Oh my god! in this recording!!!! Trombones are so amazing!!!! And Bud, well, what can you say? Amazing!!
I was there! Recording doesn't do it justice really, left with my ears ringing. They were playing out of their minds.
This is PURE GOLD!!
BDC I wish I was alive then
Possibly the most colossal finale in symphonic history with the exception of the mahler 2nd and 8th and this is the best performance. Period.
Agree so much.
Trombones were amazing in this! Charlie peeled paint!! But it was good playing, not just loud. Solid. My wife was playing on this recording. Go Jeannie!!! But even without that connection, this would still be one of my favorite recordings. Bud sounded fabulous, especially at the end, after that incredible blow! And the strings? Incredible!!!!!! Amazing.
Not only is this the definitive recording of this symphony, it is one of the best classical recordings ever made!
I agree with you on the status of reference recording. However, you might want to reconsider the last part of your statement, unless you have listened to just 10 classical music recordings in your life.
@@alighieroalighieri404 No, I have listened to classical music for 50 years! So I think I know a little bit about it.
@@michaelgray3643 Then you are fond of hyperbolic language. Hyperboles are extravagant and dramatic overstatements that can sometimes even be ridiculous.
@@alighieroalighieri404 Give it a rest. It’s my opinion. That’s what comment sections are for. I’ve probably listened to classical music longer than you have been alive!
@@michaelgray3643 Come on, we are not kids anymore, do you really want to prove that your penis is longer than mine ? That seems quite infantile ...
One of my favourite symphonies and surely this HAS to be THE GREATEST performance!
It is!
have this at max volume. as a trombonist boy am I excited
update: my ears did not stop ringing for 15 minutes. I do not recommend, unless you think 15 minutes of your hearing sounding like the content aware scale+tinnitus is worth the absolute joy that filled my low brass soul as I listened to this
From 2:36 - 3:09, it sounds like a life and death struggle between the low brass and the rest of the orchestra. Three times the unison brass melodically attempt to dislodge the key of C Major but the orchestra keeps hammering away on the C Major chord with a triplet figure in a show of defiance. Finally at 3:10 the brass relent and join in the swelling harmony for the triumphant finish. Leningrad had successfully resisted the German siege.
'Dislodge.' That is a very apt term. Nicely stated!
MAHLER and SHOSTAKOVICH!!!!!! Above all else!!!!
@swiftybone My father is Jeff Taylor. My dad was a substitute bass trombonist, although Charlie Vernon was one of his teachers.. (Along with Edward Kleinhammer, Arnold Jacobs..)
The french horns are killing it ^^
When playing the horn turns into hurling decibels at the enemy.
When he switched to B major....yaaaassss that’s the sunlight!!!!!!!!!
Thomas Caprino the horns are hurling decibels at the enemy on this B major, no?
Was 65 years ago that Shostakovich was my real introduction to serious i.e. Classical music. I still thank him and relish his energy!
What piece?
The ending of this symphony gives me goosebumps every time. Phenomenal
There are very few orchestras that can sustain a finale like this, especially as Bernstein conducts it. Bravo!
Best recording of anything ever!!! This recording gave me chills and brought tears to my eyes!!!
Absolutely staggering in every way. The meld between composer, conductor, and orchestra has seldom been surpassed as demonstrated in this marvelous recording.
Adolph Herseth: the greatest symphonic trumpet player that ever lived!!
What actually happened (I actually personally know somebody who attended this recording) is that they held off the applause until after the recording was completely finished. It is in fact a live recording.
Yes, it's live. I was there. They really took no prisoners that night.
Wish you would elaborate on this more. I would love to hear about it!
A reviewer I know attended a concert of this work, with the same pairing (Bernstein, CSO) the same week in '89. He reported that the audience didn't hold off applauding so much as they were rendered deaf by the sheer magnitude of the sound, that they could not hear their own applause.
before you think of invading Russia, listen to this and... think again.
If this thing was a breathing monster that coukd walk, it wouod go around ripping other symohonies to shreds and eating everything in it's path.
@efmusic5 I told my dad this, and he just laughed slightly and replied "When Bernstein got up to give hugs to all the principal players, he exclamed to Jacobs (the tubist) "You're too good, you can't go!" Jacobs replied "But I can't see anymore, I have to." Arnold Jacobs did have sight problems, and he was quite old, but he was not blind and he most definitely did not play by ear.
THERE ARE NO WORDS TO DESCRIBE THIS PIECE ALL I CAN SAY IS WOW FOR 10 HOURS STRAIGHT
From 02:10 to 02:20 is one of the most spectacular orchestrations I've ever heard. The sound of the violins surrounds the sky, like falling debris in an explosion.
Charlie Vernon straight up anchoring the entire symphony.
Matthew Reiland bass trombone laying some serious pipe.
I get goosebumps every time I listen to this.
Best. Symphony. Ending. Ever.
Well it beats Tchaikovsky #6
Juan Richart Ruiz Nailed it. Also try Brahms 1 and Nielsen 5 on for size.
Juan Richart Ruiz Oh yeah, Shosta 5 and 10 are solid as well.
DSCH Symphony #4 as well.
Tchaikovsky 4° Symphony have a great ending too
INCREDIBLE and beyond belief. A once in a lifetime performance. I think Bernstein surpases himself in energi and expression here. Wauw !!!!
LEGENDARY!!!!!!!
The recording of Shostakovich 1st on this is also wonderful.
Hands down the best crescendo ever at the end. I know the brass are doubled, but I sure don't hear anyone taking a breath...
Amazing brass section
@jtp225 My dad, bass trombonist, had such a blast playing this concert :)
this is symphonic passion personified
Yeah, one of the best recordings of anything ever.
My father, an army veteran, asked what this was called. I told him that the 4th Movement's name was "Victory". He said that this is what it sounded like.
One of my greatest experiences of my life was to hear the CSO live in Budapest under Muti....
The crescendo is sustained right to the very end!!!!!!
Damn. Overwhelming. The acoustic in Chicago Symphony Hall is pretty amazing in this recording, not as dry and dead as normal. But that brass.... overwhelming.
@Shawn Hampton: It was known as "Orchestra Hall" back then. After a 1995-97 renovation, the Hall never sounded the same, read: as good.
This recording never fails to give me goosebumps.
20,000 of these views are from me only. I love this section!
God tier brass playing.
My god.
i wish there was a video of this
No puede tocarse mejor.Devastador final que en manos de un iluminado Bernstein alcanza la cima de una sinfonía llena de simbolismo. La orquesta de Chicago en estado de gracia. Sencillamente genial.
UNBELIEVABLE!!!! This is some of the greatest of Lennys performances! Wauw what an incredible ending. So powerful seldom heard. And what a powerful intense rendition in all. Bernstein was a Big personality one of a kind that comes so seldom in this life
Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60, titled Leningrad, was completed in Samara in December 1941 and premiered in that city on March 5, 1942. At first dedicated to Lenin, it was eventually submitted in honor of the besieged city of Leningrad, where it was first played under dire circumstances on August 9, 1942, with the siege by Axis and Finnish forces.
Iv listened to this very video at least 60 times
Witnessed CSO perform this at Lincoln Center in NYC. Had never heard the work before. Changed my life. Huge fan of Shostakovich!
I love this part. when I started to listen symphony, it's the first one that I listened. At first time whole music was difficult to listen, but as I reached here, I noticed that this part is super awesome, and started to fall in love with classical musics.
I just love this sound and tune in the morning, it sounds like.... VICTORY! :)
It´s from June 1988!
This, makes my day.
The first performance was given on March 5, 1942 by the Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre, which had also been evacuated to Kuibyshev, conducted by Samuil Samosud. But before Leningrad heard the work, it was broadcast by the BBC on June 22, 1942 - the first anniversary of Russia’s entry into the war - conducted by Sir Henry Wood.
And don’t forget the famous 9 Aug, performance , In Leningrad! 1942!
@@nealhines4476 все остальные представления не так и важны, будем честны. Ведь именно там играли верящие в победу умирающие от голода люди... барабанщика, вообще, незадолго до представления достали из морга, случайно заметили, что он пошевелился...
"Wind and song."
The review from that night in the tribune: articles.chicagotribune.com/1988-06-22/news/8801090564_1_leningrad-symphony-leonard-bernstein-great-recording
What I wouldn't give to see a video of Bernstein conducting this symphony! Is there one??
Unfortunately, having come here after a long search I found nothing. Atleast this is there.
Thanks for uploading!
This is my favorite recording, bar none.
Were did Shostakovich learn to be so awesome.
Crixus044 that is a very complicated and sad story.
I just listened to this recording for the first time in decades. Dont be me, refresh often!
I swear those trombones were forged in heaven.
Tim Kent!!! Unsung hero!!!!
Shocking to hear this performance. I've orderd the CD to Amazon: )
So much power
Bernstein was a big name for at least 20 years before Solti took the helm in Chicago, so either there was tension between Bernstein and Defauw, Rodzinski, Kubelik, Reiner, Martinon, and Hoffman too, or it was a case of incompatible schedules more than anything.
Bernstein had to have completely lost it after this... insane
Jonah Trout "DRINKS ON ME TONIGHT!!"
I would love to see him conduct this.
Same! Also I come down here every day too see whether there are new comments :P
My youngest brother had Bernstein's recording of this with the NYPhil. That was the first I ever heard of Shostakovich's 7th. Since that time, this is my favorite symphony, period! And, my heart really feels for those poor Leningradans of the seige.
ruclips.net/video/LjPjLOr5JCA/видео.html
"-It's like putting a cowbell at the end of Shostakovich's 7th.
-Is that good?
-It's perfect, Tony''
Finally! I was looking for this comment!
@nizabhaad: Only Christopher Walken would put a cowbell in there, then ask for more of it.
This was, I think, the only time that Leonard Bernstein conducted the Chicago Symphony. What was the reason that he never conducted them earlier? Was there tension between Solti and Bernstein?
This is not my favourite symphony of Szostakowicz, but this performance - Bernstein and orchestra magnum opus :)
Incredible perfomance and sound!
BRASS IS ABSOLUTELY HAMMERING HOLY
"The story goes, Leonard Bernstein was in failing health and he knew he
was never going to stand in front of the Chicago Symphony ever again.
Apparently there has been a long standing tradition of never encouraging
the brass section of the CSO; not even looking at them or else they'll
blow you off the stage. During the end of this concert, and being a
helpless romantic himself, good ol' Lenny not only looked at the Chicago
Brass (Bud Herseth on principle trumpet, Arnold Jacobs on tuba), but he
asked for everything they had. And the rest is history! Enjoy!"
@@keathmueller7826 oh my 😮😮
i was doing ap world hw and i was listening to this and just started crying.
0:53 aw heck yah
Played this the other night underneath the belly of Concorde Foxtrot-Alpha - It was an incredible piece and what an opportunity to play it in a hangar containing such a piece of history!
I know I should probably think of something more original to say about this recording but Good GOD thats a lot of brass!!
Shostakovich uses two FULL sections of Brass. A double brass section.
When I first heard this symphony, I mistook the second brass part at 2:15 for a church organ part. Knowing that Shostakovich doesn't seem like the composer who uses Organ in his music, I checked the score. To my surprise, I saw the second section of brass for this enormous piece of beautiful music.
CSO's double- brass section and Lenny Bernstein are what you need for this symphony ! This is the reference recording of Shostakovich's 7th!
Does anyone know if there are any video recordings floating around of this performance?
Leonard Bernstein probably conducting furiously
@cobaltsls: That definitely explains why he got to record with the Chicago Symphony only once. But I'm still curious as to why he never guest-conducted the Chicago Symphony before this concert, and why Solti, who premiered and frequently performed a ton of American music, never once conducted a Bernstein piece during his tenure there.
Please tell you Dad it was this recording that made me sell my tenor trombone and never look back. I had to buy a second copy of this CD, as I wore out this exact clip on my first copy.
Muy buena....maravillosa.
Buenas tardes feliz jueves.🌿
When I was in undergrad at U of Fla, I decided to take a lesson from the bassbone of TFO in Tampa. During the beginning of the lesson he had asked me what my top three recordings were (trying to get a sense of what my ideal sound was.) This recording was in that list. He lit up. Why the grin, I asked? He was Harold van Schaik. He was the antiphonal bass bone that night in 1988. I couldn't concentrate the rest of the lesson.
J.C. Beeson I could have sworn he told me that was a recording with new York Phil but that just might be me remembering incorrectly.
I love this story. Thanks for sharing.
Harold did not play the perfs or recording.
CHARLIE.
He's definitely no Kleinhammer.
Yeah, he is a beast!
He's still an absolute unit
Why am I just now discovering this!
Listening to this after reading a history book on ww 2, why this was written....wow, just wow
It is not so clear "why this was written". Yes, it was dedicated to Leningrad, but was written earlier - maybe as hidden condemning of the Leninisme. Ambiguity of Shostakovich's works is obvious..;)
@@pulsatilla1214 хватить чушь молоть. Каким боком тут Ленин, вообще? сколько можно повторять свои пропагандистские идиотические сказки
APPLAUSE!
muito bom :)
@jltrbn: Do you happen to have any inside information as to why this was Leonard Bernstein's only appearance with the Chicago Symphony? Was there a specific reason why Sir Georg Solti didn't invite him to conduct earlier?
Absolutely staggering.
Best recording ever
Wow.
Schostakowitsch und Bernstein: die beste Kombination.
It s Very Excelent