For some reason in this Gilels' interpretation this sonata always makes me feel better while improving my mood... THE PIANO SURVIVED THE ELECTRIC CHAIR 💺GREAT 👍...
For those of you, who can't get rid of the feeling you know the main theme in the 3rd movement: after few hours of having it in my head, I recognized a mix of Bloch's Fugue from the Concerto Grosso and Shostakovich's own 4th movement of the Cello sonata. No idea if he had it in his mind, but I am satisfied. :)
This is one of the ,sadly, least known and appreciated works of Shostakovitch. I"ve known it even before my teen years and it had such a deep affect on me. I"m a proponent of new music but one wonders when music such as this is basically unknown, we need to continue to look back at the wonders of the early 20th century. I agree with the previous comment, it stirs up feelings that are not expressible by any other composer.
That’s right. It’s as if the sounds were not coming from the piano but out of thin air, and it blends perfectly into the atmosphere of coughs and other audience sounds.
this, Piano Sonata No. 2 ( Emil Gilels ) is, actually, a piece I could only listen to in part, for awhile; happily, on this night, May 6, 2016, I can take in, admire the entire Shostakovich Sonata No. 2.
@@lokmanmerican6889 Those are also the 4 notes that are found in several of his works. Like BACH are 4 notes that he used in some of his works, and RAGS which I've used in my compositions
@@ianalen1687в этом вина тех ,кто не чистит запись от посторонних звуков. А ,вообще,кашель это бич всех залов ,как бы их не держали в чистоте. Пыль ,которая поднимается ,когда входит много людей, мягкое покрытие и т д. Сама всю жизнь хожу с сосульками т к аллергик.
It’s as if the sounds were not coming from the piano but out of thin air, and it blends perfectly into the atmosphere of coughs and other audience sounds.
It's too bad they decided to record it in the tuberculosis ward of the local hospital, instead of in a concert hall or recording studio. Or at least they should have had the patients practice coughing in the right key and tempo to match the music. This was grim.
I love how he hammers the sh*t out of this piano :3 Also, very nice crispy articulation and a legato that makes you feel like you can actually fly.There are two geniuses arguing in heaven right now.
What an incredible performance. The 2nd Sonata can come off as merely workmanlike ... Gilels here treats it seriously and makes the piece profound. Thank you so much for posting.
I bought this ( an RCA Victor lp in 1966 as though 'guided to it,' there in the campus bookstore in Athens, OH. And, I'm very glad, very thankful. It is brilliant as someone has also said. Ethereal qualities. So glad youtube has it!!!
Dmitri Dmitrivich's contribution here is tremendously solid! A breakthrough. And I strongly believe he would be sympathetic towards the random coughs from the concert attendees and hear them as expressions of our shared humanity: the pain and suffering of it. Hedonistically, we can irk ourselves (and it is ourselves we irk) at the vile interruption of the coughing. Analytically, we can express a will to critique or even punish those whose coughs result from smoking or other willful hazards. But for those whose health was compromised through the negligence (and worse) of state actors or state-authorized actors, or the general negligence and punishing inhumanity given free reign within the Soviet system, how can anyone find the will to harangue them for being innocent victims, for being guinea pigs in a pandemic of public health policy stupidity?
Cerebral, sombría de a momentos, de a momentos con toques de histrionismo, otros de una nostalgia oscura...de todo un poco de eso, menos poco profunda. Similar a tantas grandes obras de Shostakovich, excelso compositor del siglo XX de la música ya no sólo europea, rusa o soviética, sino universal.
It greatly invokes agony, suffering, desperation and death... major keys and "happy" melodies instead sound the most disturbing. It's very raw and unsettling. Maybe that's why you feel it's stronger.
It's always like that...For some reason, it reminds me of when a woman is running away in terror from an assailant in a horror movie... she always loses at least one shoe in the chase...
I bought a recording of Gilels playing this, and unfortunately it wasn't this one. I think it was studio. This is way better. EDIT: I found this recording on Spotfiy. Yay!
В первой части Шостакович как будто полемизирует с Бетховеном, вопрошая: "Где же Ваш новый человек, маэстро? Почему Ваш гений не предугадал чудовищное падение в бездну потребительства, в фашизм, в Содом и Гоморру? После стольких жертв на алтарь духовного восхождения человека!". В третьей части Шостакович как бы беседует с Шопеном, который написал сходную по ужасу Вторую сонату. Шопен, увидевший конец всего - человека, мира, истории - кончает сонату крахом. Шостакович останавливается перед этим мрачным предчувствием и, так как он настолько сильно любит человечество, что не может занести над ним руку - кончает горьким предупреждением.
Thanks a lot. I don't even mind not being understood that much,I just can't get my mind around the fact that a lot of people are angry at me,as if I tried to harm them in some way. Then again,not understanding me does cause them to be angry,I guess. Anyway,thank you again for your comprehension.
To all the coughing complainers: I'm with you. As a remedy I fantasize about small pillows being handed out along with the programs as people enter for them to cough into. Or a piece of paper sticking out of each program with a note that reads "if you must make a sound out of your mouth, do it into pit of your elbow!"
Wow everyone bitching about the audience. It honestly just sounds like a lot of them have bad colds... you can't blame them - would you say "oh I don't want to hear this Shostakovich Sonata - I've got a cold and may mar the performance slightly due to my cold" or would you just go?
How quiet do you think the groundlings at Shakespeare's Globe were? This is entertainment, not sacred ritual. It's this attitude which keeps people from taking a chance on classical music.
Can't help but the beginning of the 3rd movement (theme of the variations) reminds me so much of Star Sars or Harry Potter.. actually the 6th and 7th bar. Do you know what I mean?
Astathis - Hey, which edition is this? is it the Sikorski? I ask because I bought the DHSC one and I noticed what I think it's an obvious mistake at bars 387-388 (21:21) in the third movement, I don't remember exactly which one but it's either the B or the D on the left hand which is played twice making it B-B-Eb-D or D-D-Eb-D when it should be B-D-Eb-D right? probably I'll find more mistakes later, but I want to know which edition is better for Shostakovish's music, thanks.
Is it possible to find a download of the score for this online without having to pay? I do enjoy having RUclips turn pages for me, but to make sure the page turns are timed right, I have to have to volume on and it seems my piano and the piano in the recording are not tuned the same way. Thanks!
For his sonatas I don't know But for his Piano Preludes and Fuges, the girl who premiered them record them three times I think, so I would say that she is his best performer Also, I prefear Kondrashin to Mravinsky ;)
Tatiana Nikolayeva for his Op. 87. She has a close relationship with them, as Torterra said. In fact, I see a 'video' of a complete recording on the sidebar right now. The other works I bounce between performers. To me, Shostakovich is kind of like Prokofiev in that way.
Matt is right-- no it isn't, not in the purest sense anyway. The section is strongly grounded in A flat major, even blatantly so in several places around measure 12 and following. Schoenberg would never have allowed that, or measure 22 for example. You don't hear stong standard tonal cadences, but there are occasional strong tonal intervals and harmonies. It's probably fair to say that he was influenced by dodecaphonic sounds and techniques.
I hear you. It drives me mental. But.....Can you just imagine the level of ill-health of the general populace of the Soviet Union in 1965? I think I remember reading about 20 years ago that the average lifespan for males in the USSR was still 56.
After viewing previous replies to me,I would like to,firstly,thank you for being kind. Now,I understand that people can hold their coughs(far more than they can their eyelids) and that comparison was unfortunate,however,I do hold true that coughing is physiological as blinking is,and therefore,I believe I wasn't hypocritical at all.
There are at least 2 commercial publishers: Sikorski and DSCH Publishers, Moscow. The latter is prefaced by a (Russian language) analysis of the Sonata by Manashir Yakubov.
+Bert Bril I believe that is partially due to the microphone's gain being turned up too high . High gain = picking up sound form far away. Maybe the microphone itself was far away from the piano and they were forced to turn up the gain and the inadvertently picked up sounds of shuffling? (I don't think that sound is paper) The world may never know~
Great performance, although you rarely see a professional pianist blatantly ignore a dynamic marking like he did at 16:18. Makes me wonder if other editions of the score mark it different.
I understand that anyone who commits a small mistake on the internet will have the wrath of hell unleashed upon them,specially if the subject is classical music,which is considered quite sacred by most of it's listeners,however,I did not understand why does that mean we must be brain dead to be here
What is more rude? Coughing from an audience has been a problem since that first solo drum recital by a cave man in front of his tribe. Is not it far far ruder to use foul language on RUclips when commenting on Classical Music? In any case well worth listerning to, in spite of the audience participation. This is the first tine I have heard this work. And I am age 68. Thank you for your efforts in uploading this sort of music not played on classical music radio here in Los Angeles
Relax. Sad to see that the top two comments have to deal with the "extracurricular" sound effects as opposed to insightful musical observations (then again, this is probably the last place one would find such observations). If Gilels could play through the coughing, we can bear to listen through it. Can't we? Our ridiculously uptight concert decorum wasn't always the norm, you know.. (then again.. maybe you don't).
pffft I didn't notice the audience at all, I guess I was too busy listening to the music to hear the coughing. Stop listening to other irrelevant noises, get into the music people! Btw I don't think coughing is rude... mobile phones on the other hand...
First movement is simply a reworking of Piano Sonata 'Appassionata', 1st movement. Saint-Saëns' Danse Macabre can be heard at 18:18, and then Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 32, 2nd movement after 19:20.
It's like recognizing a reference to Homer or Dante in a 20th century novel and deciding it somehow makes it derivative. Shostakovitch incorporated a lot of quotations in his music (most notably from Mussorgsky) and if you think it means his style is somehow less distinct for it, you're a sophomoric simpleton
Lol a downward minor third does not mean it’s a reworking of appasionata. And I’ve never once considered any of the pieces that you suggest here in the Shostakovich (and I saw that as someone who performed this). So.. you’re have no clue what you’re talking about. Even if, however, there were these quotations, that wouldn’t make it any less of an amazing piece.
Yes ,but imagine,you bought a ticket to listen to EMIL GILELS,then no chance you get ill.So you pay for the ticket to listen to a pianist of your dreams and at the same time you are ill,would you stay at home and wasted money and a maybe missed a chance to hear Gilels.Up to you,maybe I'm selfich,but I won't.And also stop complaining about caughing ,just listen to the performence.Because is as enoying as the audience ,thanks
Comparing blinking and Coughing... you really are an hypocrite person. How can you compare those two things? Coughing is a symptom of rudness and unexperience listening to music in a concert, whereas blinking is so necessary as the fact that your heart pumps blood... I can tell you that I went to a concert a week ago and I really couldn't cough, just because I was enjoying the music, although I had to blink several times because of the emotion that caused me that great music (Chopin Concerto).
What a strange work. A well established composer but this sonata hasn’t taken hold ... wihy not? Giles is too bangy as usual, I think it needs s more thoughtful, artistic interpretation. Update: I found one. Valentina Lisitsa
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Exposition
0:00 1st theme 16th notes
0:05 1st theme dotted rhythm
1:20 2nd theme
1:44 combined elements
Development
2:22 1st section
3:23 2nd section
Recap
3:54 Climax, imitation of 2 hands
4:23 Juxtaposition of both themes
Coda
5:22 1st section
5:50 2nd section
6:28 3rd section
For some reason in this Gilels' interpretation this sonata always makes me feel better while improving my mood... THE PIANO SURVIVED THE ELECTRIC CHAIR 💺GREAT 👍...
can you explain the chair reference?- ta
For those of you, who can't get rid of the feeling you know the main theme in the 3rd movement: after few hours of having it in my head, I recognized a mix of Bloch's Fugue from the Concerto Grosso and Shostakovich's own 4th movement of the Cello sonata. No idea if he had it in his mind, but I am satisfied. :)
This is one of the ,sadly, least known and appreciated works of Shostakovitch. I"ve known it even before my teen years and it had such a deep affect on me. I"m a proponent of new music but one wonders when music such as this is basically unknown, we need to continue to look back at the wonders of the early 20th century. I agree with the previous comment, it stirs up feelings that are not expressible by any other composer.
Apparently in later life Shostakovich came to see this as him most important piano work, even more so than Opus 87.
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Shostakovich Sonata No.2 grows on one. Well worth many listens!! Wow!!!
The audience sounds gives a life touch to the listening of this amazing performance, it is really appreciable.
That’s right. It’s as if the sounds were not coming from the piano but out of thin air, and it blends perfectly into the atmosphere of coughs and other audience sounds.
Yeah, but a healthier audience would have been more appreciated. Incredible how coughing always happens when the score has a pause!
Dmitri Shostakovich was still alive when Emil Gilels made that interpretation! I wonder how Shostakovich would've felt!
this, Piano Sonata No. 2 ( Emil Gilels ) is, actually, a piece I could only listen to in part, for awhile; happily, on this night, May 6, 2016, I can take in, admire the entire Shostakovich Sonata No. 2.
I'm a dsch fan and I'm happy to discover another great work by him.
DSCH?
@@lokmanmerican6889 Are the initials of Dmitri Shostakovich.
Me too ❤️❤️
@@lokmanmerican6889 Those are also the 4 notes that are found in several of his works. Like BACH are 4 notes that he used in some of his works, and RAGS which I've used in my compositions
@@lisaragsdale1530 How did you translate R into music?
One of my favourite piano sonatas
What a beautiful music!
Great Gilels.
Я просто заворожена этой музыкой. Какое исполнение,как будто Шостакович сидит рядом с Гилельсом и передает ему свои мысли!
У вас есть объяснение тому, почему российская публика с ее постоянным кашлем портит впечатление почти от каждой живой записи?
@@ianalen1687в этом вина тех ,кто не чистит запись от посторонних звуков.
А ,вообще,кашель это бич всех залов ,как бы их не держали в чистоте. Пыль ,которая поднимается ,когда входит много людей, мягкое покрытие и т д. Сама всю жизнь хожу с сосульками т к аллергик.
B Minor, Op. 61 (1943, in time of War)
(recorded live in the Grand Hall, Moscow Conservatoire on 13 March 1965)
It’s as if the sounds were not coming from the piano but out of thin air, and it blends perfectly into the atmosphere of coughs and other audience sounds.
It's too bad they decided to record it in the tuberculosis ward of the local hospital, instead of in a concert hall or recording studio. Or at least they should have had the patients practice coughing in the right key and tempo to match the music. This was grim.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Winter in Russia is real hard, lots of people are illed usually
I love how he hammers the sh*t out of this piano :3 Also, very nice crispy articulation and a legato that makes you feel like you can actually fly.There are two geniuses arguing in heaven right now.
Jesse Fournier woot woot steinway!
+Jesse Fournier Couldn't describe it better
Yes, this is the Steinway sound. And Gilels' sound, too.
Wolfgang and Dmitri... right?😉🎼
This is truly brilliant music. Im playing this for my high school senior recital.
lol
Andy Mac well I’m not Gilels, but I actually did give it my best (back then). ruclips.net/video/Txj-68J6mcc/видео.html
Великий пианист Эмиль Гилельс потрясающе исполнил великую музыку Дмитрия Шостаковича.
Спасибо за запись.
What an incredible performance. The 2nd Sonata can come off as merely workmanlike ... Gilels here treats it seriously and makes the piece profound. Thank you so much for posting.
Immenso Shostakovich!!!
Gilels + Brahms = Happy
I bought this ( an RCA Victor lp in 1966 as though 'guided to it,' there in the campus bookstore in Athens, OH. And, I'm very glad, very thankful. It is brilliant as someone has also said. Ethereal qualities. So glad youtube has it!!!
wow... gorgeous sonata...
Dmitri Dmitrivich's contribution here is tremendously solid! A breakthrough. And I strongly believe he would be sympathetic towards the random coughs from the concert attendees and hear them as expressions of our shared humanity: the pain and suffering of it. Hedonistically, we can irk ourselves (and it is ourselves we irk) at the vile interruption of the coughing. Analytically, we can express a will to critique or even punish those whose coughs result from smoking or other willful hazards. But for those whose health was compromised through the negligence (and worse) of state actors or state-authorized actors, or the general negligence and punishing inhumanity given free reign within the Soviet system, how can anyone find the will to harangue them for being innocent victims, for being guinea pigs in a pandemic of public health policy stupidity?
Grande esecuzione, grande sonata
Cerebral, sombría de a momentos, de a momentos con toques de histrionismo, otros de una nostalgia oscura...de todo un poco de eso, menos poco profunda. Similar a tantas grandes obras de Shostakovich, excelso compositor del siglo XX de la música ya no sólo europea, rusa o soviética, sino universal.
It greatly invokes agony, suffering, desperation and death... major keys and "happy" melodies instead sound the most disturbing. It's very raw and unsettling. Maybe that's why you feel it's stronger.
of course, as soon as the quiet section begins someone starts coughing.
It's always like that...For some reason, it reminds me of when a woman is running away in terror from an assailant in a horror movie... she always loses at least one shoe in the chase...
The first few measures sound almost Mozart-esque, but then it turns into Shostakovich's trademark disjointed paranoia. Very well done.
Very beautiful and interesting.🎼🎹
1:20 Shostakovich turned piano to a harpsichord in the first minute, just 🤯
Wow, what an interesting peace. Very gripping and devastating, especially the second mvmt and the ending.
This sonata remains the Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s Piano Sonata B minor No.4 op. 56
A reall beauty. Thank you.
This goes deep.
Wow! Fantastic! Thanks for posting with the score!
I bought a recording of Gilels playing this, and unfortunately it wasn't this one. I think it was studio. This is way better.
EDIT: I found this recording on Spotfiy. Yay!
I disagree. I find the studio performance has greater solidity and depth than this... which is still great BTW.
Get the people in the audience to the damn hospital! All suffering from whooping cough or sometin
Suelo ir muy seguido a tomar algún café y disfrutar de conciertos en el Teatro y te aseguro que la gente allí no es para nada jóven (por desgracia).
it's covid
@@jakubo6109 then everyone would get infected, except for those "cowards" who wear masks
No, it's just kind of "full Russian experience" concert - frozen desolation, valenki, WWII, tuberculosis, GULAG etc. Think of this as an added value.
Just amazes me that people can sight read that well. Can barely sight read drum theory, let alone piano theory.
Kudos to the performances.
thank you very very much
What a scramble!
It's like a Rollercoster, I can't take my eyes off it!!!!
Эмиль Гилельс великий музыкант ❤,а Шостакрвич композитор❤! Все!
I've read somewhere that recent statistics show that people cough more when they're in the theatre than everywhere else.
19:01 that is a kinda of black metal creep going on piano!..
Shostakovich was a Huge impact on the rest of XX century music.
gilels absolute fantastic pianist. and shostakovich trolling the people with beethoven mocks
В первой части Шостакович как будто полемизирует с Бетховеном, вопрошая: "Где же Ваш новый человек, маэстро? Почему Ваш гений не предугадал чудовищное падение в бездну потребительства, в фашизм, в Содом и Гоморру? После стольких жертв на алтарь духовного восхождения человека!". В третьей части Шостакович как бы беседует с Шопеном, который написал сходную по ужасу Вторую сонату. Шопен, увидевший конец всего - человека, мира, истории - кончает сонату крахом. Шостакович останавливается перед этим мрачным предчувствием и, так как он настолько сильно любит человечество, что не может занести над ним руку - кончает горьким предупреждением.
Замеча тельное резюме по поводу содержания этой гениальной сонаты...
You're delusional.
Was there any coughing? If you focus on this beautiful music, you won't hear it. I didn't.
lovely
A great work by the legendary Shostakovich
Thanks a lot. I don't even mind not being understood that much,I just can't get my mind around the fact that a lot of people are angry at me,as if I tried to harm them in some way. Then again,not understanding me does cause them to be angry,I guess. Anyway,thank you again for your comprehension.
0:38 - 0:41 Sounds more like Beethoven 101, fourth movement.
holy smokes haha thanks for posting this is wild and awesome
To all the coughing complainers: I'm with you. As a remedy I fantasize about small pillows being handed out along with the programs as people enter for them to cough into. Or a piece of paper sticking out of each program with a note that reads "if you must make a sound out of your mouth, do it into pit of your elbow!"
I don't know whether to take his music seriously. Shostakovich has always had a flair for the dramatic.
I think because it's contagious.
I started coughing when I read these comments :)
Was thus recorded in a tuberculosis sanitarium?
Beethoven'ish a bit, but gee this is such storytelling piece of Brilliance! ...and Gilels has not a single mistake in this piece!
That's a great reply. I accept what you're saying. Thank you.
Wow everyone bitching about the audience. It honestly just sounds like a lot of them have bad colds... you can't blame them - would you say "oh I don't want to hear this Shostakovich Sonata - I've got a cold and may mar the performance slightly due to my cold" or would you just go?
How quiet do you think the groundlings at Shakespeare's Globe were? This is entertainment, not sacred ritual. It's this attitude which keeps people from taking a chance on classical music.
Pianist :
Audience : * cough * * cough * * cough *
Goddamn this shit fucking bangs
So... amen...
Can't help but the beginning of the 3rd movement (theme of the variations) reminds me so much of Star Sars or Harry Potter.. actually the 6th and 7th bar. Do you know what I mean?
Oh, it does!
Astathis - Hey, which edition is this? is it the Sikorski? I ask because I bought the DHSC one and I noticed what I think it's an obvious mistake at bars 387-388 (21:21) in the third movement, I don't remember exactly which one but it's either the B or the D on the left hand which is played twice making it B-B-Eb-D or D-D-Eb-D when it should be B-D-Eb-D right? probably I'll find more mistakes later, but I want to know which edition is better for Shostakovish's music, thanks.
Is it possible to find a download of the score for this online without having to pay? I do enjoy having RUclips turn pages for me, but to make sure the page turns are timed right, I have to have to volume on and it seems my piano and the piano in the recording are not tuned the same way. Thanks!
Can anybody tell me who is the Mravinsky for Shostakovich's solo piano works? The de facto standard interpreter?
For his sonatas I don't know
But for his Piano Preludes and Fuges, the girl who premiered them record them three times I think, so I would say that she is his best performer
Also, I prefear Kondrashin to Mravinsky ;)
Tatiana Nikolayeva for his Op. 87. She has a close relationship with them, as Torterra said. In fact, I see a 'video' of a complete recording on the sidebar right now. The other works I bounce between performers. To me, Shostakovich is kind of like Prokofiev in that way.
Solid
Somehow this piece screams to be adapted for a drum & bugle corps to me.
Is the middle part dodecaphonic?
WWR - music No.
Matt is right-- no it isn't, not in the purest sense anyway. The section is strongly grounded in A flat major, even blatantly so in several places around measure 12 and following. Schoenberg would never have allowed that, or measure 22 for example. You don't hear stong standard tonal cadences, but there are occasional strong tonal intervals and harmonies. It's probably fair to say that he was influenced by dodecaphonic sounds and techniques.
I hear you. It drives me mental. But.....Can you just imagine the level of ill-health of the general populace of the Soviet Union in 1965? I think I remember reading about 20 years ago that the average lifespan for males in the USSR was still 56.
vodka
After viewing previous replies to me,I would like to,firstly,thank you for being kind. Now,I understand that people can hold their coughs(far more than they can their eyelids) and that comparison was unfortunate,however,I do hold true that coughing is physiological as blinking is,and therefore,I believe I wasn't hypocritical at all.
Where can I get the sheet music?
There are at least 2 commercial publishers: Sikorski and DSCH Publishers, Moscow. The latter is prefaced by a (Russian language) analysis of the Sonata by Manashir Yakubov.
Brilliant.
The audience is awful though. Coughing, moving, making paper noises ... aaaarghhhh
+Bert Bril I believe that is partially due to the microphone's gain being turned up too high . High gain = picking up sound form far away. Maybe the microphone itself was far away from the piano and they were forced to turn up the gain and the inadvertently picked up sounds of shuffling? (I don't think that sound is paper) The world may never know~
Remember medicine was not advanced also. We arethe lucky generation. They had to endure ailmentsby theircown strength. Give them a break please...
2023 😮
gilels was always a brilliant performer. what i would do to have him rise from the dead and play my work...
may we see ur work?
ok,that's completaly crazy,but I understand it
Great performance, although you rarely see a professional pianist blatantly ignore a dynamic marking like he did at 16:18. Makes me wonder if other editions of the score mark it different.
I understand that anyone who commits a small mistake on the internet will have the wrath of hell unleashed upon them,specially if the subject is classical music,which is considered quite sacred by most of it's listeners,however,I did not understand why does that mean we must be brain dead to be here
COUGh... GAG.... whaaaaaa-CHOOOOO! Clunk bang snap fart. I'm done.
What is more rude? Coughing from an audience has been a problem since that first solo drum recital by a cave man in front of his tribe. Is not it far far ruder to use foul language on RUclips when commenting on Classical Music? In any case well worth listerning to, in spite of the audience participation. This is the first tine I have heard this work. And I am age 68. Thank you for your efforts in uploading this sort of music not played on classical music radio here in Los Angeles
Relax. Sad to see that the top two comments have to deal with the "extracurricular" sound effects as opposed to insightful musical observations (then again, this is probably the last place one would find such observations). If Gilels could play through the coughing, we can bear to listen through it. Can't we? Our ridiculously uptight concert decorum wasn't always the norm, you know.. (then again.. maybe you don't).
pffft I didn't notice the audience at all, I guess I was too busy listening to the music to hear the coughing. Stop listening to other irrelevant noises, get into the music people!
Btw I don't think coughing is rude... mobile phones on the other hand...
Say you were in the middle of some sort of performance and in that place in which you are watching it it's rude to blink. Would you still blink?
1:19
HOLY GOD. what a noise. Can you imagine trying to learn this?! Oh sorry......wrong note!!!
1:20 kinda reminds me symphony no.7. Absolutely stunning performance.
ps. STOP CAUGHING YO RUDE AUDIENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
25:04 Они аплодируют их кашлю.
Gilels studio recording is even better than this, and you don't have to put up with a impossible audience.
Nothing but Beethoven quotations in this piece, really.
where?
First movement is simply a reworking of Piano Sonata 'Appassionata', 1st movement. Saint-Saëns' Danse Macabre can be heard at 18:18, and then Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 32, 2nd movement after 19:20.
I don't think it should be a bad thing
It's like recognizing a reference to Homer or Dante in a 20th century novel and deciding it somehow makes it derivative. Shostakovitch incorporated a lot of quotations in his music (most notably from Mussorgsky) and if you think it means his style is somehow less distinct for it, you're a sophomoric simpleton
Lol a downward minor third does not mean it’s a reworking of appasionata. And I’ve never once considered any of the pieces that you suggest here in the Shostakovich (and I saw that as someone who performed this). So.. you’re have no clue what you’re talking about. Even if, however, there were these quotations, that wouldn’t make it any less of an amazing piece.
Yes ,but imagine,you bought a ticket to listen to EMIL GILELS,then no chance you get ill.So you pay for the ticket to listen to a pianist of your dreams and at the same time you are ill,would you stay at home and wasted money and a maybe missed a chance to hear Gilels.Up to you,maybe I'm selfich,but I won't.And also stop complaining about caughing ,just listen to the performence.Because is as enoying as the audience ,thanks
Can somebody give the audience some cough drops?
Comparing blinking and Coughing... you really are an hypocrite person. How can you compare those two things? Coughing is a symptom of rudness and unexperience listening to music in a concert, whereas blinking is so necessary as the fact that your heart pumps blood...
I can tell you that I went to a concert a week ago and I really couldn't cough, just because I was enjoying the music, although I had to blink several times because of the emotion that caused me that great music (Chopin Concerto).
man, you do realize "classical" music was performed with people standing and dancing a lot of the times back in the day. Shit got so STUFFFYYYYY
Good stuff. You can tell it's early, perfunctory Shostakovich though. Much prefer the later works.
The first sonata is early shostakovich
What a strange work. A well established composer but this sonata hasn’t taken hold ... wihy not? Giles is too bangy as usual, I think it needs s more thoughtful, artistic interpretation. Update: I found one. Valentina Lisitsa
audible 1 mm away from soemone's eye, not in the recording
The majority of that audience is probably dead, so....