@@ronlacker326 It seems to be a picture of a chicken. Specifically a chicken with a helmet which has a Romanian flag on it. I presume because the person in question is Romanian? And the guy calls themselves chicken. Not... Sure what's meant to be racist here? Am I missing something?
Mister Alfredo and miss Maria are complementary at least. Tho then you got lazy Jane and notapimp Andrei, and they're all playing the theme for a Jojo antagonist while arguably being on crack.
@@misslebirdgaming8357 obviously, we are all here for the music, but the clothes adds to the humor. It's okay to notice things outside of the main topic :( It's also okay if you didn't notice their different styles; from formal, to casual. It just means you're a bit less perceptive :))
Putting aside the amount of energy in the first violin, can we all take a moment to appreciate the cellist's look? Left to right, we have the outfits of: drama student, prom dress, the guy who takes dress rehearsal more seriously than the rest of the orchestra, and then the 20th century cello sage
Shostakovich was pretty fond of these manic tempo (quasi) perpetuum mobiles, where many composers would do the more practical option of a shorter base value and a slower tempo. My guess is that he knew that musicians subconsciously play longer values 'harder' even when the tempo and dynamic markings are otherwise mutandis mutatis. You can find another (less extreme) example in the 3rd movement of the 8th Symphony.
I wonder if because shostakovich wrote his scores by hand it was easier to write everything as crotchets (quarter notes) that quavers (8th notes) or otherwise. Just a theory. I believe he wrote this piece in a very short space of time, like under a week, so perhaps that had something to do with it.
You're absolutely freaking right. This song was written by a Russian composer during WW2, when the nazis were closing in on the place where he lived and the whole country was in panic mode. It was a mayhem. He wrote it in 3 days.
To the people who say this sound "sloppy" or unhinged... yeah... that's kind of the exact way to play this piece. I think the slightly unhinged aspect elevates it. :)
@@jkid1134 what I meant by "justify" is that those sloppy sections weren't intended to be there to "elevate it" they messed up a bit and it affects cohesion in my opinion. Obvious example, the early entrance at the beginning is not a decision justified by artistic expression
@@Samuel-kc1pg Rats, how dare your criticism be sound! This to me looked relatively unpracticed, and I meant originally that there's some degree of justification in preparation limits of any kind, but sure, not that kind of justification. I too am a big believer in intentionality and purpose in art, so I get what you mean. I think the measured response is that this performance has both flaws and virtues, even objectively, and even if there is some kind of synergy between them.
this piece makes me visualize a group of students assigned to work together on a project but they all procrastinated and are trying to finish it in time for the deadline and it’s absolute mayhem
@@nicolasmercure7553 honestly it doesn't sound as demonic as it could. I think it would be better if it were Russian men playing instead of these flimsy women
Since I saw a blurred Maisky in the thumbnail, I knew that the piece would be Shostakovich's String quartet 8. I have seen this video many times and I'm still amazed at how they interpreted this piece with so much emotion and chaos!
As a violist, albeit amateur, I don't remember coming across a quartet part that wasn't decent. The viola does what it does. It accounts for much of the emotional impact of a quartet. Nothing would persuade me to swap my C string for an E.
@@radiationravenYou made me laugh it REALLY loud (I clicked on the time stamp right when I read your comment) 🤣 The fact that you call Maisky Bro made it even funnier, I’m fkn dying 😂
@@liamnevilleviolist1809 maybe because if it was semiquavers, the feeling of the beat would be completly different. Being crochet at this speed it feels like a head going (no,no,no,no) or a person running... O don't know really. But your question made me think and that's my take on it. Composers think usually on everything that will make musical sense for the piece.
@@snoop9064 You're not a musician yet you know/think he wrote it in three days? I mean, you might be onto something. He may have written it this way and then *IF* he had time (which he didn't) he could've gone on to re-do the score. It is still strange to me that extremely fast notes are written as crotchets. I'm not just a performer, but also a teacher, analyst, researcher, publishing assistant, arranger, recording artist, sound engineer. So I do think that when I bring up a point about "Shosta's crotchets" ... it doesn't just come from nowhere.....
For a moment I imagined this piece as played by a metal band with distorted guitars and bass, like some Scandinavian symphonic metal guys with long hair headbanging on every barline.
@@Sean-Ax if you listen to Ad Nauseam - Imperative Imperceptible Impulse you will hear many parts that are inspired by the quartet No. 8. In my opinion one of the best metal albums ever released.
i love this, perfectly unhinged and chaotic. not all music is meant to be "perfect." it can be messy. humans are messy, emotions are messy. this feels so much more real
coming back when I need a good laugh again because the descent into madness as the piece progresses and with it the growing need for a hairbrush and jaw relaxers is hilarious
This man gets hate for his style of music. When keep in mind he isn't like 'most people.' He is different and that is exactly the point. What you hear is exactly what he wants you to hear. His music isn't bad, it's just different.
The man was living in an oppressive regime that made his life hell. His music was his rebellion, his escape. That's why there is so much dissonance, so much angst, so much hurt in his music. Music should evoke emotion and no-one does that better than Shostakovich
I had the chance to play this quartet with some friends in my conservatory (I'm from France), and it is as exciting to play than to listen to, even if it is soooo difficult 😂 Chostakovitch is a mad genius haha
String Quartet has that metal vibe to it, its a beautiful piece to hear and its hilarious to watch, Shostakóvich was the real metal head of the classical music lol one of my favs for sure
@@Pogouldangeliwitz I think the messy or unhinged aspect really just fits the piece and I think it's very much intentional. It's one of my favourite versions of this piece, but ofc that's just my opinion and you're free to have yours (:
Am I the only one who thinks it looks like the players from left to right resemble 4 stages of from energetic to burnt out? I mean look at each ones expressions and movements 😭
When the song hits hard; so you study it with your whole soul, give every note an emotion, make the piece reshape your mind and make the piece a "piece" of your life.
The cellist right there Maisky, he’s one of the most famous soloists you’ll ever see and is very well known for his emotional playing……. and his Bach cel- *dies of too much bach*
musicians: Jansen, McElravy, Rachlin, Maisky
-piece: Shostakovich: Quartet No. 8 (2nd mov.)
-original video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wokx5...
Thank you so much for watching! ❤
Love Maisky-- he did great work on the Bach cello suites
Of course it’s Jansen. I expect none less of her
I don't find it on Spotify 🥲
Shazam. Another useless app that pretends to have the answer to any music...
Dude why did you put Argerich and Langlang in the tags? I didn't see them in the video...
When the whole family has an argument about something but they are all musicians
hahaha
Why the fkin racist pfp bro?
@@ronlacker326 It seems to be a picture of a chicken. Specifically a chicken with a helmet which has a Romanian flag on it. I presume because the person in question is Romanian? And the guy calls themselves chicken. Not... Sure what's meant to be racist here? Am I missing something?
@@hellraiser217 Nah bruh, that helm looks hella like what nazi soldiers used to wear. Its racist, period. Stop making excuses.
*HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA*
*most underrated comment*
None of these people are dressed for the same event and I love that for them.
Mister Alfredo and miss Maria are complementary at least.
Tho then you got lazy Jane and notapimp Andrei, and they're all playing the theme for a Jojo antagonist while arguably being on crack.
This plays and your thinking about there clothes wtf
@@misslebirdgaming8357 obviously, we are all here for the music, but the clothes adds to the humor. It's okay to notice things outside of the main topic :(
It's also okay if you didn't notice their different styles; from formal, to casual. It just means you're a bit less perceptive :))
@@dakotagarcia7781 hahaha your ego will serve you well good luck
@@misslebirdgaming8357 :)
You can really tell Shostakovich was going through a lot lol
😂😂😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣👌
He wrote this for the things he saw in WW2 so he did see quite a bit
He wrote this as a suicide note/last attempt of protest because he fully believed he was going to be offed by the KGB. So yes, a lot
he was literally about to kill himself. wrote it in 3 days
Putting aside the amount of energy in the first violin, can we all take a moment to appreciate the cellist's look? Left to right, we have the outfits of: drama student, prom dress, the guy who takes dress rehearsal more seriously than the rest of the orchestra, and then the 20th century cello sage
The first violin is janine jansen btw
@kaiki r r these are all amazing soloists but the performance is sloppy lmao
His name is Misha Maisky
@@EntelSidious_gamzeylmz I thought I was the only one who thought so too. It’s like you can hear all their egos clashing
@@EntelSidious_gamzeylmz I mean it fit🤷🏾♂️
the fact that this is written in quarter notes, the tempo mark must be “jesus take the wheel”
if you pause at 0:02 you can see it says semibreve equals 120, so yeah...
Technically 480 BPM, shosty pioneered speedcord fr
Shostakovich was pretty fond of these manic tempo (quasi) perpetuum mobiles, where many composers would do the more practical option of a shorter base value and a slower tempo. My guess is that he knew that musicians subconsciously play longer values 'harder' even when the tempo and dynamic markings are otherwise mutandis mutatis. You can find another (less extreme) example in the 3rd movement of the 8th Symphony.
I wonder if because shostakovich wrote his scores by hand it was easier to write everything as crotchets (quarter notes) that quavers (8th notes) or otherwise. Just a theory. I believe he wrote this piece in a very short space of time, like under a week, so perhaps that had something to do with it.
@@felixthomson3665 3 days
You can tell how aggressively Jansen is playing it because she lost some bow hairs by the end
Janine always plays with that energy lol
I just overread the „bow“ and still totally believed it 😂
Before the concert she has a bow. After the concert she has just a stick.
actually not, bow hair can also brake whie playing legato or not tooo aggresive, still her energy is unmatched
She always loses a few.
What a panic attack sounds like:
Spot on! 😂
You're absolutely freaking right. This song was written by a Russian composer during WW2, when the nazis were closing in on the place where he lived and the whole country was in panic mode. It was a mayhem. He wrote it in 3 days.
@@hideous_taco_michael_zacki yeah, that checks out
To the people who say this sound "sloppy" or unhinged... yeah... that's kind of the exact way to play this piece. I think the slightly unhinged aspect elevates it. :)
This interpretation has a lot of raw emotions but it does not justify the clear sloppiness in some sections
They don't have to justify anything :) You have no context, and more pressingly, they did not do this for you
@@jkid1134 what I meant by "justify" is that those sloppy sections weren't intended to be there to "elevate it" they messed up a bit and it affects cohesion in my opinion.
Obvious example, the early entrance at the beginning is not a decision justified by artistic expression
@@Samuel-kc1pg Rats, how dare your criticism be sound! This to me looked relatively unpracticed, and I meant originally that there's some degree of justification in preparation limits of any kind, but sure, not that kind of justification. I too am a big believer in intentionality and purpose in art, so I get what you mean. I think the measured response is that this performance has both flaws and virtues, even objectively, and even if there is some kind of synergy between them.
Exactly!
Whenever someone says “Classical music is boring” next time, I’ll show them this
wont change their opinion. trust me
better to show them something with a more followable but passionate melody maybe
@@erictsenmusic yeah, someone might think this is not very musical at first
@@erictsenmusic true, they probably won’t. But worth a try
I'm not in the loop with the subgenres since 20+ years but sounds like the thrash metal and the likes i used to listen to when i was an angry kid.
my aggression says i might have a therapist problem
My problem therapist says I might have an aggression.....
My says agresses therapist might have a problem I
Therapist aggression my says that I have aggression therapist aggression therapist problem
Therapist my i might problem a have aggression
Aggression says my therapist might have a problem.
Therapist says my aggression might have a problem.
They're fighting, help!
0:40 Maestro Sylvester Stallone is killing it.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 i didnt expect that!!😆😆😆
💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀🤌
@@imbadatspellingI was looking for this one 😂😂
he is the main character
I knew I found that face similar to someone in my life somewhere
this piece makes me visualize a group of students assigned to work together on a project but they all procrastinated and are trying to finish it in time for the deadline and it’s absolute mayhem
I mean... He did write it in three days
that's beautiful
@@b.d6642 he realised the assignment was DUE monday, not DO monday
😂😂😂
i LOVE this version it's so unhinged lol. i wish the full performance existed somewhere
There is a full version of this piece with Janine. The other parts are played by different musicians though
I think we all do.
Link in the description
This is the best interprtation I've ever heard of this quartet. That subtle dynamic change at 1:09 gave me chills.
+1
I feel sorry for you then
@@AndreyRubtsovRU What don't you like about this ?
@@nicolasmercure7553 honestly it doesn't sound as demonic as it could. I think it would be better if it were Russian men playing instead of these flimsy women
You seriously need to watch the David Oistrakh quartet’s interpretation then, it’s absolutely levels above this
there is no better cellist alive that plays Shostakovich better than Maisky. Period.
Johaness imo
colon and semicolon
Rostropovich anyone ??
If he prepares as in his early days ...than maybe yes
@@rayanyessin277 keyword: alive
Since I saw a blurred Maisky in the thumbnail, I knew that the piece would be Shostakovich's String quartet 8. I have seen this video many times and I'm still amazed at how they interpreted this piece with so much emotion and chaos!
It's fabulous. It's an orderly chaos in which both sides of the coin are shown simultaneously.!
headbanger
Hay mate didn't expect to see u here, love ur playlist btw always has the feeling I'm looking for.
Can we appreciate shostakovich giving the viola an actual decent part
As a violist, albeit amateur, I don't remember coming across a quartet part that wasn't decent. The viola does what it does. It accounts for much of the emotional impact of a quartet. Nothing would persuade me to swap my C string for an E.
she played that fiddle like it owed her money
1:00 that headbanging...
Bro looking like Animal from the Muppets…
We know Heavy Metal is rooted in Classical music. But I've never been so convinced that classical composers were the original headbangers too 😂
He's gotta be the devil himself with that necklace on
@@radiationravenYou made me laugh it REALLY loud (I clicked on the time stamp right when I read your comment) 🤣
The fact that you call Maisky Bro made it even funnier, I’m fkn dying 😂
J'ai aussi explosé 😂😂😂@@DerLiesl
As a person who has been playing quartet 1st violin, let's say that I did feel a lot better after playing that XD
Aaaaaabsolutely. All the anger goes away. (Cello here)
Same Here...😂🎉
This must be the fire-making class in the classical musician survival course.
I genuinely appreciate you sharing your aggression problem with us.
I love this String Quartet by Shostakovitch. So full of emotions
I still don't know why he wrote crotchets on the page when they sound like semiquavers.... it just made page turns more difficult!!
@@liamnevilleviolist1809 maybe because if it was semiquavers, the feeling of the beat would be completly different. Being crochet at this speed it feels like a head going (no,no,no,no) or a person running... O don't know really. But your question made me think and that's my take on it. Composers think usually on everything that will make musical sense for the piece.
@@liamnevilleviolist1809 i mean, didn't he write the quartet in three days? correct me if i'm wrong, i'm not a musician
@@snoop9064 Yes. And he reused a lot of material, much more than he usually did. The quartet is partly a collage. And a good collage.
@@snoop9064 You're not a musician yet you know/think he wrote it in three days?
I mean, you might be onto something. He may have written it this way and then *IF* he had time (which he didn't) he could've gone on to re-do the score.
It is still strange to me that extremely fast notes are written as crotchets.
I'm not just a performer, but also a teacher, analyst, researcher, publishing assistant, arranger, recording artist, sound engineer.
So I do think that when I bring up a point about "Shosta's crotchets" ... it doesn't just come from nowhere.....
just a bunch of metalheads headbanging🤷♂
Putting the emotions in is the only way you get the emotions out of it. Otherwise it would just fall flat. Great job.
My therapist: have u tried listening to classical music to help with your aggression?
The classical music I listen to:
You know a piece is iconic when you can recognize it just by watching the bow strokes without sound
Stallone is so versatile 😌
Rambo after anger management therapy
The aggression has a violinist problem.
They took the phrase, "Put more emotion" too seriously
HOLY SHIT SYLVESTER STALLONE
Don't let him leave! That man just escaped from a painting!!!
When your secretly a metal head but it’s only the 1700’s
This is definitely my favorite recording of this piece, I wish the full performance was released
Che the Internationaal Kamermuziek Festival Utrecht.
For a moment I imagined this piece as played by a metal band with distorted guitars and bass, like some Scandinavian symphonic metal guys with long hair headbanging on every barline.
ruclips.net/video/x8NJGezMicI/видео.html
There's a metal version on guitar out there if you search 🙂
This piece belongs in tech-death. It is a tragedy that no tech-death band has covered this piece yet.
Do you know apocalyptica ? You should hear it
@@Sean-Ax if you listen to Ad Nauseam - Imperative Imperceptible Impulse you will hear many parts that are inspired by the quartet No. 8.
In my opinion one of the best metal albums ever released.
Close to "PSYCHO" movie background...
To think that I see the first violinist on a regular basis because she teaches in my school… she’s so damn charismatic and such a wonderful musician
Not agression ... despair
word that came to mind for me was agony.
Despair indeed
i love how violin players hunch over like the ringer of Notredame
i love this, perfectly unhinged and chaotic. not all music is meant to be "perfect." it can be messy. humans are messy, emotions are messy. this feels so much more real
Great for a metal solo my god this is so beautiful
Gotta love Janine, she is always so expressive while she's playing
That’s something my neighbor would say when I play too much Beethoven
i think my neighbor and yours could be soulmates
pretty accurate rendition of how it feels to be alive these days....
This has been living in my head since i made the comment, it really does seem to just *fit* the vibe, doesn't it?
This has been the reoccurring theme for every year starting at 2016 until now in 2024. This is how the past few years have felt.
Shostakovich: hands-down, one of the greatest composers of his Age: of any Age. Thank you again, Mother Russia.
coming back when I need a good laugh again because the descent into madness as the piece progresses and with it the growing need for a hairbrush and jaw relaxers is hilarious
1:20
That was the smoothest page turn in the history of page turns
Well done Misha!!
1:18 *
Used the force
me: "bruv, why so mad?"
them: aggressive shaking
This IS one of the most, if not the most ICONIC performance of this string quartet!!!!! anything with Jansen and Maisky is gold!!!
It's just Mischa Maisky being Mischa Maisky 😆
aggression problem
Love how dynamic they all are while playing. I don't see that much in brass bands
"Classical music is boring", they say
This is how I feel at work every day...
this shows how classical musicians really are: feral.
That's how I used to play when I first laid hands on a violin.
This man gets hate for his style of music. When keep in mind he isn't like 'most people.' He is different and that is exactly the point. What you hear is exactly what he wants you to hear. His music isn't bad, it's just different.
The man was living in an oppressive regime that made his life hell. His music was his rebellion, his escape. That's why there is so much dissonance, so much angst, so much hurt in his music.
Music should evoke emotion and no-one does that better than Shostakovich
Why is Shostakovich's music hated tho
@@yashbspianoandcompositions1042 I don't think it is.
This is EXACTLY how the last 2 minutes in the exam hall feels like-
my favourite piece ever
I love it as agressive as possible. Shosty was a metalhead before metal.
Cello guy looks like he ia fighting for his life, trying to keep up with the others.
The fact that someone transcribed all this rage and confusion and chaos into something that other can replicate is insane!
Don't worry, this dimension in which old Sylvester Stallone is a cellist doesn't exist and he can't hurt you
(Aside) Conductor to stage crew: No sharp objects in the studio, please.
I think youtube offered this video to me based on my history of listening to Slipknot and Dream Theater
That's basically 4 dudes playing 4 different Slayer solos
I sense despair rather than aggression.
Absolutely.
Well, some of us aren't sleeping, after all 😊! ❤ from Paris
All joking aside, isn't it amazing how much they're into their performance. It's so intense, I love it.
1:22 i think the girl in the pink dress sanity is slipping away 😅
My therapist said im preoccupied with revenge. We'll see about THAT!
I’m proud of myself for watching this performance long before seeing this on your channel 😄
same haha
same!
Honestly, this sounds like something you would hear from the Necropolis faction in Heroes of Might and Magic 3
Ahh so soothing, great to relax the children 👍
This is my theme song, when my gut lets me know I have eaten my food intolerance
I had the chance to play this quartet with some friends in my conservatory (I'm from France), and it is as exciting to play than to listen to, even if it is soooo difficult 😂 Chostakovitch is a mad genius haha
They look like my classmates in a group project at school. So unrelated to each others. Lol. I love that.
When I first heard this work I was shocked by the beauty, fury and tragedy of the music, particularly the 1st and 2nd movements.
Ladyes and gentlemann... The UFC Strings Quartet..! (awesome job, guys 😉)
Fucking metal AF 🤘🏽👹🤘🏽
Lololol, “when people ask me what kind of music I play and then ask me to show them only to immediately regret it afterwards”
After listening to this for a couple of hours I'm afraid that the therapist would also start having aggression problems...
Now thats how you headbang to classical music.
I'll tell my grand childs it is normal to headbang to classical music
I wouldn’t have the balls to play this on violin without safety goggles.
String Quartet has that metal vibe to it, its a beautiful piece to hear and its hilarious to watch, Shostakóvich was the real metal head of the classical music lol one of my favs for sure
Got to love that Bloodbourn soundtrack.
The cellist kinda looks like Sylvester Stallone
Ah yes, the voices in my head, I forgot where I put them
Shostakovich would be proud
He definitely wouldn't be, this performance is a mess.
@@Pogouldangeliwitz I think the messy or unhinged aspect really just fits the piece and I think it's very much intentional. It's one of my favourite versions of this piece, but ofc that's just my opinion and you're free to have yours (:
@@Pogouldangeliwitz So was Russia.
Just listen to the first recording of the Borodin quartet: it's both way more savage and way more precise.
This woulld have me throwin up the horns in the audience
this is so wild and insanely beautiful. i've got goosebumps!
Ah, thrash metal for the string section. Beautiful, beautiful.
We all have something in common
Love that pimpgold on Stallone
Am I the only one who thinks it looks like the players from left to right resemble 4 stages of from energetic to burnt out?
I mean look at each ones expressions and movements 😭
Approaching Nerd level here, thats comforting.
When the song hits hard; so you study it with your whole soul, give every note an emotion, make the piece reshape your mind and make the piece a "piece" of your life.
Damn, Sylvester Stallone is taking method acting to the next level.
The cellist right there Maisky, he’s one of the most famous soloists you’ll ever see and is very well known for his emotional playing……. and his Bach cel- *dies of too much bach*
When the truck stop bean burrito kicks in and the last sign said "Next rest stop 20 miles"