Just as Stalin made himself food or did other daily tasks to the tune of hundreds of thousands being politically persecuted, I'm glad you were able to trivialize the genocide into something personally epic (2 years later, I know)
Madison Sawyer This is Shostakovich's epitaph to Stalin. Always had a picture of Germany's rout from the gates of Moskow back into Germany while I've performed this. You can hear the mother-russian T34s rolling into Berlin at 2:18. Think this is heavy? Hear it LIVE. Fucking brutal at 98 decebels. Go on. Turn it up that high and feel what it's like IN an orchestra.
I know some time passed since your comment but I want to share this with you (just in case you wondered how well it would work as a metal piece. I think it works brilliantly and your book definetily has a point!): watch?v=SpcuYM0s9Ks
Henri Rauhala no, he hated Stalin. He hated because of the fear he had of being taken away in the middle of the night and killed just because Stalin did not like his music or a part of his music. Not all Russians were so optimistic about Soviet Russia and their government.
Henri Rauhala it is always entertaing to hear the people who don't have a damn clue about communism and know nothing about real life under this system. Yet they enjoy the freedom the capitalism provided, and talk crap about it. Most ridiculously, it was Stalin who started the Winter War, killed thousands of your compatriots and occupied half of Karelia. And you glorify him nevertheless. Must be a sort of masochism
@@smalysbassoon Moronic statement. Go talk to the Chileans and Nicaraguans or whoever about the freedom of capitalism. Where the Commies genociding the Balts the way Catholic priests were being murdered like Salvador Romero as late as the 1980? GTFO out of here. Your experience is not special and you are not special. Should spend more time on tge crimes the Latvians and Lithuanians comitted against the Jews. Proper genocide.
The 8th string quartet made me aware of Shostakovich, and I loved that to death, but this is really what got me into his music. I love the brutal insanity of this movement :)
The best thing about these video other than the music is that while the music is playing you can feel the anger ang rage in shostakovich's face in that picture
Every night for years on end, he had a small overnight case packed and ready to go, so as not to disturb his family in case the notorious black car of the NKVD came to take him away in the middle of the night.
I always listen to this music to portrait something bad I am going through now and later. However, such little genius who is himself a greatest Soviet composer who can portrait a person with the great 2nd movement of his 10th.
You can hear the menacing, encroaching brass section simultaneously alongside the absolute, sheer terror and fear in the winds and upper string parts. It's as if Shostakovich is depicting Stalin and the Stalinist government vs. the people in a portrait of the Stalinist days. Along this line of thought, it's no surprise how in the 4th movement, when the motif from the beginning of the 2nd movement comes back, Shostakovich essentially "crushes" it with his DSCH motif (which represents himself) played by the entire orchestra in unison, as a musical representation that Stalin can't control him anymore.
I think that this is probably Mravinsky. He made multiple recordings of concerts, and usually clocked the second movement in under 4:00. I don't know of any other conductor, including Kondrashin, who did this in less than four minutes. Also, the so-so sound quality is typical of Melodiya/Mravinsky/Shostakovich recordings from the pre-stereo era.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door... -- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Very good recording! The brass, like in many other recordings, was a little quieter than what was expected, and the dynamic interpretation in the strings was flawed in places, but other than that, a five-star performance!
The Cadets 2015 show (Power of 10) had this music. They also won the Jim Ott Brass caption award (best brass) at the DCI finals... Legends drum corps also is playing this song this year (2019).
This is good for practicing calm, i think is imposibile to don t laugh, to don t get angry, to don t get scar, to don t get Hungry or to thinking for a women who will love this. Keeep calm and listen to Shostachovici all desires will become come true!
This symphony deals less with war than with totalitarian terror and the composer's own fears. The 2nd movement is for me an acoustic realization of the composer's intellectual drive, who always had to struggle to remain untroubled by censorship and to live out his own creativity. This has nothing to do with tanks or war, which was long gone at this point.
This movement is a depiction of Stalin, while at the middle of the last movement in this same symphony, I interpret the moments before the final tutti DSCH a depiction of Shostakovich finally vanquishing Stalin at last, the moments consequent are celebratory festivities as the Russian people celebrate the liberation of such a cruel and ideological dictocrat.
I think the 3rd movement portrays the security state of spies and informants. The 4th begins with a elegy for all the dead and destroyed, first on the oboe, then the bassoon: saddest thing you'll ever hear.
To be honest I got here because of St. North and his love of saying a name of a Russian composer when he is being dramatic or when he is shocked, but wow this song is cool
In my oppinion, this movement - that, how you said, is a portrait of Stalin - contrasts with the third movement, that´s used to exalt Shosta (Listen the musical code: DSCH - his name into notes). In other words, the third movement means: "I, Shostakovich; I'm alive. And you are dead! I'm back with my work! (Because Stalin denounced the composer with the label that was a death sentence for any artist: "formalistic." And, so, for eight years he had the performances of his work ceased).
This movement was used as the theme music to Roger Corman's The Brain Eaters. Corman often used cuts from Prokovief and Shostakovich for soundtracks but somehow they were always credited to an American "composer".
We all know what a cheapskate Corman was. He scored with Soviet music because the US didn't recognize the sovereignty of the Soviet Union, and so Corman didn't have to pay musical royalties. When he wasn't using Soviet music, Corman used 19th Century composers (especially Wagner) because their music had gone out of copyright.
I don't know why, but at 1:28 the music sounds like a bit from the philosopher's stone of the movies of the Harry Potter series... most probably the time when Harry was shown around in Gringotts or whatever the magical bank was called.
The 2nd and 3rd movements of the 8th rock similarly. This is played too fast: it flattens the weight of menace--makes it more like a hive of bees than a juggernaut destroying everything in its path, which is what Stalin was.
Yes, I know... I was talking about the third movement... But about the second movement, read this article, it's very interesting: w.w.w.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/shostakovich-s-muse-1.217242 Let's talk about it another time...
@beautifulliar77 Search on youtube for "Irmo 2001" and click the video for Conquest at BOA atlanta...this band did this the best of any marching band ever, period, indisputable.
Hearing this is amazing because this and like 3 other Shostakovich pieces we are playing for my Competition Band. I play the Trombone part in the Dobyns-Bennett Band (May of heard of the band)
Well, I think that I am wrong. Not Mravinsky - Mitropoulos. The timing on his CD is 3:53; Mravinsky is slightly longer than the 3:55 of this video. Also, all the Mravinsky recording are live, not sturdio, and I don't hear any audience noise on this video. Also, the bass here is a little thin, which is a characteristic of the Mitropoulos 1954 mono recording.
hello everyone this is recording of herbert von karajan and berliner philarmoniker. thats right the style of dudamel very close it and its look dudamel copy it. this recording is before dudamel was born
@DaFlux14 Dude, Shostakovich wrote this a musical "Bite me you mustachioed p****" to Stalin eight months after Stalin was put into the ground. I don't think using this to inspire the conquest of an Empire was part of Shostakovich's intentions for this song...
Classical music is so soothing and relaxing
❤
Calling this allegro may well be the biggest understatement in musical history
Lmao make it allegro agitato
Actually, all shosty should be agitato
Schnell und wild!
It's actually allegro Stalinoso. :-)
@@UniversalDirp Allegro molto agitato e arrabbiato con fuoco
This is our Russian allegro for you folks.
I searched: "Shostakovich Crazy", I'm not disappointed
i searched shostakovich darkest symphony
Hey man. Love your clockwork lands music.
I was just doing a sandwich while this movement was playing, it was the most epic sandwich ever
Just as Stalin made himself food or did other daily tasks to the tune of hundreds of thousands being politically persecuted, I'm glad you were able to trivialize the genocide into something personally epic (2 years later, I know)
@@user-pb1xd8pv2l i'm also glad :D
@@victornieto2962 aww how cute you're a "german learner." you know Hitler tried to stop these guys? Bist du ein verdammtes idiot oder???
@@user-pb1xd8pv2l alter ist mir egal was du sagst oder meinst😂
I would say that this is the optimal sandwich making music along with the rite of spring, of course.
This makes me want to blast this on a speaker strapped to my back and run full speed around a Walmart screaming
Do it.
DEW IT!
JUST DEW IT!
According to my music theory text books this movement was the origination of heavy metal. I can dig it.
Is that true? That's awesome! Love to hear the actual quote from the book
Madison Sawyer I can't seem to find anything about that. Could you please point us to a source for that, perhaps the name of that textbook?
Madison Sawyer This is Shostakovich's epitaph to Stalin.
Always had a picture of Germany's rout from the gates of Moskow back into Germany while I've performed this.
You can hear the mother-russian T34s rolling into Berlin at 2:18.
Think this is heavy? Hear it LIVE.
Fucking brutal at 98 decebels. Go on. Turn it up that high and feel what it's like IN an orchestra.
I know some time passed since your comment but I want to share this with you (just in case you wondered how well it would work as a metal piece. I think it works brilliantly and your book definetily has a point!): watch?v=SpcuYM0s9Ks
That was _so cool_! Thanks for sharing!
This piece of music was used over the start and end credits of the BBC's general election night coverage in both 1966 and 1970.
I played 1st trumpet on this. It is such a beast.
Austin Benesh Oboe☝🏻...
It is such a blast
My ready for next year then 😁
Well, Shostakovich himself described this movement as 'a portrait of devil' and he meant Stalin
Portrait of the devil? Then he must've meant either Truman or Churchill.
Henri Rauhala no, he hated Stalin. He hated because of the fear he had of being taken away in the middle of the night and killed just because Stalin did not like his music or a part of his music. Not all Russians were so optimistic about Soviet Russia and their government.
Henri Rauhala it is always entertaing to hear the people who don't have a damn clue about communism and know nothing about real life under this system. Yet they enjoy the freedom the capitalism provided, and talk crap about it. Most ridiculously, it was Stalin who started the Winter War, killed thousands of your compatriots and occupied half of Karelia. And you glorify him nevertheless. Must be a sort of masochism
@@smalysbassoon Moronic statement. Go talk to the Chileans and Nicaraguans or whoever about the freedom of capitalism. Where the Commies genociding the Balts the way Catholic priests were being murdered like Salvador Romero as late as the 1980? GTFO out of here. Your experience is not special and you are not special. Should spend more time on tge crimes the Latvians and Lithuanians comitted against the Jews. Proper genocide.
You can sing these words to it
Dead, Dead, Joe is dead, Joe is dead, Dead, Dead, Finally Dead, Really dead...
I could quite literally listen to this one movement all day.
I do listen to it all day in school lol
You gain a certain appreciation for this piece after marching it
We’re marching it.
This is one of my bands show music for next season. Everyone is pumped about playing this piece.
Jake Albers we have this in our show lol
Same, what tempo are you going?
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The 8th string quartet made me aware of Shostakovich, and I loved that to death, but this is really what got me into his music. I love the brutal insanity of this movement :)
Same, I got into his music through his 8th Quartet! It is the piece that made me dive into classical
For me it was the 11th symphony
@@vijaykrishnan7797 yes. His 11th symphony has no match, much better than his 5th and 7th
the first violins are madness I've played it it's crazy the notes
The best thing about these video other than the music is that while the music is playing you can feel the anger ang rage in shostakovich's face in that picture
I'm scared, my high school orchestra is playing this soon and listning to it is making me feel like it's going to kick my ass.
Don't be scared, Stalin won't be in attendance to your concert ;)
What the fuck high school director programs Shosty 10 for students 😳 that’s wild
doing this in my symphony right now, love it, but so challenging, you have to be 100% focused and on 100% of the time!
i hope you like it. do u have it published anywhere? i would love to hear it
the brass is KICKIN'
Played this for my high school marching band show last year... Freshman year was a pain in the ass.
MARCHING?!?!? holy hell😭
I heard this live..It's VERY scary live. just...yeah if you get the chance, GO HEAR IT LIVE!!!!
According to Shostakovich's son Maxime, this movement depicts Stalin's terrible face.
Every picture I see of this dude he looks horrified just like H.P Lovecraft.
He lived a tough life
@@topo161 true
Every night for years on end, he had a small overnight case packed and ready to go, so as not to disturb his family in case the notorious black car of the NKVD came to take him away in the middle of the night.
Man, he looks so defeated in this picture. And this movement is a representation of what he's feeling right there.
One of the greatest movements out there. Listening to it everyday.
This was part one of my freshman marching show. So many memories!
Omg .... we are marching this song in our marching band it's like... ficking crazy! I love it!
Tarpon Springs?
I like to call this "Stalin's Theme"
Truly Magnificent
2:19 Bone chilling.
I always listen to this music to portrait something bad I am going through now and later. However, such little genius who is himself a greatest Soviet composer who can portrait a person with the great 2nd movement of his 10th.
Technical Death Metal before electricity
>before
Before electricity?
This was written in 1953 dumbass.
That would be Stravinsky and his Avant Garde ballet, The Rite of Spring
Listening to this in 2x speed is flipping mental
this was our marching band opener this year, well an arrangement. technicality is key.. is all I have to say
+payton denton what was your marching bands name
+TheBlackGloves Horn Lake Eagle Pride. Horn Lake Mississippi
This is also our marching band opener! It's putnam city north high school you should watch it!
This also seems to be our opener. :)
Ha i won state with this as our 2nd movement last year
Yes that a music who have balls
This+Mahler 2+Angels in the Architecture+Salvation is Created= best show music ever
You can hear the menacing, encroaching brass section simultaneously alongside the absolute, sheer terror and fear in the winds and upper string parts. It's as if Shostakovich is depicting Stalin and the Stalinist government vs. the people in a portrait of the Stalinist days. Along this line of thought, it's no surprise how in the 4th movement, when the motif from the beginning of the 2nd movement comes back, Shostakovich essentially "crushes" it with his DSCH motif (which represents himself) played by the entire orchestra in unison, as a musical representation that Stalin can't control him anymore.
yeah, try studying/sleeping/relaxing to THIS music lol
I think that this is probably Mravinsky. He made multiple recordings of concerts, and usually clocked the second movement in under 4:00. I don't know of any other conductor, including Kondrashin, who did this in less than four minutes. Also, the so-so sound quality is typical of Melodiya/Mravinsky/Shostakovich recordings from the pre-stereo era.
I believe Mitropolous does it quite fast as well...
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door...
-- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Very good recording! The brass, like in many other recordings, was a little quieter than what was expected, and the dynamic interpretation in the strings was flawed in places, but other than that, a five-star performance!
Awesome.
The Cadets 2015 show (Power of 10) had this music. They also won the Jim Ott Brass caption award (best brass) at the DCI finals... Legends drum corps also is playing this song this year (2019).
What a monster..
genial
we're performing this tommorow at BOA for Marching band
This is good for practicing calm, i think is imposibile to don t laugh, to don t get angry, to don t get scar, to don t get Hungry or to thinking for a women who will love this. Keeep calm and listen to Shostachovici all desires will become come true!
Gracias
This symphony deals less with war than with totalitarian terror and the composer's own fears. The 2nd movement is for me an acoustic realization of the composer's intellectual drive, who always had to struggle to remain untroubled by censorship and to live out his own creativity. This has nothing to do with tanks or war, which was long gone at this point.
Cadets!!! I'm excited!
Right?!?
RLPO is amasing, congratulation! The Conductor is on the path of best russian traditions.
Bravo, bravo, bravo.
When you don’t practice and your teacher yells at you for not practicing
Pure Will! Pure Force!
Musique sublime
The recording isn't conducted by Eugene Ormandy, but Czech Philharmonic Orchestra & Karel Ančerl ;)
This movement is a depiction of Stalin, while at the middle of the last movement in this same symphony, I interpret the moments before the final tutti DSCH a depiction of Shostakovich finally vanquishing Stalin at last, the moments consequent are celebratory festivities as the Russian people celebrate the liberation of such a cruel and ideological dictocrat.
I think the 3rd movement portrays the security state of spies and informants. The 4th begins with a elegy for all the dead and destroyed, first on the oboe, then the bassoon: saddest thing you'll ever hear.
I think this is Ancerl conducting Czech Philharmonic (1954? 55?) - haven't listened to Mitropulous, but definitely not Mravinsky.
WAAAAAAARGHHH!
To be honest I got here because of St. North and his love of saying a name of a Russian composer when he is being dramatic or when he is shocked, but wow this song is cool
Massive wall of sound
my new marching show music
In my oppinion, this movement - that, how you said, is a portrait of Stalin - contrasts with the third movement, that´s used to exalt Shosta (Listen the musical code: DSCH - his name into notes). In other words, the third movement means: "I, Shostakovich; I'm alive. And you are dead! I'm back with my work! (Because Stalin denounced the composer with the label that was a death sentence for any artist: "formalistic." And, so, for eight years he had the performances of his work ceased).
This movement was used as the theme music to Roger Corman's The Brain Eaters.
Corman often used cuts from Prokovief and Shostakovich for soundtracks but somehow they were always credited to an American "composer".
We all know what a cheapskate Corman was. He scored with Soviet music because the US didn't recognize the sovereignty of the Soviet Union, and so Corman didn't have to pay musical royalties. When he wasn't using Soviet music, Corman used 19th Century composers (especially Wagner) because their music had gone out of copyright.
ショスタコーヴィチ さんは、戦う男の顔をしています。
You're correct about this movement, but the 3rd movement is a dialogue between DSCH and Elmira - google it.
How many are watching this because it's in Blue Devils B Corp's rep this 2016 season???
lol try Cadets 2015
metal
When you beat death:
One Winged Angel
This is actually about HALF the marked tempo. Half note = 176. What the HELL was he thinking.
No way, haha. I think you have a typo in your score
I'm not saying the marking is right, just what it is in the part I just played.
It's actually half note = 116
Cut Benzine Says minim = 176 in my score. He’s not lying.
Jesus Shostakovich.
It would be literally unplayable at 176 to the half note, even for the Philadelphia Orchestra! It's challenging enough at 176 to the quarter note!
Omg! so epic! I want to conquer an empire
@reev9759 Sounds like the Dudamel recording.
Irmo did this at nationals in 2001 check it out it's on youtube!
My water turned into vodka
Reminds me of my old step mother
I don't know why, but at 1:28 the music sounds like a bit from the philosopher's stone of the movies of the Harry Potter series... most probably the time when Harry was shown around in Gringotts or whatever the magical bank was called.
The 2nd and 3rd movements of the 8th rock similarly. This is played too fast: it flattens the weight of menace--makes it more like a hive of bees than a juggernaut destroying everything in its path, which is what Stalin was.
I would mosh to this.
Listen to it at .25x speed. It sounds like a guitar kind of.
Yes, I know... I was talking about the third movement... But about the second movement, read this article, it's very interesting: w.w.w.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/shostakovich-s-muse-1.217242
Let's talk about it another time...
Woah man, I'm playin it in orchestra too! Wat a coincidence!
The harmonies have something from Night on a Bald Mountain, or am I crazy?
uyyyy!!!!!!
What ensemble is this?
@beautifulliar77 Search on youtube for "Irmo 2001" and click the video for Conquest at BOA atlanta...this band did this the best of any marching band ever, period, indisputable.
Hearing this is amazing because this and like 3 other Shostakovich pieces we are playing for my Competition Band. I play the Trombone part in the Dobyns-Bennett Band (May of heard of the band)
Shostakovich was probably inspired by the MGM cartoon scores of Scott Bradley when he wrote this movement. :)
Kevin Anderson this movement was actually intended to be a musical portrait of stalin's face, google it
Well, I think that I am wrong. Not Mravinsky - Mitropoulos. The timing on his CD is 3:53; Mravinsky is slightly longer than the 3:55 of this video. Also, all the Mravinsky recording are live, not sturdio, and I don't hear any audience noise on this video. Also, the bass here is a little thin, which is a characteristic of the Mitropoulos 1954 mono recording.
R Widrew on 3:16 you can hear something of the audience I think, and it sounds like the version of Dudamel
I believe he said for you to be silent again, silentduke.
hello everyone
this is recording of herbert von karajan and berliner philarmoniker.
thats right the style of dudamel very close it and its look dudamel copy it.
this recording is before dudamel was born
The world may never know
6 disliker are monteverdi fanboys 😂
I like both.
What orchestra is this?
@beautifulliar77 my marching band did this last season
idk why the winds always take it as their queue to open softly, like bru give that a punch guy
@DaFlux14 Dude, Shostakovich wrote this a musical "Bite me you mustachioed p****" to Stalin eight months after Stalin was put into the ground. I don't think using this to inspire the conquest of an Empire was part of Shostakovich's intentions for this song...
Now try and play it...
Who's playing?
Javier Poveda Díaz dudamel and youth orchestra of Venezuela
The Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy, according to the notes underneath the video.
Is this his way of showing depression? It was some story like his family got kidnapped or something. Overall it was good
Ziyanna Jones Naah, for depression, listen his A minor violin concerto's first movement
Hi Ziyanna - I understand he wrote this Symphony immediately after Stalin's death - and this movement is depiction of Stalin - Super intense piece
Play this to the sheeple, it might wake them up !!.
1:14