One of the great, and in my view, greatly underrated, conductors of today. I just noticed how well marked and articulated his performances are, you can hear it in the very subtle breaks and phrasing of this movement, the way he has the musicians lightly accent certain notes; I think he really gets deep into understanding the phrases/musical phrasing of a piece, he delves further than many other conductors do, and the result is exceptional clarity; he is that speaker who enunciates every word, each syllable, very clearly, and phrases everything eloquently. This is not necessarily the finest rendition I have ever heard, but it is quite good and unique, such that it stands out from many others.
@@dauwkjut3517 So wait, are you saying Michael Tilson Thomas is a bad conductor? If yes, why? But you also say he's a great musician... how is that possible? I mean considering how he's pretty much known exclusively as a conductor, professionally speaking. He may be a great pedagogue as well, he has a few videos of "Inside the Score" breaking down a few great pieces, including this Shostakovich 5th symphony I believe, but while he may have passing skills playing the piano, I'm not sure he's ever performed on a musical recording, if he has the requisite skill to do so. In my opinion, Vladimir Askenazy is not the greatest conductor, he's rather pedestrian AS A CONDUCTOR, but he is undoubtedly a great musician because he is a fantastic pianist, a much greater pianist than conductor in my opinion, his performance of Beethoven's 5th piano concerto along with Georg Solti is amazing, I think the best I've heard.
@@MorganBallardWheeler There are very good performances: Stravinsky The consecration and other works. Debussy The Martyrdom and The Sea, Ives, Orff, Gershwin, Ruggles complete works, and there are more. He is a great director indeed!!
I've been watching Michael Tilson Thomas' career almost from the beginning. It was his interpretation of le Sacre du Printemps that first really caught my attention. His attention to detail is second to none, but it's his understanding of the music that has aways stood out for me. He's one of those rare individuals that know how to "live inside the music" as the saying goes- something that is missing these days.
this is by far one of the best performances I could find on whole youtube (I've listened to all). London Sym. sound is fantastic and Michael Tilson Thomas has done a stunning job with this music.
Michael Tilson Thomas conducted the SFO and they had a recording several years before this. The timpani were sharp, though, so this one surpasses that version.
Magnífico ouvir o som do Tímpano lembrei-me do órgão, que é tocado com os dois pés, e no momento tem uma chave que muda de tom o teclado do órgão estica como se fosse uma arcodeon, ou sanfona.
@@AndreyRubtsovRU I'm not implying anything. I just prefer it this way. Bernsteins otherwise excellent interpretation for example falls short in my eyes because he rushes through the end.
MTT is the only conductor I've heard that ends slowly and dramatically. I do enjoy Bernstein, also, as well as several others like Dudamel but MTT conducts a much bigger ending IMO. I, too, prefer it this way.
Stalin apparently did not realize the jubilation at the end was completely phony. The audience did. The standing ovation at the premiere lasted at least 45 minutes.
Stalin, unlike current politicians and the military, was well versed, in addition to a lot of things, in art. His criticisms are remarkable, as can be read in his collected works, which are widely available in Russia.
You can hear it as phoney, but to me it is the heroism of the individual against the system or the 'world'. Shostakovich could have it both way, and he did. To me this is the most powerful and stirring music it is possible to imagine.
Dmitri was quite the badass, no? These Symphonies and the Quartets...man...they have a few things to say. They are so desperate, so honest, so earnest, so passionate, so uncomplicated....all at once. The term genius gets thrown around a lot...but I'm not sure there is a better example of genius than this body of work. The guy used Art like a tool.
There seems to be an unwritten rule on RUclips with this movement that you dare not show all the violinists in unison at the final coda. Show the timpanist, the horn players, the cellists and the conductor. I looked at all other performances of this movement and visually, they are very similar. Huh?
This performance can't hold a candle to Solti's volatile performance with the Berlin Phil. The final bars, with the tympani playing the notes [f-a], as the piatti crash amongst them, will cause the hairs on your neck to stand on end.
This is a pedestrian performance. It is exactly how it is written. There is no interpretation, only notes well played just like every musician played it in high school college or repetory school they attended. The glory is in the music. The musicians played it. The conductor just had the best seat.
I've listened to the end of SONIC THE HEDGEHOG and this was playing. When the music was playing I recorded the music and this is what I got. Love the movie!!
@@jeffschweitzer4818 Putting it up the 8va was requested many years ago by Rostropovich after hearing Murphy play Star Wars, it's now written in the Ist trumpet part of the piece.
I have personally prepared Shostakovich 5 trumpet parts for orchestra, and I can assure you it is not written in the trumpet part, unless you mean "written in pencil". Rostropovich would not have the authority to edit the work in such a way.
@@jeffschweitzer4818 The parts are marked in pencil and I think this is unique to the LSO , unless somebody can point me in the direction of another recording with the 8va played.
The Trumpet section are just out of this world that held top D at that tempo is pure magic bravo Phil Cobb the new Maurice Murphy...
Made my face tingle
Triple tongues for days!
Probably one of my favourite Shostakovich Symphony No.5 performance😭
One of the great, and in my view, greatly underrated, conductors of today. I just noticed how well marked and articulated his performances are, you can hear it in the very subtle breaks and phrasing of this movement, the way he has the musicians lightly accent certain notes; I think he really gets deep into understanding the phrases/musical phrasing of a piece, he delves further than many other conductors do, and the result is exceptional clarity; he is that speaker who enunciates every word, each syllable, very clearly, and phrases everything eloquently. This is not necessarily the finest rendition I have ever heard, but it is quite good and unique, such that it stands out from many others.
What is another rendition you hold in high esteem?
One of the worst conductors out there. Great musician tho.
@@dauwkjut3517 So wait, are you saying Michael Tilson Thomas is a bad conductor? If yes, why? But you also say he's a great musician... how is that possible? I mean considering how he's pretty much known exclusively as a conductor, professionally speaking. He may be a great pedagogue as well, he has a few videos of "Inside the Score" breaking down a few great pieces, including this Shostakovich 5th symphony I believe, but while he may have passing skills playing the piano, I'm not sure he's ever performed on a musical recording, if he has the requisite skill to do so.
In my opinion, Vladimir Askenazy is not the greatest conductor, he's rather pedestrian AS A CONDUCTOR, but he is undoubtedly a great musician because he is a fantastic pianist, a much greater pianist than conductor in my opinion, his performance of Beethoven's 5th piano concerto along with Georg Solti is amazing, I think the best I've heard.
@@dauwkjut3517 you are deaf ok
@@MorganBallardWheeler There are very good performances: Stravinsky The consecration and other works. Debussy The Martyrdom and The Sea, Ives, Orff, Gershwin, Ruggles complete works, and there are more. He is a great director indeed!!
I've been watching Michael Tilson Thomas' career almost from the beginning. It was his interpretation of le Sacre du Printemps that first really caught my attention. His attention to detail is second to none, but it's his understanding of the music that has aways stood out for me. He's one of those rare individuals that know how to "live inside the music" as the saying goes- something that is missing these days.
this is by far one of the best performances I could find on whole youtube (I've listened to all). London Sym. sound is fantastic and Michael Tilson Thomas has done a stunning job with this music.
Michael Tilson Thomas conducted the SFO and they had a recording several years before this. The timpani were sharp, though, so this one surpasses that version.
Wish there were the other movements
Semplicemente fantastico. Grande interpretazione.
Three cheers for the woodwind section! :)
Fantastico all 'round! Brings tears to my eyes it's so emotionally compelling!!!
I wish I knew what everyone was talking about, I don’t know why I’m here I just like it
That's the best reason. Jut go with it.
No problem with that
@@dmitrishostakovich7561 Holy shit, it's shostakovich back from the dead
@@dmitrishostakovich7561master I grovel at your feet 👞 👞
Love the brass section around the 2:00 mark!
Wow!!! Perfect Tempo
Well, except that it stays fairly consistent throughout, ignoring Shotakovich's tempo markings
@@klop4228 yeah I would’ve liked some variation in tempo. Although Bernstein took it to the opposite extreme 😂
@@dansmodacct Bernstein starts too fast for me, though. Does the accel perfectly, but could have started just a bit slower for a better effect imo
@@klop4228 yes, and also the ending was too fast for my liking, imo
Oh, que grande es Dimitri Shostakovich, uno de los gigantes de la música del siglo XX.
One of the best orchestra
and performance ever. 😮 ❤
MTT is such a star 🌟
Wow high concert d at the end 🎺 😮!!
8:39 my favorite part of the whole symphony right here
Amazing, watch Keeping Score where MTT talks about Shostakovich and meaning of this symphony
Viva maestro MTT!
This fourth movement is one of the greatest feasts of the 20th century. The rest ain't bad either.
Incredible
music for the soul, give me more.
I remember playing this with our wind symphony!! 💛💛
Me too!
Me as well!!❤🎶
UNA HERMOSA INTERPRETACION!!!
phenomenal
Perfect speed. Not too fast not too slow
Bravo ! Well Done !
Magnífico ouvir o som do Tímpano lembrei-me do órgão, que é tocado com os dois pés, e no momento tem uma chave que muda de tom o teclado do órgão estica como se fosse uma arcodeon, ou sanfona.
12:02 トランペットの高音が足されている🎺
Love it! And MTT looks like Diane Keaton and Kermit the Frog more and more.
Very nice
sustained power . 😮
01:24 Just before Rehearsal 104 Audition Excerpt to 106
Ah. One of the conductors who knows that you have to relax the tempo as the coda starts.
Stop implying theres only one correct way, thats silly and simplistic. Composer himself approved of different interpretations.
@@AndreyRubtsovRU I'm not implying anything.
I just prefer it this way. Bernsteins otherwise excellent interpretation for example falls short in my eyes because he rushes through the end.
@@Quotenwagnerianer Did you not use the words 'you have to' in your comment? :-).
Anyway. Peace.
MTT is the only conductor I've heard that ends slowly and dramatically. I do enjoy Bernstein, also, as well as several others like Dudamel but MTT conducts a much bigger ending IMO. I, too, prefer it this way.
@@puckguy30 Check out Rostropovich. He does it as well.
Stalin apparently did not realize the jubilation at the end was completely phony. The audience did. The standing ovation at the premiere lasted at least 45 minutes.
Stalin, unlike current politicians and the military, was well versed, in addition to a lot of things, in art. His criticisms are remarkable, as can be read in his collected works, which are widely available in Russia.
You can hear it as phoney, but to me it is the heroism of the individual against the system or the 'world'. Shostakovich could have it both way, and he did. To me this is the most powerful and stirring music it is possible to imagine.
@@ЛапинСтаниславовичNone of that was written by him
Philip Cobb. What else ❤️
この演奏は、一味も二味も違うね！音一粒一粒はっきり聞こえる！小気味よい演奏の最たる演奏だ。やはり、イギリスのオーケストラの音と演奏は独特だね！金管楽器の音が特に好きだ。ロータリーバルブでは無くピストンバルブだから、音が柔らかいね！フィリップ・ジョーンズ先生の弟子達が頑張っているんだと思います。イギリスのオーケストラの演奏するシベリウスは特に他に追従を許さない演奏だと思う！
Dmitri was quite the badass, no?
These Symphonies and the Quartets...man...they have a few things to say. They are so desperate, so honest, so earnest, so passionate, so uncomplicated....all at once. The term genius gets thrown around a lot...but I'm not sure there is a better example of genius than this body of work. The guy used Art like a tool.
Yes he was just incredible, another piece that I like from Shostakovich was the Quartet n. 8, Mv. II.
There seems to be an unwritten rule on RUclips with this movement that you dare not show all the violinists in unison at the final coda. Show the timpanist, the horn players, the cellists and the conductor. I looked at all other performances of this movement and visually, they are very similar. Huh?
bravo!
Love the end of the movie!!!
This is connected to the last one I did
This is connected to the other one I did.
I think I hear D3 in the very last note. Anyone else? Its definitely not in the score.
Andrey Rubtsov Overtones.
Phil Cobb plays it no doubt in my mind!
@@BoratSagdiyevBilo Re-listened. Not sure I agree.
This performance can't hold a candle to Solti's volatile performance with the Berlin Phil. The final bars, with the tympani playing the notes [f-a], as the piatti crash amongst them, will cause the hairs on your neck to stand on end.
Good to see MTT not taking the opening too fast - unlike his teacher Lenny Bernstein. It's "Allegro non troppo" - not "Allegro molto"!
❤
This is a pedestrian performance. It is exactly how it is written. There is no interpretation, only notes well played just like every musician played it in high school college or repetory school they attended. The glory is in the music. The musicians played it. The conductor just had the best seat.
You we're right mom, I did try new things
I miss you dad
I've listened to the end of SONIC THE HEDGEHOG and this was playing. When the music was playing I recorded the music and this is what I got. Love the movie!!
Pare il Big bend di San Francisco?
Thanks for the ads
Unless I'm going deaf, one of the trumpets decided to go pseudo 'Maynard' at the end.
No he definitely took it 8va. Pretty ballsy to do at the end of a live performance of this piece
@@jeffschweitzer4818 Putting it up the 8va was requested many years ago by Rostropovich after hearing Murphy play Star Wars, it's now written in the Ist trumpet part of the piece.
I have personally prepared Shostakovich 5 trumpet parts for orchestra, and I can assure you it is not written in the trumpet part, unless you mean "written in pencil". Rostropovich would not have the authority to edit the work in such a way.
@@jeffschweitzer4818 The parts are marked in pencil and I think this is unique to the LSO , unless somebody can point me in the direction of another recording with the 8va played.
4:28
nice
all ships, salvo battery thrice, rush in thereafter. but you may never understand why.
Trumpet player has some balls
Casisdead - Cheese slice.
Insert unoriginal meme about 'all according to keikaku [translator's note: keikaku means plan]' here
The uncovered bird neurochemically record because quicksand microscopically suspend anenst a tender tense word. alike, quixotic tile
Too slow...
Allegro NON TROPPO.
5:18
4:52
9:05