RARE: Young Shostakovich Playing end of op.35 (1940?)
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- Facts established about this video so far:
Pianist: Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Trumpeter: Leonid Yuriev (1913-1971)
Conductor: Maybe Aleksandr Gauk (1893-1963)
Orchestra: Probably Leningrad Philharmonic
Venue: Moscow Conservatory "Great Hall"
Date: This info suggests it is 1940: • Shostakovich plays pia...
Piano: Bechstein, E270. Year Built: ?
(Thanks to everyone whose comments helped in establishing some of these facts. Please, keep them coming.)
Original Note:
This is the famous surviving video of young Shostakovich playing his first piano concerto. Footage is from 1934 or 1935 (I don't know for sure (I remember hearing about those years, but if anyone knows for sure, please let me know) -- definitely not on or before this concerto's premiere on October 15th, 1933, which happened at the Leningrad Philharmonic Hall). This performance is from Moscow Conservatory's Bol'shoi Zal.
We get to hear the very end of that performance (starting with the piano cadenza) - the only footage that, supposedly, survives.
Video and audio was taken from a DVD of a movie called "Sonata for Viola".
In that movie (and most likely the way the original footage was put together) most of concerto video doesn't coincide with audio and audio is played too fast (resulting in a raised pitch).
So, I corrected as much as I could.
(The frame rate of this video is 28.534 fps, and it seems to work fine after upload).
There is even one place (towards the end of the final "stride" cadenza) where the video footage seems to have come from a different performance! (maybe a rehearsal). He hits (wrong) notes that cannot be heard on the audio. (So I tweaked it a bit there).
Either way, enjoy it.
How can someone dislike this video?? This is SHOSTAKOVICH...PLAYING THE PIANO!!! You can't dislike that! This is AWESOME!! :)
Only 21 idiots so far...
pastraga so far that has stood unchanged
At least one dislike must have come from a Steinway salesman....
Joseph Stalin :- It wasn't me!?
@@studentjohn35 hilarious....
On the question of piano, there are various reasons why he decided to compose vs perform "as a career". Towards the late 50s he really did start experiencing problems with his right hand that prevented him from playing at the technical level you see here. But during the 30s, he was still very much a strong pianist.
"Shame it's not longer".
Blame the goverment for destroying the video.
Praise the film archive workers for saving the little that they did.
What a tragedy that this performance exists only in a few fragments
@@teacoffee42 agreed ... it's a timeless treasure...
There are full length album of him playing his piano concertos
@@zewensenpai I know... I own them... timeless treasures!
@@zewensenpai ruclips.net/video/9QJnPO4abHU/видео.html ...
There!
Wonderful. And he was so pretty too.
Hes literally my new husbando
@@mawreena- that is my new favourite word XD
Such a great loss that there are very few films with Shostakovich playing ... everything and especially his own music. He was one of the kind pianist, besides his extraordinary genius.
I knew he was not only a genius composer, but also an excellent pianist. But to see him play is masterpiece in a masterpiece😍. Love him 😍.
Agree
I love it when there's this rare footage of the best composers known to us. shame there isn't footage that goes back to 1756 ;)
Mozart
@@azlankhan9665 Yeah you lost me.
It's just unique, you know. Shostakowitsch playing himself his own masterpiece in an incredible speed
Wonderful! What a treasure to see Shostakovich play. Those were terrible times...can almost feel it in the hall.
Man, this is fantastic. DSCH playing the best part of this concerto like a God, live and on video. I love youtube. Thanks for the posting!
I sooo agree with you!
Sound quality sucks! Just kidding. In all seriousness this is really awesome. I always love to hear composers play their own pieces.
I know right
There is not a performance that comes close to this. I have even more respect for Schostakovich after hearing him laugh his way through this wonderful piece of whimsical music. He added a childlike excitement to it. I can almost hear him say,"this is the way it should be played".
OMG what a handsome boy he was :P and also I love him by his performance and compositions. :)
He was handsome ALL HIS LIFE
Exactly. Also, I had never expected him to be such a good pianist, I thought he was mainly a composer, but those hands are lightning.
Shostakovich was an extremely strong pianist: was invited to represent the Soviet Union at the first International Chopin Competition, for example.
He was actually educated as a pianist and was giving concerts and played at movie theaters, he was amazing pianist
The trumpet soloist is Leonid Yuriev (1913-1971). In mid 1930-s he was a Principal Trumpet with the Cinematography Orchestra, as well as with the Bolshoi Theatre. Yuriev was Golovanov's favorite trumpet player.
P.S. OJ, thanks for your great trumpet website--I always enjoy reading your articles there.
One of my favourite videos on youtube, without question. I've heard this played live, and have at least 6 recordings of it, but not one of them takes it at the lick Shos does. What an amazing pianist as well as composer!
All this is unrelated to the original point:
The term "wrong notes" in this particular case refers to the fact that the piano keys Sh. presses and notes you hear in the audio are not the same. It is very likely that he "meant to play the notes that he played". (It doesn't look like he is "messing up".)
Also, it is very common for certain composers to play their music differently from the published version.
Hope this settles the whole "wrong note" debate.
Wow! Shostakovich himself playing my favourite part of the concerto - and with video! I find noteworthy the similarity of the performance with Dimitri Jr at the piano with Maxim Shostakovich conducting - especially the way both pianists throw themselves into the final piano solo with fists full of chords at lightning pace. Very exciting music.
Harry Potter. Expecto Piano
Sorry, this finale is better than sex.
Same. And I'm a virgin.
This is incredible. Thank you for showing this. Shostakovitch always means so much to me.
always pleasure to see composers performing their music ... thanks for sharing
I always loved Shostakovich's 12th symphony and admired him as a composer; I had no idea he was such an accomplished pianist too.
Yes, I have his picture in the Dictionary of the Soviet Wind players. In fact, they used the picture from the performance on this video for the jacket of the book.
The reference about this particular performance came from another source, but I can't recall it now.
This footage is the treasure of our world
Indeed
Fantastic!!!!! Discovering clips like this is why I love RUclips so much. Thank you.
Great to see this but tragic what happened to his piano career
I agree. But I had to do something in place of "no footage available to go with the music". They were used around there in the "Sonata for Viola" DVD, which is why I used them here. I would much rather go back in time and save the complete celluloid of this performance.
great trumpeting and shostakovich plays really well too
(Again, for anyone reading the all comments in order):
The trumpet player is Leonid Yuriev (see another comment about that).
wonderful...he's certainly on my short list of favorite composers of all time!
-keith
I forgot how mad this piano concerto was. Great video.
Love the footage - a rare find!
Wow, we are so blessed to have videos of such great composers. Thank you!!
Kinda makes you wish old father Mozart had had home movie skills....
I love him!
Such a stoic face with fingers of fire. This video is a precious treasure. Spacibo!
Great, thanks very much for the info. I have never seen photos of him when he was young, much heavier then some of his last album covers. Regards
Yes, it was fast, but his musicality really shone through. Some foretaste of his later pleasure in Jazz. He doesn't play any jazz, but there was that 'jamming' sensation that I found very attractive.
A really great composer and performer.
Oh my...Thanks so much for this! Shostakovich is one of my favorite composers, so getting to see even 45 seconds of him at the piano is truly a treat!
Is there more footage like this on that "Violin Sonata" video?
another wonder of RUclips! (thanks for posting!!) This is SO amazing to see rare footage of great composers playing their works.
Thank you for all that editing of yours (yes we can still see the unsync of the hands) in that precious document. I appreciate the information and the complementary discussion...
Wonderful clips - a priceless historical document
Impressive performance!
Thank you so much for sharing this treasure!
AWESOME!!!! Thank you for the video!
A year ago I was lucky to be present at the performance of 5th, 7th, 10th and 13th Shostakovich Symphonies by St Petersburg Philarmony with Valery Gergiev conducting. Hopefully wuth RUclips more treasures will be discovered!
Love to see some of Bartok and Rachmaninoff playing their own stuff.
this man is a complete genius
Amazing
ruclips.net/video/_thKNBJcCNg/видео.html
Very cool! I've never seen footage of him before.
@newFranzFerencLiszt
It's the speed at which Shostakovich played it in that concert. As the original post explains, I corrected the footage to make sure of that.
one of the great gifts of modern technology to man kind -- the ability to KNOW what something really looked like or sounded like - our grand masters of more than a century ago - are precisely memorated on our devices of Video and Audio content. I think we even have some early recordings of Franz List playing, and Rachmaninoff... but this is really awesome! I never knew he was a concert pianist, aside from being a great composer. Marvelous and inspiring.
Trumpet player: Alexander Nikolayevich Schmidt (1889 - 1955)
On page 143 in "East meets West" Edward Tarr says the following: "On 15 October 1933, Schmidt was the first performer of Dmitiri Shostakovich's Concerto No. 1., for piano, trumpet and string orchestra, with the composer at the piano and the Leningrad Philharmonic conducted by Fritz Stiedry"
Thanks for posting! Just stumbled on this. A rare treasure!
my favorite composer
Incredible! He is flowing with life force!
Thank you so much for posting!
Thanks You very much! Shostakovich is my favorite composer!
Beatiful video! Great Shostakovich!
Thanks to share it.
I enjoyed this very much, FrancoMFT8 and thank you very much for sending it to me!
I didn't say that this footage was from Leningrad - I just said that the premiere happened there.
You are right - this is from Bol'shoi Zal in Moscow.
I shall update the description.
As to "when it was recorded", I know that it would have been still in the 30s. (First of all, look at him - he is a young man here. Secondly, I heard about this footage being from 1930s from some interview - can't remember which, or maybe I read it in one of the books).
(ref "Timofei Doksitzer on the trumpet": it seems that it is actually Leonid Yuriev, Principal Trumpet for Moscow Philharmonic (see another comment about this). Since Moscow Philharmonic was formed only in 1951, this is, of course, some other orchestra.
He goes super fast - I think so fast that he couldn't play the huge octave jumps during the B flat section of the last passage right before the final repeated C major chords. If you look at his left arm, there is no way that is what it is doing. Just an interesting observation. I love this video...
amazing to see the past composer and also pianist to play his own work with even more than i min !!
Thankx for sharing ~
Truly priceless video. Thanks a million for posting this. I have to admit I don't even like this piece, but I can't fail to recognise the immense value of this video, and I'm definitely glad to have seen it. I've watched it several times now.
Merci beaucoup pour ce document. Ecouter et voir le grand Chostakovitch, un vrai bonheur.
Thank you for uploading this! Thank you so much!
Wonderful
Great, thanks a lot for letting me know. If you want, I can update the video info section with this.
Wow! Thank you for posting!
Wow, thanks de raspuns care or fi sansele sa imi raspund un alt roman tocmai pe video asta. :-)
Man, Wish I was born in 1906, I really wanted to see Shosty play
I believe the orchestra is the Moscow Philharmonic Symphony, since that is the orchestra that Leonid Yuriev played in for awhile. I could be wrong however.
Thank you for posting!
This is priceless !!! Thank you so much for sharing.
Amazing, I wish to know him someday. Great master,
Thank you, thank you so much for such an upload!!!! :D:D:D
Quick, call 911 - my heart just stopped! What a treasure!!
this video kind of gives me chills, just the thought of him having written such severe music and then playing it himself so severely, under the Reign of Terror!
The music is absolutely hilarious, but he is SO serious. Guess he was too afraid of missing a note to ham it up.
Shosty bombast at its finest!
if it's him playing his own music, then there aren't wrong notes
@piedijon Not only looking at the left arm, but simply hearing the fact that he is not playing those octaves...Somewhat reminiscent of Scriabin writing this difficult left hand in the last movement of Sonata No.3 and then himself playing the simplified version.
Thanks a lot!
yes
Yeah! Check out his childhood as described by wikipedia, he obviously had no problem getting music in his head out at a YOUNG age! Incredible player!
Cheers!
Sorry, that was in response to Mendax1773. I'm not sure why it appeared at the top.
Someone mentioned his lack of performing was due to arthritis. I've never heard anything about this, but as he strayed away from performance on the piano at an extremely young age, I wonder if that is possible. Also, the Concerto for Piano (and trumpet) was his first piece (other than a set of preludes) on his primary instrument in a long time. This may explain his absence from performance during those years.
It was mentioned by Shostakovich's mother later in life that he was crushed by only receiving an honorable mention at the Chopin Piano Competition, which is why he rarely performed, except for occasional interpretations of his own works. He DID write memoirs, and was an avid letter-writer. He advised those whom he sent letters to destroy them, although this obviously didn't happen, as so many of them are still in existence. This is where we've learned so much about a man who is so intriguing.
Shostakovich was an amazing pianist!
The recordings of both his concertos he made in 1957 are interesting - You can hear the decayed version of the virtuosity he shows here, but he developed wrist problems shortly before, giving it an interesting innacuraccy.
This 1st concerto is an extremely difficult piece to play. I doubt that was the original speed. But this is truly an amazing piece of footage.
I love the old shostakovich pictures foreshadowing the hell of a life he is going to live
What an ending !
Greatest
Forgot to mention that Yeriomin premiered the Goedicke Concert Etude (in 1936).
that trumpet player is triple tounguing thats awesome and f'in hard
WOW. Incredible footage!
It's funny that the Bechstein Piano Company doesn't use this clip as part of their promo. But it's plain to see that legitimate music, even from the hands of olympians like Shostakovich, was once made on pinnos that were not Steinways or Yamahas.
"I'm not feeling quite up to olympic level today" -John Weinzweig, Summer 2004
Thats about the fastest Ive heard annyone play it
I noticed that too. Crazy Mitya and his piano antics.
Wonderful! Thank you!
Thank you for this-what a treasure!
I cannot believe I'm watching this absolute gem!
Correct: he does hit wrong notes at the end of the final stride cadenza, but he does not mess up at 0:41/42.
I dont know why...Im not even a fan of this guy Shoshtakovich and yet I come back to this video everyday to listen to it, as if Im addicted.