Shostakovich Festive Overture Op 96 Live @ Nobel Prize Concert 2009

[windstorm1000]

wonderful work. maestro temirkanov spreads his excitement and pacing to the orchestra.

[windstorm1000]

the perfect introduction to Shostakovich for those who only listen to Mozart. what's not to like about this zesty, tuneful, bouncy?? I love it.

[MrInformer100]

nice balance of treble and bass and excellent calrinet solo

[MrInformer100]

nice balance of treble and bass and excellent calrinet solo

[samiikins15]

This is awesome! Im playing this at my high school!

[samiikins15]

This is awesome. Im playing this at my high school!

[aaronmg21]

Sorry, someone went on my account and said it is shit, I don't think that! It's one of my favourite songs!!

[bendl2]

@aaronmg21 Says the one spending his afternoons at home insulting random people he's never met...

[phootie]

Why are they playing on shitty Monnetes?

[postlyposy]

hating the monette trumpets... : D

[muscello]

very good!!!

[SnowClouds810]

6:07 - Martha Argerich is coming to play Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major

[windstorm1000]

perfect introduction to Shostakovich--very tuneful and has great verve. Why its not on more symp. schedules is beyond me.

[rachelpotter00]

I played a band arrangement last month with my university. I must say this was the hardest piece I have ever played with my clarinet!

[thetwomuffin]

3:32 in the trumpets, love it!

[lizlik76]

I play the cello in this piece. Absolutely wonderful! Thank you!

[jamespl12]

A few splits in the trumpets (4:47), otherwise a great performance.

[MrGrizzlyDog]

Nice and christmassyyy

[TheListerbo]

This is a magnificent performance. Audience indeed a bit tepid.

[mixmam1]

most pathetic applause from the audience ever, for such a good and well played piece!

[MJoinco]

at 2:25 you can hear someone singing along to the violin part!! Hilarious!

[TheFewx]

What a stellar performance!

[CheriViolinist]

I can never get enough of this piece!!!!! I listen to it almost all the time and it always makes me soooo happy :) Plus, I played this for a regional orchestra event on the violin :D

[specops242]

I was 4th trumpet with no strings and was given all the solo parts. AAAAAAAAAGH!1 awesome though

[theman9126]

lol why would you not erupt into cheering and screaming and mad applause after hearing THAT? audience reception coulda been better :P but HOLY CRAP THAT WAS GOOD

[brasilboi94]

@littlekevin89 that's how you hold a french horn normally..

[foodmore]

Andy Pipkin(from Little Britain's Lou and Andy fame) plays the trombone from 1:43 - 1:49

:)

thumbs up if you know who i am talking about

[lilttlekevin89]

I absolutely love this song!! :-D I especially love all the violins!! <3

But I have some questions:

Is that harp ever played in this song?

At 2:55 what are the white things on the drums?

At 3:16, why are their hands in their french horns?

[th3wing3dpaint3r]

@lilttlekevin89 Harp was probably for the Ravel piano concerto, played right after this performance. And I don't play the horn but I think putting your hand in the bell changes the sound, makes it warmer. I was told Horn players can also control the pitch of the horn with their hands inside (like fine-tuning).

[lilttlekevin89]

@th3wing3dpaint3r Thats what I thought (about the harp and horns). I think putting your hand in the bell also mutes it slightly, but I'm not even a musician...

@Rizuzua this is the first (and only) video I'v seen of this song, so now I'm afraid to hear it by anyone else and be dissappointed :-(

[1812Beethovens9th]

@th3wing3dpaint3r Yes, that is what Horns can do, BUT i can tell it's not completely inside the Horn, so it's just the normal way we hold our instruments... If they were muting their instruments, id be very confused, because this piece doesn't call for that at any point... lol

[th3wing3dpaint3r]

@1812Beethovens9th O! ok. Good to know.

[bendl2]

@th3wing3dpaint3r It's not as far in as it looks, it's a trick of the camera... strange angle. I don't play percussion, but that may be a damper... We often put a towel or something on the bass drum to keep it from being quite so resonant... not sure about it on a snare though

[TIMPANIMAN1]

@bendl2 Absolutely correct.

[andreshark94]

@th3wing3dpaint3r the french horn projects sound in the opposite direction of the audience so, by putting the hand in their bells the horn players are re directing the sound towards the audience so they can be heard better

[Mahlerialiszt]

@andreshark94 I'm a horn player and can explain the reasons why we put our right hand in the bell:

1. It gives the horn a darker tone

2. It helps control intonation, which is extremely challenging

3. Hand-stopping, which has a very brassy sound, almost like a Harmon mut in a trumpet.

[Synkdektos]

@1812Beethovens9th the white things on the drums changes the tone of the drum. it can make it have a darker sound. as for the hands in the horn, its both for pitch and a mean of holding the horn. its the proper way of holding a horn

[TheWeidmoorKnight]

@th3wing3dpaint3r I'm not a drummer, but I have asked one why he put tape on his snare. It was in about the same spot as the white thing there. I believe it was something about deadening the sound a bit, making the snare less metallic. Kind of like putting a pillow in the bass drum on a set. It makes it ring less. I could be wrong, though. I asked over 5 years ago.

[HCPXelnagaY]

@lilttlekevin89 I'm going to assume that you are an elder player or something? lol

hors put their hands inside the bell finely tunes the insturment as because of horn structure/player there are notes that goes sharp or flat on the wind insturment that hve to be manually adjusted, for example, the C in french horns tend to go sharp, so they block (or release, i forgot) the air stream on the horn a bit (not like a mute, less exaggerated) to make the note in tune

[lilttlekevin89]

@HCPXelnagaY Thanks for clarifying it for me. But no, I am not an elder player, in fact i don't even know what that is. lol At first I thought you meant someone who plays Elder Scrolls. (and yes, I do play that)

[GenesisTheMole]

@lilttlekevin89 White things on the snare drum is something to stop harmonics and make the sound..... dryer

[drummerdemon]

@lilttlekevin89 the thing on the drum is just to mute it, and give it a dryer sound.

[FromTheDeskOfJAW]

@lilttlekevin89 The white thing is there to muffle the drum to make it sound dryer

[JOEdoesThings22]

@lilttlekevin89 they always have their hands in the horn, it extends the bell. and the white thing is a muffle, most proffessional percussionists use some kind of muffle on their drum. Its also a piece, songs have words. How do i know? I play percussion and horn.

[hyperhavoc5]

@lilttlekevin89 Its not a song. A song is something that is sung. This is a piece. It is a blueprint for music. Hence piece of music. If you loved it you'd called it by its real name. It is like calling your wife Sal when her name is Melinda

[lilttlekevin89]

@hyperhavoc5 Thanks for the correction, but I think it could have gone without the attitude. And personally I believe that the definition of a song varies on the individual, so to some this could be considered a song...

[losingitrush]

@lilttlekevin89 the horn was made naturally sharp and the hand elongates the horn and darkens the tone.

[TIMPANIMAN1]

@lilttlekevin89 I can answer your second question- sometimes percussionists place something on the drum head to muffle it a little bit more than normal. It looks like this gentleman is using a handkerchief, although we use wallets, gel pads, towels, depends.

[percphs]

@lilttlekevin89 I know a million people have answered you, but I'm not completely satisfied with the percussion question. As said before, the handkerchief that is placed on the head is used to dampen the head. There is a shape of resonance on drum heads, depending on the head and how it is tuned, that occurs no matter the intensity of your dynamic at about the same level of resonance. It's sort of like a fundamental resonance. If you noticed, the part where the handkerchief is used, (pt2)

[percphs]

@lilttlekevin89 (pt2) the player was playing quite softly. When he strikes the head, it's going to still resonate quite a bit. This is detrimental to the clarity and sound of what he's doing at that dynamic. The resonance of the head is too great for that dynamic and is distracting from the part he is actually playing. He uses the handkerchief to dampen the resonance that follows his strokes so that his playing is clear and articulate. He is NOT using it to make his playing "softer". He is (pt3)

[percphs]

@lilttlekevin89 (pt3) not dampening to soften his sounded, but to make his soft sounds more precise and clear to the audience by drying it out. I hope all of this makes sense to you.

[lilttlekevin89]

@percphs The last bit made sense, and I'll just pretend to know what you meant in the first part ;-)

And its amazing how many replies you get by directly under the video...

[klmsdrummer]

@lilttlekevin89 the white thing just a mute on the snare drum. it can get ringy sometimes.

[swankestdraf]

@lilttlekevin89 The white thing on the drum is a little piece of cloth. It helps to eliminate unwanted vibrations on the snare drum head so it produces a crisper, cleaner sound.

[Bromeu57]

@lilttlekevin89 At 2:55, I am pretty sure it is used to dampen the drum so it doesn't ring so much. It could be a cloth or some sort of muffle made by some company or something the percussion decided to put on the snare.

[gothrowsome2a]

@lilttlekevin89 dampeners to get rid of overtones

[ahh10123]

@lilttlekevin89 thats how you hold a french horn. also i think it does something to the sound

[SnowBroProductions]

at 2:26 the director looks like he's day dreaming, lol

[Timewarper300]

Fantastic recording. I am playing 2nd and 4th trumpet for this in band this year.

[GamerTweak]

I absolutely love this song. It's a beautiful piece. I love watching this video and seeing the whole orchestra moving with the music. Thank you for putting this video up for us! It really is amazing!

Playing this song is fun too, it's difficult, but it's soooo much fun. =)

[Owlsbreath]

AHHH that Piccolo sound is just sooo wonderful! so beautiful! How it just shoots out of the beautiful orchestral sound. This is a very amazing performance!

[Shmorgamorse]

Oh. Wait. Its Yuri Temirkanov. That makes more sense.

[Shmorgamorse]

That is the most nonchalant conductor I have ever laid eyes upon.

[FlierFrank172]

@Shmorgamorse...Hah...if you want to see a conductor who appears to be sleeping, check out Herbert von Karajan.

[MrJapanese25]

By far the best version on youtube! The tempos are perfect in my opinion - the beginning is not too slow and pathetic and the fast part is not rushed through as much as in swetlanovs version.

Also in this piece you can find subtle parts which should be played fine and elegantly. Perfect performance!

[GilboadamLFC]

The 1st trumpet part is amazing

[MegaARCHIELOVER]

my highschool wind symphony is playing this next semester! but we have the music right now! :D

[klarinettexlenir]

The clarinet is very very beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!

LUV!!!!(≧ω≦)

[BeastGanthar]

3:32-3:46 Is my favourite part of all!!!!

[TheWillyJ16]

best version by far

[Glenny8891]

This is just superb.



[SchwarzeDose21]

hehe funny timpanist at the end

[peteytheaardvark]

The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, under the steady hand of Chancellor Palpatine. The dark side is strong with him.

[foodmore]

monette trumpets!

[215365372354]

iowa allstate



[mjsk8er90]

WWWOOOOOWWWWW

[AcidLifeform]

wow, great performance?

which trumpets do trumpet players play, anybody knows?

[Thorozu]

@AcidLifeform All three play on Monette trumpets with Monette mouthpieces.

[guidepost42]

Great performance. among the best ive ever heard.

[premsangpang]

Superb Sound..

Great Clarinet sound...

Hats off

It's challenging & Technical moves for Clarinet player.

Thanks for Video

[LadyInDaHouse88]

I'm playing this too in the orchestra. Great piece, I love Shostakovich! But it's so damn fast... :P Gotta practice!

[amistrymister]

this is super fast

[XXXPolemideXXX]

veramente bravi!



[vinent81]

Espectacularmente perfecto.

[jsteuernol]

tight wind sections

[bhgblackmamba1]

diggin the ALL monette trumpets :)

[jonjo12321]

In the arrangement we're playing, I, fourth trumpet play the violin part. Ong

[jsteuernol]

@jonjo12321

ah the infamous hunsberger arrangement :p

[TourdeAlex]

omg brillant !

[jacobflaschen]

I take bad everything bad I said about Monettes.

[dbain45]

I woke up w/ this playing in my head today...took me a few minutes to realize what it was. After listening to several recordings on here, this one is superior to the others I've heard, even w/ the trumpet mistake. It's incredibly difficult to play and they did a wonderful job. @Fumbles9001---Don't know if that was an A clarinet, but I played that solo on a B-flat clarinet and you're right, it was awful to do.

[Fumbles9001]

Does anybody know if the clarinet part is for A clarinet? Since it's in A and it would be awful to play this song in A for a Bflat clarinet.

[AugustusAurelianus1]

@fabianoasc - this is a wonderful video, my dear friend! I love Shostakovich music. In fact, Shostakovich, Mahler & Villa-Lobos are the sole 20th Century composers I truly like! Thanks for sending this wonderful piece of music

[terryhink]

The trumpets had a few chipped notes here and there. Do I like it? No. Does it happen to everyone? Yes. Even Bud Herseth missed notes sometimes. It was an outstanding performance that would have been better without the missed notes from the trumpets. Nonetheless, it was excellent.

[MaxxUS08]

Great woodwinds, but the brass section sounds a little worn out. 

[Lokehualiilii]

This is a phenomenal performance of this piece. I played this in high school, 13 years ago, and it is one of the most complex pieces I've ever had to play.

As an aside, I am a clarinetist, but I love to watch the string players sway in unison!

[MaxSutter94]

poor trumpeter:DDD



[KAoticUnreality]

1:13-1:16

How does a professional trumpet player screw up one of the easier parts of the song?... This boggles my mind. Intonation in other part of the song were terrible from him as well, not to mention he was overplaying almost the entire piece.

[annakateofficial]

@KAoticUnreality i guess every musician has their off days...or pieces.

[cpthornman]

@KAoticUnreality Get the stick out of your ass and just enjoy the performance. I had to go back and actually listen for it because the first time I was barley noticeable. Missed notes happen. We're human.

[KAoticUnreality]

@cpthornman If you had to go back and actually listen for the mistake, then your ears aren't very well trained.

[cpthornman]

@KAoticUnreality Actually they are very well trained. I heard it when I first heard it. I just barley noticed it because it isn't that big of a mistake. So like I said before...get the stick out of your ass and just enjoy it. Know what you're talking about before you criticize. Yes the trumpet was loud but it wasn't overplaying. If he was really overplaying it would be even worse.

[KAoticUnreality]

@cpthornman You're talking to another trumpet player, my friend. You don't know what you're saying.

[cpthornman]

@KAoticUnreality I have a trumpet player I sit in front of in band everyday that overplays everything. This guy isn't nearly as bad. And two, if you're trying to find the mistakes (like you) of course you're going to find them. That's not why we should listen to music and performances. 

[KAoticUnreality]

@cpthornman I don't try to find mistakes, they stand out, as they naturally do in any piece performed. You aren't used to hearing a mistake, therefore when one is made, it is unusal, and your (supposedly well-trained) ears pick that up. Or they should, at least. It is a proven science in the way the musical sound waves are projected to your eardrum and registered to your brain because anything other that "music" is just "noise," which is the unorganized form of "music." Learn basic wave theorum.

[intome07]

Call me crazy, but I was just not as impressed as others. I have never heard a professional trumpet player struggle so much. And yes the presision is impecable, but the intonation suffered. And as a statement on tempo, they are actually speeding up most of it. This piece is on average about seven mins long. Where as this was done inside of six and then clapping accured. Its not how fast they play the fast parts, its the royalty they put towards everything else.

[intome07]

I have never heard a professional trumpet player struggle as much as in this... Call me crazy but i was not as impressed as most everyone else. Yes the precision is impecable, but intonation was not spot on.

[clintow]

It's an orchestra of Swedish metal stars!

[ecmpave]

synchronized head movement ftw!

[jacobflaschen]

I like how the rhythm sounds slightly swung at 2:24. Do you think that's intentional, or just a byproduct of speed and energy?

[homaiya]

OMG is that Princess Anne playing second violin from 04:10?? hehehe.... Spitting image! Horse rider and violinist...wow there is no end to the Windsor talents.....

[homaiya]

OMG is that Princess Anne playing second violin from 04:10?? hehehe.... Spitting image! Horse rider and violinist...wow there is no end to the Windsor talents.....

[DeeTrumpet]

Wow, the first trumpet misses as many notes as me!

[atoman88]

omg what the FUCK if i was there i would be standing and clapping! that was the best i've ever heard this song played!!!!!!!!!!!frwoufhqhuwro ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[irmobd2004]

@atoman88 People these days... Some even didn't seem impressed at all. I wanted to get out of my chair and applaud infront of my computer.

[PitTrout]

Fantastic recording of a great piece, far better than the other performances I’ve found on youtube! Crisp sound and acoustic, and the orchestra playing impeccably tightly but not just trying to show off their speed — it really brings out the counterpoint, the details, and the strength of Shostakovich’s scoring, not just the famous tunes. Thankyou so much for putting it online!

[Rizuzua]

all I have to say is: This is the first group I saw that isn't destroying the song by going too fast. Thank you.

Speed is nothing with out the beautiful precision I am hearing here. Now I want my group to play at this speed and NO FASTER...This speed is doable, and sounds phenomenal~! :)

[eurekabach]

@Rizuzua well, by the other perfomances i've listened here at YouTube, they're on the average tempo for this song (In fact, i've listened to some withe even slower tempo). Nevertheless, I agree with you. Speed is nothing when it comes to art, primarily, music.

[Betachiken]

@Rizuzua how do you even play this faster? lol

[Rizuzua]

@Betachiken ...well...your conductor goes even faster...then this...and then BAM you play it faster. The subdivisions get really messed up(in the fact that it's almost impossible to physically count in your head.)

We did it though. >_> Then they realized..."oops my nerves might have made us up the speed too much, sorry guys".

[Leviferrebee1]

@Rizuzua Excellent "taste" for speed. Probably the most smart and observational comments on speed for a piece I have ever heard.

[putra0812]

amazing piece...w0w..

[claroneamor]

Yuri Temirkanov looks great in this clip. Royal Stockholm Philharmonic sounds top notch in this performance. It's going by at a good clip! High spirited; Shostakovich would have been very happy with this!

[Typet360]

3:05 PRINCESS LEIA PLAYS THE PICCOLO

[thecaptainbligh]

So many great parts, but man, the horn line and string runs at 3:32 are f***ing incredible.

[leprechaunman67]

@thecaptainbligh You aren't kidding...that's amazing.

[danielpoko]

私のズボンの精液

[duff1018]

jizz in my pants ^_^

[wynton5364]

This is Royal Monette Philharmonic...

[Gozaburo1]

haha all of the trumpet section has monette trumpets

[simz42]

WOW! That was awesome!!

[TheBloodyMuso]

its funny how the strings are like full on swaying and are really 'into' the music, but on the other hand, the brass and woodwind are playing this stock still.

[mediaman6]

@TheBloodyMuso That's because we're always freaking out during this piece! LOL.

[Fhzo]

nice performance manz!!! (:

[gagamin2]

great!