Shostakovich - Symphony No. 11 `The Year 1905' Mvt.4(1/2)

[abusedbynycpolice]

His directions are right on time. But hands down BEST EVER CONDUCTOR of this piece goes to: Eliahu Inbal. 

[BritinIsrael]

Simply....there has not been another great symphonist !!

[Santiago410917]

Shostakovich ha expresado como ningún otro músico los horrores acaecidos en el pasado siglo XX. Su música no es para dormir conciencias sino para despertarlas. Es innovador en la forma. Escuchar sus notas es entrar de lleno en la conciencia desgarrada de ese siglo. Su forma de concebir la música es eterna y perdurará

[jaggersucksdik]

are they all the same guy? I heard you can play over a piece of music seperatly with different instruments

[RachHerexD]

@jaggersucksdik Lol.

[jaggersucksdik]

they look yellow

[loudquietproductions]

my favorite :D

[LLJtbone]

This is a really good orchestra, wow. Very good low brass.

[BrucknerMotet]

Kitahara has a good handle on this piece. Tempo is so crucial here. You almost want to go at varying tempi simultaneously to build the feeling of impact between glacial stasis and breakneck violence. Wanting to capture the revolutionary collision but without reverting to "program" music.

[Mozart61]

This is my Shostakovich's favourite symphony! Epical,not rethoric.....really wonderful!

[Pictor100]

Wow, quite the performance.

[andersmusician]

I love this symphony, the performance is quite neat too =)

[driverfl]

Spirited but a little mechanical, or is it just me?

[MisterTusk]

IT'S JUST YOU

[distortingjack]

It's kinda supposed to be a bit mechanical. But I think most performances of this symphony tend to be too fast. It just makes it sound smaller. I have an old LP version of it where the 2nd movement is apocalyptic, a slower tempo makes the textures and the resonances bloom a lot more.

[JorPove]

Quantum 79: This is not a Chinese National Orchestra. This is from Japan,the well know NHK Orchestra directed by Kitahara . ¡Read the display ¡and enjoy it.

[ozzycouture]

All the strings seem too stacatto; there's a lack of unity among the strings.

[antinorest]

I still prefer Symphony nª12.

[steven00157]

Thats really good

[ArturoAlejandroS]

Great this!

I think he was the best composer in the 50',60',70'

[powersurgegym]

Most people don't realize it, but Shostakovich was the last of the "Great Giants"; the last of the Late Romantics in the spirit of Mahler, Elgar and R. Strauss. At the time of his death in the mid- 1970's he had no peers; he was only 69. think what might have been had he lived to a ripe old age of say 90 or so - like R. Strauss!! Maybe 15 symphonies and 15 string quartets?? BTW, this NHK version of 11th, final movement is f-----g excellant! Much preferable to the Stokowski or Gregiev

[DarkRaimundo]

I totally agree.

I think that after Shostakovich's days.. music has gone down hill.

[Symphony1inF]

Do you know Andrades's first Symphony? it's a great work made as a tribute to Shostakovich in the hundredth anniversary of his birth (2006).

You may hear it in my account.

Regarding this performance... absolutely amazing!!!!!!!!

[Gandalfgrayhame]

Shostakovich did write 15 symphonies. 12-15 are not often palyed.

[Quantum79]

I do not know... But something is not pleasant to me in this execution... No, I have nothing against the Chinese National Republic. But nevertheless "kixes" were audible =) That at french horns, that at pipes and trombones! Gergiev' the orchestra plays much more brightly and whether more more plausibly that...

[gfg02511]

Yukio Kitahara !

[Scantronmaster]

Very nice begining and Very Thrilling performance I enjoyed watching it

[jorge252]

what was he trying to tell?

[musikvolks]

feels like not one of the musicians and the conductor know what shostakovich was trying to tell in this symphony.

[shavkatikk]

Brilliant performance!

[VonRichter]

Solid conducting, no frills, beat time, kick butt.

Much more aggressive than the somewhat lazy performance of Shosty 10th on this same channel.

[fredrickzinos]

This is not a good performance, it is a GREAT one. Who is the conductor? Very clean playing.