Shostakovich Symphony No.12 In D Minor Op.112 I. El Petrogrado Revolucionario I Parte

[TheLogicBeast]

Bravo young people! Brilliant. Maybe one day, when 'musical critics' can get their backsides out of their hands they can recognise that this symphony is more than a propaganda piece... it's a work of art!

It has passion, thematic content, harmonic technique and great balance.

[RegalMusician22]

6:37 So much emotion...

[RegalMusician22]

What can I say? Incredible...

[thelegend10101]

1:33 destroy the speakers. Dudamel really brings out the energy Shostakovich put into his music.

[jslasher1]

Possibly the best ever performance of the Shostakovich 12th that I have ever heard. That includes the famous Mravinsky recording. Dudamel and his young charges are simply amazing. The "Teresa Carreno' Youth Symphony Orchestra could put most professional orchestras to shame. Bravo, Gustavo Dudamel.

[PiroozAzDirooz]

Wow great stuff for a Youth orchestra? Not bad at all my friend! Even better, great. Lot better than some "professional" symphony orchestras in North America.

Go Teresa, Go!

[JollyGreenGreg]

holy shit.

[MeinradKoch]

AMAZING JOB !!!

Meinrad Koch

[13katty13]

Part Two - This is the kind of music that keeps me coming back for more knowledge. This is coming from a 15 year old trombone player that happens to live in America and doesn't plan on living up to stereotypes. Without this music I would have given up on music long ago, I would have never learned piano, euphonium, tuba, or trombone. Because of music like this I plan on learning violin before I die, I plan on double majoring in musical education and biology, I have more REAL music then 'pop'.

[13katty13]

If only a marching band could play even close to this level, they have put so much emotion into the music which is a talent within its self. I would be shocked if any marching band could get to their level of emotion, perfection, and timing. That is why I feel like if my marching band performs with half of what they got I will not only be proud of myself and the other 148 members but also my band directors.

[jslasher1]

@13katty13 The Shostakovich 12th was not composed for marching band in mind, mate. Why compare this talented orchestra of Venezuelan-born teenagers to some third-rate United States ensemble who parade around some football pitch in the hope someone will record them for YouTube.

[classiccandle27]

Holy SMOKES, look at those trombones in 3:10~ they play so professionally and they sound magnificent!!!!!!!

[maurpine]

i simply cannot believe this! it must be tape over or something...it cannot be

[padredemishijos12]

@maurpine These are poor kids not from the barrios of Los Angeles or the Bronx but Caracas, Venezuela! It is the real deal. Check out "incredible high school musicians from Venezuela" on youtube.

[darkj3am]

@padredemishijos12 they're not poor-_- they have rich talents... i always wanted to be like them.. it just that i cant cuz i have to study other than music that can give me a job......

[muslit]

the worst symphony EVER written -

[some1namedjeff]

I love when so many strings and woodwinds can match the power of the brass.

[efmusic5]

The way everything builds to 3:05 is just perfect.

[MrTurtleSage]

AHH this piece is so amazing! I can't even begin to describe it, just wow

[gimmealake]

Amazing the comments on you tube, are you even listening to the music?

[bretg]

Seriously, who is the idiot who disliked this video? Really? I am a music educator and assistant conductor of a university symphony orchestra, and I now think that Venezuela is heaven for music teachers. I dream of coming back in my next life as a Venezuelan kid with a music dream. This is inspiring stuff. I only wish we Americans weren't so proud that we can't learn from and emulate the successes of other countries. I am so proud and envious of these young musicians! They are living the dream!

[padredemishijos12]

@bretg You may not realize that this is a high school orchestra. These kids will soon go to college, and just like their music lessons, it will be free, paid for by the Venezuelan government plus they and their parents get free health care. So, you see why they play so well. They have less worrys than their much richer US counterparts.

[hesika54]

@bretg I think, this were persons, who don't have any idea of music...

[122Skibum]

I sightread this recently with my orchestra and I must say, this particular youth orchestra is amazing!!! This is arguably the most difficult symphony ever to be written by Shostakovitch and yet it is performed here with perfection and passion.

[tanksearcher]

They own this masterpiece.  This piece is the most understood of all Shostakovich's symphonies and they play from the heart and soul of this work. I am stunned beyond words. I would pay anything to attend such a performance.

[padredemishijos12]

@tanksearcher You must travel to Venezuela where music education is a right to all children.  Enjoy the results.

[2natw]

Is this Argentina? I heard they have great youth orchestras.

[padredemishijos12]

@2natw Argentina has among the best youth orquestras in the world, but this is not Argentina, it is Venezuela which is the best youth orchestra in the world, and a lot better than professional orchestras of Europe and the USA.

[jslasher1]

@padredemishijos12 Orchestras in Europe and the USA are paid enormous salaries. But, are they really up to the music on the day. Seldom. These young Venezuelan teenagers, who are paid nothing in the way of a salary, play because the music is in their hearts. As brilliant a performance as one is likely to hear.

[P3ligrosisimo]

@2natw

Argentina???Are u crazy man? This is a Venezuelan orcrestra... called "Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra" (TCYO)... Pure Venezuelan Orchestras.

[chinws168]

These kids play their hearts out! Bravo Gustavo for instilling such enthusiasm into them. You steer young people towards doing good things. A Noble peace price for you in the future!

[padredemishijos12]

@555paint @555paint NO, NO, NO, NO, AND ONE THOUSAND TIMES NO! This is about the overthrow of the corrupt tzarist tyranny, and the establishment of a revolutionary socialist society. Stalin murdered half of the communists and bolshevicks and all the revolutionaries. Shostakovich never joined the corrupt Stalinist communist party until Stalin's death.

[555paint]

@padredemishijos12 Whatever one thinks of the Russian Revolt, Lenin, Stalin and the neo Stalinists, etc. the ? is about this symphony. It is musical propaganda....we know for a fact that DS hated this junk and felt compeled to compose it to satisify the Soviet state....I didnt say that DS wasa Stalinist or even a communist but that works like this were designed to satisify the requirements of the Stalinists.

[padredemishijos12]

@555paint Wrong again. the 12th represented his truest sentiments. Stalin was long dead  when this was composed.

[555paint]

@padredemishijos12 \Yeah that is why I said NEO Stalinist....you know what the word "neo" means?

[555paint]

@padredemishijos12

you call me weird? Ah you need to put on your tin foil hat so you can block out the CIA mind control rays. (in case you don't get it that is sarcasam)

[555paint]

@padredemishijos12

Represented DS's true sentiments? Yeah too bad DS himself disagreed with you .

[Salsuscanis]

@555paint

Only a scumbag liberal could pull politics into music.

[dragmio]

@Salsuscanis Liberty is supposed to be the basic principle of the US. Together with equality. But I don't expect a braindead GOP-er to know that...

[Salsuscanis]

@dragmio Yes liberty is supposed to be the basic priciple of the US, but that property has been slowly stripped away by liberal politicians trying to create a country that was very similar to the way you croats lived. Its pretty plain to see when a liberal is willing to attack anything and everything. Music is about freedom and expression its also sometimes political. If you remember history there were alot of dictators that limited what music you could listen too, just like the liberals now.

[dragmio]

@Salsuscanis Why are you calling them liberals then? I suppose you're just following the herd like in everything else.

Anyway, if you cared about liberty and equality you wouldn't call people scumbags just because you don't agree with them.

[Salsuscanis]

@dragmio liberals are the biggest threat to liberty the world has ever seen. I still cant believe that a person would actually attack a piece of music like that. Music like this is awe inspiring, it makes the imagination flow. Only a liberal would tear it apart.

[dragmio]

@Salsuscanis I bet Stalin would agree. On both points. :)

[Salsuscanis]

@dragmio LOL so true. Stalin would be totally in favor of a liberal America. Hell Communism and Socialism is very close by nature. I bet Stalin would still be alive today if liberals were in charge

[dragmio]

@Salsuscanis Oh, really? And you agree with Stalin? Or you're against liberty in America? QED, loser.

[Salsuscanis]

@dragmio Dont be mad I think your country would still be in great shape if Communist Russia was still alive and well. Also you missed the point of my last statement but that didnt surprise me much.

[dragmio]

@Salsuscanis You missed who won last election, loser. Not to mention not understanding the meaning of word like tyranny or liberty.

[Salsuscanis]

@dragmio You mean the socialist Obama?

[dragmio]

@Salsuscanis You should be so lucky if he were...

[Salsuscanis]

@dragmio So silly you are

[dragmio]

@Salsuscanis OK. You just keep toiling your life away and defending those who exploit you. And I'm silly...

[Salsuscanis]

@dragmio who is exploiting me? The classical musicians?

[dragmio]

@Salsuscanis The ones whose propaganda you're repeating mindlessly, like a good sheep.

[Salsuscanis]

@dragmio and what party is that praytell

[dragmio]

@Salsuscanis It's not a party. If you're working to make a living, you're being exploited. Hell, if you're not a billionaire, you're being exploited. All that billions had to come from somewhere, you know.

[Salsuscanis]

@dragmio you are slightly confused, but that is typical liberal thinking

[dragmio]

@Salsuscanis Oh, yes. You're in fact are a billionaire but you like to spend your time commenting on YouTube. The saddest thing is you believe the obscenely rich deserve their wealth because they're somehow better than the others (including yourself). That's nonsense.

[Salsuscanis]

@dragmio you do understand that there is a difference between old money and new money right?

[dragmio]

@Salsuscanis Dear Jesus... Why do you bother commenting here at all or even listening to music? Why don't you just do fiscal reviews all day long just for the thrill of it? In a way I pity you...

[Salsuscanis]

@dragmio The reason why I would even comment on a great piece of music is because of retards not capable of understanding what music means. So what if this was composed during a communist regieme? The power and beauty in this music is moving for both the body and soul. To bad people have lost touch with the true meanings of stuff like this.

[dragmio]

@Salsuscanis That's all very nice, but can you tell me the annual turnover for it? Minus the outstanding profit, of course. Or the quarterly balance, if you prefer...

[Salsuscanis]

@dragmio you are one strange diluted kid

[555paint]

@padredemishijos12 Well Stalin did more than kill off the old Bolshies and who ever else got in his way...there are for example tens of millions of dead peasants who were killed off in the collectization-you can't really accuse the 'corrupt' czarist regime of that level of what only can be called genocide.

[padredemishijos12]

@555paint We the westerners also killed off deca millions of indians for the sake of progress, plus the enslavement of millions of Africans. Such hypocracy. Makes you feel good to criiticize others and forget our genocide.

[555paint]

@padredemishijos12

Yeah so who denies that? Just because Native peoples were killed in genocidal propportions by westerners doesn't justifiy Uncle Joe's genocidal campaing against the Ukranians etc. In fact USA and Euros are constantly examining the genocide against native peoples but you can't say that about the Russians now...they do not examine their past to the degree that we do.

[levtolstoi2999]

@555paint This music was used for propaganda, but is a masterpiece. And Czar´s weren´t a holy men.They send men to Siberia or to Sakhalin island in the same conditions as soviets gulags.Russian revolution was inevitable. I agree with you in one thing, Stalin was a killer, and I am from left wing in politic, and i don´t like Stalins, Mao, Jaruzelski, Ceaucescu or Honnecker. Leni Riefenstal´s Olympia was made for propaganda, but is a masterpiece, and I´m not a nazi

[levtolstoi2999]

@555paint Russia don´t examine it past ´cause the majority of its politics formed part of the PCUS or were in the youth section of the PCUS, those who report cases of violation of human rights, like Anna Politkovskaya, were killed or must go out from Russia. Soviet Union fell, but democracy didn´t arrive to Russia, well there is democracy, Gazprom democracy.

[padredemishijos12]

@555paint YOU ARE A HIPOCRITE. We are currently engaged in genocide in the middle east, and now you are concerned about Stalin. You are very weird.

[555paint]

@padredemishijos12

Genocide the mid east by USA? what the hell are you talking about? Genocide is defined as an effort to destroy an ethnic or racial group....sometime a religious one as well....by that internationally accepted definition no such genodice is underway by the USA. Besides where is the hypocrisy? You have no idea if I support or do not support USA wars in the middle east or what I think about Middle East at all.

[padredemishijos12]

@555paint You must admit that Israel is engaged in genocide in Palistine, albeit, a slow and painful one. I am certain you are in full support of that. Genocide in slow motion, and very painful.

[555paint]

@padredemishijos12 You assume a discontect between Lenin and Stalin....sorry no such disconnect exists. It is more than likely that Lenin would have carried out the same policies as Stalin.

[555paint]

@padredemishijos12 I did nt say that DS was a Stalinist or a neo Stalinist but that he did compose music for the purpose of promting Stalinism the result is junk like this symphony...sometime he did good junk like the 5th but often it was simplitic baby food like the 12th ....he did defy the regime on many occasions I agree. Like the Babi Yar symphony--an actual masterpiece--a clear political statement on DS's part against the party line on history. Even the comical 9th was a defiance

[padredemishijos12]

@555paint Shostakovich composed music that was both inspirational and revolutionary plain and simple. He believed in the cause, but not in those entrusted to lead it. There was extreme and un needed cruelty in Soviet Communism something that was inherited from tzarist russia. Russia went from medeival feudalism to medeival socialism.

[Kyogre1940]

I'm in love with their bassoons. Just saying. GO BASSOONS!

[jbkroeker]

These kids are amazing! O.o

[chrisman737]

Holy crap!

(That's a compliment. If it were an insult, I would have just said "crap").

[luistr3x]

@chrisman737 only that this kind of crap is holy! haha, thanks

[AntonioStradivarius]

It was simply amazing! Awesome young orchestra. There isn's words for expressing what I felt. OMG.

[GUMPDAWG010]

Incredible... I'm speechless

[samdajellybeenie14]

SO MANY BASSES! DERF!!!!

[fededakiller]

holy shit... that bassist is using german bowing... ive never seen that, except on older people, i hear it gives you a higer chance at arthritis or something >.> then again im a violist. what do i know? XD

[samdajellybeenie14]

I love how this orchestra moves! They are like a sea of moving bodies and hands and flying bows!

[samdajellybeenie14]

Amazing! It seems like a lot of his symphonies and movements of symphonies start out with the bass and cello. you know, Shostakovich loved the bass! But still, quite an amazing performance of an amazing symphony by an amazing composer!

[JayHarvester]

Well, although doubling the number of performers compared to what Shostakovich demanded in the score isn't new and normally not a good idea, in this case and with the discipline of these young musicians it might be the best performance I ever heard. The crescendi around 1:18 give me goosebumps each and every time I listen to it. It's a pity the microphones couldn't handle the dynamics. Does anyone know if there's a better recording available of this adorable, godlike performance?

[insidedigitalmedia]

I just saved it as one of my favorites!

[Neishapour]

Where should I start? Okay... I have heard all the available performances of this masterpiece but I am here to admit that none, including the legendary Mravinsky's, has the passion and energy of this one. I am now convinced that Maestro Dudamel is the first Great Conductor of the 21st Century. The orchestra plays with commitment with their heart. Only if I could find the entire performance on a CD! Venezuela soon becomes the Austria of Americas with great musicians like Gustavo and the rest...

[Enerkhan]

I agree with you, exxcept the B Haitink performance on Decca, although it's true that this performance (by teenagers!!!) is fabulous and probably indeed even more powerful and explosive than the Haitink one, although they are close.

[helenannreilly]

@Neishapour I guess if one starts learning about music when he/she is 2 yrs old in a loving atmosphere and brought up to believe how music comes from the soul, by the time they get to be teenagers they have been loved, infused with and taught how to love music. Couple all these things with their innate talents and you have fabulous youth orchestras such as these. We will be stunned and awestruck by their dedication and precision and heart.

[alejoeisabel]

These comments are deserving for a professional orchestra in Europe or the U. S. These are teenagers, not yet in collage. I say these kids play as well as most U. S. professonal orchestras. They certainly play better than the Juilliard Orchestra who are their peers.

Well done lads!

[binnyficate]

For some strange reason this reminded me of Harry Potter. Perhaps parts of it would fit nicely for certain scenes...

Great piece, though.

[Juergen50Mi]

Klasse Interpretation, jung und frisch, kräftig und wunderbar gespielt

[TheBerzerker1]

Very lovely, it gave me such a adrenaline rush!!!

[ariastoteles]

¡Así hasta dan ganas de ser comunista, verdá de Dió!

Bravissimo el 1917 !!!!

[gregapage]

Wow. I hope ths is available of CD?

Quite possibly the best interpretation!!!!

[symphonicrevolution]

This is a really powerful performance! Such energy!

[cicaNezer]

Forget about all that academic versions! This Shostakovich 12th is the way it should be performed. Devastating, brutal, barnstorming...