Greenwich Trio - Shostakovich Piano Trio no.2 (4th mov Allegretto)

[Made7Line]

Absolutely terrifying.

[flickaflicka1]

I watch this twice a month, as a regular dose.

[mamibg87]

The Page Turner brought me here. Magnifico!!!!!

[zfranklyn]

FANTASTIC.

[johnsalmond]

Bravo!! thank you

[itsmedude1020]

Dude, I'm not sure I've ever seen any one rock out this hard in my life, and I go to metal shows all the time.

Oh and on a side note, Shostakovich definitely recycled a few parts of this for his 8th quartet...

[Scorpio1400]

Oh My God! Freaky coincidence just happened! I was looking up the cello version of "Smooth Criminal" which was preformed by Luka and Stjepan on a whim. and then I remembered that at some of the faculty at a music camp i attended played this piece, so id decided to look it up and ironically Stjepan was the cellist preforming in this video. Wow! This was amazing to listen to! what a coincidence! Hahaha. =D

[philiaulcopt]

Espectacular!!! es una hermosa pieza, y ellos la interpretan maravillosamente y con mucha energía.

[adamg709]

Fabulous - well played!

[CarrieVeronica]

WOW. Without a doubt the best interpretation I've heard.

And now I'll spend the rest of my life trying to get rid of the chills this gave me.



[chinimasse]

Hot flue! They look like they're on fast motion!

[oomkah]

rave!

[TimonofBath]

Fake.

[afields92]

This is absolutely mind-blowing. In the past day I have literally listened to this specific recording at least 25 times.

Congratulations. I still get goosebumps.

[then00best]

@afields92 haha, that's like 4 hours

[llamakin]

One must be a tad loony to properly perform any Shostakovitch piece in my opinion =] wonderful!

[danshorer]

IT is one of the finest interpretation I've heard

[sethlightking]

the main theme is from his 8th qaurtet!

[jyseow]

@sethlightking actually it's the other way around... the theme in his 8th quartet is derived from this trio.

the trio is an earlier work.

[sethlightking]

@jyseow yup, i knew, just stating in no particular order that the themes are the same

[ntlngv448]

I want to play THIS!!!! thank you, your performance is inspiring!!!

btw- I like the eyes of the violinist... I don´t know why, but they absolutelly fit to this movement :) also I love the last seconds of this video, the moment of waiting for the right moment to finish... WOW ♥

[kriegco]

ES DE LAS MEJORES COMPOSICIONES DE SHOSTAKOVICH CON INTERPRETACIÓN MAGISTRAL!!!

[infectedxkira]

Her violin is wonderful *_______*

[SNAzzALi]

wow. "the Page Turner" really fit this movement so well.

[martinthekearykid]

There's an excellent 5 part radio series called 'The Grand Piano' which you can download as a podcast (Google). It has a section dedicated to explaining this work. To make things better, it aslo has the full original recording which is fabulous.

[martinthekearykid]

Well Shostakovich wrote this in solidarity with the suffering Jews (it was recorded originally with Shost himself playing piano in 1946). I think he had one particular Jewish friend in mind. To really get the message across, he decided to make the 4th movement a reworking of a jewish jig (or song). It's like a destroyed version. Incredibly powerful and exciting.

[Gargantupimp]

This piece is silly compared to Rachmaninoffs trio #2.

[violinist2552]

9:17 when it starts gives me goosebumps

[prayformercy4]

lol this has the melody of the 8th quartet...interesting

[PhysiqueQuantique]

The 8th quartet 'quotes' the melody from this trio. Shostakovitch referred to that quartet as an 'autobiographical' work.

[petitequinte]

@prayformercy4 Yeah, the 8th quartet contains a lot of quotations from other pieces; he wrote it partly as a kind of "epitaph" for himself.

[PhysiqueQuantique]

@petitequinte That is just so remarkably creepy, no? 

[davidjb100]

It's funny in a sardonic sense to try and guess at what this final movement represents, only to be awed at its true purpose. This performance was sublime; thank you so much for posting.

[TheSaxyBandGeek]

Could you inform me of what it's true purpose is?

[MrAcquerello]

I love Shosty.

It is incredible how he is able to write this trio like the quartet and in the mean time so different!!!

I agree with achan1058 for the dance of this trio.

[TheSaxyBandGeek]

LOL I didn't know other people call him Shosty! XD

[ciliaspippi]

Shosty isn't a Russian Sirname, so I think they wouldn't

[SpiffyMcSnazzy]

@ciliaspippi RUSSIAN HERO.

[FauveAngelique]

beautiful!

where are they playing? pretty setting as well

[doublestop100]

Good!

[achan1058]

That's a very different rendition of the passage he quoted in the 8th quartet! It sounded completely fanatical there, while spooky and dance like here.

[cellocraze]

this piece would be great to play on Halloween, i can just imagine witches dancing around a cauldron

[aesthetic1950]

Lovely controlled madness.

[Lucasguitarrita]

Thanks a lot!

[violindr]

Bravo!!!

[MrRaph87]

bravo !! cette musique est particulièrement ingrate, et trés exigeante envers les interprètes ... et ce ne sont pas les plus grands ("officiellement" ...) qui ont su le mieux l'interpréter. s'il y a quelques erreurs dans le texte (... peu importe), en revanche les musiciens en ont compris toute la portée ... une vraie "danse macabre", dont on ressort littéralement "rincé" ... du trés beau travail. l'émotion est évidente ...

merci pour ce (trés beau) partage !!

[willthedrill100]

amazing energy that IMO blows stern/ma/ax out of the water. furious tempo and passion really make this recording incredible. bravo

[karol91steinway]

Fantastico

[starsupinthesky]

Fantastic interpretation of my favourite movement from this trio. :)

[veljakvid]

Stjepane uzor si mi!!!!

[tedgoh]

bravo

[tubamirum2]

really great

[erkrasharjadimackoru]

SUPER

[sephiroth999999]

Wow! Very, very good! The fact that it is, perhaps, a tiny bit too fast (in my opinion) is compensated by the huge discharge of energy you generate!

In other words, congratulations! The three of you are very good musicians, and judging by your schedule, which can be seen on your personal site, you have a shiny future ahead of you.

I am not a religious person, but if I were, I would pray for your future success every single day!

I wish you all the best and the utmost success!

[Misslexyash]

@sephiroth999999 Hi - I have to say I disagree with you (not on the "be successful" part) - I like is this tempo . I believe Shostakovich was trying to mimic the atmosphere of the Concentration Camps, and in my opinion it should constantly be pushing forward with the piece feeling as though it could spiral out of control at any moment, I used to play this, and I remember how much fun it was to race through to the end, although by the 8th minute or so my arms were killing me...

[psychoego]

I adore this movement of the trio. There is something really scary about it. Absolutely thrilling. Pure energy.