Shostakovich - Symphony No. 1 in F minor - Part 1/4

[dandiaz19934]

This piece is so beautiful. It reminds me of the scenes in Tom and Jerry when either character is trying to trip the other over by plotting something--like when they sneakily walk in rhythm with each music note.

[fjio3hfif]

Yes! I still have 2 more years to compose something this fantastic. Unfortunately, that isn't going to happen XD!

[Ermanno01398105]

:O 19?!?!?!?

[Marcontrol2000]

insane !!

[Flutist11]

It's amazing how there are numerous points of style here that he kept his entire life. His signature is definitely here, despite being an early work.

[jervilan]

i almost got a heart attack at 4:57

[MrBIGToast]

THIS MUSIC IS SO AWESOME! boom.

[Mahler357]

Who is the conductor of this recording?

[PENNSY671E]

@Mahler357 Neeme Jarvi would be my guess.

[abviolinplayer]

he wrote beautiful flute solos...the solo in the first movement of his 5th symphony literally changed my life

[CornDoctor]

very good.. this isnt very easy i played it with my orchestra a few months ago, violin :D

[CiceroCrane]

2:44 is gorgeous...

[cavalcando]

Who is the conductor, please?

[imusiciki]

Neeme Jarvi

[bramenolit]

bilde ich mir das nur ein oder höre ich da paralelen zu star wars

are there paralels to star wars ?

[Yngland]

Thank you for all these videos.

[username14657]

He is so hot.

[Gulaschkommunismus]

haha :)

[S2HVU]

*newfavoritecomposer*

[jadedkiwi23]

There's a happy B Major chord at 0:40, those of you who say "he doesn't write beautiful passages."

[afgess]

who the fuck gives a shit!

[japphan]

Note! Sh. was only 20 years when this premiered. Pure genius.

[pearldrummerbrx]

Harry Potter!!!

[turbacamp]

No. This is not Harry Potter. No.

[stefomate]

his music is absolutly amazing but he was a real ugly bastard

[Nepenthakovich]

He got a little chubby when he was old but I don't think he's all that bad-looking. :/ Anyway I agree, his music is amazing, which is what matters.

[mahler151]

And yet he still looks better then you. (I assume)

[Sinfoniette]

You should listen to the Bernstein rendtion also!

[PapagenoJuan]

Shostakovich...the Mad Russian!!! :)

genius

[dogtransport]

Shostakovich is a communist and a hack who relies on dissonance over substance. The frantic feeling of this music is just to distract you from the reality of this uninspired drivel.

[Sinfoniette]

Same here. Don't fancy G'd ol' Dmitri too much. His music does not really contain substance, but sometimes, like his 1st, 5th, 7th, and Cello/Violin Concerto, the dissonances form together and form a magical thing. Therefore I must contradict my previous statement; Shostakovich is great at his best!

[tanel82]

"The frantic feeling of this music is just to distract you from the reality of this uninspired drivel."

Well, it makes a wonderful distraction though..

[dogtransport]

Actually I am just kidding (J.K.) although I don't care much for this particular work.

[lecochonbleu]

Shostakovich: one of the most troubled men ever. Someone commented 'The Mad Russian'. He was utterly tortured, he couldn't write nice songs mostly. I guess he would have loved to - the demons upon him wouldn't let him, forcing him to write a social-political agenda which would be sure to inflict torture upon those hearing it, though expressing torture in Soviet Russia. I don't think Shostakovich would ever have chosen his route personally if it were ever possible for hime to.

[lecochonbleu]

Please see my recent comments in Sinfoniette's YouTube page. You can never underestimate the great pain Shostakovich was in, and how he wasn't acting by anything approaching normal human choice (If ever there is that). He knew his art is art which hurts people, which will torture, and I don't think he would have personally chosen that. It was beyond him, he was a subject of a demonic infestation wish that has been borne out in his life and concert rooms and homes all over the world.

[Wrulf818]

Actually, parts of this symphony are almost lyrical and pastoral.

Wrulf The Last Bohemian

[afbucchi]

In my opinion that would be his more personal work. He also wrote beautiful melodies, to my ear at least, that the public could actually remember. These melodies still keep to some extent his atonal manner and strong percussive feel.

He was greatly recognized for them. One example is his waltz # 2 from the variety orchestra suite #1 - mistakenly attributed to the jazz suite #2, which was actually re-orchestrated by other composer. It's on a S Kubrick film.

He is all what he wrote.

[tanel82]

Nikolai Malko later wrote that he felt as if he had turned a new page in the history of Russian music when he conducted the premiere. Amazing how original Shostakovich already was at such a young age.

Thanks!

[na2hiro]

It's very powerful performance.

Who conducts it? Does anyone know?

[Neishapour]

Neeme Jarvi conducts this performance. Seek out performances by Leonard Bernstein too. Recently, a DVD was released with Bernstein rehearsing and conducting a youth orchestra which is worth watching. There are other excellent performances of this music out there and there will be more. Young Dmitri intended to write a symphony unlike any before it, making fun of Wagner, etc but in the process he fell in low with them all!

[spitzenleiter]

This magnificent piece was composed by a 19-year-old genius !! The great piece moved me

profoundly. Thanks for sharing us a nice piece.

[imusiciki]

Yes, it is unbelievable!! There is no way I could compose a symphony at 19!!

[turtlesturtles2]

if you could ever compose one....

[Symphony1inF]

do you know Andrades's first symphony? he composed his first symphony at the age of 20, in honor of the centenary of the birth of Dmitri Shostakovich. If you want to listen this great symphony, you should go to my accounut's videos.

[xxxznaewxxx]

thank's for that information :D

[musicin37]

Symphony1inF you have only audio, I have the videos of the premier of Andrades's first symphony in my account

[skryabyn]

I have never even heard this symphony. My favorite is Leningrad. But this is great- and only 19! I also love his smaller piano works; the preludes and fugues, the fantastic danses.