Shostakovich: Symphony No.5 Mov.I (Svetlanov) 1/6

[jcast18k]

jaja se le mueven los cachetiños!

[pinturner]

I think, it is hard to overestimate a true value of this music. I love the first movement, especially when it comes to the pulsations of the strings.

[nixrox13]

7:08

[Wavewolfaroha]

@nixrox13 Yeah, gorgeous viola soli!!!! Usually it screams, and this is dark and introspective, fabulous!

[StrigonLead]

this piece is SO hard to play.

[alcoreiter2]

After Mravinsky's fifth, maybe this is the best performance of this symphony

[Clevelandgirl96]

Playing this in orchestra this upcoming school year!!! So excited!!!!

[peteytheaardvark]

@Clevelandgirl96 We played this at Cleveland State three years ago, my freshman year. I was on third trumpet. The woodwinds were deaf by the end of the finale.

[galicaeable]

@peteytheaardvark well, your kind (no offense there) usually gets the whole orchestra deaf... I play the cello and had the misfortune of sitting in front of the brass during Orff's Carmina Burana; they went nuts, we went deaf.

[metastasis61]

My teacher Mikhail Tolpygo (now teaching in México) is principal of violas section of this orchestra. Beautiful version!!! 

[Liubtsale]

Восхитительно!

[flaminia5]

this is the music for katharsis

i've never understood Shosatkovich, but now i believe i do

[goobtron1]

I hear a few similarities with the Princess Mononoke soundtrack.

[darkprose]

God I love the ending of this movement. I think I can hear definite influences of Shostakovich in Bernard Hermann's scores for Hitchcock -- especially those gentle strings at the end of this movement -- it sounds literally like out of the OST to North by Northwest. Has anyone else picked up on this musical similarity? I have no idea whether there was any causal link between them, but they certainly came to a similar place in that part of this wonderful symphony.

[RogueRotting360]

@darkprose It's fair to say that Herrmann was inspired by Shostakovitch a good deal, along with Delius, Sibelius, Vaughan Williams, Berg, Stravinsky, Debussy, Wagner, Walton, Prokofiev etc... His stunning rejected score for Torn Curtain is also very Shostakovian in its timbrel 'greyness', and polytonal harmonies.

Check out his recording of Hamlet from "Music from Great Shakespearean Films."

[darkprose]

@RogueRotting360 Thanks for the suggestions. I knew that Hitch rejected Herrmann's score for Torn Curtain, but I haven't had a chance to hear it. Is it on an album of some kind? I will have to find it.

[RogueRotting360]

@darkprose The 1977 Elmer Bernstein LP is the highest quality (of performance and sound), though Joel McNeely's is the most complete.

[MrLindenson]

powerful stuff

[360Flicks]

the people who dislike this are those who...eh wait there are no dislikes XD

[YamiRyan4509]

Throws up his Metal Horns at 3:15 \m/

[bigtimv]

Is it just me or at the beginning he looks like a frickin' machine gunner! Pow!Pow! --Pow!Pow! --  Pow!Pow!

[jeromesim]

@bigtimv Same thought x]

[stpd1957]

mmm Svetlanov.

[LexingtonWells]

I can almost feel new neurons forming whenever I listen to this piece... so creatively stimulating

[Terpentijn]

the sound quality is great!

[locomotifx]

So incredibly moving.

[duba3988]

Wonderful, I listened to all the arrangements, and they are fantastic.

[Vasyukov]

Sublime!

[woodencardboard]

I know it's hardly relevant to this wonderful art, but I had no idea Richard Nixon was such a dedicated aficionado of classical music.

[whahappened]

@woodencardboard Well that's just a wonderful observation. The seriousness of this will always induce giggles within me, now. Ta. Mwhahahaha

[Memale2009]

@woodencardboard Ah que c'est drôle! Vous avez raison :)

[antal202]

THE GREATEST PERFORMANCE OF A TERRIFIC SYMPHONY !!!

[Albertan1956]

Conductorrr where did you purchase the DVD which is symphony appears on?

[oboistru]

Anatoliy Lyubimov is playing the oboe, such a bad sound.

[Forest1227]

almost definitive.

[jmlancashire]

Sound quality was great to me. One of the best. Powerful, intense.

[AndreiKrakovsky]

Never mind sound quality, the PERFORMANCE is astounding! Perhaps the best DSCH 5 I have ever heard, and have heard quite a few! No conductor so fully finds and presents the deep Russian soul of this music as does Svetlanov!

[adambomb30]

@AndreiKrakovsky Well said and I couldn't agree more.

[leontud]

@AndreiKrakovsky Mavrinsky is the authority of shost... music,

[sacramushmygoat]

The recording quality is horrible.

Which is a shame, because this is the only complete series of videos for the 5th.

[Glarfugus]

@sacramushmygoat Actually, there's a series of videos done by the San Francisco Symphony.