Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5,Bernstein

[luigifan586]

Did anyone else hear part of the 8 melodies from Mother 1 close around 4:57?

[Diabl0xD9]

i eat desert to this

[dstdft6516]

Too bad Russia held back these wonderful composers in their day, this is wonderful music and led by the great Leonard Bernstein. I feel for those that dislike this very cultured music and substitute what they call music. Shostakovich symphonies are incredible (although my favorite composer is Bruckner)

[SofiaFetterman]

My Favourite composition of all time :)

[fripok]

bull shit -_- teacher whas me to listen to this shit..

[SorryIPooted]

@fripok What does your English teacher think?

[Dan474834]

Is that the most epic ending ever or what?

[laus102]

@Dan474834 yes.

[lopezjackie515]

This is a "wry" video. =p

[masamakun]

結婚できない男を思い出してしまう

[iskivolkl11]

I need to be listening to more Shostakovich, apparently.

[Kyblers7]

This is a 10 minute movie! Brilliant story behind this.

[1972fiorella]

Fantastico.....profondo....

[theaws0m3guy]

A true rock star...

[zaferdb]

communism ran on this for extra 10 years.

[hetflameuk]

WOW!

[lednibrusle]

Což takový Šostakovič ? :)

[Modu]

Spectacular! This movement of symphony is like a thunder! Super performance...

[TheLordPlatypus]

Listening to this wears me out. Not only must I wave my arms like a mad man articulating each note, I have to "sing" along like a madman. A most demanding piece.

[maxfromtheblock]

what a spectacular performance. It almost feels as Dmitry Shostakovich wrote this piece for Bernstein to conduct

[SparrowHeart1]

Porky's theme!

[27danjel]

@SparrowHeart1 I thank that when I heard the 3 first notes.

[CCConservatory]

None better. RIP Lenny

[0108945761mah]

great

[FALILVfreak]

I listened this on LSD long time ago and I remember it was mind blowing, its was so wonderful and I was in universe of beauty and pure energy. Now when I listen is so great, this is always great.

[FALILVfreak]

Adore this. This is brilliant, epic masterpiece.

[serbsof2k84ever]

Bernstein probably burns as many calories doing this as he would running.

[MelloIsYello2]

We did this at my high school and kicked some serious ass

[Trainstation11]

Lol so much resting on the tuba part =)

[idiotmuffin]

at 9:39 his button popped off? conductin so hard his buttons fall off

[spockezri]

@idiotmuffin haha I just noticed that, thanks...think it's more like 9:34 though ^^

[Snookbone]

I had to stop watching this after two minutes due to an epicness overload on my computer.

[thebreadskin]

I eat breakfast to this every morning.

[indyjones35]

@thebreadskin Haha, talk about epic meal time

[CaveBacon1231]

Our orchestra played this last year. Incredible piece of music and soo much fun to play.

[PaybackTyme]

That flute player at 5:19 looks a bit like Michael Kane....

[TheHavermayer]

Iron Blue Intention from Castlevania is based on this. 

[KaitlinWonders]

OH MY GOD I LOVE BERNSTEIN!

SO MUCH

HIS FACE

HE'S SO SMUG LOOKING SOMETIMES!

ALL THE LOVE.

[llenbridges11a]

Your video went viral on Accra

[texancomposer]

Not that I don't find this impressive.. but too fast.. much much too fast.

[BonjourBit]

This is one of the best pieces ever!

[swilkins1984]

No American conductor ever brought as much passion and brilliance to music than Leonard Bernstein. Listening to his interpretations is like getting a window's view into the man's soul. His Mahler symphonies and Barber Adagio interpretation were especially life-changing for me. The only other conductor that inspired me this way was Herbert von Karajan.

[so91ful]

excellent! i just put this to my crazy dog, it just calm dow as he had never been!

lol

[sirjuandabicho]

Magnífico, muchas gracias por compartirlo.

[luigifan586]

hmm...I hear this good...I can hear what sounds like part of the "his highness's theme" This might be a reference....

[Caffeinefish]

If Rostropovich could play trombone...1:39

Bernstein's smile at 8:04 is also pretty awesome.

[Malikarcanum]

1:37 sounds like some John Williams material.

Well, we can see where he gets his influence from.

[stooge389]

@Malikarcanum The trumpet part is actually exactly what they play in Troy xD

[UserID20]

OMG Wht is the composer doing?? LOL is he dancing i bet betoven would not like this! I like the loud tubas at the begining and 5:44 I want 2 play tuba someday

[Jobother]

@UserID20 theyre trombones...

[TheBkelley95]

@UserID20 those aren't tubas at 5:44. I'm gonna play this piece for the Florida Allstate Orchestra, and that's just string bass playing there.

[BonjourBit]

@TheBkelley95 Cool! I'm playing this in Alabama Allstate Orchestra! Two great states think alike! ;)

[Fyuzseion]

I remember performing this in my high school orchestra a couple of years ago...even though it was a quite watered down and slower version.

[jondhus]

This might be the greatest piece of music ever recorded.

[dncviorel]

@jondhus yet it's pure shit.

[shml1124]

Great. Beyond discription.

[DogeDandolo]

Bernstein sei il migliore!!!

[SaotomeUkyou]

鳥肌たったぜよ！

[kingorthy]

White tuxes were worn during the summer concert series--Tanglewood, Blossom Music Center, Ravinia, etc......

[ericynot]

Just when I despair for the human race, I hear/see something like this and my hope is reborn.

But I'll never understand how the species that created something like this can sometimes be so utterly cruel and wretched. Ninety percent of the misery we endure is self-inflicted. Why do we do that?

[william10212]

listening to this makes me wonder why music has come to what it is now

[Creymas]

Sorry to be the nerd here, but someone's gotta say it: "Iron Blue Intention".

[cubanbach]

This is the version I first knew, Bernstein's fiery interpretation and it's the one that will live with me for a long long time.

[franklywright]

of all the great conductors, bernstein is the sweatiest

[kissmyshoesx]

best piece ever :')

[gregapage]

╭∩╮（︶︿︶）╭∩╮To Stalin ╭∩╮（︶︿︶）╭∩╮

[serendipity71109]

the conductor looks like harrison ford. i seriously love this piece! i played it @ interlochen back in the day.

[iampbmyfriendzrock]

@serendipity71109, I absolutely LOVED interlochen, I went there for a summer camp.I miss it SO much :( such a pretty campus!

[franklywright]

@iampbmyfriendzrock interlochen!!!!!!!!!!!! what year? i was 2009, and i played piano

[iampbmyfriendzrock]

@franklywright i went over the summer (2011), as a violinist

[ryanbarrett80]

You can tell he loves every second of what he's doing.

[Vonzaku]

This is so goddamn awesome that I think my head might actually explode.

[acrowshead]

Incredible.



[TheTNTian]

They are amazing. Especially the violinists. Bet they had aching arms for a whole week. O_O

[RD72295]

Man, I love watching Bernstein conduct. Truly amazing...

[zigifrojd]

Excellent, great music.

[theguyonearth]

conductor's face at 1:42.

[urmomlollerskates11]

Dang, Bernstein really looks like hell after conducting that whole symphony. You'd think he might have a stroke at the end.

[Bromthebard]

Bernstein puts so much emotion into the music he conducts.

[cmloz]

Great music, but anyone who wants to know what a buffoon Bernstein was politically, read Wolfe's Radical Chic.

[Bromthebard]

@cmloz I love debating and reading about politics, but don't bring politics into the comments of this great piece. Usually political views don't play a role in the composition or conducting of orchestral music.

[scomo115]

@Bromthebard

But this piece has such a political history surrounding it.

He wrote it to "praise" the army or so he claimed to Stalin, while in reality it mocks its very essence. In the time of this piece any music written must be appealing to Stalin for fear of death.

[theman9126]

holy shit lol

[LilClaw]

WOW! I played this back in high school. This was this first time I've ever clapped for a youtube video.

[11changs]

The compassion that Bernstein puts into this piece gives me goosebumps every time i watch it!

[Theoni17]

lol of course the conducter is like breaking a sweat at the end XD its just that epic

[djohnnyf]

Lenny gives a dizzyling fast performance of this last movment but sweeps us all along with him. Absolutely magnificent! One of those nights when you really wish you could have been there.

[hugecashfan]

Leonard gives a mind blowing performance I'd say he slept very well that night man he gave it max performance!!!!

[priya1992]

The best.

[gunhaver1000]

@priya1992 That is, indeed, all that needs to be said.

[chizchizchiz]

BERNSTEIN IS SUCH A BAMF

[TheKaroleczek]

5.28 is incredibly impressive... so dramatic that really evokes the vision of the siege

the same for 7.18... this few bars change a lot

[Bromthebard]

@TheKaroleczek The bass is one of those instruments that can play a certain bass part and somehow change the whole feel of the piece.

[TheKaroleczek]

5.28 is incredibly impressive... so dramatic that really evokes the vision of the siege

[superhooyooman]

Shostakovich is a music genius!! 

[rezzah]

omg so beautiful.

[MegaSha86]

we played this for our marching band show, it was amazing.

[777SmartGuy777]

Bernstein is awesome !

[TheBalko371]

Shostakovich is a musical GENIUS!!!!!!!!! my mind has officially been blown!

[evangelion10119]

So fracking good.

Also, irrelevant but why are they all wearing white tuxes? 70s style or what?

[NERFgunWARLORD]

@evangelion10119 Ever try and get blood out of a white Tuxedo? ......nightmaire

[Q3Joselu]

@evangelion10119 Just "Bersntein's style"

[Olizimm]

@evangelion10119 It's the summer uniform.

[Dan474834]

Epic ending.

[iirenekiim]

62 people had to learn this beast

[zaokoyechatma]

@iirenekiim WHy

[77jcrox]

how could even 1 person dislike this?

[rpbaral]

After the Lenny Bernstein rendition everything else is a funeral dirge. This gives me goosebumps. An absolutely electrifying performance.

[Elipito5]

Whoever those 62 people who disliked, you should be put on trial for Communist conspiracy.

[0509112x]

This is madness!!!

[heavenlyguineapig]

frickin' epic stuff :P, i heard it first live by the rsno, but it sounds epic no matter how ya hear it :)

[chinookmortor]

Played this in High school,Timp SOOOOOO COOL!!!

[AnonIndie101]

top stuff, defo 1 of my favourite composers.

As for Bechstein, what a hero!!

[zebree90]

We played this 2 years ago when I was a freshman in high school. Truely AMAZING. The dark heavy part was my favorite. I play 1st trombone! :)

[matttseck]

62 justin bieber fans

[FluffyBunniesOnFire]

@matttseck In case you missed the memo, that joke has been old for quite some time (at least to a lot of people). You're forgiven.

[stooge389]

@OisirM What the fuck is your problem? You tried playing an instrument and failed and never got to play this piece, I assume.

[OisirM]

@stooge389 Perhaps I should have phrased that better... I merely meant to point out that this is an incredible piece of music, and that it is capable of making anything at all seem exciting if played as an accompaniment to it, even something as undeniably boring as mushrooms. It was a compliment, not a derogatory statement. And I have tried to play multiple instruments, some successfully, and some not.

[stooge389]

@OisirM Lol sorry then :P. Totally got your meaning wrong lol :D

[zereid11]

im in a marching band in pflugerville and for our 3rd movment we are doing this entire symphony!

[saxxyasian0135]

@zereid11 We saw you guys at BOA! Good Job :D

[MrBatata]

Why is it so much better than the recording of Bernstein conducting of the Bernstein Century series?

This performance is so many times more powerful than the recorded one

[JTruth9419]

Such a powerful piece... :)

[bethpager2]

Darth Vader Type of Music

[natbrain]

who was the concertmaster?



[Xrwmatoula]

@natbrain Bernstein, it is in the title

[natbrain]

@Xrwmatoula he's the conductor. The concertmaster is the lead violin

[apluspianist]

Since 20th century, Russian music >>> German music

Thumbs up if you agree

[JMan52180]

Phantom Regiment 1996

[HipCovers]

Sang everything note-for-note until 3:40...well the melody. Not the polyhpinics :O but I freaking love this piece. I can't believe we're playing it in our high school band!!

[MadisonGaveItToYou]

@HipCovers What band are you in? o-o

[HipCovers]

@MadisonGaveItToYou School of the Arts :P

[MadisonGaveItToYou]

@HipCovers That's so weird, my band played this too this year. It was really awesome lol.

[HipCovers]

@MadisonGaveItToYou Aha we're performing in Two days o.O

[MadisonGaveItToYou]

@HipCovers Have fun (: We already did it for Bands of American Grand Nationals in November. Now we're refreshing our memories with it for some festival in California we're going to.

[Purple72396]

Love this

[pgm98387]

61 people ran down their hearing aid batteries.

[davey2656]

EPIC

[GUSTAVTT]

IRON BLUE INTENTION, CASTLEVANIA BLOODLINES!!!

[posyanne64]

Music tearing through his veins there!!

[Reginaldspld505]

I love this song so much

[YutaBaby07]

Mind = blown. Thoroughly.

[abviolinplayer]

@YutaBaby07 exactly what I was thinking. The perfection of this music and the talent of the orchestra is tear-inducing.

[BlackRose2251]

Our 9th to 12th grade full orchestra is playing this for the NYSSMA festival in Orlando, Florida this March. Burnt Hills High School!

[yasminbitar8]

this is absolutely brilliant!

[ThatGuyOnPC]

0:10 - thumb this up for convenience, I'm sure it'll be used a lot.

[zoop1100]

this is like a sneeze, orgasism, poo, cough, fart and piss in one go.

i.e. epic!!!

[MrAcemasta]

@zoop1100 you're weird as shit

[Bromthebard]

@MrAcemasta But, kind of right.

[illmatic3one]

title of this piece should have been, " Badasses, Version 5.0" !

[SnowClouds810]

Bernstein's heaven - 1:59

[finchany18]

The conductor gives the impression that he is arguing with a door-to-door salesman. "I've told you lot before, now get of my property!" *waves arms*

[vania1917]

I've got blisters on my fingers!!

[SavannahRodgers9394]

I'm doing my math homework to this. Never before has doing homework been so epic.

[MaggieBass97]

@SavannahRodgers9394 saaammmmmeee!!!!!! hahaha american history has never been as fascinating. i just may start dancing.

[MaggieBass97]

@SavannahRodgers9394 saaammmmmeee!!!!!! hahaha american history has never been as fascinating. i just may start dancing.

[GabrielPadecopeo]

Sin duda, Bernstein ha sido de los mejores directores.

[batymahn]

You haven't heard Shostakovich until you hear Rostapovich conduct the piece.

[BarbierNicholas]

@Calvinios It's a good point in the general sense of the word "classical" music (meaning played with violins, etc.). But in reality classical music really is trying to refer to tonal harmony which really ended with the Romantic era (early 1900s). this is more atonal (although not as much as one might expect) and modernistic (maybe even postmodernistic) music, which one wouldn't necessarily consider to be classical music.

[Sweeneycansing]

badass

[Atay9000]

This is an excellent performance obviously but I think Mstislav Rostropovich does a better job with the tempos. I suggest you listen to his recordings because he captures the essence of the finale; unlike the rushed tempos taken here by Bernstein or even Mravinsky himself, Rostropovich really "hammers it in".

[MrDanielBrisk]

@Atay9000 I completely agree with you. When I heard the downbeat I couldn't help but think to myself,"WWWHHHHHoooooooaaaaaah­hhhh! SLOW DOWN THERE, LENNY!" While I enjoy his composing, I believe his conducting to be too over-the-top. Then again, he's Bernstein and can get away with whatever he wants. :) Now, to nit-pik: I wish the horn solo stood out some more.

[mikecaffey]

I posted Richard Kastle's new symphony played at the piano. You can follow the score while listening to the video. Kastle conducted his 3rd and 5th symphonies at Lincoln Center. The new one is Symphony #6.

[bergerINK]

some cool back round about this guy. He is a Russian composer and he once composed a some that was so bad that Joseph Stalin said "if you don't right a better song ill have you shoot!". That song must have sucked...

[joshhfrye]

@bergerINK trying to read this reply made my brain hurt.

[Bromthebard]

@bergerINK Not necessarily, Joseph Stalin shot random people for fun, it may have sucked, but Joseph Stalin was horrible and evil, he was responsible for more deaths than anyone in history, even more than Hitler.

[padredemishijos12]

@Bromthebard Capitalism has done an even better job in genocide destroying the planet at the service of Capitalistic and investor greed.

[GangsterGiraffitti]

played this at camp, totally unforgettable