Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 / Dudamel · Berliner Philharmoniker

[macintosh315]

which movement is this?

[edititovv]

Espectacular Gustavo...!!! El nuevo concepto de una verdadera direccion....!!! Buenisimo...!!! Que sigan los exitos y todo de memoria....!!!

[rezamccartney]

Wuenaaak tenan iki

[unsend001]

Eso es puro orgullo Venezolano. Mi hermoso país.. ADELANTE!! <3

that's pure Venezuelan pride.. My beautiful country GO! <3

[123pfflyers]

The sound engineers were at the top of their game on this one. This hall is a great acoustic masterpiece indeed.

[jimmymiata]

@jason101other there is not such a thing as "the best orchestra in the world" there are many top orchestra's and do not forget conductors, because they have an enormous influence on the orchesta, orchestra's playing the same part, can sound very differently lead by another conductor who has a different view on how a certain peace of music should sound like. So some orchestra's excel in playing Bach other are magnificent playing Mozart, like paintings today Rembrandt and tomorrow van Gogh

[redeyesdrogon786]

at 1:41 looks likes the guy is constipating 

[jhutch1463]

I always think of Fellini's 8 1/2 score when I hear this movement. Its not it, though....Love it. What a joy. Cuts off too soon...

[sma8282]

This is one of the most exhilarating pieces I've ever played. haha love this piece

[zoe203203]

This is pure motivation to practice more :). literally my favorite piece, favorite conductor, favorite orchestra!

[92yanes]

id just been revived. this is over the top of the top.

[realpianistcomposer]

That bassoonist at 2:03 is cute! (Also a good bassoonist.)

[yntelectual]

Is it just me or has anyone heard the sound at 1:40 in some movie or movie trailer? I am pretty sure I've heard it before just can figure out where.

[jaykay2003]

@yntelectual

Wouldn't surprise me. Almost every composer in the movie business stole from Prokofiev... ;-)

[mariusfelix]

@jaykay2003 I wished, they stole even more...

[peppersax]

@jaykay2003 Especially Bernard Herrmann (Psycho) and Danny Elfman (who BTW, I love both of them):)

[1banez]

@peppersax Also John Williams for Superman and Bernstein for Candide, etc. etc.

[Bazemazter]

the wiener philharmonic orchestra is much better for classical pieces than the berliner philharmonic orchestra

[PhiliptheFace]

its amazing at 1:06 how the woodwind players move together. amazing!

[jason101other]

I agree, best orchestra in the world. They are golden on anything they play.

[Supermabelina]

PROKOFIEEEEEEVVVVVVVV!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!

[msmcluz]

Ouvir a Orquestra Filarmônica de Berlim é divino!!!

It"s amazing!!!

[JC5268]

9 retards doesn't know what Prokofiev is

[andrewbautista23]

lol wth! isn't that the guy from Coheed and Cambria??!

[JC5268]

This conpletely changed my view towards Prokofiev.

[sturthesoup11]

I want to see them live so badly!

[padredemishijos12]

At 2:28 you can see the first Latino and the youngest member, at eighteen, ever to join the BPO, Edicson Ruiz countryman of Gustavo Dudamel. Thank you Venezuela.

[SchwarzeDose21]

@padredemishijos12 which instrument? who?

[padredemishijos12]

@SchwarzeDose21 He plays the double base. He beat out ninty four who auditioned for the rare opening at the BPO. At seventeen, he was the youngest musician admitted in the 100 year history of the BPO, and the first Latino ever.

[padredemishijos12]

@SchwarzeDose21 He plays the double base, and his head is turned. He beat out ninty four who auditioned for the rare opening at the BPO. At seventeen, he was the youngest musician admitted in the 100 year history of the BPO, and the first Latino ever. Check "Edicson Ruiz koussevitzky" on youtube.

[SchwarzeDose21]

@padredemishijos12 thanks! the video, you suggested is awesome! never thought, that a double bass can sound so nice :)

[1130323]

ドゥダメルにベルリン・フィルでこの曲の

CD出してほしい！

[BFL0W]

THIS IS MY FUCKING FAVORITE SYMPHONY OF ALL TIME.

love this... oh my god I love this piece

THANK YOU FOR FFFIIINNNAALLLYYY uploading it!!!

<3

[MomSaysImCool]

Prokofiev/Dudamel 2012!

[avakrob]

I wish you people would stop quarreling about what the Germans did and what the Russians did, and Hitler and Trotsky and Jews... what the hell does those stupid discussions of you full-time idiots have to do with Prokofiev here? go get yourselves killed somewhere in a cafe fight or something, don't disturb.... do you have anything sensible to say about Prokofiev? no, then put a sock in it and ***ck off....

[LLJtbone]

Very good bro, way to tell'em ;-)

[TedMichaelMorgan]

@avakrob Amen!

[TruthInErnst]

@avakrob Um, the political climate in the USSR had a great deal to do with Prokofiev..

[MrVitalist]

Wish I could hear this live... The thema sounds in my head all the day. I think it is addictive :)

[LordMSh]

I think Beethoven would love this..

[iansquared3]

what kind of brass instrument is that at 1:40?

[MD051]

@iansquared3

That is a german rotary valve trumpet in C, made by Schagerl (Austria).

[iansquared3]

@MD051 thank you for the quick, concise, and informational response!

[EDGJZConglomerate]

Quite the melodist is Prokofiev.  What movement is this by the way?

[yblily77]

@EDGJZConglomerate

its 2nd movement - allegro marcato

[EDGJZConglomerate]

Quite the melodist is Prokofiev.

[sieracki001]

I guess you would write a good tune too if Stalin was looking over your shoulder. I imagine each note was accompanied with a thought of a sub-zero gulag, being shot in the back of the head or being worked to death on fruitless projects if it was not "acceptable". These things happened regularly.

[Coletta100]

Dudamel brings South American fire to this piece ! All is great !

[pedroipucheriva]

Last week I could watch live for free at the Berliner Philharmoniker Digital Concert Hall The TERESA CARREÑO YOUTH SYMPHONY of Venezuela performing Beethoven's 5th with Christan Vásquez and Prokofiev's 5th with Sir Simon Rattle himself.

It was a wonderful experience that gave me the inspiration for making the JAZZ FUNERAL SYMPHONY video on Ipuche Riva's 5th.

I strongly recommend the Digital Concert Hall to everyone. It is worth the 150 Euros year subscription if you really love Music.

[UranumPlanet]

Я русский. И я никогда неслышал эту симфонию. Позор мне! Признаюсь.

[olin97217]

Pretty terrific. Just heard the Oregon Symphony perform this. No flies on them!!!!

[Absolutegreek89]

Not to be Shallow, but second oboe player is very good looking.

[NiceVideos11]

@Absolutegreek89

Yes I agree... so is the first Bassoonist....

[pleasantblue]

I absolutely enjoy Prokofiev's sensitivity.

[prokofiev91]

amazing!

[BrucknerMotet]

At 0:56 the second President of the United States, John Adams, returns from the other side to make a brisk, reedy cameo. 

[SuinjaoRaosue1]

It's just beautiful !!

suinjaoraosue

[camb1989]

wow extraordinary beginning!! :D

[wilsa863]

Wonderfull everything, Gustavo, the orchestra, the music...amazing combination!!!

[MegaBrunoski]

I like how this sounds, but I don't know how to play any instrument!

[monono954]

first chair looks "soooooo" stiff, has anyone else noticed?

[Trezzi13]

Dudamel & Prokofiev espíritos juvenis! Fantástico!

[GregHales]

CD worthy.  Deutsche Grammophon are you listening?

[xRaito09x]

2:01 is that a 5 Stringed Double Bass? o_O

[MrBeethoven333]

@xRaito09x- Yes, most perfessional Bassist would rather have a fifth string attached to their bass then an extension. The fifth string can be a C or a Bb. The extension on the otherhand, you have 5 switches you have to flip to obtain a certain tone each time.

[jacobflaschen]

@xRaito09x Holy crap, it looks like it

[MrBeethoven333]

i love an all german bow bass section.

[geezeret]

Half of which AREN'T German, and one's from el Systema....sheesh! But the Berlin Phil is tops.

[tim23z]

Berlin's really good. But I think both the Concertgebauw and Cleveland may have edged past them.

[blechmusik]

You are funny!

[pljms]

This is so beautifully played.

[violaissimmo]

So that's an Eb clarinet at 0:58, right? That guy plays it so well! I really like that part and also at 1:16 when he has that high ringing note! It's rings in my ear like nothing ever has!

[QkTruth]

epic begining

[billyguns2]

Dudamel is extremely talented, and the Berliners are the best orchestra in the world.

[Sinfoniette]

Really? But this performance has no Russian fire to this. It seems like Dudamel did get the bombastic orchestration but he doesn't get what Prokofiev tried to show.

[billyguns2]

Read carefully what I wrote: "Dudamel is extremely talented and the Berliners are the best orchestra in the world." I made no comment about style or musicality; sometimes I'm too subtle for anyone to understand what I'm saying. :-( There was a lot of psychic communication in my house. :-) You will admit that this orchestra is one of the musical wonders of the world, yes?

[Sinfoniette]

Well - you did favorite it and there are better examples of Dudamel and the BPO out there...but why this one? But yes, the BPO is darned talented.

[billyguns2]

I like this movement.

[lbrinin1701]

@billyguns2 I have played professionally in orchestras for 30 years but I derive enormous satisfaction and pleasure from every Berliner Philharmoniker video and audio recording, they are so inspiring to me, they keep me young

[migratorymigrant]

Mainstream performance! Nothing like the RSNO under Neeme Järvi in Glasgow. But nice try by the Berlin Phil.

[koolu99]

Sacrilegious as it may sound, the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra with Dudamel in the same repertoire sound way more convincing. Maybe the jaded buffed musicians of the BPO need more tyrant like conductors to wake them up from their stupor. It is a sentiment shared by many in Berlin these days. It is a shame. I am ever so grateful that I still have my Furtwangler recordings with the orchestra.

[Monoguillermo]

may be yo should play that instruments or maybe you have to be the director its easy say the things

[alejoeisabel]

I believe that BPO is challenged when performing Soviet composers such as Shostakovich 12. No revolutionary fire. The Bolivar and Dudamel have it. I suspect some BPO musician are offended by it. The Bolivars do it and mean it. Sadly, this attitude is also shared by the Russian musicians whom many are nationalists.

[turbacamp]

Part of being an artist is being able to interpret and assimilate different time periods and their historical meanings. It is impossible to have lived every situation. For instance,I doubt current musicians lived through the classical period yet they perform Mozart...

[thatmusic]

There is no reason a conductor should be uptight. We are humans, music makes us want to move. It is part of who we are. Dudamel is setting an outstanding example for the history of music.

[alejoeisabel]

Dudamel has a profound understanding of this piece. He has memorized the score. Few conductors are capable of this. This shows his extreme intelligence. He is setting a new standard for conductors. Check out Christian Vasquez doing Mahler's 2nd. He has replaced Dudamel in the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra in Venezuela.

[ScriabinFanatic]

Dudamel is great, ever performance I hear conducted by him is always A+ work.

[Josefrainer]

Hi folks, get into the BPhO's "Digital Concert Hall" - get a ticket for 30 days f.e. (€ 39,-) where you can watch and listen to the archive recordings of all concerts of the 2008/09 season. Or get a seasonal ticket - it's worthwhile let me tell you. You can even be part of a direct live transmission, which of course is kind of strenuous when you live in the US or the pacific area. Bruckner at 4:00 a.m is - well - for special tastes I'd say:)

[ArturoAlejandroS]

My favourite symphony of Prokovief.Very good perforamnce.

[atralfalgar]

You're totaly right ! The 5th symphony is the most perfect

[klokheten]

This movement from the fifth symphony is pure magic. Prokofievs motives is so strong,exciting and beautiful!

[sbsh002]

Wonderful!

[yocreo]

Que podemos decir......sin palabras......Dudamel le has puesto sabor a esta obra.  Bellisimo!!!!

Simply no words. Dudamel just added the exact amount of exquisite flavor..... as always.... Beautiful

[redhotchiliangel]

Sabor a una sinfonía de Prokofiev?, Yo diria que su talento sin duda se demuestra, pero sabor?

[fiskal]

that guys definantly on acid...

[pablinichiri]

5/5 mis mil respetos, eres un genio, un maesstro en LAS ORQUESTAS, y amante de la buena excelente musica =D

thanks, dude youre music is cool, check my videoresponse, i hope you like it. =D

[zapamax]

Muy buen video de dudamel, se ve q le puso burda, me gusto tanto el video q me meti en la pagina de la filarmonica de berlin a ver el trailer.

Rachmaninoff lo toco super fino de hecho me parecio ver destellos de bernstein en el :).

despues Mullova y ese stradivarius quemando la sala (recuerdo la primera vez q escuche a Victoria un pana q me puso el cd Through The Looking Glass me quede loco :) ) y luego termina con este video de Prokofiev.

Fino fino !!!

[oboistCONDUCTOR]

WONDERFUL. .As we dreamed in Venezuela when we were studentsthanks to Abreu .Now a venezuelan conducts!The power of dreams is fantastic. Everything as every musician likes:articulation, sound, precision.FANTASTIC

[narutofan0461]

I spy not only a Bb but also and Eb clarinet. One day I too wish to play like this.

[mbotaola]

with no partiture!  awesome!!

I love it!

[ninaflute]

very exciting!

[machiris]

its a good performance but dudamel its too overrated he didnt bring anything new to this music, its just a reading, when this music needs to pass trough the artists to make it unique, for example the george szell reading what a wonderful and unique version, and thats really important to any artist that has the kind of praise that dudamel has, and its the reason why i think he is not up tha that level yet.

[Chematico]

I hope that they forgive me, but I believe that it is custión of tastes, and respect your opinions, but this boy is revolutionizing the classic music all over the world, and is from a tropical country, is Latin, and many do not want to understand it, because they wanted to have the director with complicated surname directing the philharmonic of Berlin or the philharmonic of Vienna!

[Marlene55M]

I totally agree. Dudamel is young, fresh, enthusiastic about music and very talented. I had the pleasure to see him and the Simon Bolivar orchestra in Sept. 08 - it was just fantastic.

Of course, those who are Karajan-believers will not appreciate this latin, young freshness.

I do. :-)

[Erunno89]

Karajan was amazing...I wish I was around when he was. I was born a few months after his death.

But I do enjoy Dudamel. He pulls the right amount of energy from the orchestra. They all look, and sound, like they are having a ball.

I enjoy his movements, it adds spice to the music.

Did 60 minutes do a thing on Dudamel? I remember watching something online about a new, rising, conductor. It was good.

[Marlene55M]

Yes, there is a 60 min. thing. If you search for DUDAMEL 60 MINUTOS you will probably find it.

I guess that every orchestra playing with him has great fun.

[Chematico]

I believe that that posting this, they do not have idea of what is a jewel in brute! Dudamel is a person who with any orchestra can touch up to the soul, many people think that it is a overated, but we have a very popular saying that he says, nobody is a golden currency to sympathize with the whole world!

[hlup]

prokofiev - one of the great Russian composers!

[revoltz7]

Yep :) - He could write a tune, that Prokofiev!

[jazzobassoon]

very nice

[jaiobie]

The conductor isn't over stated. Look at any revered conductor in their 20s and you'll see them jumping all over the place. It's just the nature of a young person. Look at Celibidache for example, conducting in the 1950s and then again in the 90s. Massive difference (obviously). We need people like Dudamel to get the mothball smell out of classical music.

[Chematico]

Exactly! we need it!

[Lonegan63]

Great Berliner Philharmoniker....but Dudamel I think that is overstated

[MUSICOSO58]

Dudamel is great¡¡¡

[Lonegan63]

La opinión de un compatriota suyo no es objetiva..Dudamel tiene que madurar todavía mucho. Dirigir a las mejores orquestas del mundo como la Berliner o a la Fca de Viena no significa que todo lo que haga sea oro..

[Harle4]

I dont want to be mean or anything, but what is it with replies in other languages? If you want to talk about the music, do so in english. it's an international language...

[Lonegan63]

Yes, of course, but the spanish language also is universal. It's spoken by more than 300 million people.

(previous traduction: The opinion of a compatriot of Dudamel is not objective..Dudamel has to mature still very much. Lead the best orchestras of the world as the Berliner Ph..or the Wiener Ph. doesn't mean that every piece that lead is gold..)

ps. my english is poor...sorry

[ehtonal]

if we are speaking of a russian composer, shouldn't we be speaking russian?

if we are speaking of a german orchestra, shouldn't we be speaking german?

[antoniotvfan]

actually that's not really okay, 'cause not everyone will understand you.. but what Lonegan63 made isn't okay either, he began on english and then commented on spanish... I mean, if you want to speak spanish do so, there will be someone else talking spanish (like me), but if you talk on english you may keep talking on english at least on that comment...

anyway I LOVE the fact youtube is full of many languages, but don't abuse of that...

[antoniotvfan]

lovely music, maybe not the best of BPO, but really impressive...

adorable musica, tal vez no lo mejor del BPO, pero realmente impresionante...

[Harle4]

technically, yes. but youtube is owned by an american company (google) and is thus english. i just think it's easier to communicate that way, too. i just hate when we're having a discussion about this brilliant music and someone's replying in another language...

[Chematico]

En eso está amigo, en eso está!

[SharpHarp99]

I love how Dudamel brings South American fire to this piece (instead of the usual Stalinistic hammering). He reveals the bravura that Prokofiev in fact applied to it. Excellent performance!!

[Sinfoniette]

This piece is all about Stalinistic hammering!

[Lonegan63]

What relationship has stalinism with Prokofiev music? I believe that anything. Some are seeing ghosts in the staves...I think..

[Sinfoniette]

So, are the staves merely an instruction to make a nice sound...? Quoting Mahler, a composer wouldn't compose something he can express on words (or something like that). This symphony expresses similar things with a lot of Shostakovich's symphonies, the opression by Stalin and the totalitarian dictator.

[alejoeisabel]

I know that Shostakovich hated Stalin, and I suspect admired Trotsky. He was luckier than Federico Garcia Lorca, killed by Franco.

[Sinfoniette]

and thus the Poulenc violin sonata was written for the death of Lorca.

[dicthash]

@alejoeisabel

I know that you know bullshit. There are no evidence whether Shostakovich hated or admired neither Stalin nor Trotsky. Shostakovich was very indifferent to politics.

And don't praise Trotsky who was the real murderer of Russian people for the sake of "World Revolution". Ok, man?

[alejoeisabel]

@dicthash You are mistaken, and you are a revisionist. Shostakovich's father was a Polish anarchist and anti tsar. After Stalin died, Shostakovich wrote the symphony that was closest to his heart, Symphony Number 12, 1917. In my opinion his best. Shostakovivh was a true believer, and above all a huminist.

[dicthash]

@alejoeisabel

1. you are wrong about Shosty's father he wasn't polish

2. that's all your "proofs"? that are not proofs by no way. that are only your insinuations

[dicthash]

@dicthash

Shosty was 100% russian.

[padredemishijos12]

@dicthash 75% Russian and 25% Polish Catholic from Belorus.

[mortalfrog0815]

@alejoeisabel after stalin died shostakovich wrote his 10th symphony, for example, the 2nd movement is a musical portait of stalin and shows his madness and inner agitation! he could never have done something like that when stalin was still alive!

[dicthash]

@mortalfrog0815

Shostakovich started his 10th symphony in late 1940th while Stalin was alive. Your conspiracy theory sucks.

[dicthash]

@alejoeisabel

Trotsky was a huge russophobe while Shosty was a true Russian patriot.

[padredemishijos12]

@dicthash Very doubtful. He was phobic to Russian Nationalist and the anti Jewish pogroms. He was however a Russian Anti-nationalist, ie, pro Soviet. He did after all establish the Red Army that smashed the German Army and defeated Germany, and saved the world and Russia from becoming Greater Germany. I think the world owes gratitude to Trotsky the ultimate anti Stalinist and pro Russian.

[dicthash]

@padredemishijos12

man, you are talking huge bullshit. I'm even shocked. Is this your propaganda that had created such a distorted picture of Russian history?

[padredemishijos12]

@dicthash My friend, those are the facts. The Germans planned to colonize Russia with Germans. They were more than pleased to do to the Russians what was done with the Jews and Communists of Europe. It was a German imperialist plan. You must be an admirere of Adolf Hitler the ultimate anti communist.

[oliee87]

@padredemishijos12 O RLY? and the US citizen says that? you, americans, colonized afganistan, iraq and stuff. and most of you can't point germany, russia and israel on the map. so just STFU and, at least, listen to this music.

[padredemishijos12]

@oliee87 You may be right about that. We in the USA learn about geography through our invasions. These are very expensive geography lessons. Did you know that Shostakovich is a Polish name from Beloruss? His grandfather was a Polish anarchist organizing the Czar's soldiers to resist and organize. When Poland was a Soviet ally, no Polish soldiers ever died. Now, as US vassel, Poland's soldiers are dying in the Middle East for the benefits of US oil companies. We are grateful for your deaths

[oliee87]

@padredemishijos12 you really try to be ironic but it didn't work. i've got piece of advice for you: take this money you spend on war and buy some books for all your kids. we should do the same, unfortunately... anyway, we don't just argue about thing we know nothing about on youtube. i really hope you, personally, will just read some reliable historic books and think it over once again. CU

[padredemishijos12]

@oliee87 We do not need to spend money on education because we can import cheep engineers from Poland and cheep scientist from the former Soviet Union. Look how much we save on education. We are very grateful for all your intellectual workers. If you have a low education we will be glad to accecpt you as a mercenary.

[ShadowOfLegends]

@padredemishijos12 lol you guys.

[padredemishijos12]

@dicthash Trotsky and Shostakovich were Communists, plain and simple. Those are the facts.

[dicthash]

@padredemishijos12

Trotsky was a jew and huge russophobe while Shosty was Russian. This is quite a difference.

[padredemishijos12]

@dicthash In the 1944 and 1945 German budget, they had set up funds for the next generation (improved) extermination camps which the Nazis had gained from the experience of exterminating Jews and Communists in occupied Europe. The plan was to depopulate all of Russia (Eurasia), and colonize it with Germans. That is a fact. 26 million Soviets died so that Russia would survive. Chilling but true.

[dicthash]

@padredemishijos12

I know this as I'm Russian. But do you know how this 26m figure is yielded? This figure is a root of a wide spread myth about soviet military losses.

[BernardProfitendieu]

do a little research (and I mean very little - it's right there on the surface!) into Prokofiev's live and you'll see a very distinct Stalin relationship

[SharpHarp99]

"all"? Well, it is also about colour, melody, esprit. And especially for the latter, Dudamel is the right man.

[Sinfoniette]

But without Stalinistic hammering here, its just extremely good music.

[ArturoAlejandroS]

I have read that it was composed as an optimistic motive,in 1944.

But the stalinist influence in the music and the opression,really is refelcted in teh music of DSCH and Prokofiev.

[bordaz1]

they stopped before the best part

[imsleepyanddead]

exactly!!!!!

[SonofDostojevskij]

Great music and orcestra, but i dont like this conduktur.

[Sinfoniette]

Agreed; I think a bit too much bravura?

[Melopoeticus]

I think a bit too much hair?

Just kidding... I prefer other conductors as well, but I maintain to think that Gustavo Dudamel did achieve a great excitement bow in this piece.