Shostakovich plays Piano Concerto No 2 I. Allegro (1958)

Pt. 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JkOaTYvd5w
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102
Orchestre National De La Radiodiffusion Française
André Cluytens, conductor
Dmitry Shostakovich, piano

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[Jonahman10]

Think Of How Much More Interesting Life Would Be If This Played Everytime You Ate Breakfast.

[WeissmanPiano]

hahahha 5:23 the orchestra tries to slow him the f*ck down

[xxiPr0digy]

@swissarmyspoon01 well then...that's rather disheartening because this piece took me quite a while to learn...all summer in fact... :/

[swissarmyspoon01]

@xxiPr0digy Shosty wrote this for his son, who as 16 at the time. For a concert pianist, this is one of the easier concertos in the repertoire. As far as piano concertos go, it is around a 2 out of 10 for difficulty, but it can be 4 or 5ish if you want to play it as fast as Schostakovich, cleanly. It sounds harder than it is.

[MultiAlejo90]

I actually love the tempos on his performance. Shostakovich's own recordings of these concertos hold great value. Interpretation wise it's also superb imho. Pretty sure most people are just used to much slower renditions...

[sergen919]

180,000. viewer here.

[augustleroy]

lol not quite. on a scale 1-10 this is maybe a 3. this is an impressive sounding piece, but its not very difficult. the whole first movement is all in octaves. not much learning to do, and technically not hard. this recording should be cleaner, but i dont think shostakovich was concidered a top pianist, like prokofiev, and rachmaninoff at that time.

[navybluebutterfly9]

@xxiPr0digy On a scale to 1-10. I believe this piece is a 8-9 ( depending how fast you play it).

[xxiPr0digy]

Hmm...Can someone tell me how hard they would rate this piece on a scale of 1-10? i just want to know cause i am playing this in an opus with a professional orchestra so i guess you could say i have mastered this piece. i just want to know where i stand

[dhekar]

I had never heard this so extremely fast...

Probably I'm used to the Disney version I grew up with, but I prefer it a bit slower..

[AVCHonline]

the one thing really amazing me that is if this the real Shostakovich playing version, but the recording quality is just as new!

[AVCHonline]

yaa....he play it indeed too fast!!>< listen!! in 5:24 even the orchestra can't stand it try to put him back!

but i guess that's the Russian musican characteristic

but he is truely a great great player!!! hear those beautiful and clear as the pure glass sound!!it is really impressive!!!and the melody and harmony can be describe so perfectly!!