![2CELLOS - Shostakovich: Prelude [LIVE VIDEO]](http://web.archive.org./web/20140628024753im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/fKnOzPk7A1s/0.jpg "2CELLOS - Shostakovich: Prelude [LIVE VIDEO]")
![Dmitri Shostakovich - Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a (1960) [arr. Kelly]](http://web.archive.org./web/20140628024753im_/http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/ZLzrc7HNpG8/0.jpg "Dmitri Shostakovich - Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a (1960) [arr. Kelly]")
![Dmitri Shostakovich. Sonata for viola and piano Op. 147. [Complete] Kim Kashkashian - Robert Levin.](http://web.archive.org./web/20140628024753im_/http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/s0Mh9qGSOcc/0.jpg "Dmitri Shostakovich. Sonata for viola and piano Op. 147. [Complete] Kim Kashkashian - Robert Levin.")
3:54
Dmitri Shostakovich - Waltz No. 2
Dmitri Shostakovich - Waltz No. 2....
published: 31 Jan 2009
author: TheWickedNorth
Dmitri Shostakovich - Waltz No. 2
Dmitri Shostakovich - Waltz No. 2
Dmitri Shostakovich - Waltz No. 2.- published: 31 Jan 2009
- views: 3147904
- author: TheWickedNorth
55:08
Dmitri Shostakovich The Jazz album
Jazz Suites 1& 2,
Tahiti Trot
Concerto for piano, Trumpet and Strings
Roayal Concertgebow...
published: 10 Jan 2014
Dmitri Shostakovich The Jazz album
Dmitri Shostakovich The Jazz album
Jazz Suites 1& 2, Tahiti Trot Concerto for piano, Trumpet and Strings Roayal Concertgebow Orchestra Riccardo Chailly ... Shostakovich made a conscious attempt to write in a jazz idiom In 1934 he agreed To participate in a |azz-commission whose declared aim was to raise the level of Soviet jazz from popular 'cafe' music to music with a professional status. A competition was organised in Leningrad, and to encourage others Shostakovich wrote his three movement Jazz Suite No 1. This was followed in 1938 by his Second Jazz Suite, written at the request of the newly formed State Orchestra for Jazz and its conductor Victor Knushevitsky. Both suites reveal Shostakovich's brilliance and wit in orchestration, but the music hardly corresponds to the accepted understanding of jazz. Rather the composer utilises a light music idiom which he used extensively in his film and theatre music While the First Suite reflects the exuberance and decadence of the 1920s, the Second Suite is rooted in the Vienna of Johann Strauss, and has a forward eye to the Red Army... Elisabeth Wilson(from cd's booklet) ...ο Shostakovich έκανε μια συνειδητή προσπάθεια για να γράψει σε ένα jazz ιδίωμα. Το 1934 συμφώνησε να συμμετάσχει σε μία jazz -- επιτροπή της οποίας δεδηλωμένος στόχος ήταν να ανεβάσει το επίπεδο της Σοβιετικής jazz από τo επίπεδο της λαϊκής μουσικής των "cafe" σε μουσική με επαγγελματικό status.Ένας διαγωνισμός διοργανώθηκε στο Λένινγκραντ και για να ενθαρρύνει και άλλους ο Shostakovich έγραψε την Jazz SuiteΝo 1 σε τρία μέρη. Αυτή ακολουθήθηκε το 1938 από τη Jazz Suite Νο 2 , η οποία γράφτηκε μετά από αίτημα της νεοσύστατης Κρατικής Ορχήστρας για την jazz και τον μαέστρο της Victor Knushevitsky. Και οι δύο σουίτες αποκαλύπτουν τη λαμπρότητα και εξυπνάδα στην ενορχήστρωση του Shostakovich , αλλά η μουσική αυτή με δυσκολία συμφωνεί με αυτό που κοινώς αποδεχόμαστε και κατανοούμε ως jazz. Στα έργα αυτά μάλλον ο συνθέτης κάνει χρήση ενός ελαφρού μουσικού ιδιώματος το οποίο είχε χρησιμοποιήσει εκτενώς στη θεατρική και την κινηματογραφική του μουσική. Ενώ η πρώτη σουίτα αντικατοπτρίζει την πληθωρικότητα και την παρακμή της δεκαετίας του 1920, η δεύτερη σουίτα έχει τις ρίζες της στη Βιέννη του Johann Strauss και έχει στραμμένο το βλέμμα της προς τον κόκκινο Στρατό... Elisabeth Wilson (από το booklet του cd)- published: 10 Jan 2014
- views: 73
84:59
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 7 "Leningrad"
- Composer: Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September 1906 -- 9 August 1975)
- Orches...
published: 14 Feb 2014
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 7 "Leningrad"
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 7 "Leningrad"
- Composer: Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September 1906 -- 9 August 1975) - Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Conductor: Leonard Bernstein - Year of recording: 1988 Symphony No. 7 in C major (Leningrad), Op. 60, written in 1941. 00:00:00 - I. [War]. Allegretto 00:31:49 - II. [Memories]. Moderato (poco allegretto) 00:46:41 - III. [My Native Field]. Adagio 01:06:05 - IV. [Victory]. Allegro non troppo It is impossible to deny the overwhelming impact Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 had on its listeners in 1942: The Leningrad première was performed by the surviving musicians of the Leningrad Radio Orchestra, supplemented with military performers. Most of the musicians were starving, which made rehearsing difficult: musicians frequently collapsed during rehearsals, and three died. The orchestra was able to play the symphony all the way through only once before the concert. Shostakovich was not present at the première, because he had been evacuated. Even so, the performance received an hour-long standing ovation. Written by Shostakovich after he had been transported out of his besieged hometown of Leningrad, the Seventh is a patriotic hymn to his city and country and a rallying cry to the foes of fascism. Initially dedicated to the life and deeds of Vladimir Lenin, Shostakovich decided instead to dedicate the symphony to the city of Leningrad on its completion in December 1941. Its premiere in the U.S.S.R. was world news, and the securing its first performance rights in the West was contested by Toscanini, Stokowski, and Koussevitzky. Toscanini won, and the work was rapturously received and repeatedly performed. But even before the war had ended, the exalted position of the "Leningrad" Symphony had slipped, and commentators in the West derided it as pompous and prosaic. The symphony, rehabilitated from being a patriotic piece to being a subversive piece based on the purported testimony of Shostakovich, only later received regular performances in the West. The truth is that Shostakovich's Seventh is an enormous piece for a gargantuan orchestra set in four vast movements lasting more than 70-80 minutes in performances. - Its opening Allegretto, about half an hour in length, has proud and determined C major themes at its start and close, and a central section that takes a theme from Offenbach and turns it into a massive ostinato that overwhelms the C major themes with its brutal banality. - This is followed by a haunted Moderato of plucked strings and screeching woodwinds and by ... - a vast Adagio with stirring strings and bold brass. - The closing Allegro non troppo returns to the monumental style of the opening movement with grand and glorious themes culminating in an interminable C major climax. The truth is that the Seventh is a work of banal themes and bombastic climaxes, but Shostakovich's imagination and discipline have fused the banal and bombastic into an overwhelming musical work.- published: 14 Feb 2014
- views: 438
43:37
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5
- Composer: Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September 1906 -- 9 August 1975)
- Orches...
published: 24 Jan 2014
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5
- Composer: Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September 1906 -- 9 August 1975) - Orchestra: Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra - Conductor: Yevgeny Mravinsky - Year of recording: 1973 (Live in Tokyo, Japan) Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47, written in 1937. 00:00 - I. Moderato 14:56 - II. Allegretto (Scherzo) 20:04 - III. Largo 33:09 - IV. Allegro non troppo In 1936, the Soviet government launched an official attack against Dmitri Shostakovich's music, calling it "vulgar, formalistic, [and] neurotic." He became an example to other Soviet composers, who rightfully interpreted these events as a broad campaign against musical modernism. This constituted a crisis, both in Shostakovich's career and in Soviet music as a whole; composers had no choice but to write simple, optimistic music that spoke directly (especially through folk idioms and patriotic programs) to the people and glorified the state. In light of these circumstances, Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony (first performed in 1937) is a bold composition that seems to fly in the face of his critics. Although the musical language is pared down from that of his earlier symphonies, the Fifth eschews any hint of a patriotic program and, instead, dwells on undeniably somber and tragic affects -- wholly unacceptable public emotions at the time. According to the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, the government would certainly have had Shostakovich executed for writing such a work had the public ovation at the first performance not lasted 40 minutes. The official story, however, is quite different. An unknown commentator dubbed the symphony "the creative reply of a Soviet artist to justified criticism," and to the work was attached an autobiographical program focusing on the composer's metamorphosis from incomprehensible formalist to standard-bearer of the communist party. Publicly, Shostakovich accepted the official interpretation of his work; however, in the controversial collection of his memoirs (Testimony, by Solomon Volkov) he is quoted as saying: "I think it is clear to everyone what happens in the Fifth. The rejoicing is forced, created under threat...you have to be a complete oaf not to hear that." Regardless of its philosophical underpinnings, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 is a masterpiece of the orchestral repertory, poignant and economical in its conception. There is no sign of the excess of ideas so common in the Fourth Symphony. Instead, Shostakovich deploys the orchestra sparingly and allows the entire work to grow naturally out of just a few motives. Given some of his earlier works, the Fifth is conservative in language. Throughout the work he allows the strings to be the dominant orchestral force, making soloistic use of the woodwinds and horn especially effective. - The Moderato begins with a jagged, foreboding canon in the strings that forms the motivic basis for the entire movement. The impassioned mood is occasionally interrupted by a lyrical melody with string ostinato, later the subject of a duet for flute and horn. - The second movement (Allegretto) is a grotesque 3/4 dance which, at times, can't help but mock itself; the brass section is featured prominently. - The following Largo, a sincere and personal outpouring of musical emotion, is said to have left the audience at the work's premiere in tears. Significantly, it was composed during an intensely creative period following the arrest and execution of one of Shostakovich's teachers. - The concluding Allegro non troppo has been the center of much debate: some critics consider it a poorly constructed concession to political pressure, while others have made note of its possible irony. While the prevailing mood is triumphant, there is some diversion to the somber and foreboding, and it is not until the end that it takes on the overtly "big-finishy" character for which it is so noted.- published: 24 Jan 2014
- views: 1446
78:34
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 7 in C major, "Leningrad", Op. 60
Barcelona Symphony and Catalonia National Orchestra Pablo González, director / conductor L...
published: 29 Aug 2012
author: Ignat Frangyan
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 7 in C major, "Leningrad", Op. 60
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 7 in C major, "Leningrad", Op. 60
Barcelona Symphony and Catalonia National Orchestra Pablo González, director / conductor L'Auditori concert hall The symphony is written in the conventional ...- published: 29 Aug 2012
- views: 34859
- author: Ignat Frangyan
20:33
Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 8
Composer: Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September 1906 -- 9 August 1975) - Performe...
published: 03 Jul 2013
author: ollavogala
Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 8
Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 8
Composer: Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September 1906 -- 9 August 1975) - Performers: "Stoney Creek String Quartet" Kenneth Trotter, violin Ashlyn ...- published: 03 Jul 2013
- views: 335
- author: ollavogala
3:39
Dmitri Shostakovich - The second waltz
x....
published: 02 Sep 2011
author: Diana Chiva
Dmitri Shostakovich - The second waltz
9:33
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No.7 "Leningrad" 4th Movement Part 1
The finale of this epic symphony. Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4tfNHBHhiU....
published: 03 Oct 2008
author: DrNguyenVanThoc
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No.7 "Leningrad" 4th Movement Part 1
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No.7 "Leningrad" 4th Movement Part 1
The finale of this epic symphony. Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4tfNHBHhiU.- published: 03 Oct 2008
- views: 290401
- author: DrNguyenVanThoc
59:25
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 / Dudamel · Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela
Gran presentación de la Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil Simón Bolivar en el festival Proms de l...
published: 12 Feb 2012
author: Josep489
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 / Dudamel · Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 / Dudamel · Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela
Gran presentación de la Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil Simón Bolivar en el festival Proms de la BBC año 2007, dirigida por Gustavo Dudamel e interpretando la Sin...- published: 12 Feb 2012
- views: 117154
- author: Josep489
3:21
Dmitri Shostakovich - Romance (from The Gadfly)
Title :Dmitri Shostakovich - Romance (from The Gadfly)...
published: 28 Jul 2008
author: ClassicalMusicOnly
Dmitri Shostakovich - Romance (from The Gadfly)
Dmitri Shostakovich - Romance (from The Gadfly)
Title :Dmitri Shostakovich - Romance (from The Gadfly)- published: 28 Jul 2008
- views: 1279609
- author: ClassicalMusicOnly
3:43
Dmitri Shostakovich - Waltz 2 Russian Waltz - Happy New Year 2013
Nie, nie, niech nigdy nie łamie czasomierz rozkosznego walca... Dotykam twej sukni kochani...
published: 29 Dec 2012
author: SzAniaSz
Dmitri Shostakovich - Waltz 2 Russian Waltz - Happy New Year 2013
Dmitri Shostakovich - Waltz 2 Russian Waltz - Happy New Year 2013
Nie, nie, niech nigdy nie łamie czasomierz rozkosznego walca... Dotykam twej sukni kochanie... Wirujesz jak nimfa na palcach! I szybciej... i szybciej, ws...- published: 29 Dec 2012
- views: 40393
- author: SzAniaSz
28:45
Dmitri Shostakovich: Sonata in D Minor, Op. 40
David Starkweather, cello; Damon Denton, piano; Recorded 9/30/2011 in Ramsey Concert Hall,...
published: 22 May 2012
author: David Starkweather
Dmitri Shostakovich: Sonata in D Minor, Op. 40
Dmitri Shostakovich: Sonata in D Minor, Op. 40
David Starkweather, cello; Damon Denton, piano; Recorded 9/30/2011 in Ramsey Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center, The University of Georgia http://www.music...- published: 22 May 2012
- views: 828
- author: David Starkweather
38:01
Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 15
String Quartet No. 15 in E flat minor, Op. 144 (1974) I. Elegy II. Serenade III. Intermezz...
published: 06 Aug 2013
author: pelodelperro
Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 15
Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 15
String Quartet No. 15 in E flat minor, Op. 144 (1974) I. Elegy II. Serenade III. Intermezzo IV. Nocturne V. Funeral March VI. Epilogue Kim Kashkashian, viola...- published: 06 Aug 2013
- views: 4
- author: pelodelperro
35:33
Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 15
- Composer: Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September 1906 -- 9 August 1975)
- Perfor...
published: 19 Jan 2014
Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 15
Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 15
- Composer: Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September 1906 -- 9 August 1975) - Performers: Emerson String Quartet - Year of recording: 1994 (Live at Harris Concert Hall, Aspen, Colorado, USA) String Quartet No. 15 in E flat minor (Op. 144), written in 1974. 00:00 - I. Elegy: Adagio 12:42 - II. Serenade: Adagio 18:28 - III. Intermezzo: Adagio 20:07 - IV. Nocturne: Adagio 24:38 - V. Funeral March: Adagio molto 29:14 - VI. Epilogue: Adagio This was Shostakovich's last string quartet, and one of the most moving of all his compositions. Like most of the composer's late works, it is an introspective meditation on mortality, and it is arguably the most intimate and cryptic quartet in the cycle. The profound melancholy of the music is akin to a requiem. His concern with death is clearer here than in any other chamber work. The composition was started in February 1974 and completed three months later in a Moscow hospital on 17th May 1974. The quartet is written in the mysterious but traditionally morbid key of E flat minor and bears no dedication. It was premiered in Leningrad by the Taneiev Quartet on 15 November 1974 (one of only two Shostakovich quartets not premiered by the Beethoven Quartet). - "Play the first movement so that flies drop dead in mid-air and the audience leaves the hall out of sheer boredom"...were Shostakovich's strange instructions for its performance, but his advice can be understood when the movement is heard. The elegy is sombre, unhurried and peaceful. It starts with a fugue, but this quickly ceases after all four voices have been heard. The second theme is in C major and suggests the innocence of the first quartet. But the music seems not to progress. It seems that time has ceased; that we are in a platonic world of perfection and beauty, where change is impossible; an incorruptible world of motionless eternity. - The opening of the next movement, the serenade, remains indelibly in the memory. The motionless world of the elegy is scattered by four sets of three searing cries that break out one after another from the first and second violin and the viola. The first is in B flat and refers back to the 13th Quartet which ended on a similarly sustained pitch. Each, equal in duration, start ppp and expand to sffff. Are they screams of anguish? Their significance is not revealed but their effect is to introduce change and motion; time is moving again. These cries recur during the movement, before a tortured waltz appears. - Then the next movement begins, an intermezzo, introduced through a deep pedal, and a dramatic solo violin cadenza occurs before... - the nocturne emerges. A simple march rhythm becomes apparent which leads to... - the funeral march. Slowly, however, the passion subsides and... - the final movement, the epilogue, begins. This movement based on the final eight bars of the first recalls its sense of timelessness although without making reference to its fugue. The music, depleted of energy, culminates in a fateful and bleak viola solo only to terminate in a despairing morendo. Approximately 35 minutes in length, the work is unforgettably death-bonded. We sense that these are the composer's final words and that the whole cycle of quartets has terminated. We have traveled from the innocence of the first quartet into a world full of memories, pain, resignation, peace and death. Significantly too, but only to be expected from this composer, we know that with the key signature of six flats we cannot travel any further: we are now at the greatest tonal distant from the C major of the first quartet; the journey took 36 years.- published: 19 Jan 2014
- views: 420
Vimeo results:
3:41
Dmitri Shostakovich Jazz Suite, Waltz No 2
published: 21 Jul 2013
author: Sonja
Dmitri Shostakovich Jazz Suite, Waltz No 2
1:50
Compositing Showreel 2012 (2009-2012)
I have Updated my showreel recently.
Included projects:
John Carter (*new project added...
published: 29 Jan 2013
author: Vlad Akhtyrskiy
Compositing Showreel 2012 (2009-2012)
I have Updated my showreel recently.
Included projects:
John Carter (*new project added)
Chronicles of Narnia
Marmaduke
Robin Hood
Prince of Persia
I have removed some shots and have changed the cut.
I am waiting to get my shots from Dark Shadows to update the current version.
Music: Dmitri Shostakovich "Russian waltz"
1:24
Light Me Up (ITP Winter Show Preview)
We went to a preview of the ITP Winter Show. Naturally, we improvised a little iphone vide...
published: 18 Dec 2011
author: Ronen V
Light Me Up (ITP Winter Show Preview)
We went to a preview of the ITP Winter Show. Naturally, we improvised a little iphone video.
Interactive WallLight by Dong Ik Shin (http://itp.nyu.edu/~dis244/blog)
Thierry Van Biesen (http://ThierryVanBiesen.tumblr.com)
Cherien Dabis (http://www.amreeka.com/html/cw.html)
Music by Dmitri Shostakovich (http://bit.ly/tZkiOq)
http://RONENV.COM
0:00
Henri Matisse
Matisse (1869 - 1954) used colors like nobody else. Modern commercial art is heavily infl...
published: 21 Oct 2007
author: Sundroid
Henri Matisse
Matisse (1869 - 1954) used colors like nobody else. Modern commercial art is heavily influenced by the way he constructed his paintings with seemingly simple, yet entirely brilliant, strokes. The soundtrack is "Lyric Waltz" by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975).
Youtube results:
74:26
Shostakovich Against Stalin
Documentary on how composer Dmitri Shostakovich used his Fourth to Ninth Symphony as a sil...
published: 28 May 2012
author: artchannel333
Shostakovich Against Stalin
Shostakovich Against Stalin
Documentary on how composer Dmitri Shostakovich used his Fourth to Ninth Symphony as a silent protest against the crimes of Stalin.- published: 28 May 2012
- views: 6371
- author: artchannel333
6:57
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No.8 in C minor, Op. 65 - Allegro non troppo -
Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich
Conductor: Mstislav Rostropovich
Orchestra/Ensemble: Nati...
published: 28 Jul 2013
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No.8 in C minor, Op. 65 - Allegro non troppo -
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No.8 in C minor, Op. 65 - Allegro non troppo -
Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich Conductor: Mstislav Rostropovich Orchestra/Ensemble: National Symphony, Washington, D. C., London Symphony Orchestra, Academic Symphony Orchestra Of The Moscow State Philharmonic Dmitri Shostakovich wrote in 1956:"I deeply regret that the Eighth Symphony, in which I put so much of my heart and reason, has not been played for long years. I tried to express in this work the experiences the people had gone through, and catch the terrible tragedy of the war. The Eighth Symphony, written in the course of 1943, is an answer to what happened in this difficult time ; this seems to me perfectly justified". Indeed, the premiere on 4th November 1943 in Moscow of the Eighth Symphony conducted by Evgeni Mravinski got a reserved reception due to its tragic tone, insufficiently balanced by a conclusion tinged with unanswered resignation. The Eighth Symphony is considered as one among Shostakovich's highest masterpieces, if not his very summit, and a major work in the 20th century. Dmitri Shostakovich is nowadays considered as the Beethoven of the 20th century, probably because as this famous predecessor he composed heroic works, which embody the aspirations of the people of his time, and a set of quartets in which he freely expressed his inner thoughts and feelings. The opposition between public, official monumental works and intimate ones is typical of the composer, torn between his prominent but imposed political role in the Soviet Union, and its artistic search for independence. This schizophrenic duality is emblematic of the entire works by Shostakovich, and it took Western countries a long time to recognise and understand it, as most people were unaware of the skill an artist had to develop to survive in the hardest times of the Soviet Union. It was not before the release in 1979 of "Testimony, the Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich" by Solomon Volkoff, that Shostakovich's role as true supporter of the Soviet regime was widely reconsidered. Photo:Viktor Bulla's Pioneers in Defense Drill, Leningrad (1937) Links: Dmitri Shostakovich's life and works are well documented on the Internet, but two of them are a good starting point : Dmitri Shostakovich International Association, France DSCH Journal, USA & France - All Rights Reserved -- published: 28 Jul 2013
- views: 43
39:13
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 12: The Year 1917
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 12: The Year 1917....
published: 28 Apr 2012
author: TheWickedNorth
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 12: The Year 1917
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 12: The Year 1917
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 12: The Year 1917.- published: 28 Apr 2012
- views: 45229
- author: TheWickedNorth
