Dmitry Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5 in D minor op. 47 | Semyon Bychkov | WDR Symphony Orchestra 

Ok, this is perfection. Tempi, dinamics, phrasing, even the camera work, everything is just so spot on. Love Bychkov: brilliant conducting technique, serves the music, goes after every detail. Bravo WDR ⚡️

Perfect things doesn't exist. This for sure broke that rule. Truly legendary.

With the only first two notes, you already understand it is a magnificent performance to come.

WDR became one of my favorite classical music channels now. I just wish that clips were not cut too early. I want to see them get applause from the audiences

One of those symphonies I love to hear again and again... performed by all different orchestras.

such total bliss and delight ......what a stunning registration .....

Jeez. The precision, speed, and power, especially in the last movement. Incredible. 😱 So glad I found this recording!

You can hear the space in this performance, especially in the opening of the first movement - it breathes. A truly masterful rendition and I heard things that I have never heard in other recordings. I posted this exact comment 35 minutes earlier, using someone elses computer, not realising I was also using their account.

Das ist die beste Auffüheung dieser Sinfonie der Welt!Ich liebe das Orchestra und den Dirigenten Bychkov!🔝👌❤️

Une cinquième d'anthologie. Bychkov inspiré comme jamais, orchestre magnifique, et que dire de la prise de son et de la mise en images ! Bravissimo!!!

You can hear the space in this performance, especially in the opening of the first movement - it breathes. A truly masterful rendition and I heard things that I have never heard in other recordings.

This is such an exciting performance of the Shostakovich 5th. This music has inspired me since I was teenager with its power and emotional roller coaster ride. I have watched many of the orchestras perform this here on RU-vid but I think this is the most exciting to watch. The camera work is absolutely stunning. The lighting director also should win an award. This video is a real keeper and I shall return many times to enjoy. Bravo to all.

Please post Semyon Bychkov performing Shostakovich Symphony Nr. 4 and 8. The cinematography by Hans Hadulla is absolutely beautiful!

Congratulations on the exceptional recording, camera cuts, flawless audio, Semyon's singular conducting, and heartfelt interpretation. Hugs from Brazil.

I just found this video and wish I had found it when it was first released! This performance tops any performance I have heard. The energy and emotional strength the orchestra musicians create with Maestro Bychkov's direction is absolutely stunning. From the first notes you are immediately engaged in this performance. Thank you for sharing this with us!

WOW!!!! Bychkov is apsolutely STUNNING. And of coarse ORCHESTER!!!!!!!! BRAVO!!!

That has to the best ending I have ever heard. The cymbal crashes are spot on and the timpani drums are perfectly in tune. BRAVO

I was there during Triennale 2000, amazing concert! I think the Bychkov era in Köln was one of the best periods of the WDR.

Beautiful and powerful

I hear this Symphony for the first time as a whole. First movement with its main theme and glorious transformation technique and special instrumentation (like the glockenspiel at the end, or harp supporting second theme - subtle variation of the first). Second is a Mahlerian Scherzo. Third movement tries to hold the quiet lyricism of typical romantic symphony. Finally fourth... Although you here simplicity of harmony and texture everywhere, music is not naive or primitive. It's truly masterful response to the cruel Soviet authorities demanding Schostakovich to abandon formalism.

ビシュコフさん指揮ベルリン・フィルの録音よりショスタコーヴィチ5番の激しさが増しています!感情移入が、団員に伝わる素晴らしい演奏になっています😊

Camera work is superb❤❤

Well filmed. Nice to see the viola bit in the 1st mov at 6.14.

Damn!! One of the best performances of this piece!

Wasn’t expecting to see MTT on the flute.

Great performance and beautifully recorded. So much clarity and transparency. The way of directing the camera's reminds me of Klaas Rusticus. My teacher in multicam directing. Haven't seen that accuracy in cuts and beautiful close-ups in a long time. Dissolves are often mocked, but here the are truly of value 8:38 for example as if stepping though a golden door into an different (sonic) world.

What an orchestra!

For more years than I care to quote, my prized recording of this work has been the landmark Mercury release with Skrowaczewski and the Minneapolis orchestra. I think that performance of this work has just been deposed to second place, with this recording taking the honours at a clear first place. And 'clear' is one of the qualities of this performance from Bychkov and the Cologne ensemble. They play with the clarity of a chamber ensemble (helped, of course with the usual brilliance of the audio engineering - at which poimt I should equally compliment the video dirction), but the clarity is in no way impinging on the richness and passion of the reading. My only disappointment is my usual one - the loss or miniscule bite of audience reaction at the end. While this recording was apparently given its RU-vid airing a couple of years ago, it is a very welcome one. So many riches being released (or possibly re-issues?) on RU-vid, what else is coming from the WDR vaults?

Wow! amazing performance!

Fabulous. .....but.... in the finale at about 37:00 the cameras ignored one of the most famous trumpet solos of all time.

Hermoso, felicidades ❤

WDR and Semyon Bichkov at their best. Amazing 5th. Perhaps the best I've heard in my 82 years.By the way...the clarinet player (superb as the rest of them) must be a twin of Emma Watson...or not?

ビシュコフじゃ!! タコ5フィナーレ!! ティンパニ好きだわ!! ドコドコ!! バコバコ!! 耳をつんざく大音響!!!!!!! キーモティイイイイイーーーーッッッ!!!!!!!!

exciting

My favourite part is how the conductors face jiggles

I consider the greatest victory of Stalin to be the fact that when Shostakovich, Maria Yudina, etc. were mentioned, be sure to mention Him. It is unlikely that they dreamed about it and asked someone about it. But all the work is done by musicologists and authors of popular biographies ...

Very passionate and fine performance

After the debacle of "Lady Macbeth of Minsk" that nearly sent him to a Gulag or worst Chostakovitch compose this symphony as an excuse for his "liberties" with the former. Fully tonal, rich in melodies and harmonies is the most popular of his works. Was enthusiastically received when presented to the public all over the world and Stalin and the dreadful "Guild of Musicians" (whatever they were called) were appeased and forgave him. It still is the most pleasurable of his works, for me at least. The 4th, much richer and complex, previously composed (I guess) remained in a drawer (like most of his quartets) for many years until the black clouds dissipated, at least a little.

A return to Russia? Whether hailing from the former Soviet Union or not, a notable cadre of recent Slavic conductors exhibits a conducting style reminiscent of the Russian Orthodox tradition, as exemplified by the venerable K. Kondrashin. If we may venture to emphasize the term “tradition,” then the early Mravinsky stands out as the quintessential embodiment of this tradition. However, it is the fourth movement of the matured Mravinsky’s rendition in the 1980s that seems to typically diverge from this Russian orthodoxy altogether. In fact, this performance stands as one of his finest achievements, where Mravinsky deftly leveraged the strengths of non-orthodox musicians, including luminaries like Bernstein.

北ドイツ放送交響楽団とのライブも素晴らしい。CD化して欲しい。

What’s the concertmaster's name ?

10:15 Tarkan.

6:44... 777 24:01...

The end is colossal bombast.

Just wee bit overdramatic with the camera at 10:00-11:00, no?

Why does the conductor look like pat contri lol

too fast

Finale here is TOO draggy. I think conductors are in a personal contest to see how much they can drag it out.