Schostakowitsch · Symphonie Nr. 8 · SWR Symphonieorchester · Teodor Currentzis · SWR Kultur 

This Performance of Shostakovich's 8th symphony is just outstanding. I must say, Teodor Currentzis did a marvelous job in conducting this. The more I listen to Shostakovich's music, the more convinced I am that he was a genius. I know he would have been proud of this performance. Thank you so much for uploading this concert for all to enjoy.

Wunderbares Orchester...wie immer...fabelhaft

Bravi!!!!!! 👏👏👏 Auch ein grosses Dankeschön an die Damen und Herren des SWR, die dafür sorgen, dass diese tollen Konzerte auch ausserhalb von BW gehört und miterlebt werden können.

Fantastische Interpretation dieser großartigen, Ehrfurcht gebietenden und bewegenden Sinfonie. Die erfahrenen Musiker spielen allesamt wundervoll. Vielen Dank fürs Hochladen.

I think that is the best performance of this Symphony! Amazing!!!!!

Fabulous work!! Never had heard of Currentzis (my bad) but became a fan, now. Hats off to the SWR too. Fantastic sound. Before watching (hearing) this film I had patiently seen (heard, one hour and a half) the one of the rehearsing of the 1st movement (LAB) of this piece. I can understand why another viewer (notarbolz926) calls Currentzis style interventionist. Stopping the orchestra every 30 seconds or so to change or modulate some thing must be wearisome to the musicians but the fact is that in a group of more then a hundred musicians, each one of them must have and idea how things should sound and that has to be, well, unified , if not...and Currentzis is very demanding. Every musician in this orchestra is "top gun" but the woodwinds... what a show! The piccolo, the bassoon, the flute... If you don't have the time, the patience or the taste for this kind of music at least hear the 2nd and 3rd movements. Just 12 minutes you will never forget.

Un chef passionné, une symphonie cataclysmique, qui exprime toutes les douleurs du monde, des vents à pleurer qui font saigner le cœur, merci à swr, quel cadeau ❤

Anhub mit Schwung. schillernd, drängend.Mit geballter Kraft, dann die Hervorhebung des zarten und tiefsinnigen Einzeltons, langsam einstimmende Streicher. Singularität in einer monumentalen Zusammenfasssung. Bravo.

Amazing! Best version I have heard....

凄まじい緊迫感。弱音と強奏のコントラストは驚くべきもの。静寂と祈り。引き込まれる美しさと狂暴が交互にやってくる。豊かさと鋭さ。クルレンティスの力量には圧倒され、舌を巻く。ＳＷＲの正確さと厚み、音楽性－人間性にも痺れる。

flute section 😎 only gold

Практически идеальное исполнение. Спасибо Оркестру, Теодору и великому Шостаковичу

38:00 bass trombonist showing his stuff, awesome

Superb performance, excellent sound, well done!!

Bravo SWR❤❤

Hugely powerful and moving performance!

Excellent Congratulations ❤

Intense performance! Please tell us we're getting a Currentzis/SWR Shostakovich cycle. Orchestra and conductor seem perfectly suited for the composer's aesthetics.

All wind instruments in the pasacaglia are glorious. Clarinetist the most, he handles the tempo freedoms in a wonderful way. Also the piccolo flute.

Fantastisch! Bravo

Μπραβο σε ολη την ορχηστρα κ τον υπεροχο Θεοδωρο Κουρεντζη ,που ενορχηστρωνει κ καθοδηγει ολους αυτους τους ταλαντουχους μουσικους! Σε περιμενουμε στο Ηρωδειο,Θεοδωρε!❤

What a beautiful, moving rendition of Shotsto's most intimate and personal pieces. Bravo!

Хорошо Теодор поработал с Оркестром, правильно выстраивает форму с динамикой--отличное исполнение!❤❤❤❤❤

Great performance and recording!!!

Прекрасное начало дня!!! Большое спасибо оркестру, Теодору за божественное исполнение великого произведения Д.Шoстаковича🙏🙏🙏

50:10 Hipster man has a beautiful clarinet. Beautifully played. And for sure plays better than me 😁

Great performance, muscular, intense, mysterious and otherwordly... Maestro and SWR Orchester in perfect match and understanding. Thank you very much for uploading!

Outstanding performance! I am not usually a fan of Currentzis' interventionist conducting style. Here he demonstrated his understanding of the work and lets the music speak for itself. Bravi! Great flute and piccolo playing in particular.

Really enjoyable. Thankyou.

Beautiful! Thank you

Wonderful performance! This introduced me to the conductor, Teodor Currentzis. A new favorite! Also, regarding the symphony itself, I love the woodwind fun @31:30-32:25

Μπράβο Θεόδωρε ❤

Великое ИСПОЛНЕНИЕ!!! СПАСИБО ТЕОДОР! СПАСИБО ОРКЕСТРУ! Шостакович очень был бы рад и счастлив за такое Исполнение! Гениально!❤

The prsonal moods of Chostakovitch interfered with his reactions to the kind of life he had to suffer in a complex and quite attractive way. This 8th symphony was written between the "Leningrad" 7th and the 9th, rather light and joyful when officials were waiting for a massive song of triumph celebrating the victory. This 8th symphony anticipates the mood of the 10Th and the desolated or sarcastic mood of hid last works. The rendering is splendid.

40:18 Clarinetists bottom left - There's always someone having fun with that part of the symphony 😅

Браво!🌹👏

Какие счастливчики - все, кто мог это слышать в концертном зале! Но видеосъемка - замечательна, всем музыкантам и Теодору - браво!

Phänomenal!

Part 1: 3:56 first mini build-up | 11:04 deep saddened | 14:14 | 26:56 | 42:44

I came across shosto( violin concerto#1)by … accident (attended a Megaron concert for other reasons), then I heard the Leningrad symphony, then his cello concerto#1… AND NOW THIS!!! Is it going to get even better than this??? Can it get any better? Grateful to the contributors of this

One of the best conductor nowadays.Awesome orchestra.English horn at the top.😀

36:14 viola solo, so powerful 😍

😂ara estic a la cuina , he portat sopar per ara i esmorzar per dema mati Us escolto , es una meravella aquest concert ❤

I've never seen an emo conductor before, sounds incredible tho!

Excelente interpretación, y también sonido impecable, con lo cual la obra adquiere una nueva dimensión. Currentzis demuestra una vez más su pasión por el repertorio más contemporáneo, a la vez que es capaz de embarcarse en el repertorio "clásico" con fuerza y expresividad muy suyas. Grandes músicos, los de esta orquesta. Grande Shostakóvich.

Brilliant!

素晴らしい演奏でした。ありがとうございます。

You should realize a complete Shostakovich cycle with Currentzis. This live concert is absolutely mindblowing. The best Shostakovich 8th I've ever heard since Haitink Decca legendary recording with the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

Για μία ακόμα φορά ο Θεόδωρος Κουρεντζής τόσο μέσα στο μυαλό του συνθέτη. Μία συγκλονιστικη ενσάρκωση! Μία ερμηνεία σχεδιασμένη στην λεπτομέρεια και την ίδια στιγμή καθοδηγουμενη από ένα ένστικτο απρόβλεπτο! Θεόδωρε Κουρεντζή, Maestro,έρχομαι στο Ηρώδειο γι αυτήν την μαγική σας ύλη. Είθε οι μέρες να περάσουν σύντομα, μέχρι να ανέβετε στο πόντιουμ, κάτω από το βλέμμα του Παρθενώνα!

Класс! Браво!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Somptueux...

Ja he arribat , a casa , estic al rebedor i us escolto

Good grief! What have I just listened to? Shostakovich as he should be played. That's what I just listened to. What a unique performance. I have only seen Teodor Currentzis superbly directing Mozart's piano concerto #20 on period instruments in Vienna. What a contrast this is! Thank you for portraying so well Shostakovich's lament about World War II not being the victory over fascism that the rest of the world thought it was going to be. (For Stalin was way worse than Hitler). Fantastic performance and a great video which, for once, did not sycophantly concentrate on the conductor at the expense of the rest of the instrumental playing. Again, thank you for bringing such majestic music to the public in such an authentic manner.

Very good performance by this orchestra, bravo. But of course nothing can surpass Kurt Sanderling / Berliner Sinfonieorchester. But everyone who likes Sanderlings timeless performance will like this one too. 🎉🎉🎉

39:40 trumpet solo

♥

42:00 to 43:05 Baron Harkonnen rising from the death

Excellent performance, but the quiet passages are sometimes almost inaudible. This is particularly true of the flutter tongue passage or flutes in the 4th movement

Schostakowitsch !!!

햐 진짜 죽인다...쿠렌치스👍

52:55 As an amateur clarinetist I know the sqeaking too well 😀

25:26 Glorious dark string section

Dziekuje za lzy . Ktore polynely po tym kocercie.

Hola , us escoltaria , m,agrada molt aquest concert , pero , he decidit venir ara a Barcelona , dema treballo , tinc que matinar Ara vinc , i , quan arribi a casa ho escolto , ok

I do not know this conductor..so i have to listen. And then write amy meaning..

This magnificent Symphony No. 8 by Shostakovich is also unofficially known as the Stalingrad Symphony. However, it is secretly aimed at Stalin. This is particularly evident in the 3rd movement ... Listen carefully ... You will understand ...

Snare drum in the 3rd movement is way too civil. Listen to what Mravinsky lets the guy do in his famous 1982 recording.

36:13

清水真弓さん✨❤✨

Lying here and about to go to sleep and I saw a beautiful blonde.,. and some other details...

Cette symphonie rappelle à juste titre et dans les moments inquiétants et tragiques que nous vivons actuellement, que ce sont essentiellement les russes, les soviétiques, qui écrasèrent le nazisme en Europe.

😂😂😂 😊😊😊

41:44 Legato violins?!? That's definitely unusual.

What would Dave Hurwitz say?

Fine orchestra as always. At times the conductor’s flapping and gesticulating get in the way. Less drama might produce even better results. Not sure why some viewers seem to think this is great conducting. Orchestral musicians prefer much less sweating and drama.

что-то я не припомню такой симфонии... может напутали что? а то тут лепят всё подряд...

Курентзис с лоснящимся двойным подбородком, кучей стразиков в ухе и чёлкой как у болонки. Но, слушать можно!

Kultur-multur!..🤑 Ruslad - kaput! 😡

Bad, boring, and the conductor does not know the score very well.

/notes/marks-notes-on-shostakovich-symphony-no-8/ Its Mark Wigglesworth blog. Worth a read. (RU-vid does not accept active links in the comments otherwise)

Solamente note. Questi non capisce niente della musica!

some weak snare-drum and trumpet solo have ruined all performance

36:13