Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9 - Bernstein conducts 

What is the background behind it?

Check out the video in the side bar where Bernstein discusses the symphony.

I don't think it's forgotten, since what you describe is readily available for a 24-hour world-wide audience right here on RU-vid. It was uploaded a year ago and in that time has had nearly 21,000 views ... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KUnnEH7yxyc.html

@@adam28xx I indeed hope you are right ! Yet these days I am afraid the two great nations have forgotten about their former cooperation against the evil of the world. Sometimes they are behaving like the 'evil' themselves.

Wow, that is very interesting

It could be his son Maxim Shostakovich, but Dmitri had unfortunately been dead by that time for over 10 years... Nevertheless, what is source of this interesting fact?

Maybe he meant spiritually..🙃

www.loc.gov/item/musbernstein.100030171/

@@superscienceshow Yes they met only once in 1959 (this is mentioned in the text in second image). Still, this is recording from 1987. But it is not clear what was played in that performance in 1959, I doubt it was the symphony. Maybe it was, dunno :)

^^^ Google translate: "Beautiful performance of this seemingly funny and essentially serious symphony with a perfect balance between the two elements. The highly intelligent maestro conducts the world-class orchestra at a perfectly analyzed pace with carefully controlled dynamics. Not just kidding but also serious!"

Does anyone know the name of the young bassoonist? Beautiful tone.

@@CPadgittStepan Turnovsky

Vine boom sound effect (1945)

The ads appear to be placed willy-nilly within the videos by RU-vid itself. In this case, they certainly weren't in the original TV transmission.

Tekeliyet please get ADBLOCK.Ihave had it for years I would not tolerate ADS in a classical performance.

@@SarahJones-wy5us Thanks Sarah Jones but how do I get ADBLOCK?

@@Tekeliyet Go to windows store task bar,search button ADBLOCKselect ADBLOCK MINE IS FREE

@@SarahJones-wy5us Thanks again for giving me the opportunity to listen to this rare recording without any interruption :-)

Where did you get it?

Don’t forget Mravinsky. He premiered many of Shostakovich’s works and worked closely with him. They didn’t agree on a lot of things but Shostakovich thought he was one of if not the best interpreter of his music. But one can’t doubt that Shostakovich loved Bernstein’s conducting. Bernstein was very knowledgeable about his music and there are stories of Shostakovich complimenting Bernstein or getting emotional when Bernstein conducted his works

GO LENNY GO

Dávid Rehák

wrong. he was mocking america bragging about winning ww2

@@tomhrio wrong. he was mocking stalin

@@ighosted9008 according to western revisionist only

@@tomhrio source?

​@@ighosted9008 look at the stuff he actually said instead of what others say he meant

LOL SAME XD

Ok big boy

well this piece is not about the joy of life....

Exactement !!

There's a lot about Bernstein's conducting that is 'inappropriate', sadly.

@@DeliciousManager would you please elaborate on that statement? Not criticizing, just curious.

@@DeliciousManager 🤡

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How do you know ?

@@henryseidel5469This piece was made to make fun of Stalin

@@Thumb_ No idea why. Why should Shostakovich make fun of Stalin in one of his symphonies ?

@@henryseidel5469 Stalin commissioned him to write a song about how heroic he is after winning a fight with the Nazis. Shostakovich clearly didn’t like Stalin, having written this instead. It was intended to be played over a military march but due to how mocking and sarcastic it sounded it was banned and Shostakovich was marked an enemy of the state. He would have ‘disappeared’ but fortunately Stalin had died shortly after.

No, it was not.@@Thumb_

Let’s be jostal

Tekeliyet go to windows store, task bar, search button ADBLOCK choose which ADBLOCK you want, pick free one, that is what I use would not be without it.

yes.. the best trumpet player in the WPH

if you walk fast when listening to it, it will appear to speed up.

8 and 10

La que estás escuchando ahora mismo.

Es esta

Κωσταντῆς Λοῦκος Mravinsky

I agree. Bernstein never 'got' Shostakovich's music.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FVfz5YymsXI.html he really understands it, check this out

uh, no. the weight of censorship needs to be like a cloud that casts a shadow over the entire performance. If it's plain, pure joy of a speedier tempo, the blatant sarcasm would be totally lost. Plus, the harmonies shift way too frequently for the sumptuous acoustics in the Golden Hall of Vienna. This tempo is a perfect depiction of the piece, imo.

The piece wasn't censored, none of his music was ever censored, so your remarks don't make sense. This symphony is a testimony to the Russian people and an oblique critique of the Party, which is why many people in the audience wept and why it received a standing ovation of almost an hour after the first performance. But above all it is a symphony that demonstrates the unique sound of Shostakovich's melodic sensibility. It is not a funeral dirge, it should not be dragged along like a bloodied corpse. It is an affirmation of life and the power of the spirit that will not be cowed into submission by thuggery and terror. Every Russian understands this. Lenny doesn't get it.

haha alright I get it, toomuchrosé and you're drunk off your ass.

No, you don't get it, but that's OK, you can learn.Or you can remain ignorant.

I have not a single clue why you remain so adamant when the wealth of information is freely available on the internet. I, at least, went and checked on several sites, and also wikipedia, and thus guessing you were just being ironic (like Shostakovich). But not the case, and I will not entertain you any further. This tempo is just fine, he suffered mentally from the iron curtain, his music most certainly had been banned (more than once), his family had privileges removed; you're willfully ignorant and I don't have anything more to say to you.

You're too high