That anecdote has just enhanced my enjoyment of this charming little ditty no end

You are Great!

_Tea for Two_ was my father's favorite song. I would have loved to have played this for him, but I only just found out about it, and he's gone. ::sigh::

Dimitri was clearly a Mad Lad 😂

Yess!!!!

Me too...

Yes, he was a fountain of inspiration and depth in so many genres

I feel the same way.

Like a bee and its stripes

Im very sorry for your loss

@@fastandbulbous6282 Thank you for your kindness.

Sorry late to this video ( Beautifully done...I might add. ) sorry for your loss.

That's because it's a cover version of a classic composed by Vincent Youmans. But I heard Shostakovich created this arrangement in less than hour, which is very impressive by itself

@@mi-roka-sai6155 yep I know about the original Tea for Two, and also the story behind this arrangement. It's really funny. One day this man writes about a war crime and the next day it's Tea for Two.

This reminds me to

Yeah because he looks disappointed. "I am not angry, just disappointed."

+Not Broihon EleGiggle

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Thanks Jelte Brink

Thanks Vaibhav Gupta

Thanks Mr.Moose

Michael Hamill - music isn’t a boxing match. Who cares who you think is “greater”? You shouldn’t waste your time deciding who is “down for the count” and who is “champ”.

but music was a competition. Only the best could emerge on top. It wouldn't be surprising if Prokofiev and Shostakovich had a rivalry

Shostakovich didn't invent Tea for Two, though. He wrote an orchestration for it. It's nice and sweet, but he didn't come up with the themes and it's not his magnum opus either haha

@@tahiragibson6407 Only Beethoven can make Beethoven's music.

"Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly" From the decription below.

Oboe in the high register

What? First of all, chopin and scriabin both reached mozart. Noone else did. Second, to compare this incompetent fool to the genius mozart is the greatest insult I have ever seen, what utter disrespect!

@@Whatismusic123 You would not have visited this video if you thought so.

@@acev337 ??? I was going to ask what kind of brain damage would be required to come to such a ridiculous conclusion, then I remembered that you believe that not only shostakovich is close in skill to mozart, but close enough to match him.

@@Whatismusic123 how did you arrive at this video, if not to enjoy music?

Uh... I don't really know if improvising at a piano is the same as making up an entire orchestral arrangement in your head in 45 minutes. Also, wouldn't Shostakovich be improvising like... every instrument, at that point?

@@Burntshmallow That's true; the skills of mentally arranging and notating amusing orchestral variations are different from the skills of improvising and playing a unique virtuoso harmonically complex piece that pretty much nobody else in the world could even play let alone conceive of... This is a mere novelty number, while Tatum did one masterpiece after another on this tune. (for example: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b9F9eLOKupe8p5s.html) But I also fault myself for making a competitive comparison -- the Shostakovich is quite enjoyable on its own terms.

​@@jsbrules I feel still that, looking at Shostakovitch's berth of work, it's a bit uncharitable to dismiss his own respective genius. They just aren't comparable. Art Tatum never composed a symphony mocking the USSR under the watchful eye of Stalin and never had any of his family members disappear in the night. Shostakovich did. But that doesn't make him better than Tatum. And Tatum's virtuosic improvisations don't make him any "better" than Shostakovich -- who I might add was *also* a virtuosic pianist. You can hear his playing on youtube. One played Jazz, the other played Classical. Both made up their own music. Now, I will say I think that Shostakovich probably had a greater mind for harmonic complexity. Look at his ability to write this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/adKpl7d6rbvahJ8.html He still came up with melodies on the spot, he just wrote them down instead of playing them. And his understanding of music was quite pronounced, enough to write advanced counterpoint in a fugue form. I still like Tatum (Though I think Oscar Peterson was more rounded). But they're not related artists. So it isn't very useful to compare them. Now, if you want to compare Tatum and Fats, or Tatum and Costa, then you have something to say. Or Shostakovich and Steven Hough: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ps-Ykrpnl7Kzhpc.html Even then, though, it's still wildly different.

@@Burntshmallow I was not dismissing Shostakovich's genius! I wasn't comparing Shostakovich to Tatum as artists overall, I am just saying that Tatum's Teas for Two are better than this light party-trick-on-a-dare! I absolutely love Shostakovich!

@@jsbrules Fair enough; apologies for the assumption.

Ingmar Elfsborg I was looking for RDR2 comments 😂😂😂

All of the composers are well versed in death if you wish to spin it that way.

I think he's just asking "is this channel dead?"

No

i think the backstory of the arrangement is what makes it so popular, being made in under an hour by memory. i mean aside from that the orchestration is pretty great, obviously not a madterpiece though