Wonderful effort performing a symphony that is probably difficult even for talented musicians to digest and perform. Even in early Shostakovich, one can hear threads of his developing musical personality. One must view this Symphony in context with his other works. Many would say that Shostakovich is one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. I would say he "IS" the greatest composer of the 20th century.
@quetiomasbueno4 жыл бұрын
Of course, he is!
@alexuturgaidze57224 жыл бұрын
After 2nd viennese school.
@sebastianmuromusak3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, it really depends on taste. But i agree, Shosta is my favorite
@pravemet44273 жыл бұрын
if you haven't yet done so, read Elizabeth Wilson's biog of his life ... unputdownable ..
@wkehl20112 жыл бұрын
He is certainly very good :-)
@ProtMan967 жыл бұрын
Briliant ! Im amazed of how thoughtfull Shostakovich really was. He had the touch, and it can be easily heard in many parts that lead on onto another perfectly. Just beautiful...
@mark194419444 ай бұрын
Extraordinary performance!! Thank you!
@AndresPerez-kr5ce5 жыл бұрын
Magnifique!!
@haraldgeiger77696 ай бұрын
fantastic Interpretation ❤
@rodrirom30511 жыл бұрын
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September 1906 - 9 August 1975) Symphony No. 2 in B major op. 14 "To October", with chorus (1927) For the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution. 1. Largo 2. Quarter note=152 3. Poco meno mosso. Allegro molto. 4. Chorus: "To October" Text by Alexander Bezymensky (1898 - 1973)
@teresatomaselli574710 жыл бұрын
very beautiful! Explendoroso!
@pepgug21565 жыл бұрын
nahhh
@commbir51484 жыл бұрын
I believe I am alone among commenters, I came here when I took a deep dive on Wikipedia on 'industrial' music. Normally associated with discordant instruments, electronic percussion, and provocative imagery, the term nonetheless seemed to be first applied to this very symphony in 1942 by The Musical Quarterly. I am absolutely fascinated by the continuity and discontinuity in music that would much later be called industrial. And I very much enjoyed this performance and this piece of art.
@marijapaskeviciute3654 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing! I never made the connection :)
@user-sf3lg5xy6i4 жыл бұрын
That's how I got here, too. :)
@bolonya22644 жыл бұрын
This music reminds me of later video game music. Specifically of Nobuo Uematsu, especially the music from Final Fantasy VII.
@Circumradius4 жыл бұрын
Hey! Same with me actually. It's interesting to see that others had the same curiosity.
@yvnak4152 жыл бұрын
bruh wth thats how i got here...
@user-lp5me8wb3g4 ай бұрын
tank you polo gonzalez by you music
@sergiospacca90423 жыл бұрын
Bellissima 🇮🇹☀️
@yonggok10815035 жыл бұрын
훌룡한 연주 고맙습니다...
@user-qz3lh6nx1g9 жыл бұрын
Rertoire is very good!
@Discovery_and_Change11 ай бұрын
6:26 build up | 7:40 scary | 10:17 goofy | 14:16 bang | 14:22 choir begins |
@aurahyel47008 жыл бұрын
Quite a fine performance. Note the use of a 'factory' siren, which opens the choral section, in the orchestration. At times the music recalls Ives to a degree. DSCH later remarked that of his 15 symphonies, the 2nd and 3rd were his least favourite.
@christianspillemose40744 жыл бұрын
I don't hear the siren, in Gergiev's rendition I hear it loud and clear. Maybe they've run out od sirens in Pomona
@wkehl20112 жыл бұрын
@@christianspillemose4074 That siren is not always used.
@sneddypie4 жыл бұрын
lmao the entrance of the choir was so epic
@ligetisspaghetti5763 Жыл бұрын
It makes me patriotic towards the USSR
@ianw19762 жыл бұрын
r/PieceoftheDay featured this piece today, October 1st, 2021.
@juancamachodelrio33665 жыл бұрын
8:30 very good the filmation because you can see both the violinist and the clarinetist (puedes ver a la vez a la violinista y al clarinetista)
@UlrichGlaubitz3 ай бұрын
"good filmation"? Da muss ich widersprechen. Die Bilder waren durchweg unscharf und das Zoomen auf die solistischen Einsätze war nicht optimal. Da gibt es technisch viel bessere Videos, wie dieses z.B.:
@SamirAbadeer2 жыл бұрын
this symphony and BOLERO by Maurice Ravel were composed almost at the same time. In 1927, people had a very bad experience of the great war, at the same time, there was a revolution in the industrial field but there was no fear of another war at the gates, this time with a enhanced force of destructive weapons? ! Music and visual ARTS as well as literature should be a mirror that reflects the anxiety of consciences. Maurice Ravel's Bolero was an ascending repetition of a mechanical theme, it seems like a military call to come together to produce and progress in favor of humanity. If the ARTS do not express our humanity well, what is the point?
@youngwoo5860 Жыл бұрын
It has the difficulty to answer.. owing to the theme is much profound and sophisticated...
@juancamachodelrio33665 жыл бұрын
Los primeros minutos, hasta el solo de trompeta, son inaudibles; en la versión de Gennadi Rozhdestvenski sí se escuchan
@remember90973 жыл бұрын
I got the lyrics, if anyone wants to read them, ´cause I found it interesting (I don't know how legit they are, though): We marched, we asked for work and bread. Our hearts were gripped in a vice of anguish. Factory chimneys towered up towards the sky Like hands, powerless to clench a fist. Terrible were the names of our shackles: Silence, suffering, oppression. But louder than gunfire there burst into the silence Words of our torment, words of our suffering. Oh, Lenin! You forged freedom through suffering, You forged freedom from our toil-hardened hands. We knew, Lenin, that our fate Bears a name: Struggle. Struggle! You led us to the final battle. Struggle! You gave us the victory of Labour. And this victory over oppression and darkness None can ever take away from us! Let all in the struggle be young and bold: The name of this victory is October! October! The messenger of the awaited dawn. October! The freedom of rebellious ages. October! Labour, joy and song. October! Happiness in the fields and at the work benches, This is the slogan and this is the name of living generations: October, the Commune and Lenin.
@harryhagan59372 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure that by ca. 1950 he had had way too much of that "victory." That had to be the most bitter victory ever endured by any people. Millions dying of willful starvation, hundreds of thousands of others eliminated for saying the wrong things; self denunciations. 70 years of abject misery. But CA would vote it in in a heartbeat because of the lies they've been told by people they have trusted.
@Jc-yu2ot Жыл бұрын
@@harryhagan5937 fucking lib
Жыл бұрын
@@harryhagan5937 Do you know what is a civil war? Nobody says the same about the civil war on the U.S. because it was not communist. Come on...
@wkehl20112 жыл бұрын
"To October" actually "-)
@davidparrish2534 Жыл бұрын
Bottom of the barrel for Shost. Symphonies!!
@edwardloechler36778 жыл бұрын
Who is the man that comes up at 22:26?
@APUSymphony8 жыл бұрын
+Edward Loechler That's John Sutton. He prepared the choir. Thanks for watching!
@littlewishy64322 жыл бұрын
7:58 is rehearsal 29, not 59
@lifesoboring15 жыл бұрын
how come this key (B major) is rarely used by composers?
@MontoyaMatrix4 жыл бұрын
Good observation. B and Bb are transitional. C-natural is very grounded (red. the beginning of the color-spectrum). By the time you get to F and F# you get to green (the Pastoral music). A-flat moves into death, or solitude (blue). Bb-natural is Violet, and finally B is magenta, the color that disappears into infra-red. So B-natural is the note that ends the 12-tone cycle and returns to red. So, B major works, since October is fall---the end of the seasonal cycle. I also believe (or i'm guessing) that B is a pivotal point in Bell Canto singing. A subtle resister-shift in the voice. So, i think that's why the Classical Composers did not compose large-scale works in B. The mood is not grounded in anything substantial.
@bellesuot4 жыл бұрын
cause it's hard to play ma dudes
@wkehl20112 жыл бұрын
Because you need to keep including those five sharps after the clef. That's quite a bit of work.
@mozartmahler612 жыл бұрын
Good question..beyond this one, i don't know any Bmajor Symphony...and not even piano or violin concertos...
@wkehl20112 жыл бұрын
Miquéias Sousa George Lloyd - Symphony No. 4 in B major, "Arctic."
@RyanPower4 жыл бұрын
Score video here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g9ugi9Wr1r--oHU.html
@jackmccoy662 жыл бұрын
19:06
@Albremen4 жыл бұрын
Октябрь Коммунна и Ленин
@1shaannn Жыл бұрын
reminds me of tom and jerry music💀
@joseromero-ki6zm5 жыл бұрын
pet shop boys
@miladirani43134 жыл бұрын
Why?
@philprever23026 жыл бұрын
This is the slogan and this is the name of living generations: October, the Commune and Lenin. So how did that work out?
@claudiezeh5 жыл бұрын
J'ai un problème d'oreille je n'entends plus rien au début
@Marie-rd1se4 ай бұрын
@claudiezeh , My guess is that the extreme quietness of the opening notes, and their relatively random nature, may have been intended by the composer to represent primordial stirrings of dissatisfaction in the oppressed proletariat which eventually, after much struggle, led to the glorious outcome, pronounced by the chorus. Or at least so it felt to me as I listened. BTW, beautiful lion - is it Aslan (I love CS Lewis’s books)
@jackinhamburg65552 жыл бұрын
I am sorry that I can hear out some beautiful point from this Symphony, a little bid mess with talking between chicken and cow. I an so stupid cannot get the point which Shostakovich want to show to us.肖斯塔科维奇的这种写法,我看出来什么美感,倒是感觉到了嘈杂混乱,鸡同鸭讲的一些对话,我浮潜,我最过。
@Marie-rd1se4 ай бұрын
IMO, you are not stupid, just uninformed. Speaking for myself, I found the Wikipedia entry about Shostakovich’s second Symphony, to be very helpful in understanding what it was all about. Best wishes, Marie.
@phyrullaphyrulla87167 жыл бұрын
I am so sorry, but this is not what Shostakovich meant. I truly appreciate the effort (I couldn't do better; I couldn't do this, not in the least), but why place this on KZfaq? There are so much better performances. I never heard the tension of a revolution of severly suppressed people. To honour Shostakovich please (also) listen to Kondrashin or Gjergjev aso..
@pravemet44273 жыл бұрын
oh, please .... this university symphony has done a great job ... naturally a Gergiev or any other Russian or descendant of the Soviet system is going to be able to "understand" this better ... they had better! if one follows your logic, then only the French can play Saint Saens, the Germans Beethoven, the Finns, Sibelius, etc ... this symphony orchestra deserves a great shoutout for not only attempting this symphony, but doing a great job ...at least for us non elites who have in fact heard and seen Gergiev in person ...Gergiev, by the way, would no doubt be proud of these young people
@Vivek749143 жыл бұрын
Please, I need a link to what you have mentioned.
@Manaritzis883 жыл бұрын
Pabtist church... Lol
@jgesselberty3 жыл бұрын
A shame that 2 & 3 were for the "party" and so political. There are many ideas that Shostakovich could have worked into 2 fine symphonies. Instead, these tainted stepchildren are relegated to being curiosities.
@Marie-rd1se4 ай бұрын
Personally, I did not care for the symphony whatsoever (but I loved how well these students performed it) in terms of musicality. However, I thought it was an excellent rendition of elements that went into the making of the times, and even a bit of the composer himself naturally. So I am very grateful I could hear it on KZfaq.(and will never listen to it again, voluntarily, in what is left of my life!)
@Dobrovinskiy7 жыл бұрын
it is interesting that orchestra of christian university play symphony that have bald-faced communistic plot. but thanks for your playing :)
@APUSymphony7 жыл бұрын
You are right that we are a Christian university and the text of the Symphony is questionable. However, looking at the basic message of the text, it is a message of hope for a brighter future which is something we can all hope for, even if, in this case, the hope is misplaced. Also as you know, the Symphony No.2 is an important historical document filled with some of Shostakovich's most fascinating music and it was well worth performing. Thank you for your comment and for watching us perform it!
@swordsheldhigh79346 жыл бұрын
In the beginning there was silence and darkness all across the earth. Then came Lenin trough a hole in the sky. Thunder and lighting came crashing down. Workers with forks shook the ground.
@petermartin20545 жыл бұрын
Great observation and yet an outstanding Irony that what remains of communism is the art and craft they suppressed. Who is burying who ? His work stands in the face of the humiliation and fear that he experienced. We celebrate the uniqueness of every individual in the west, Russia has shown little concern for the individual, but genius can not be thwarted where free will exists, and unlike communism we can thank God for that. Even Stalin couldn't contain power of musical genius. Triumph over terror ! All Christians should celebrate this spirit. We are not prisoners to our God we are willing children serving each other willingly. The question is whether or not Shostakovich could have brought this level of rage, power and passion to his work had he lived in the west ? Only God knows now. Bless you.
@timroebuck34584 жыл бұрын
Shostakovich, like many of his fellow countrymen, was at first filled with hope but later became disillusioned by this system.
@alexuturgaidze57224 жыл бұрын
Shostakoviches music wasn't communist. His music was banned by the party. The proper word to describe his music would be "modernist".