Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5 - Finale
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- The Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47, by Dmitri Shostakovich is a work for orchestra composed between April and July 1937. Its first performance was on November 21, 1937, in Leningrad by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky. The premiere was a huge success and received an ovation that lasted well over half an hour.
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For those who have played Mother 3, Dmitri is, in my opinion, the most important guy to the game soundtrack. I just love it!
There are so many tracks that reference his work in general, but mostly this Symphony no 5
For example, the "LOG-O-TYPE" fanfare at the start of every chapter is inspired on the last minute of this (from 10:15 until the end)
I feel his influence in the Castlevania ost too
Read that as Mahler 3 and got really confused lol. Mahler 3 and this are so different
Given Mother 3 is about oppression from a dictatorship it checks out. Sakai a genius
Im only here Because of Mother 3
I love how it's so sarcastically happy. It's phenomenal.
Stalin-Era Soundtrack
This guy makes composing/writing look like a walk in the park. I have not heard a title I did not love.
Yeah, for him it does seem to be quite effortless. I once read that Shostakovich was able to write music while at a concert listening to another piece.
Loving it
What is it you like about the title? The Dog Breath Variations is a pretty good title. (Frank Zappa)
I hope this music is never lost
TempestPhaedra It never will be, there's too many arrangements for it
With the internet around? Never!
Ethan DyTioco *Entire internet crashes*
TempestPhaedra well, one day everything will be lost
One day everything will be lost, but until that day comes, it's very difficult that something like this can be lost.
Stalin: How much timpani do you intend to put in this piece?
Shostakovich: Да.
Ré-La-Ré-La-Ré-La-Ré-La-
Ré-La-Ré-La-Ré-La-Ré-La-
Ré-La-Ré-La-Ré-La-Ré-La-
*Ré-La-Ré-La-Ré-La-Ré-La-*
@@Passingman_ It is in D minor. It would be Do - Sol, since the timpani goes from D to A
@@Indie0204 Re minor.
@@Indie0204 That doesn’t have anything to do with what they were talking about. They’re referring to the notes, not solfège.
Da in Russian means yes, so Shostakovich is saying that he is going to put “yes” timpani in the piece. It has nothing to do with the music itself
I played this piece with my high school orchestra when I was a sophomore. Beautiful and fun to play, but very difficult.
WOW!
it must've been really bad
Emily Johnson same.
Me too. But I got to play timpani 😜
...
“Oh hello Mr. Shostakovich”
“Here’s my manuscript.”
“...”
“Are- are you okay?”
“Нет.”
Twosetttt
Shostakovich was a tortured soul
What’s with all of the jokes?
@@dmitrishostakovich7561 jokes on the pains of a true genius artesit what a shame !
Нет ьгуат
This piece was the biggest fuck you to Stalin and little did Stalin know, he was outsmarted by one of the greatest musical geniuses in the 20th century.
arguably the best of the 20th century
@@svalbardstudios7198 or elgar, nimrod is an absolute masterpiece
3:32 gave me chills
Same
saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaameeee
"The beatings will continue until morale improves."
*lOgIc*
Never
This is one of Shostakovich's compositions that probably saved his life with Stalin!
Which is funny considering how there are parts that really feel super sarcastic. Gotta love how he takes dark situations and uses sarcasm to make dark situations better. Whether it be in his compositions or in his writings such as when he injured himself terribly as well as was sick/weak having to give up playing piano forever and remarked that “All I need to do now is wreck the left hand and then 100% of my extremities will be out of order.” Which while being tragic seems to be pretty sarcastic. But I digress, I’m surprised that Stalin didn’t catch on...but maybe he did and decided to let it go because of his standing in the public light, I find Shostakovich to be inspirational in these ways of becoming very accomplished and persevering despite his hardships and anxiety.
Azriel Dawson I would agree with you. Shostakovich is not my favorite composer, but his Seventh symphony is undoubtedly a masterpiece!
Azriel Dawson I read a biographical work on Shostakovich once, the author said that he composed this symphony to get back in favor with Stalin because he feared that if he didn’t straighten up, Stalin would order his execution!
Roger McIntyre Yeah, he had a few moments in his career where the Soviet government had thought his material was sympathetic of capitalist western culture and didn’t capture Soviet Realism properly. He had vague threats made toward him from news publishers saying if he didn’t stop then there would be consequences. Although the west continued to claim he was a big ideologue of the Soviet government it is pretty clear that he was just quiet about disagreements and was unable to say “no” to anything. He was very good at subtlety with composing stuff that in hindsight seems to have a very different meaning in context than it does on the surface. His later work is really hard for me to listen to sometimes because I can feel the feelings of fear of death since he was sure that he was going to die soon at that point in the 70’s. It’s really tragic.
says who?
Another one of my great pieces
Sir I love your work.😂
Why thank you
@@dmitrishostakovich7561 your welcome :)
@@dmitrishostakovich7561 Your prelude and fugue in d flat major is one of the best prelude and fugue I have ever heard.
You've heard about Harry Pyotr,
Now get ready for Ron Wassily
hahahhaha harry pyotr tchaikovsky
Harry Potter, not Pyotr...lol.
@@jessedylan6162 buddy that's the joke
@@juliee593 it took you 6 months to respond...that's the bigger joke.
@@jessedylan6162 what, do you think I was there for the past 6 months just waiting to answer you? I just lost some neurons reading what you said.
This piece holds a lot of significance to me because according to "Symphony for the City of the Dead" the audience reacted tearfully, a loud and stretched ovation. The meaning confused a lot of people, especially the Soviet government. But it had given them the "Socialist realism" they wanted to hear. The message of "merrier times" was want they wanted to advertise and it is believed by many that this was part of Shostakovich's mask. It held a different meaning for ears that it needed to appeal to and a different meaning to the ears that he actually wanted to hear it. The audience was touched by it, because it spoke to them while the government was satisfied because it had been exactly what they wanted from Shostakovich and other composers. A "big, celebratory finale!" It is indicated though, that there is a battle between the "joyous, subtle" moments and the "grand, powerful, even a bit foreboding" moments of the symphony. It paints a picture for me that there is someone tall, intimidating and forceful who looks down upon the innocent, who are just crawling forward, trying to grasp at any hope that may be left for them. Whether this force be Stalin or the NKVD, or both even, it is clear that there is a contrast between the subtlety and the power of each section.
+CreativeProdigies i read somewhere (can't remember which website) that the first time it was played it got a 40 minute standing ovation. 40. Minutes. I would certainly say that would qualify as "stretched!" Truly an amazing work, as you said.
nicely put
that is a beautiful illustration.. i always loved Waltz 2 for painting a picture like this for me, Waltz 2 makes me imagine a grand carousel, a kind of pained observation of the circus of the Soviet power spheres he was enduring at the time, maintaining a beautiful perspective in life and an awareness that one must keep on, but terribly pained by the actions of the powers that were. i imagine folks waltzing to this, meanwhile some of the dancers occasionally catch glimpses of others amid the circles of the waltz whom they know or fear will likely be assassinated or imprisoned soon.
Nigga what
david lambaugh PERFECT!!
I love the French Horn parts in this, the slow middle sections are amazing. When it's just the flute, clarinet, oboe and bassoon is beautiful.
Every low brass member who's played this piece has part of it memorized, change my mind
I loved playing this piece, sadly my concert got caronaed
Jeremy Krugman F
Trombonist
Mid brass count? French Horn here and I've it memorized
@@andrewsercer9538 absolutely you count
This piece along with many of Shostakovich's pieces can be interpreted in different ways from the Soviet era to the People. It can be interpreted by the regime as a message of victory. Or by the people as a vengeful and powerful uprising against the regime. It depends on the ears of the listener, which I feel is the beauty of classical musical. The meaning can be different to every listener
gosh, much ado about nothing! Why bring "regime" to everything you experience in life? Enjoy the music, and don't speculate about different "interpretations".
@@edilemma8052 Shostakovich wrote a good portion his music under the baleful gaze of Stalin and was censured by the Soviets at one point, with professional and personal consequences. I can assure you, he didn’t have the luxury of being apolitical.
@@christopherkelley5875 His career has ups and down. However, he was very much revered, especially in the 50s and 60s. Today, why not to enjoy his work and show appreciation for his talent? Instead Russophobes bring "Soviet Regime" in each subject, and I hate that.
Shostakovich is in modern times
@@edilemma8052 not a russophobe, I just loathe communism.
Our high school orchestra started this today. Violin 1 is absolute hell
so how is it going now?
Mon 9 Jan 2012 5.55 AM in Yokosuka, Japan...
I'm on my way to work and you uploaded Symphony # 5 - Finale...My day just got a whole lot better!...
Hello from tuesday 19.11.2019 22:11
Hello from Tuesday, Jan the fifth. 1:52 AM
Hello from Wednesday 14 April 2021
Hello from 25.5.2021!!
Hello from Tuesday 9.11.21 8:15 pm
3:36 just gave me chills! I wonder what he was thinking when he wrote this piece... supposedly, it resonated with the people who were facing the same fear that he did.
College freshman clarinet player here. This is one of the most challenging pieces I've ever encountered. It's full of high notes and moving from one register up or down to the next. This and Die Fledermaus are two of the pieces I am playing for my upcoming concert. Wish me the best of luck.
Did you play this in band or orchestra?
I was in orchestra but our concert got cancelled due to COVID :(
@@aurabear3802 How are you doing right now?
This is of the greatest orchestral pieces of all time imo
The duet between clarinet and basoon 👌🏻
if Mother 3 gets made into a movie, His Highness’ Theme needs to take an approach more similar to this.
Yep
I mean Audacious March is already based on this symphony
Watch they gon make a mother 3 movie: then not translate it
This piece always makes me cry by the end
Playing this in orchestra. Awesome piece of music.
I like to savor the tension release process, when it occurs, instead of racing through it, like gobbling down a favorite dessert...and so I really enjoy this interpretation...
Shostakovich Soviet music is like driven with anger towards Stalin and it sorts of resonates with the people
What anger? He got special prize from Stalin. Like 5 times.
Hu Awei Because Stalin doesn’t understand the language of music and Shostakovich knows better than to refuse or disrespect the man that could have the head of anyone he wanted? Just a guess.
@@AnneIglesias what are you talking about? For Dmintri Dmitrievich Stalin was leader of free world.
Hu Awei ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@hu awei @JediAnn Solo
I played the whole simphony 4 days ago with a beautiful orchestra, and our conductor told us a bit about the backround, so what i kept in my head: Stalin went to see an Opera from Shostakovich, but he didn't like it because it was a sort of satire against the rich people ( don't know any other word). So as he didn't like it, he made Shostakovitch to public enemy number 1. In consequence, he lost all his friends, and his music wasn't aloud to be played. Shostakovitch wrote his 5th with a little note on it's side "an excuse to stalin" (something like that). Stalin didn't see the genius and hidden messages that Shostakovitch left in his piece, he just liked it, and decided that Shostakovitch wasn't public enemy anymore. But ther were few things hidden in the simphony that showed that Shostakovitch didn't like Stalin at all.
1. The beginning doesn't sound like an excuse at all. There are only slow and dark melodies
2. In the second movement i sas told that the violin solo should show the story of a young girl that had to play in front of stalin, and that had forgotten her part, but fortunately remembered in the last moment. Our conductor sang this text to that solo: papa Stalin papa stalin, which matches perfectly with the rhythm.
3. I the fourth movement, the violins have to play constantly the same note again and again while the brass is playing long notes. The note the violins are playing means in russian (i think it was russian) "me"-> the message from stalin was like me, me, me, me, me,... -> he wanted to tell that he was the one who had suffered, and that he was finally the one who survived, and who was loved by everyone. The melody that the brass are playing doesn't show an happy final, but it seems very big and threatening which also critizises the deeds of stalin.
That's what our conductor told us, and he knows damn a lot about the backround from music pieces.
Also, it all seems logical, and for myself i can't see any reason why Shotakovitch should have liked Stalin
(Sorry for grammar or construction mistakes)
Have a nice day
Had parts of this piece in my marching show last year. One of the best pieces I’ve played. It was fun learning the whole thing by heart and being able to play it whenever I wanted to. Was also one of the hardest pieces to play as a clarinet player.
I can't imagine trying to march this piece. That must have been an incredible show!
You cannot grasp the true form of Dmtri's music!
What did Dmitri do?
Dmitri did something!
*Lucas couldn’t stop crying*
*Duster began to feel strange*
*Kumatora’s body solidified*
*Boney did absolutely nothing*
Star Wars, Harry Potter, Avengers, Eyes Wide Shut, 2001: A Space Odyssey... Dmitry Shostakovich was a genius!
and mother 3 on the theme of Aodacious March
@@armicurn474 and many other mother 3 somgs
No Star Wars, that was John William, No Avengers, and No Space Odyssey. The composers in those were Richard Strauss, György Ligeti, Aram Khachaturian, Johann Strauss II. Both Eyes Wide Shut and A Space Odyssey are by the director Stanley Kubrick.
@@bennytran2780 no I think he meant they were inspired by this music I mean it does sound like Star wars
Plágio @@bennytran2780
I feel like I'm discovering Dmitri for the first time. What brilliant work
A piece called finale will always be great
9:15 is stunning.
Wonderful... The brass and tympani took me back to where I played. Bravo!
Beautiful piece. Introduced to his music in high school and been listening to it since.
3:21 probably the most fun I had as a trombone player in that whole year of high school
0:06 This is very similar to His Highness’ Theme from Mother 3
This banger inspired some themes from Mother 3 like His Highness and Master Porky's theme.
im playing this in orchestra and the band, and i love learning about his life :^)
I saw this live and it was so good I had to listen to it again
This is the closer to our 2019 marching band show and all I can say is how amazing this piece is, so much fun to preform!
Its way better when it is played slower, like this. Its more powerful at the beginning
I prefer Bernsteins hectic tempo when it moves into the string sections after the inital presentation, this one is to sluggish for me.
Amo esta pieza de arte
How much i listen to his other works,more i understand that how rare and epic the waltz no2 was
It's one of the best pieces in history, maby the best I'm not sure
One of the greatest finals of all time.
Damn this fits perfectly in an epic fight scene
I love these pieces so beautiful and sublime, with tones and rhythms very appropriate in each moment, it fills me with so much joy to hear this, the truth is very shocking and magical to hear these compositions of my dear dimityr.
This is One of the few times one of tge Songs I listen too for class work actually sounds incredible
This song inspired 2 songs from Mother 3, Audacious March and the Master Porky theme
I can hear how He influenced so much music done in some of the greatest movies of all time.
I LOVE THIS especially the first part!,
Finally a version that doesn't play the 4th movement too fast.
bust that nut challenge
I have performed this piece exactly 10 times in the last year and I like it a lot
I just love the way the timpani yield to the bass drum at the very end of the work!
Songs like this I feel are examples of the idea that limitations drive imagination
This piece of art reminds me of the great music of the Dragon Quest games. Really cool.
RIP Sugiyama. I considered him one of the last great classical composers in recent history.
I honestly wish more games/media would use a classical style like him. Hopefully his succesor will be good.
@@ryanwingfield6092 Yoo we have Michiru Yamane!
bravissimo, as 1st horn in the area symphony, i could never finish this without tears
Same! I almost got too emotional even to play my parts when I played the first few full rehearsals.
2:59 SUPER MARIO GALAXY YALL hahaha
Also Mother 3
played this my freshman year in Highschool. Such an amazing piece lots of work but worth the beauty at the end !
me too
to listen to- Amazing
To play- Incredible!
Playing in Orchestra. SO FUN
Everybody talk about Mother 3 or Harry Potter but nobody knows that this is one of the favorite pieces of Junichi Masuda who as composed most of the Pokémon themes?
I know!
Also why no one talks about Castlevania? The beginning of Iron Blue Intention is similar to this
Playing this for All-State next week! So freakin' excited!!!!
I was playing this song in an all city band, and when i hit the tam tam part, i gave the people in a band a really shock
I honestly wonder if Shostakovich ever entertained having an "A" sound more prominently in the very last chord, so as to have a more..."ambiguous" perfect fifth ending.
Our marching show's 3rd movement last year was inspired by this! I heard it on the radio again the other night and I may have swerved the car a bit ;)
***** not to be rude or anything, but in not about to give that to the internet. Our show was based on the Russian revolution though if you must know.
This is our closer for our marching band show this year. So fun!!
One of my favorite Timpani solos of all time is the Timpani and Brass fanfare at the start of the finale!!!
Just such a classic!!!!!!!
Anche i timpani nel finale della III di Tchaikovsky sono fantastici. ❤
I played this in band, and it was so fun! Got canceled bc of COVID, but a amazing piece!!
This is awesome. Thanks for uploading.
This man was a clear inspiration for Monster hunter composers
3:22 is an extremely fun part to play
Reference
0:00 Waiting for my exam results...................A little stressed.......
10:09 "ADMITTED"
Hahaha good one.
I waited 8 minutes to hear that.
*the final boss has entered the room*
Our high school practiced this from my freshman year through my senior year...4 years...to take it to concert contest....I have heard it in my head for over 60 years now. What an amazing thing to have mentally recorded in full orchestration for all these years!
Performed this in my high school wind ensemble class in high school 1999. Fun times.
3:31-3-37 so powerful!
everyone shount woooo! at 2.59, I always been with a orchestra that practicr that. Fun in the moment and still hits home today
ten seconds in and I love it
10:24 Sounds like the Pigmasks' theme from MOTHER 3
it is directly based off of it lmao
Beautiful
Exelente tema!
Pieces of this are definitely used in other media. This includes the song ‘Iron Blue Intention’.
Michiru Yamane is a cultured composer
Well we know it's not Bernstein with the New York Phil....
+jacksondavisTV yep
Because it's so slow?
Because it's played at a reasonable tempo
There is no such thing as a "reasonable" tempo. It's a matter of preference. Shosakovich in fact praised Bernstein's interpretation.
[BS] Bleach he conducted it earlier, as well. I believe around 1950.
One of the few recordings that REALLY bring out the massive overabundance of major 3ds that Shosty deliberate orchestrated into the final chords. Most orchestras balance those chords for a genuinely triumphant ending when that is not at all what he intended.
MASTERPIECE
Porky's Theme?
I noticed that this piece inspired battle themes in other things too
Audacious March and Unfounded Revenge. My favorite songs from Mother 3 are from this man.
No, Iron Blue Intention
*Iron Blue Intention*
i would say battle of the corridor
Why is he so underappreciated
The change of tune from bleak-ish to cheerful at around 9:30 is abrupt and "forced", as if someone is being forced to smile against their will.
Hidden masterclass FU for the Soviet regime.
it's like a silent walk towards exit in silent ovation
I love that this piece is the "musical middle finger" to the Communist USSR.
Thought this was a compilation of Star Wars OST’s.
Music:*start playing
My mom:Are you playing warthunder again?
I'm ashamed I wasn't aware of Dmitri Shostakovich's this symphony. This is transformative, from start to finish. It's like storytelling through story! Beginning reminds me of 2001: Space Odyssey theme. Damn...Forgot what's that call and who plays it, off I go look for it. :D
You mean Also Sprach Zarathustra
@@cooljackster7390 also* sprach zarathustra
@@tctyt my bad I didn’t realize my error
LOVE!
Absolutely! You have the cutest smile ever😊 Is this your favorite song?
True masterpiece. A piece of gold among the coal.
Feel the OPPRESSION!
I could feel the oppression...
You feel the "oppression" because it's heavy music, and you've been programmed to see and hear this as "opressive".
@@bummblebeesinacanwow4769 That's how Shostakovich WROTE IT, Mr. Expert.
I played the wind band arrangement of this, conducted by Larry Livingston it was p good
I did too! Same conductor and arrangement!
Mother 3 fan here. Jesus this is good
Same :)
Quelle photo charismatique !!!