Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 9 [With score] (Reupload)
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- -Composer: Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September 1906 - 9 August 1975)
-Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne [WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln]
-Conductor: Rudolf Borisovich Barshai
Symphony No. 9 in E-flat Major, op. 70, written in 1945
00:10 - I. Allegro
05:26 - II. Moderato
11:08 - III. Presto
14:03 - IV. Largo
17:10 - V. Allegretto
Shostakovich composed this work for Schumann-sized orchestra plus percussion in the summer of 1945, and Yevgeny Mravinsky led the first performance at Leningrad on November 3 of that year. Given the size of Shostakovich's war-haunted seventh and eighth symphonies, Joseph Stalin expected a Ninth in 1945 that "out-Mahlered Beethoven," in the late Boris Schwarz's phrase. In Testimony, Solomon Volkov recalled the composer's saying, "They wanted a fanfare from me, an ode, a majestic Ninth....I doubt that Stalin ever questioned his own genius or greatness. But when the war against Hitler was won, he went off the deep end, like a frog puffing himself up to the size of an ox, and now I was supposed to write an apotheosis of Stalin. I simply could not....My stubbornness cost me dearly."
Volkov called the Ninth a work "full of sarcasm and bitterness." Disguised as an homage to Haydn, it was Shostakovich's shortest symphony since the Second of 1927, despite having five movements (the last three are played without pause). In an effort to shield Shostakovich from political fallout, conductor Mravinsky called the new symphony "a joyous sigh of relief...a work directed against philistinism, which ridicules complacency and bombast, the desire to rest on one's laurels." Putting on a good face, the Soviet hierarchy echoed Mravinsky, but only temporarily.
By and large, Western critics dismissed the work as trivial. However, in his 1990 book The New Shostakovich, Ian MacDonald asserted that "only a dunce could have failed to realize the composer was up to something," pointing out the code-bearing nature of recurring notes and rhythms. A "Stalin motif" is frighteningly present -- always two notes, one usually short, one long -- from its raucous first appearance, without musical point, in the double-exposition of a giddy Allegro movement. The opening "mimic[s] the ordinary citizen's carefree relief at the victorious conclusion of the war. [But] the second subject -- a crude quick-march, led by a two-note, tonic-dominant trombone -- is clearly symbolic of the Vozhd [Stalin]." MacDonald hears "fights breaking out [and] for a hectic moment the music continues in two keys until the trombone wrests control," whereupon strings capitulate "and the reprise ends on sneering trills, the quick-march in control."
A Moderato movement follows, with a B minor main subject for clarinet that is "wan, sad-faced, with a telltale two-note pendant," and "a heel-dragging" second one: "a chain of two-note cells [that] subtly mock conventional grief." Horns "warn off [the] real feeling" that breaks through briefly, whereupon "happy-face clowns [usher in] a cheery scherzo...another street party [as in the first movement] that goes violently wrong."
Menacing brass octaves begin the fourth movement; then a bassoon recitative sends mixed signals, "another mask" that leaves the strings uneasy. The Allegretto finale "erupts into action....A dark whirlwind drives the movement to a climax of teetering expectation -- but all that emerges is the clownish main theme, hammered out by the entire orchestra. Shostakovich's contempt is scalding. Here are your leaders, the music jeers: circus clowns. Point made, [he] summons a helter-skelter coda and slams [the Ninth] shut."
For MacDonald it is "an open gesture of dissent [that] ruthlessly targeted Stalinism....Wagnerisms, the most prominent being an allusion to Wotan's Leitmotif in the fourth movement, are probable expressions of the view, outlined in Testimony, of Stalin and Hitler as 'spiritual relatives.'" Shostakovich paid dearly indeed for the snub; he was damned in 1948 as a "formalist" and blacklisted, leaving him only movie scores for income. After Stalin's death in 1953 he finished a Tenth Symphony, in whose scherzo the Vozhd himself makes one last, unforgettably terrifying appearance.
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This is the most passive aggressive piece known to man
You can hear the passive-aggression seeping from every note
i also watched the tentacrul video
Because this is Russian.
The theme at 0:52 is what you whistle while performing a task all wrong under the watchful supervision of an incompetent superior, blissfully unaware of the consequences.
@@needlessnoise watch Bernstein's commentary next, you'll be a master
POV: You're a trombone player and you have to play this for Stalin. A couple days later you go missing
Hahahaha Wonderful
Or a piccolo player
Is the string section safe?
Whenever you see a 9th Symphony which is shorter than 30 minutes, you know something is up...
Mozart?
@@windmillwilly a post classical 9th symphony
@@georgekelk9575 Yeah, definitely among Beethoven and after!
mozart with his short ass 9th symphony: bruh
To be fair, Mozart would've been a teenager when he wrote his 9th symphony
22:03 you're not a clown. you're the entire circus.
My symphony did this piece and at one point the conductor was yelling at the horn section and he said "you sound like a clown car slowly running out of gas!"
Nice one😂
I think this statement suits more in shosty violin concerto No.1, the climax of 2nd movement 🃏🃏🃏
Shosty writing 9th symphony: Im gonna die soon i can feel it
Death:(Takes Stalin instead)
Death: you know what? I'm gonna do the right thing for once and gonna take the first moron I see.
@@dap4699 RIP Prokofiev: died the same day as Stalin and didn't get nearly the amount of press that Stalin got for his death.
@@padraicfanning7055 at least the moron was gone. I don't mean Prokoviev of course.
Hahahaha
@@padraicfanning7055 Shosty showed up to Prokofiev's funeral instead of Stalin's though. Incredibly risky move, and they often went head-to-head when it came to music, but the fact that he chose to pay his respects to a fellow artist instead of the dictator he was expected to praise speaks volumes about the kind of person he was.
If you don't understand the humor, imagine this being played over a military parade as intended.
That’s so true
Especially when the percussion comes in
Tantacrul: _cuts to a clip of a pet parakeet_
Maybe it's just because of how horrible Stalin was, but the return of the returning circus motif from 22:09 on gave me a Something Wicked This Way Comes/Greatest Show in the Galaxy vibe.
SO OTHER PEOPLE UNDERSTAND HOW HILARIOUS IT IS AS WELL! Thank god
Listening to this piece out of context it's weird...
With a little bit of exposition it's hilarious!
Bum BUM
trombonist: misses cue 6 times
@@maccychee3858 *Bum BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUM!
Whenever I hear 12:17, I imagine a *very intense* western style standoff between two kittens
LMFAO that trombone always gets me. GG Shosty
sarcasm
*Eb Abs in fortississississimo*
the piccolo too tho
very clownish character
@@christonchua5188 everytime i hear that piccolo i get this mental image of a cartoon rat (jerry maybe?) in a military uniform on a piccolo
FIVE OOOONNEEEEEE
In chess there's a tactic known as the desperado, where you know a piece is about to be lost anyway so you use its last move to get as big of a punch in as you can.
Shosty's 9 sounds like a desperado.
I LOVE this analogy!!!!! Omg!!! ♟️
so the desperado is like "burn every resources method" in war(eg: even I lose,I will make you win but come at huuuggge cost)?
Because of Tantacrul Shostakovich is now one of my favorite composers!
Same
Ya same
he made me love shosty's music. agreed.
Same
He got me into classical music, now I'm a composer myself...
The "I'm so tired of your shit" song, pretty much.
Cough* cough* piece not song cough* cough*
@Nicholas Negosian Forgive him.
Forgive us.
@Nicholas Negosian Yes, cause I'd correct him.
At 12:14 Dimitri introduces his spanish cousin: "There he is now, There he is now, There he is now, There he comes now."
And at 12:20 we see that he fights untamed bulls for a living.
I just adore Shostakovich's humor.
Gre "w
🎥🐖🐐🐂🐃💃🏽
Genius lol!
This is how you properly "stick it to the man"
Oh,hi,Shostakovich.
Hello,Dmitri Dmitriyevich.
Ol' Shosty
Hello there
hey shosty when is symphony no 16 dropping
Shosty is the best
'You're not a clown, you're the entire circus' - the piece
4:00 this is so funny LMAO the madlad was such a troll
I really really really like this comment
I like it too
nice comment
Hey bud, good job with this comment.
Such a great comment 👍
21:59 never fails to make me smile
the circus has arrived
🧤
🐶🎩
🎩🙉🎩
🦆🎩🐷🎩
🎩🐼🎩🐔🎩
🍣🎩👙🎩🦄🎩
🎩🦁🎩🐡🎩🦊🎩
🦍🎩🐍🎩🐹🎩🦋🎩
👑🎒👝👑👛👑⛑👑🎓
Lol the best part of the symphony
It’s the peanut gallery in the back that really sells it(the tambourine and the Bing Bong timpani part) 😂
I know this symphony is supposed to be a joke, but this might be one of my favorites
It’s still super creative.
Same.
I love this piece so much because of the 5th movement.
Someone I Am I also love the 5th movement because to me it sounds like a circus saying “hooray the war is done!”
Spite really is an excellent motivator for creativity. This is a hilariously trolly piece AND it’s also amazing.
Saw this piece performed live and I shit you not, I couldn't stop laughing my ass off. I had to bite down on my tongue really hard throughout the 1st movement to refrain myself from causing any attention... greatest concert experience E V E R!
The humor of the piece is undeniable, but movement four is one of the most soul-crushing, desolate, and depressing things I have ever heard. Almost as if one is listening to someone die.
If you want something with the same character, I suggest the very last minutes of his 4th symphony.
He was like "I'm going to gulag for this"
at that point, he knew that his insult towards the Soviet authorities was going to be exposed in the symphony. so, his pessimism and hopelessness seeped through into his 4th movement. he didn't want to die because he was worried about his family. in the end, Stalin died before Shosty did lmao.
Shosty deserved better tho.
Shostakovich apparently killed the curse of 9 by this symphony
I absolutely LOVE the 4th movement. So much happens in a short period of time!
FEEL THE OPPRESSION
This piece is basically classical music comedy (The Soviets being the subject)
Bassoon solos are extraordinary played. The voice of Schostakovitch in most his symphonies.
The original shitpost
The original dodging censor bots
That would be Mozart actually
yea glad mozart died early so that he won’t continue to shitpost lol
Listen Mozart a musical joke
@@xmvziron Mozart didn’t make shitposts, he made shit. Shosty on the other hand, not so much.
this getting copyright struck is so ironic
@Luis Muñoz stalin
@@MatteoYoon wow. Thats deep
Oh no that's so true
@@MatteoYoon Stealin'
@@beetlejuiceisreal238 oh i found you again
This piece is so fucking odd. So many clownish circus-sounding moments and nonsensical shifts in character. Yet at the same time it's such an enjoyable listen. Knowing the backstory of it makes it even funnier!
well, it's Shostakovich after all
trolling the government
0:25 this is what I call the 'water inside your army shoes motive' it just sounds like wet socks splashing about in shoes. The basoon + clarinet. I would love to hear a piece based on this excerpt, add brass with harmon mutes in the 2 and 4 on top of that.
I.
0:10 Allegro 1:29
0:38 A 1:56
1:01 B 2:19
2:47 C
3:07 D
3:23 E
3:40 F
3:50 G
4:27 H
4:50 I
5:02 K
II.
5:26 Moderato
6:20 A
7:13 B
7:56 C
8:23 D
9:41 E
10:15 F
III.
11:08 Presto
11:18 A
11:40 B
12:00 C
12:19 D
12:37 E
12:58 F
13:20 G
IV.
14:03 Largo
V.
17:10 Allegretto
17:42 A
18:47 B
19:07 C
19:43 D
19:56 E
20:53 F
21:18 G
21:51 H
22:09 I
22:34 K
22:53 L
23:09 M - Allegro
23:25 N
23:32 O
23:45 P
This needs to be animated with russian soilders being klutzing about
Relevant again these days
they need to make a third Fantasia film with this
Our boy Mitya was making communism memes before they were even a thing.
Sorry for my stupidity,but who’s Mitya? Is that Shostakovich’s nickname or something?
@@tsumugishirogane3925 short for Dimitri.
@@MikeCarvin I know that wasn't directed to me,but how is Mitya short for Dmitri?
Darkside Walker it’s a common diminutive of the name.
Darkside Walker and also, his friends and family often called him Mitya as well
This is still remarkably relevant for a Russian military parade...
Underrated comment
And only getting more relevant as the situation progresses
Except not clownish enough
@@bavarianbanshee …even more relevant and fitting now!
it's relevant for every military parade tbh
Age like fine wine.
GG, Shosty.
jokes aside that transition to the ending is a banger
10:46
F in the chat for the piccolo player
I was so confused on what was playing in the background and then I saw Shostakovich and then I went "ah... he is trolling the communists again"
^ Basically! Trolling is the perfect word.
The bach-round
Shostakovich : *composes a first movement that lasts almost 30 minutes*
Also Shostakovich : *composes a five minutes first movement and the whole symphony is shorter than the first movement alone of the other symphony* 😂
3:43 that part of the music on it's own was just 😩👌
That pure gold should be more famous then the lick!!!!!
I don’t know why but that part reminds me of Samuel hazo’s arabesque
I adore the first movement
This is how you get over a problem that's out of your hands. You just laugh over it. What a BOSS!
The orchestra rehearsaling this in 1945 telling at shosty: you are really crazy man
Lmao
"You are gonna get us killed man,"
one like for the ironic symphony from SCH to mock Stalin?
He could have been shot for this! I just read "The Noise of Time" by Ben Barnes, an awesome bio of SCH. Well worth reading,,,I suspect someofyou already have. T.
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@@tufflady1359 good thing Stalin died not long after this piece
@Simón Dellepiane oh, thanks!
22:08 Shosty just clowned the entire soviet government
whole chart is like "trolling,the joy and the punishment"... it almost like he have known what will happen and he just write it into chart,and stalin just write it into reality...
22:10 caught me by surprise the first time I heard
He sounds nothing like Haydn, but he also has such a sense of humour.
the form does resemble haydn hm
What a madlad.
yes, yes he is
The longest meme in history
LOL
This, along with Beethoven's 8th, are my favourite "humourous" symphonies.
Petition to make the "bum buummm" the universal leitmotif of clumsiness and stupidity, like dies irae
What a comparison with lol dies irae
"Ba baaam... ba baaam... BA BAAAM"
Now that's music
What have you done to me Tantacrul?!?!?!?!
He is the og madlad
LOL that hidden Radetzky march motif in the final movement
[V-I intensifies]
What if I add a ii before that?
@@segmentsAndCurves Even better
@@halimaz7249 JaZz
@@segmentsAndCurves BaCh
BA BA
No, BA BAAAAAAAAAA
12:14 - 5 bars before Trumpet Solo !
Thanks both for uploading this impressively modest score (not a wasted note) and the impeccable performance led by Maestro Barshai.
3:59 cracks me up every time
The trombonist lost their place and was eager
@@blackmage1276 The trombonists who performed in the premiere were def shot lol rip
I AM SURE JOHN WILLIAMS MUST LOVE SHOSTAKOVICH'S MUSIC
Igor yes. In every score :-)
Music that ends in snickers and giggles from one section to another. Fantastic, daring, funny music. It should make the audience laugh!
0:10
2:45 2nd time
5:26 II
7:12 B
11:08 III
11:24 arco
12:17 D
12:36 E
14:03 IV
16:41 v2
17:10 V
19:09 C
20:50 v2
21:16 G Pochissimo animato
for September 2021?
An hour ago, I unconsciously started singing the finale in its entirety, and while I knew every little detail, including the orchestration, I was unable to recall the composer and the title of the work. When I arrived back home, I screamed "Εύρηκα!" (Eureka). It took me 45 minutes to find it. Nice chance to listen to the whole Symphony now!
i shat myself on the bus and remembered this song
Congratulations
@@mse5519 LOL
Can we take a second and cry on behalf of bassoon 1 in movements 4 and 5
It’s such a good solo!!!
@@kaydekay1202 it's so hard
@@splodinatekabloominate846 Do you know ,who played the first bassoon?
On the second portion, that high D natural gave me goosebumps. Amazing tone!
This is a great recording!
Submitting this was a bold, bold move...
Orchestras around the world should be playing this now.
I come to listen to it again and again when ever I need a laugh
14:20 at first I thought there was an e-guitar playing
what even is it.
@@MrHinchapelotas trumpets and cymbals
I thought the same. But yes, it is trumpets and cymbals.
I like to think that it was intentional. Like he wanted to put something that sounds like an instrument of the west in there, as a reference
@@juliee593 as opposed to trumpets and cymbals??? Lol ok
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I think about this every single day.
bum BUUUUUMMMMMM
Da DAAAAAA
He really just said "no💖✨" to Stalin, then did it anyway
7:34 John Williams did a similar thing with his Jawa theme.
parallel 5ths... interesting (maybe I can copy that as well)
@@generalsnicky3219 This is what I mean: czcams.com/video/ZxMdImpj4mk/video.html for the Jawa theme. And similar orchestration here: czcams.com/video/ZxMdImpj4mk/video.html
Williams technically uses parallel fifths all over. But parallel fifths are not against the rules when you are using planing triads. Ie: playing the same triad up and down the scale (chromatically in most cases). Here's an example from Williams' "Moaning Myrtle" theme: czcams.com/video/oD0BoezTlMc/video.html
he was a genius
The balls one displays by trolling Stalin like this is incredible.
So hey Stalin how about you play this over the Victory parade...
Stalin: HOLY SHIT ITS GOT AN F SHARP YOU GENIUS!
Thankyou sir...
Stalin: Wait........**eyes begin glowing**
Look sir an actor that has a mustache like yours!
Get it.... oh
It's actually a Gb because of reasons...
@@jackminto7062 Im only meh at music. Biggest joke is the fact Stalin was actually like that.
@@I_like_big_bombs it’s in Eb major so so writing Gb instead of F# makes more sense.
@@excuseyou7198 Depends, F# is common in Eb Major as well, in this case it has to do with the movement, it's coming and resolving to an F so you wouldn't want to spell it as "an F" too, so Gb it is
This is literally "we do a little trolling" in an orchestral piece
Jesus Christ. I finished the 1st movement laughing. In terrible sarcasm, the nakedness of the absurd. Shostakovich is the naked truth, hilarious-to the face! If you would know how ridiculous and amazing it is at the same time-he is exposing the ridiculous. He is laughing at all the absurd. It is a march of irony.
Anyone here from Tantacrul's video?
This. Was. *EPIC.*
Jesus, the irony of this piece is unbelievable and imagine how much courage it took for someone to disrespect the socialist republic like that. All my respect for Shostakovich.
Stalin: hey we defeated Nazi Germany can you make a super epic 9th symphony for us to celebrate truimphantly
Shostakovich: ya sure
*composes piece*
Stalin: haha f*** you
@@segmentsAndCurvesSchostakovich to Stalin: no, you will die, but I will live, because I want to listen to the Beatles.
Sounds like something Mozart would write if he had a modern orchestra
Nice! It is a reupload am I right? A lot of Shostakovich symphonies' videos got deleted :(
All of tomekkobailka for example (3, 4 and 8 I think)
Yes it is! The 15th one was also removed, and the Soldier's tale by Stravinsky.. :(
Did it get removed by CZcams or did you decide to take it off youtube?
Those videos were removed by CZcams (copyright issue)
It seems string quartet 8 with sheet music was removed as well
and such a fine orchestra!
The middle part of the second movement always reminds me of that scene in temple of doom where Indy and Willie are pacing around their respective rooms in the palace. The soundtrack in the back is very similar.
what an absolute legend
Which full score edition are you using? Thanks so much for uploading the score!
what the composers feel like back then when they're gonna write their 9th symphony:
Hello, thank you for posting this beautiful music!
Could you please explain to me how you procede to do these videos on youtube with a sheet music synchronizing with the music. I couldn't find a way on the internet.
Thank you for your help!
I usually use 'Moviemaker' for synchronizing the sheet music with the music.
Шостакович сочинил выдающуюся музыку.
The very first and best political meme!!
I dunno, I'm pretty sure Gulliver's Travels is a big political meme too
Hey Damon, could you please upload more of Shostakovich's symphonies. ... I really miss all those videos
On my channel I have the 5th Symphony if you need it :)
0:52
Stalin: Aww yea, now we're talki--
0:55
Stalin: 👁️👄👁️
every one of the copyright claims is incorrect, you can dispute them, and sue should manual review confirm them
It's copyright until either 2040s or 2075
I love how you can tell he was being such a shitter writing this symphony. Dude did NOT want people to try and compare it to Beethoven.
Shostakovich : for the victory
Stalin : Thank you .
Shostakovich : yes Russia victory not you .
0:38 that pattern of falling pairs of notes reminds me of the start of Prokoviev’s 2nd piano concerto... deliberate?
it sounds so happy
A. nevermind
LMAO
snare part in third movement cant agree either to double stick or straight sixteenth in sixtuplet
struggles
anyone know?