Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5 | Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Järvi [HD]
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- Dmitry Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47
Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Järvi
January 2015
Parts/Movements
00:00 I. Moderato
16:40 II. Allegretto (Scherzo)
22:30 III. Largo
37:41 IV. Allegro non troppo
In 1936, the Soviet government launched an official attack against Dmitri Shostakovich's music, calling it "vulgar, formalistic, [and] neurotic." He became an example to other Soviet composers, who rightfully interpreted these events as a broad campaign against musical modernism. This constituted a crisis, both in Shostakovich's career and in Soviet music as a whole; composers had no choice but to write simple, optimistic music that spoke directly (especially through folk idioms and patriotic programs) to the people and glorified the state.
In light of these circumstances, Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony (first performed in 1937) is a bold composition that seems to fly in the face of his critics. Although the musical language is pared down from that of his earlier symphonies, the Fifth eschews any hint of a patriotic program and, instead, dwells on undeniably somber and tragic affects -- wholly unacceptable public emotions at the time. According to the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, the government would certainly have had Shostakovich executed for writing such a work had the public ovation at the first performance not lasted 40 minutes. The official story, however, is quite different. An unknown commentator dubbed the symphony "the creative reply of a Soviet artist to justified criticism," and to the work was attached an autobiographical program focusing on the composer's metamorphosis from incomprehensible formalist to standard-bearer of the communist party. Publicly, Shostakovich accepted the official interpretation of his work; however, in the controversial collection of his memoirs (Testimony, by Solomon Volkov) he is quoted as saying: "I think it is clear to everyone what happens in the Fifth. The rejoicing is forced, created under threat...you have to be a complete oaf not to hear that."
Regardless of its philosophical underpinnings, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 is a masterpiece of the orchestral repertory, poignant and economical in its conception. There is no sign of the excess of ideas so common in the Fourth Symphony. Instead, Shostakovich deploys the orchestra sparingly and allows the entire work to grow naturally out of just a few motives. Given some of his earlier works, the Fifth is conservative in language. Throughout the work he allows the strings to be the dominant orchestral force, making soloistic use of the woodwinds and horn especially effective. The Moderato begins with a jagged, foreboding canon in the strings that forms the motivic basis for the entire movement. The impassioned mood is occasionally interrupted by a lyrical melody with string ostinato, later the subject of a duet for flute and horn.
The second movement (Allegretto) is a grotesque 3/4 dance which, at times, can't help but mock itself; the brass section is featured prominently. The following Largo, a sincere and personal outpouring of musical emotion, is said to have left the audience at the work's premiere in tears. Significantly, it was composed during an intensely creative period following the arrest and execution of one of Shostakovich's teachers.
The concluding Allegro non troppo has been the center of much debate: some critics consider it a poorly constructed concession to political pressure, while others have made note of its possible irony. While the prevailing mood is triumphant, there is some diversion to the somber and foreboding, and it is not until the end that it takes on the overtly "big-finishy" character for which it is so noted.
If it is one thing I have learned from watching all these great music videos it's how much more you can learn by watching as well as listening. It is so gratifying to see how each musician reacts to the music and how they all interact with each other. And the conductors... you can learn by just looking at their facial expressions. Sometimes nothing more than a raised eyebrow and a nod can bring forth a wave of passion from the orchestra.
Considering Paavo one of the best conductors in the world, I found this performance very fine and natural, Jarvi exercises tight technical control over the orchestra, more detail in some movements, not overexaggeting, either in optimism or irony, the glorious 4th movement is immaculately performed. A great night in Paris.
An especially taught 4th movement. Just the correct tempi. Excellent work by the timpanist.
聴いていて力と躍動を感じます。同じく革命を経験するフランス国民の血潮なんでしょうか。この曲に関しては、この演奏が一番好きです。
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Une des œuvres les plus intensément tragiques et ironiques de ce grand compositeur, grande interprétation, grand orchestre, grand conducteur ! Chef-d'oeuvre !
I heard Järvi's Shostakovich no.5 symphony in live in Tokyo this year.It was with NHK symphony orchestra.
It was superb. I was so astonished. I have heard many versions of this piece. Only a few could match him in dynamism and depth of various emotions.The audience applauded him enthusiastically.
He will be the top conductor of NHK symphony orchestra in coming September.
第1楽章 0:20〜
第2楽章 16:41〜
第3楽章 22:33〜
第4楽章 37:48〜
A powerhouse of a performance by Paavo Jarvi. He is in command and has a strong sense of direction from those opening canons. Paarvo is becoming one of the greats of his generation. It was lovely, during the applause, that at one point, Paarvo gestured the orchestra to stand but instead they applauded him. Thank you so much for posting this sensational and dynamic performance.
Agreed. This is one of the best interpretations I've heard. Love the diversity in age too in the orchestra.
Yes, a masterful interpretation--up to the final coda. Like so many other conductors, Jarvi takes the coda (#131 in my score) way too slowly, ignoring the metronome marking (quarter-note = 188) from there to the end. The grandiosity of the music is not enhanced by the slow tempo, especially as it is harmonically static in D major. Also, the slow tempo just sounds wrong for the unvarying A in steady eight-notes in the strings and woodwinds. And if there must be a ritard in the very last measures (though no ritard in shown in the score), it should be subtle. Even Bernstein, who sometimes inserted exasperating closing-measure ritards in many different works, took the ending of this symphony at an appropriate quick tempo. (Admittedly, this topic is one of the bees in my musical bonnet.) But otherwise, Jarvi led a brilliant and insightful performance.
+Stephen Tiger: You make an interesting point, Stephen, and it's impossible to show that you are wrong in any way, according to the score. But (as I've pointed out on other occasions) the composer isn't always right about how his music should be interpreted. I think Shostakovich changed the tempi after the threat to his life was over. Here, I think he's looking for mock pomposity, to satisfy his Stalinist cronies. I think the rit at the end proves my point - this is very much overblown which is exactly what the composer intended and Shostakovich knew that conductors would tend to slow it down in the final bar without him having to notate it. Also, we're in D major for a reason - Rimsky called it the 'yellow' key, the most positive and colourful. I think Shosty knew exactly what he was doing. But it's great that you disagree! I hope you'll come back to me. WIth all good wishes...
Hello, Mr. Smith,
Thank you for your thoughtful comments. First, let me say that I do not
have a slavish attitude about score notations; but I think a performer
should have a coherent rationale for ignoring them. And (speaking as a
dilettante composer), I agree that composers do not automatically know best
how to interpret their own music; perhaps that is exactly because they are
too close to it, and so they may not see potentialities that other
performers could bring to the creative process. As for this particular
piece, I am not certain if I understand your point: Are you saying that
Shostakovich's original score did call for the slow coda, and later issued
a revision with the faster metronome markings? My score, which shows the
fast tempo, is from Leeds Music Corporation, copyright 1945. If his goal
(which would be understandable) was to placate the Party hacks with
grandiose pomposity via a slow coda with rit, in the closing measures,
wouldn't he indicate the slow tempo and rit. in his manuscript? If he did
that, then my printed score reflects a revision, but 1945 publication in
the U.S. probably means a revision would have been made during the war
years, when the danger Shostakovich could have faced from incurring
Stalin's displeasure, far from being over, would have been at its worst. I
am not a historian, so I know nothing about revisions to the score. I have
assumed that the score I own is what he wrote and what he wanted.
Musically, it makes sense to me, because there is absolutely no harmonic
movement in the coda (that is, the harmonic rhythm is essentially zero),
and there is no point is stretching out the expression of something that is
motionless, for all its rhetorical grandiosity, because it does not enhance
that grandiosity. But I think even brilliant conductors can fall into
cliched ways of thinking; in this case, automatic adherence to an unwritten
rule, "Don't rush grandiosity." Agreed; but another rule should be "Don't
drag it out, either." In particular, at #131,
Good comment.
Wow...It was realy incredible...Thank to posting this wonderful video ! Paavo Jarvi is genius !
Musicians and Conductor have likely done this piece a hundred times, yet you can tell they are all enjoying the moment. Very exciting performance.
I've heard many performances of this masterpiece and this one ranks at or very near the top. Absolutely stirring from beginning to end.
Bravo, Paavo !
出だしでまずつかまれます。テンポの解釈にドキッと。そっから先の堂々ドした感じも、独創性があります。CDにならないかな、とってもほしいです。
I - Moderato 0:20 II - Allegretto 16:39 III - Largo 22:30 IV - Allegro non troppo 37:45
what a great composition, what a marvellous conducter, what a beautiful work of those orchestra-musicians ...
What a spirited performance of one of my favourite Shostakovich's symphonies! Bravo!
C'est sans contredit ma symphonie préférée de l'un des plus grands compositeurs russes du XXe siècle. On croirait entendre un scherzo de Gustav Mahler dans le deuxième mouvement. Le mouvement final est spectaculaire. Superbe direction d'orchestre.
thank you for this wonderful post. I have never seen Paavo live, I definitely should. This is my favourite work of all, and Bernstein is my favourite interpreter and was very fortunate to have caught his final performance of this work in 1989 with the Boston Symphony at Tangelwood. I have watched many conductors interpret this since with none equalling it though Nelsons with the Boston Symphony came very close. This one is close too.
Mas que merecidos los aplausos recibidos por el gran director Paavo Järvi al concluir una performace exquisita.
43:31 It's Theon Greyjoy on Double Bass
I very much like the rapport here and the blistering tempo that begins the last movement!
A gorgeous, intensely emotional rendition of this incredible work.. I've loved the 5th since I was in my teens. I could only ask one thing: Please send the audience out of the hall, and record it again. Seriously..... If you have asthma, or tuberculosis, smoker's hack, or whatever the hell makes you unable to stop coughing for some 50-ODD MINUTES, just stay home. Don't bring your disease to the concert hall for all to hear during the pianissimo passages. Thank you.
It is fantastic.I don't know why every fifth symphony of great composers is a big performance.Also
did Beethoven, Bruckner,Mahler and many others.I love Shostakovitch,his music is particular and very energic.Despite his seventh symphony is better known calling the heart of the soviet warriors to flight the nazis in Leningrad this one is memorable and represents another form of fight may be against the soviet precepts. Thank you for posting that.
The comparison doesn't stop here, both Beethoven's 5th and Shostakovich's 5th are built around a very noticeable four-note theme.
I fell in love with Shostakovich after I saw the national symphony orchestra play the 5th and 9th in Washington DC.
Listen and die🎻Violin solo!!!Magnificent performance,Excellent Maestro Jarvi and Orchestra👏👏👏👏👏💙💙💙🖤🖤🖤❤❤❤!!!
Grande musica! Questo è un grandissimo direttore.
Hawker,s voice does not carry in the ears of the hawk which flies over the sky highly. The center takes all things apart , and is impossible at the center❗ Standing ovationaly‼️
The last bars of the 4th movement are powerful!
Superb kinetic performance. Jarvi truly understands the music. Whoever was responsible for the shoddy camerawork should be sacked. The tympanist should have been photographed during the last 12-measures of the 4th movement.
Super conductor Paavo Järvi. Special congratulations to flutist Vincent Lucas
Impossível não ficar emocionado !!!!
j'ai trouvé cette performance très bonne, bravo à tous !
Magnificent performance!!!
Un bon et bel orchestre !
MARAVILLOSO CONCIERTO
45:36 I love Pavo’s face !
The timpani player must of lost count at 46:42 but great performance though, one of the top performances of this symphony for me.
No problem. We are humans. Notable timpany.
The beginning of that last movement is a huge big middle finger to what is written in the score!
La 5@ de Shostakovich en re menor fue estrenada en Leningrado el 21 de noviembre de 1937 con la filarmónica de Leningrado y bajo la dirección de Y. Mravinski.
28:23 Bravo Alex Gattet
Love this
Thanks be to God for this.
Sin duda,de lo mejor.
Brilliant music, brilliant playing, brilliant conducting, crap audience.... cough! cough! cough!
Bravo bravo !!!!!
Edipo Gama 幸せを祈っていますよ‼️I pray your glory and happiness❗Give my regards from Japan . so long .
37:46
Thanks you. 👍
recently came to love classical music can some one recommend another symphony for me
Adrian Merchant khachaturian symphony 3, bruckner 6, Mahler 2
Beethoven's 4th Symphony, very underrated, yet very joyous and beautiful piece from a man who had a very difficult life, but who looked into the future nevertheless.
Beethoven's 7th Symphony. Catchy rhythms and uplifting and fun vibe, and mysteriously melancholic 2nd movement.
Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony, overall amazing piece.
Dvorak's 9th Symphony "New World"
Haydn's Symphony 94 or "Surprise Symphony"
Not symphonies, but other classical works to check out are:
Scheherazade (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)
The Planets (Gustav Holst)
Karelia Suite (Sibelius)
Nutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven)
Nocturno no. 9 (Chopin)
Concertino for Clarinet in Eb-major (Weber)
2nd Piano Concerto in F-minor (Chopin)
Here's a few. Enjoy your journey into the beauty of classical music! :)
@@tonych4871 The Roy Harris 3rd, Aaron Copland's 3rd, Bernard Herrmann's Symphony.
@@mikkovaltonen3564 Nice taste in music, man
Too many to list here, user. However The Gramophone Magazine has a web site where tgey recommend an awful lot of symphonies. If you can't be bothered to venture that far, start with Any Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovski 4-6, Mozart last 6, Rachmaninov 2, Sibelius 2, then come back for more.
Pretty sure a horn slipped around 12:04, but overall a nice rendition. I like how the pace is calm enough to hear every note!
Sure you are right!
Putin conducting Shosty's 5° symphony
Wow
That's very patriotic
Best comment ever !! LMAO
Anthony Nd
When you consider that it's a criticism and parody of the USSR, I suppose it is pretty patriotic.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who's thought this of this conductor. It always cracked me up too.
Nah, Putin is too busy fiddling with Russia's wealth for his, and his cronies benefit, to have time for conducting.
Intense 3rd movement. Must have got it from his teacher Bernstein.
I think Paavo Jarvi feels more Shostakovich then Bernstein.
Probably the best horn solo in first movement that I have listened too, too bad the camera only pans to the flute and harp
Wow, he's topping out at 146bpm in the 4th movement. That's a bullet-train.
There is absolutely no glory in the 4th movement, listen carefully to the ominous discords. It is a death march that Shostakovich has given us here. In its trickiness, he had to make it superficially pompous so that the fools of the Soviet censorship would not understand it. The best example is the 10th symphony, perhaps his masterpiece. S. spat on Stalin's grave. Järvi´s version is intriguing in its majestic power, nonetheless.
Props to the string players whose arms must've gotten tired.
Paavo Jarvi is going crazy at 9:56 beacause he is a percusionist ahahaha
this is so cool......
Excellent performance. But the concertmaster sure botched his solos. (I've played them.) Way too fast vibrato in the one at the end of the first movement, which is supposed to be quiet and brooding, not a gypsy dance. And the one in the second movement is supposed to be playful and light. The bow isn't supposed to be pressing so hard on the strings. Again, too wide and fast a vibrato. The other principals did great jobs on their solos. (And I agree that the camera work is wretched.)
6:16 , 12:57 , 18:46
Unreal.
Love the fourth movement, particularly when it's performed at the correct tempi [it's much too fast here]. The tympani play an impassioned D-A/D-A/D-A/etc. before the bass-drum has the final ironic comment [up yours, Stalin!].
jslasher1 I think an off-kilter slightly high tempo can contribute to the feeling the conductor wants to express. With music like this, "rushed" isn't necessarily a bad feeling. Depends on the intention
The up-tempo finale is similar in effect as Bernstein. I like both versions.
One has to be a Shostakovich fan to enjoy close to an hour of his music, but it is beautifully played, so I can't complain
And one has to be an enormous Mahler fan to enjoy or is it endure any of his symphonies (except maybe no. 1) - lol !!
I think if you are a classical music fan you have to enjoy Shostakovich's 5th and 10th, two of the greatest ever, IMHO.
No hardship for me, I've just been listening to two different versions of this towering work.
Please Adagio, in which venue this concert has been recorded?
11:33 Aradığınız yer.
交響曲 第5番（革命）/ショスタコーヴィチ
my favorite
37:4837:4837:4837:4837:48
火事でも起こってんのかってぐらいみんな咳するやん
Why are there ads on this video?
It is too late to take the easy way out, my friend.
Because you dont pay
0:20
37:59でティンパニに何が起こった？気になる。
Please hear my sorrowful voice !
Many people are infected with unprecedented disease - causing germs .
Please hear my sorrowful voice to hear miserable news losing its life every day .
From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun
Which are you watching this from ？
Christ- some woman has to get a coughing fit during the most moving part of the symphony- the first movement coda.
Yes, that drive's me out my gourd as well. More than just one person too -- it's as if half the audience were asthmatics, with no inkling on how to even TRY to cough discreetly.
Paul Barrett She was trying to hold back tears, I'm sure.
I would imagine that all the coughing emanates from those who are smokers. Makes sense.
no camera shot of timpanist at the end? seriously? ugghh
7:54
Listen and die🎻15:28💙💙🖤🖤💜💜
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40:30😳
ALTAR'IN OĞLU TARKAN !
welcome, pretty revolutionalists. hahahae.
Fine performance from Maestro Jarvi as usual but dumb audience, applauding after the first and second movement's. For shame and in Paris? Sacre bleau!
Uncivilised tourists, perhaps ? 😁
Is this possibly the worse camera work ever?
Who is that conductor?
Paavo Järvi
Bernstein's pacing is still the best.
COUGH COUGH COUGH
Smokers ought to be banned from attendance.
NOPE--- SEE BERNSTEIN
magnifique interprétation ! l' orchestre est excellent ! mais le public parisien est INCULTE. On n' applaudit pas entre les mouvements !!!!!! aucune culture , aucun respect. C 'est typiquement français cette attitude , j' ai rarement vu cela ailleurs dans le monde.
Si, en Angleterre par exemple avec le même orchestre et même chef.
Il ne faut pas blâmer l'enthousiasme du public ! Jusqu'à il n'y a pas si longtemps, onts pouvez discuter, critiquer applaudir à tous vas n' importe quand ! Il faut un peut ce decoincé le doit du cu, et être un peut moins faussement intellectuelle..... La musique c'est la vie ! Et la vie, c'est l'expression instinctive......!!! Bravo aux applaudissements !!!!
Je préfére les applaudissements enthousiastes d'un public conquis entre les mouvements que les raclements de gosiers vulgaires de certains pendant leur execution
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