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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 / Bernstein · New York Philharmonic Orchestra

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Gran presentación del director norteamericano Leonard Bernstein, conduciendo a la Orquesta Filarmónica de New York interpretando la Sinfonía No. 5 de Dmitri Shostakovich en la localidad japonesa de Bunka Kainan, Tokio en el año 1979. Great presentation of american conductor Leonard Bernstein with the New York Philharmonic, playing the Symphony No.

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Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 Op. 60 "Leningrad" (1942)

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Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by/Orquesta Filarmónica Real de Liverpool dirigida por Vasily Petrenko. I. Allegretto (0:00) II. Moderato (Poco allegretto) (28:35) III. Adagio (41:31) IV. Allegro non troppo (1:00:11) Shostakovich's Seventh is the best known art music piece of WWII, considering half of it was composed through the siege of Leningrad.

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before his keyboard success in Warsaw, he had had a far greater success as a composer with the Paul Hindemith (and, avowedly, Shostakovich’s contemporary Sergey Prokofiev) is clearly discernible.

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Shostakovich was the son of an engineer. He entered the Petrograd (formerly St. Petersburg, subsequently Leningrad) Conservatory in 1919, where he studied piano with Leonid Nikolayev until 1923 and composition until 1925 with Aleksandr Glazunov and Maksimilian Steinberg.

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He wrote Symphony No. 7 during the Siege of Leningrad—an awful time dirring World War Two when the Germans cut off Leningrad (now St Petersburg) for over two years and thousands of people died. Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7 expresses what it was like to live throught that siege.

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You can't understand Shostakovich’s music without understanding what Russia was like at the time. From the middle of the 1930s until the 1950s, or even later, Russia was a very scary place. Many people in Russia were getting into trouble with the government. The punishment for this was often very harsh.

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TYPE OF MUSIC:

Modern classical music.

SOME GREAT PIECES:

Symphonies, especially No. 5 and Nos. 7–15.

Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2.

Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2.

The opera ‘Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District’.

String Quartets, especially Nos. 8 and 15.

24 Preludes and Fugues for the piano.

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BORN:

25th September 1906 in St Petersburg, Russia.

DIED:

9th August 1975 in Moscow, Russia.

BURIED:

Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.

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Shostakovich’s Waltz No. 2 is one of the most recognized classical music pieces in the world.

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André Rieu - The Second Waltz (Shostakovich)

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Shostakovich is also regarded as a great film composer.

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Shostakovich: Waltz from "The Golden Mountains" (Efrem Kurtz, 1947)

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Shostakovich: Waltz (from "The Golden Mountains" film score, Op. 30) Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York Efrem Kurtz, conductor Recorded April 8, 1947, in Carnegie Hall, New York City, on American Columbia matrix XCO 37611, immediately following the same orchestra's recording of Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony, which I have uploaded separately.

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His Eighth String Quartet, Op. 110, was written from start to finish over the span of just three days.

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Shostakovich was only 26 when he completed Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.

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Shostakovich: " Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk": Act 1,Sc.1 (Katerina's Arioso)- Nadine Secunde

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Nadine Secunde as Katerina in Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth. Conductor: Aleksandr Anissimov Stage Director: Stein Winge Barcelona, 2002

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Dmitri at a soccr game!

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Shostakovich loved soccer, was a certified referee and also liked card games. His favorite team was Zenit Leningrad.

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Shostakovich was a perfectionist not only in music, but in his personal life: according to his daughter he was “obsessed with cleanliness”; he synchronized the clocks in his apartment; or he would regularly send cards to himself to test how well the postal service was working.

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Students will learn who Dmitri Shostakovich is and what he compose.

Learn and study about his life.

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