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RARE: Young Shostakovich Playing end of op.35 (1934?)
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Video Description:
Facts established about this video so far:
Pianist: Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Trumpeter: Leonid Yuriev (1913-1971)
Conductor: Looks very much like Nikolai Golovanov (1891-1953)
Orchestra: Probably the "Old" Moscow Philharmonic
Venue: Moscow Conservatory "Great Hall"
Date: Some time after 1933, October 15th, and, most likely, before the "official ban" of early 1936. So, 1934-1935.
Piano: Bechstein, E270. Year Built: ?
(Thanks to everyone whose comments helped in establishing some of these facts. Please, keep them coming.)
Original Note:
This is the famous surviving video of young Shostakovich playing his first piano concerto. Footage is from 1934 or 1935 (I don't know for sure (I remember hearing about those years, but if anyone knows for sure, please let me know) -- definitely not on or before this concerto's premiere on October 15th, 1933, which happened at the Leningrad Philharmonic Hall). This performance is from Moscow Conservatory's Bol'shoi Zal.
We get to hear the very end of that performance (starting with the piano cadenza) - the only footage that, supposedly, survives.
Video and audio was taken from a DVD of a movie called "Sonata for Viola".
In that movie (and most likely the way the original footage was put together) most of concerto video doesn't coincide with audio and audio is played too fast (resulting in a raised pitch).
So, I corrected as much as I could.
(The frame rate of this video is 28.534 fps, and it seems to work fine after upload).
There is even one place (towards the end of the final "stride" cadenza) where the video footage seems to have come from a different performance! (maybe a rehearsal). He hits (wrong) notes that cannot be heard on the audio. (So I tweaked it a bit there).
Either way, enjoy it.
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I dont think I have ever found a recording of somebody who plays that part with the correct notes, up the the correct speed, etc. If you know of one, please tell me.
"I'm not feeling quite up to olympic level today" -John Weinzweig, Summer 2004
Thanks to share it.
Thankx for sharing ~
Kinda makes you wish old father Mozart had had home movie skills....
The term "wrong notes" in this particular case refers to the fact that the piano keys Sh. presses and notes you hear in the audio are not the same. It is very likely that he "meant to play the notes that he played". (It doesn't look like he is "messing up".)
Also, it is very common for certain composers to play their music differently from the published version.
Hope this settles the whole "wrong note" debate.
thank you!
how could you possibly tell that...heh
I think the original point was that if the composer is playing then whatever he plays is automatically right. This is obviously false, because even the composer could accidentally play notes he didn't mean to. I don't know this concerto well enough to pick out particular mistakes, but I think I can hear a couple of screw ups in there.
By listening. (I even get paid for that).
The more original point before the original point here was the point I made in the little video description box over there.