This is not just Prokofiev's best symphony. It's one of the best of the 20th Century.
@nicholasfox966
Жыл бұрын
GORGEOUS playing from the first trumpet.
@michaelmcdonagh5104
Жыл бұрын
Sergei Prokofiev was one of the most accomplished and complicated composers of his time, and remains so even now. This is a superb, and entirely musical performance of one of Prokofiev's most difficult and elusive works performed by Petersburg's great Mariinsky Orchestra under the equally great Russian conductor Valery Gergiev.
@onofre5581
5 ай бұрын
He is russian!
@fabio-yl7md
3 жыл бұрын
A great orchestra, a genial conductor, the music of Prokoviev.....what else?
@Tuxster3
Күн бұрын
The conductor supports Putin -- and his attack on Ukraine.
@karespratt5131
Жыл бұрын
Seriously underrated symphony. Especially love the theme of first movement starting at 6:48
@michaelmcdonagh5104
Жыл бұрын
Yes, and Prokofiev is a master @ taking a germ motif -- a rhythm here -- and letting it grow into something decisive. His timing is always extraordinarily precise.
@3michael919
Жыл бұрын
Indeed! That theme seems to encapsulate the entire mood of this tragic movement.
@michaelmcdonagh5104
11 ай бұрын
Yes. And perhaps the reason it's underrated is because Prokofiev didn't make a career of his pain like Shostakovich who, believe it or not, suffered far less than Prokofiev, but you'll have to dig really hard to find that. Or as my late composer-critic friend Virgil Thomson put it in his 1949 piece for "The New York Herald Tribune " --"In contrast to the apparently incurable maladjustments of Prokofiev ( who is physically ill, as well, for he seems to have had last spring another stroke like the one he suffered in 1946 ), Shostakovich is clearly on the road to recovery.Not only is he being sent to us on a mission, he has also been praised by the head of his union his "successful " film music. " But that, as they say, is show biz...
@johkkarkalis8860
11 ай бұрын
@@michaelmcdonagh5104 Two quite different, yet similar experiences. Shostakovich was the survivor. Prokofiev had the misfortune of passing away on the day Stalin died, his obit overlooked. Both great composers were victims of the notorious post war "Zhdanovschina" where "formalism" was not tolerated. In Stalin's USSR one could find himself on a long train ride to a cold distant place for a show of originality. I wonder if Mr Shostakovich and Mr. Prokofiev kept a packed suitcase under their beds? I am grateful to Shostakovich for the symphonies and the wonderful quartets. I would not want to be without Prokofiev's last three symphonies, the piano sonatas, the Romeo and Juliet ballet. Hear! Hear! to both gentlemen.
@3michael919
8 ай бұрын
@@michaelmcdonagh5104 This is a great symphony-there are mysteries here I don't understand, and maybe no one ever will. I enjoyed playing a couple of Virgil Thomson's pieces btw!
@burton48
11 ай бұрын
Exquisite. A grand performance of a masterpiece.
@agnesnemetvolgyi2785
3 жыл бұрын
Csodás mű fantasztikus művészek Gergiev utánozhatatlan, imádom a felvételt.Köszönöm
@davbig74
4 ай бұрын
Very clear and understandable 😂
@dieterbarkhoff1328
Жыл бұрын
A great performance of such a great work!
@vandoesselaerewillem9744
Жыл бұрын
And there are people out there that say Prokofiev is not a important composer ..........
@gavriilpolyntsev5449
Жыл бұрын
If you say the word ‘important’ put the articles ‘an’. And then, why Prokofiev is not an important composer?
@marcparella
Жыл бұрын
Only people who are not important say that.
@marcusanthonyPOV
Жыл бұрын
Are these hip hop fans? Maybe they're into country? Because no classical fans would ever say that.
@BritinIsrael
3 ай бұрын
He's certainly more " important" than Haydn or Schubert just to name two overated composers. ( IMHO)
@cne911
Жыл бұрын
Beautiful harp at 25:25
@franckmousset4022
2 жыл бұрын
Superbe.
@karespratt5131
Жыл бұрын
I. Allegro Moderato: 0:07 II. Largo: 15:39 III. Vivace: 30:32
@MegaVicar
4 жыл бұрын
I. Allegro Moderato-00.07 II.Largo-15.39 III. Vivace-30.32
@ediccartman7252
2 жыл бұрын
Change it to colon instead of dot (between hours and mins), so that it's clickable
@unciclistacontraelsistema8620
Жыл бұрын
A symphony within piano and harp...
@michaelfischer5800
9 ай бұрын
Quite common in 20th century symphonies...
@Skidoo22
3 ай бұрын
16:56 Parsifal ??
@alexisdanielvaneskeheian2127
3 жыл бұрын
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@dion1949
Жыл бұрын
Key is e-flat minor, which would be difficult for strings.
@WLWeller-ww6eg
4 ай бұрын
Gergiev is conducting with a toothpick.
@user-mv4ve1oo9n
4 ай бұрын
16:29 trumpet solo
@johnmarley5658
2 жыл бұрын
Where, O where is the Mariinsky Orchestra based?
@jdane2277
2 жыл бұрын
Mariinsky Theater, St. Petersburg
@michaelmcdonagh5104
11 ай бұрын
Petersburg.
@user-xh4nq4vt5y
2 ай бұрын
Mariinsky concert hall, St Petersburg.
@rickyyoder6261
Жыл бұрын
Gergiev's conducting is so hard to read
@theingabo212
4 ай бұрын
I wouldn’t agree with this though. I’ve played under him so many times, and his gestures are just transformative. Plus, he’s always there for us on the podium rather than beating every measures. He knows when we need him. Such a Great Maestro!
@slateflash
5 жыл бұрын
The last movement is a bit of a trainwreck
@tomestubbs
5 жыл бұрын
Would you let me know where there is an interpretation that is not a train wreck?
@slateflash
5 жыл бұрын
@@tomestubbs Sure! Listen to Oramo and the Finnish Radio Symphony
@wcsxwcsx
3 жыл бұрын
In this movement, and in the whole symphony in general, Prokofiev is much more lyrical and less dissonant than one would expect. In the last movement, he seems to have taken a lesson from Shostakovich on how to have some ironic fun with a symphony.
@slateflash
3 жыл бұрын
@@wcsxwcsx I meant the performance
@lisaragsdale1530
3 жыл бұрын
@@slateflash Oh! In other words a Finnish conductor can do better with the last movement than Gergiev!!
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