Romance from The Gadfly op 97 by Dmitri Shostakovich - Jonathan Carney, violin.

Romance from The Gadfly op 97 by Dmitri Shostakovich - Jonathan Carney, violin.
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London
Frank Shipway, conductor
London 1995

[@annemariefleming]

The most beautiful "Romance" written in the entire 20th century. Shostakovich is so under-rated.

[@talo7005]

Really underаted by whom?! By Western society who prefers Conchita?😂😂😂. In Russia everyone rates him high

[@ТатьянаБаженова-е7л]

@@talo7005 Indeed, he is the leading Russian (Soviet) composer of the XX century.

[@doughuffine4068]

I agree 100%

[@ziqhu5613]

My favorite

[@tonybennett4159]

@@talo7005 Yes, I think that had it not been for this and his waltz No. 2, he would not be known at all in the west because these melodies are not really typical of his work which at times can be quite spikey and challenging. Even though he was constrained by the Soviet authorities from writing they way he really wanted to a lot of his work is quite personal.

[@yeelinli1]

Got to be one of the most Beautiful Melodies ever ,could listen forever

[@abecimnisanci4990]

I agree, Shostakovich is so underrated. Beautiful music.

[@marylynmartin6799]

I first heard this piece of music in the series Riley Ace of Spys - it ripped my heart out & still does every time I hear it - absolutely beautiful so very beautiful ❤❤❤

[@TERRYBIGGENDEN]

Same here! I'd never heard of it till that series. I was so 'shocked' when I saw that it waa by Shostakovich!I I had much to learn. :-)

[@jhcmusicii6181]

Yep. I was just a kid in high school when this show first came to America on PBS. Melody has stuck with me forever.

[@rfkavesh]

I share the same feelings. Almost too beautiful to bear

[@ronkrasinski1381]

I get chills everytime I hear it.

[@barrywillis4891]

Iwas just the same,after Riley Ace of Spies,I was Smitten,it’s so soothing,I’ve decided to have it played at my Funeral I don’t want to be morbid but it’s so soothing,I’ve heard just about every recording of this tune and believe me there is a lot I think this will be the one,

[@davidkirby3556]

Such a brilliant piece . Mr Shostakoovich gave the world a great gift with this composition.We owe him a lot.

[@lindapullen5765]

I had this to walk down the aisle 16years ago. The best day of my life.

[@ooldertzuidema4914]

As a kid I watched "Reilly" ...my first contact with Classic music...and it has never gone. This composition is very close to me. It gives me a cry every time.

[@casieatthe393]

This is the best version on KZbin.

[@RobCLynch]

Despite our differences, we can all agree on one thing - that this is beyond beautiful.

[@glencooper5647]

Romance from the gadfly would have to be the best this man has ever written Greetings from Australia

This piece is just so beautiful... it gives me shivers every time I listen to it.

[@GoAndStay]

Aliénor Lebret and I listen often. Never gets tired of it.

[@chrislecluse6039]

I heard this on my card radio in 1993 while my-wife- to-be was in her car too also listening - so it’s become out ‘theme’. Notwithstanding that Dmitri Shostakovich was a very brave man as well as being one of the world’s greatest composers.

[@sallyallison7316]

Most beautiful music. Heartbreaking and uplifting

[@ericjeana.haling8662]

❤

[@billxu8064]

First heard this from "Reilly Ace of Spies" theme. Absolutely beautiful. Never found the name of the piece until 2018. Roughly 35 years later. Worth the wait.

[@jenniferking6989]

I first heard it on that programme too, loved it and still listen to it everyday

[@oliviabelle8277]

My my gosh, the best rendition of heard this played....and I've heard a few. Just beautiful 💗

[@MLM18867]

I can't listen this music without crying, once and again...

[@ianross5856]

The most beautiful melody I have ever heard with the possible exception of the "Londonderry Air" Both stir emotions in me that I didn't know I had . I weep every time I hear it. How can one create something so beautiful is beyond belief.

[@antoniotermulo9214]

Only a musical genius could create such a magnificent masterpiece. Bravissimo.🎻🎻🎵🎵🎺🎺🎹🎹💝🌹❤️💋

[@lesleycollis7520]

Only a true romantic

[@darjeeling6432]

I caught myself stopped breathing while listening. It took my breath away, again and again....

[@jeaniedouglas125]

Absolutely STUNNINGLY BEAUTIFUL!! No matter how much hear this one could NEVER tire of such Beauty!

[@yeelinli1]

One of yhe most beautiful pieces of music ever written ,very Romantic

[@paynectygardener2033]

Reilly: Ace of Spies was one of the best series ever shown on PBS and the theme song added so very much to the showings forty years ago!!

[@antoniotermulo9214]

When the violin cries and so will I. Superb symphonic orchestra.. magnificent violin playing. ❤️👏😊👌😍💝👍😋

[@elizabethash1479]

I remember years and years ago lying in bed at about 2am listening to the World Service and hearing this music and falling in love! Wrote to the world service asking for the name of the piece and they kindly provided me with it and since then, well I sooo love it.

[@BillyBoy1235]

Good old British Broadcasting Corporation.

[@MrGaultier68]

Beautiful from beginning to end. Brings tears to my eyes every time I listen to it!!

[@antoniotermulo9214]

This lovely 😊 piece of a masterpiece is so heavenly.....I don’t believe it is of this planet. So uplifting.

[@fassstEddie]

Am I odd in listening to this masterpiece at least once a day, and sometimes even more?

[@ginadiazdemiranda5675]

No, you are not odd at all, I listen to it every single day!!!

[@jamesboone3678]

I listen to this almost everyday. Beauty takes all different forms.

[@MLM18867]

Absolutely not!

[@jenniferking6989]

I too listen to this everyday

[@felicitywilliams2289]

NO

[@bag3lmonst3r72]

This is the clearest recording I've heard of this piece. Thanks for the full version.

[@clairevos1304]

I walked down the aisle to this piece, Still gives me goose bumps, love it!

[@arontesfay2520]

You couldn't have chosen a better piece!

[@RICARDO13158]

Beautiful beyond words,!Soul shattering !

[@daisy13joyce]

Bliss, no matter how many times I hear it.

[@stc3615]

Such a beautiful heart-rending peeve of music, it tugs at the heart strings

[@BobA974]

This must be one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written.

[@granshiraz7114]

This was my late son-in-laws favourite piece and always brings tears to my eyes.

[@affzaal]

Russian composers have given the world wonderful share of composers .This one issupurb.

[@paullewis2413]

For sure. Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Shostakovich are among the very finest composers ever.

[@antoniotermulo9214]

Superb heavenly, heartwarming,divine melody accompanied by a majestic philharmonic orchestra. Can one ask for more. ❤️❤️🎻🎻🎺🎺🌹🌹

[@limesquared]

I've overheard this so many times in a bookstore it makes me think of books I've read! I love this!. It's beautiful!

[@ginadiazdemiranda5675]

I do adore this music! This version is magnificent. Thank you with all my heart!

[@stevew8153]

Played this at my partners funeral, brings tears to my eyes every time i hear it .

[@TCFrankendaemy]

Dear Steve, I fully understand you, your wife and love-one fade away, however now she is a twinkling little star, waiting for you, and welcome you, until your time has come…….

[@laurenfrancestanner-royce9527]

Sooo Beautiful!(Soothes the Russian-parts of my Scandia-Russo-Soul.) Thank You!

[@katherineblack8385]

I see there's quite a lot of people here who know this piece only as a theme from "Reilly Ace of Spies" TV series. Here's a bit of an interesting trivia for you, folks: this piece was originally written by Shostakovich for a Soviet film based on the book by British writer Ethel Voynich (nee Bool -her father was George Bool of the boolean algebra, for all of you programmers out there :)) called The Gadfly. Voynich knew Sidney Reilly personally and used some of his autobiographical facts and stories for her title character. Reilly knew that and didn't object. The book became extraordinarily popular in the Soviet Union. So when they made the film in 1953, Shostakovich wrote an entire orchestral suite that became the soundtrack and has since taken on the life of its own. Thirty years later they made the series about Reilly's life. The piece chosen as the theme? Romance from "The Gadfly".

[@antoniotermulo9214]

An utterly heavenly divine melody. So uplifting and lovely 😊. Superb rendition of a magnificent masterpiece. Love ❤️ it. 😍😍😍😘

[@brunozauhar1879]

Among the most beautiful melody ever written. The middle part in minor key is very touching.

[@ianskinner7754]

Bruno Zauhar b

[@bokim55]

Bruno Zauhar ¿

[@jeanninejeanpierre9841]

Le rêve ´ la beauté « idéale Le talent à contempler ❤️très sensible à écouter 👂 cette romance de tous ces musiciens! Quelle richesse ´ « congratulations ***👍

[@alexeygribenko5707]

How about the resolution back into major and transition to the main theme? It’s just one subtle shift from F natural to F sharp, changing the whole mood. With organ (brass section?) accompanying it afterwards and the whole string section playing the theme? It is out of this world! If you read the book, you probably remember that Gemma already knows who Rivares is, but she just doesn’t take that final step to admit this to herself until it is too late, and the second rendition of the main theme after the middle part is a fantasy of what could have happened between them.

[@TheVaughan5]

What an extraordinary talent! In spite of much competition, and some less than inspiring works, I guess Shostakovich could be considered the finest composer of the 20th century.

[@johnswain610]

cameronpaul b

[@spencersmith2798]

One of Shostakovich’s very best melodies; this arrangement and performance are truly superb.

[@petebroom6236]

Thanks for the beautiful music you guys gives us,

[@jackw97224]

Somewhere in the 1980s I viewed a few episodes of Reilly Ace of Spies and the theme music tugged at my heart strings but I didn't know Shostakovich was the composer and for sure didn't know of Op 97, Thanks to the WWW and your efforts, my long mystery is resolved. I thank Jehovah God for you and all the people who have made the WWW. My humble thanks; ya done good!

[@JPFalcononor]

That was a fantastic series and it was also my first exposure to this work. It brings to mind how I also discovered Vaughn William's Sixth Symphony from the intro music for A Family at War.

[@ianwhittaker7278]

Reilly Ace of Spies from my distant youth brought me to this. Loved it then. Love it now. Thought it was composed for the series (LOL!). Puts it all in context for me now. One for my Wake, along with Nimrod - played at our wedding.

[@arontesfay2520]

No matter how bad life gets, you can't listen to this and not think it's good on the balance

[@ТатьянаЦыганкова-я7й]

+

[@sylviadoust9405]

Heartbreaking, heartwarming, comforting how can a beautiful piece of music do all this at once but it does. This reminds me of two loved husbands sadly dead and makes me cry. Sylx

[@rajivsayeeprasad1549]

Playing this for my grade 5 violin! What a beautiful piece! 🎻

[@lipauker]

SPLENDID. A PERFORMANCE THAT TOUCHES MY HEART

[@marceloguariglia7299]

Hermosa pieza. La busqué durante años, desde que la escuché como tema musical de la miniserie británica Reilly as de espías. Una verdadera caricia para el alma. Gracias.

[@accordionman2049]

Gorgeous music! One of my very favorite pieces!

[@memorex202]

I remember this from Reilly, Ace of Spies. Beautiful.

[@ericjeana.haling8662]

Yes mee too. Love it

[@barrywillis4891]

I have heard most versions of this lovely tune and I think that this is the best, Barry Willis,U K.

[@bullopil]

Exceptional piece of music, beautiful.

[@Dylonely_9274]

Indeed

[@bobuk161]

Fantastic Phil playing my favourite piece of music ever 😊

[@dataduck811]

What a fantastic tune!

[@dayan5402]

So heartbreaking and beautiful!!!

[@mylesgarcia4625]

This, the Coppelia theme, "September Song" and "O Sole Mio" are among the most beautiful pieces of music ever written.

[@iurigama4561]

Não canso de ouvir, não existe definição apropriada para esse diamante musical. Belíssima!!!!!!!!!

[@assuncaoribeiro5932]

So sad and so wonderful. I absolutely love it.

[@sherylgenco6044]

Absolutely gorgeous!!!!

[@neilsullivan7428]

so beautiful i could listen to this all day brilliant and graceful as well as being uplifting as also so sad

[@alessandromauri3020]

Gosebumps all the time

[@brianmoore4557]

Such a beautiful song to come floating out of Russia in the last century. Thankyou.

[@veronicahislop8363]

beautifully played the violin just sings

[@ЮрийЕпифанов-п5ш]

Wonderful music. Bravo London Orchestra & Bravo maestro Shostakovich.

[@daveerhardt1879]

Shostakovich wrote some great music, but this is far an away his most beautiful. I'm 72 and love classical music and this is the first time I've heard this. Why did I wait so long?

[@crispyein8601]

I stopped playing violin after a decade of commitment and now I am trying to relearn it. I picked this piece to try and love classical music again...

[@gabriellacosentino6346]

Per me è la colonna sonora di un grande amore ❤ 😢😢😢❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😢😢❤

[@helend222]

Superb. Stops me in my tracks every time I hear it.

[@serp0969]

Just beautiful! Thank you!

[@glencooper5647]

What can I say just wonderful

[@curtismanchoon4596]

I find myself doing the same thing - no you’re not odd at all, this is hauntingly beautiful

[@juliettechao7291]

So romantic and beautiful! Thank you!

[@adrienjf3854]

Merveille de la musique classique ....Beauty can make us cry.....After 4 minutes i climb to heaven ....

[@paulleahy6252]

This Music lifts the Soul.

[@AshoreToo]

For me,listening to this brings comfort.

[@belkismartin7019]

Que maravilloso. romance. Muchas gracias y feliz miércoles🌿

[@jeanninejeanpierre9841]

Une si « merveilleuse qui m’entraîne 🧒en douceur dans ce monde-là ´ L’art divin «’’ Une si merveilleuse « mélodie « 😂harmonieuse « L’art divin de l’artiste: une œuvre qui irradie 🌹l en douceur romantique et admiration 🌺💐🌗

[@helend222]

Well done to the musicians and conductor.

[@davehshs651]

Beautiful performance of this lovely melody. Thanks.

[@hanshoette9724]

magnificent piece of music and played magnificently

[@ellenmaloney959]

You are not at all odd I love this too...its so beautiful🤗🤗🤗

[@김정희-r9x4c]

때로는 슬프게 때로는편안하게ㅡ지금은목이메이네요ㅡ이렇게매혹적인 아름다운선률을선물하신 쇼스타코비치님!!헝복합니다.

[@celinanutt9270]

Wonderful just wonderful

[@ninakons829]

A divine piece,

[@kosmokritikos9299]

I first heard this as background and theme music for the inspirational and heartwarming radio program, Gilbert Gnarley G-N--A-R-L-E-Y, broadcast live from the Saint Pia Zadora Golden Buckeye Retirement Community in Pisgah, Ohio.

[@ssscar2368]

Such beautiful, haunting music. No comparison.

[@BytomGirl]

I heard a choral version of it at the Vaganova Ballet Academy exams and it was beautiful. Their rector chose the choral version from his record and said it's to make these boys' souls sing so they could feel the music when they dance. . And he certainly did when he danced himself. The whole exam musical program was Shostakovich, Gadfly, Bright Stream and Golden Age and it was beautiful. Now I am trying to find a choral version but have no luck but this one is beautiful and I am posting it on a Russian Music Group.

[@user-sl2to5uo4k]

Романс из кинофильма "Овод". Музыка Дмитрия Шостаковича. Сводный хор средней и старшей групп Большого Детского Хора им. В. С. Попова. Фрагмент отчётного концерта в Светлановском зале Московского международного Дома музыки. 14 апреля 2019 года. Съемка «Takaya Music» совместно с Владимиром Казберуком. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eaKqZ2mQbqyemsk

[@BytomGirl]

This children's choir was recorded last year, the version Mr. Tsiskaridze used was old version from an old record he had, do you know who recorded that? It was mesmerizing. And exam was in 2018. Here is that fragment of the exam with original version kzbin.info/www/bejne/qInNlnaapK91pcU

[@alpkunkar9471]

Sublime è pieno di struggenti sentimenti

[@alibabatwist]

even a dead will rise and listen carefully to this piece...

[@alexeygribenko5707]

So beautiful…I love it!

[@alexeygribenko5707]

… and that was my 6-year old commenting! 🙂

[@mashtali1]

excellent tempo. wonderful.

[@barry1135]

Shostakovich and his ilk should have the reins of there country, it would be fantastic. 😮 and civility would be ensured. Hohum…

[@westtartaria7596]

Most beautifull!

[@dianagomes6598]

Ixh liebe! Das ist wunderbar Musik

[@iskokcu7795]

Başka bir gezegene yerleştiğimizde oradaki insanlar dünyadaki insan uygarlığına ait bir şeyler sorarlarsa onlara bu müziği dinleteceğim

[@landorg7851]

It just touches the. Soul

[@jocelyneplaneix5700]

Très agréable romance, à écouter 👍🙏

[@telfordguy34uk]

Along with Fantasia on a Theme, by Vaughan Williams, This is my joint 1st for shiver factor. :)