Shostakovich - Festive Overture - Mravinsky Leningrad

Yevgeny Mravinsky conducts the Leningrad Philharmonic in a performance of Shostakovich's Festive Overture. Live performance from 1956.
Photo is of Mravinsky (left) and Shostakovich.

[@akudaikangongoro]

What a cheerful Mravinsky!!

[@valentindarienko]

"The Festive Overture in A major, Op. 96, was written by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1954 for a concert held at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow to commemorate the 37th anniversary of the October Revolution (which took place in 1917).The clear model is Glinka’s wonderful overture to his opera ‘Ruslan and Lyudmila’, which combines astonishing orchestral virtuosity and death-defying speed with instantly catchy melodies. Shostakovich, who actually composed his piece at preposterous speed (supposedly in a few hours, although this is probably only an anecdote) and was said to have laughed at its subsequent success, uses and abuses his Glinka model with extraordinary and sarcastic brilliance, speeding the fast up even faster so that a large-scale symphony orchestra begins to race around like the ridiculous accompaniment to a cartoon-film of the Tom-and-Jerry kind. The tune for these hi-jinks is borrowed without acknowledgement from his opera ‘Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District’, where it accompanies the drunken discovery of the corpse of the anti-heroine’s husband and the immediate reporting of the crime to the police. Shostakovich bookends this already over-the-top work with a colossal and splendidly vulgar fanfare, complete with added brass-band. This fanfare has acquired a separate life of its own as the signature-tune of various sports events, including the 1980 Olympic Games. "

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[@tishii3144]

Horn!!Very very beautiful and powerful.

[@jimuk63]

A super recording. The composition is very good and boy did Mravinsky have things under control.

[@MontseAntares]

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[@innocenzobarrera1505]

... irresistibile.

[@violinthief]

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[@ilyaipo]

Trumpets non one chord in tune

[@mockingbirdanalog]

Why so slow? Isn't it 300 beats per minute?

[@Nanakuri]

I'm not sure they were necessarily better or worse, but they were definitely more disciplined, particularly the soviets. And don't make jokes about the gulags. That's just insensitive.

[@TheTympanist]

You are completly wrong and certainly not a musicien