windhoek
The Phoolosopher
There's a thread in off-topic for interesting YouTube content, but it's in off-topic and, er, it's in off-topic. So I thought we should have our own YouTube thread for classical music and stuff over here in the classical part of pink fish. Here's a starter for 10:
I recently came across this excellent documentary on Shostakovich 5 by Michail Tilson Thomas. The symphony is performed in full after the documentary but I'll save that for another time (apparently, you can buy it on DVD and blu ray - link). Fwiw, the performance is from the 2007 Proms and MTT conducts the Sanfrancisco SO as you'd expect. Even if you don't watch the concert, MTT does an excellent job at providing context to the symphony's origins, as well as how the finale might have sounded had Mahler scored it!
I recently came across this excellent documentary on Shostakovich 5 by Michail Tilson Thomas. The symphony is performed in full after the documentary but I'll save that for another time (apparently, you can buy it on DVD and blu ray - link). Fwiw, the performance is from the 2007 Proms and MTT conducts the Sanfrancisco SO as you'd expect. Even if you don't watch the concert, MTT does an excellent job at providing context to the symphony's origins, as well as how the finale might have sounded had Mahler scored it!
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