Festive Overture

As I noted a couple of days ago, Shostakovich's "Festive Overture" is one of my overture favorites. This piece just MOVES. Here's a video of the performance conducted by Yuri Temirkanov at the 2009 Nobel Prize concert. The woodwinds and brass better be in shape and have their fingers limbered up for this one -- and the strings have to be nimble, too! For me, this is one of the most exciting pieces of classical music ever written.