Great remark!!!! (like the greeks had spoken about the eternal return...or eternal loop if you want. I suppose that when you spoke about 15 you were speaking...
Or maybe you were speaking about the first symphony and the 15th....If that's the case, I am terribly sorry. I cannot find any valuable point of comparison ...
Well, DSCH does show signs of his oppressed artistry in Number 15, but he seems to have cut his symphonic scale back down to the intimacy of the First. I don't...
In my humble opinion... Shostakovitch been castrated much earlier, he could not match anymore the Shostakovitch of the 3d symphony or the nose. The dammage is ...
Yes, but what is your response to the original message, which did not COMPARE symphony 1 and symphony 15 in general, but only pointed out that the origin of ...
If there is a quotation of Wagner in Symphony 1, I can't really tell where it is. There are moments in the 15th Symphony, particularly the last movement, where...
Influences everybody had, but the first symphony was dedicated to his master Glazounov... with the Glazounov's influence and with a terrific Shostakovitch's ...
This has nothing to do with DSCH directly, but did anyone hear the Russian "Trio Veronesh" on Prairie Home Companion a few weeks ago? (It was the one when...
Don't forget that today's is Shostakovich's birthday(9/25/1906 - 8/09/1975), we should celebrate that he was born 94 years ago to give us all these great music...
Hi I am a 17 year old female from south carolina. I attend a residential high school for the arts. I play violin and study music at the school. I have played...
I just ran across this club and I joined just to share a thought about a particular CD and was wondering what others out their who have this CD think about ...
What has surprised me is that DSCH didn't write his First String Quartet until about the time of his Sixth Symphony. I was startled when I found this out : a...
ah but who cares :)<br>ill post...<br>anyway, today my school had a lecture on the 8th quartet... it was awesome... ill tell more later... its soooooooo neat...
The most overtly romantic DSCH composition I've heard has to be the Romance from "The Gadfly", basically a long(and yes, romantic) violin solo over discreet...
-Item #1:Sorry, don't know how to cure you of the "muzak" syndrome. Have the same problem myself, trying to banish the horrible residual background noise so...
-Still disagree utterly<br>-Have two recordings---Kondrashin and the USSR State Symphony Orch.(transferred to tape on a Korean label-!!!), and the famous...
Once again, in defence of no.11---<br>A)It is long, granted, but shorter than #7 (and Beethoven #9-!!!). In fact, my recording of Kondrashin's 11th clocks in...
Hate to belabour the issue too much---suffice it to say that many individuals obviously are capable of liking a composer but having radically different ...
is the third movement the one that has the theme at the begining and carries through the whole thing and not resolving till the very end? It reminds me of ...
Well, I certainly don't have anything profound to say, but I'll post something. So, what do you think of Shostakovich's Jazz Suites? I think they're pretty fun...
Isn't it wonderful how well DSCH mastered the jazz idiom early in his career? Besides hearing jazz songs played in public, his experiences as a silent movie...
