Hey Michie,<br><br>If you want the 2 P Con, all you need to do is go to the library. If your local (or regional) one doesn't have it, interlibrary loaning is...
Thanks Dave.<br><br>It would be great if I could find a free version. I tried the site of the Library of Congress, but they don't seem to have sheet music. Any...
Hey all, I'm new to this club. Just wondering if anyone can recommend me some shostakovich music...I love his 5th, 7th, 10th, and 13th symphonies, as well as ...
Try the string quartets: No. 3, 7, 8<br>2nd Piano Concerto(very romantic 2nd mvt)<br>1st violin concerto(vengerov on teldec is a safe bet)<br>It will be a...
If you're referring to the "Festive Overture," I can tell you that I have played the piece. It is very famous, having served as a theme for the 1980 Olympics...
thanks to those who suggested the string quartets 3,5,7,9. i have now listened to 5,7,9.5 and 8 must be two of his most profound works,7 and 9 also striking. ...
I recently bought a CD with Shostakovich's 24 preludes and fugues. I plan to go through them all, but was wondering which ones you guys liked the most...
i like them all, but for some reason find the first 12 the strongest,eg 2,3,4,5,7.of course, there is the 24th!! the are two sets,a much smaller scaled op.33,...
The Festive, or Festival, Overture, Opus 96, for full orchestra, was originally intended for a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the 1917 Russian ...
The *intent* behind the Festive Overture was nothing more than a plea from a musical director at the Bolshoi theatre who needed a bolstering piece for the 40th...
Almost every composer has written a piece of "fluff" to satisfy the public. Sometimes, that "fluff" becomes the composer's trademark. Both Ravel ("Bolero") and...
Click on the "§ Moskva, Cheremushki (Moscow, Cheryomushki)" link and will take you to a reveiew of a cd which includes an English libretto. The site is: ...
As goes symphonies, orch. try the 5 first then 10, also 1, 7, 11, 13 for starters. The Gadfly suite is nice. His Jazz suites are also nice listening, so is...
Has anyone had the honor to read that new "auto" biography of Tikhon Krennikov, as a journalist I wld find it very interesting to hear his side of the story...
... 13 ... First ... you ... others), they ... different ... gloom aspect ... i would add the 8th Quartet, and the Op.87 Preludes and Fugues,the latter a...
Hey Group! I was looking some of the other groups and I found this URL. I checked it out and it was cool. They have all sorts of good credit card deals. I...
Number 15 was the last complete quartet by DSCH. It is rather long for a quartet (about 45 minutes) and gave me a chilly feeling. The quartet is permeated by...
Number 15 was the last complete quartet by DSCH. It is rather long for a quartet (about 45 minutes) and gave me a chilly feeling. The quartet is permeated by...
... is ... earlier ... 15th, ... clearly. ... as ... come ... many thanks. i have 3,5,8,9 so belive i can now tackle 15, as i also have the complete bartok...
I salute you on the Bartok quartets. I tried those out with an Emerson Quartet recording...I understood them for the most part, but Bartok uses the quartet in...
