The vocal music "Execution of Stephen Razin" expresses vividly and incisively an internal lust for indulgence and craze of ignorant mankind. You may feel why...
I copy this article here. I think it's deep and incisive to essentials. SHOSTAKOVICH and BULGAKOV ... '20s satire - literary and musical ... In his memoir...
I just saw a paragraph from a net page, very interesting: Lady Macbeth was received with acclaim in Russia, western Europe and the USA, and might have seemed...
In his controversial memoir Testimony, Shostakovich mentioned how Ivan Sollertinsky introduced him to, and pointed out the significance of, Mahler at a time...
Indeed, a little hard on expression, but I think one can understand its opinion, let alone I'm Chinese. I try to explain the essential points in it: Russia has...
In a message dated 12/19/2004 3:17:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, no_reply@yahoogroups.com writes: The last movement of the 5th Symphony and its "triumphant"...
... Symphony is by ... forced. He ... a stick ... rejoicing," ... muttering, "My business ... Many thanks.I believe I read that at the premiere of the 5th in ...
In a message dated 12/20/2004 3:43:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, no_reply@yahoogroups.com writes: I believe I read that at the premiere of the 5th in ...
A reference from http://www.siue.edu/~aho/musov/reccom/reccom.html (just a reference, everyone should have his own opinion about music) Symphony No. 5 in D...
... finale of the ... previous ... wept openly as ... ones, ... the Soviet critics ... Music, especially classical music, is not language, and it tells nothing...
Many thanks for the informative responses to my post on the 5th Symphony. Does Shostakovich make any mention of the Cello Concerti or 2nd Piano Concerto in...
... IN 1975, RCA released a new recording of the 5th by Ormandy and the Philadelphia. (Ormandy does a great job even if not plumbing all the depths.) Produced...
I have read with interest the correspondence on the last movement of Shostakovich's 5the Symphony. When I first started listening to the symphony, I accepted...
... I have listened to several of the First ... Shostakovich in the ... by the ... generated ... to be ... I completely agree with you! That's the very words I...
... Cello Concerto No.2. (Sorry, Cello Concerto No.1 I mean, and I can't help support your opinion at once when I'm reading it now.) The first time I heard the...
... The second movement is one of my favorites. At least on the classic recording by Rostopovitch, it takes my breathe away every time. ... Here we can't...
I agree entirely that it is an exquisitely beautiful movement, accessibility be damned!! I know that in Testimony Volkov "quotes" the composer as referring to...
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When I was talking about accessibility it was in the context of the DSCH 5. The accessibility there feels dumbed down to satisfy Party idiots who considered an...
I think it's mainly one's character which leads him to his favorite music. It's also said that one's character determines one's fate. For the first time, one...
He Got Ovations from Audience and Orchestra Alike - Osmo Vänskä with the London Philharmonic By Robert Maycock London Philharmonic Orchestra Osmo Vänskä...
"Accessibility" is a bit of a vaague word and is correlated w/ ones own personal gauges of appreciation. When I like a composer, I nominally enjoy 75% of...
I cannot approach the 5th with objective subjectivity, as it were, because I was biased beforehand by knowledge of the circumstances surrounding its...
This request to join has come up before, god knows (& those w/ enough time to look it up) how long ago, now this - give us some background and I'd consider it,...
