Members vladoicho Posted November 26, 2009 Members Share Posted November 26, 2009 is AWESOME! Listening to the 1st violin concerto now. That is some amazing music. That is all... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Orph Posted November 26, 2009 Members Share Posted November 26, 2009 Try out Piano Concerto no2 in F. It's a bit hard to find, but it's fantastic ! It's this soothing piece of music that makes all your worries fly away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vladoicho Posted November 26, 2009 Author Members Share Posted November 26, 2009 I have it I have to say I love the string quartets the most though. Such twisted music that it's hardly believable. Quite fitting that the first Shostakovich I ever heard was actually sampled in an FNM piece... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MikeMess Posted November 26, 2009 Members Share Posted November 26, 2009 +1 I love his stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Xuf Posted November 26, 2009 Members Share Posted November 26, 2009 Yes, he is pretty much the Metallica of his day, when it comes to strings. I was listening to his Chamber Symphony Op. 110, its pretty {censored}ing awesome. Especially the "Attaco" mvt. Pretty much metal with violins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sunburstbasser Posted November 26, 2009 Members Share Posted November 26, 2009 I dig Shosty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NeonVomit Posted November 27, 2009 Members Share Posted November 27, 2009 One of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written by anyone. Pure genius. zkNCMgxgSP8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members boscal45 Posted November 27, 2009 Members Share Posted November 27, 2009 We played his Festive Overture at our last band concert, and I certainly didn't mind playing the 3rd Clarinet part. It was a cool piece though! I need to check out some of his other stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members levonatwood! Posted November 27, 2009 Members Share Posted November 27, 2009 The other night I saw a documentary on OPB [PBS] about him. Particularly his 5th symphony. You see, he had become a popular composer in the USSR and had done the scores to some movies along with symphonies and such. He had done the score to a version of Lady MacBeth. Stalin went and saw it and did not approve. Thought the play was vulgar and violent, and that the music was too complex and basically sucked for lack of a better term. Shostakovich was basically told that he had better start writing music that was more "in line with the views of the party"; or face "a date with a fate in a black sedan". He wrote a piece that was simple enough to be accepted, but retain some artistic integrity. He put careful little undertones in the piece to conceal it's true meaning; and as a result, it was recieved differently by the officals and the public. The officials viewed it as a story of triumph for the Stalinist party over their rivals. The public viewed it as the story of struggle for the common man being oppressed and shipped off to the Gulags. In the end; he regained his standing, but apparently it was a really scary time in his life that changed him forever. He was basically writing for his life. Many of his friends and associates had already been arrested and either shot or shipped off to the Gulags (I would probably rather have been shot). He would sleep outside of his appartment so that of the goons did come for him, his family would be spared the memory of seeing him hauled off. Some crazy stuff. Makes me want to check out some of his work (particularly the stuff that got him into trouble). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members In Absentia Posted November 27, 2009 Members Share Posted November 27, 2009 The guy's a hack. Ok, not really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Orph Posted November 27, 2009 Members Share Posted November 27, 2009 That's the one I mentioned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bassman1956 Posted November 27, 2009 Members Share Posted November 27, 2009 Hadn't heard his stuff in a while. So i put a set of his concertos on my Amazon wish list. May even get them this month. Say, anybody else have like 4 or 5 pages of wishlist? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members flatcat Posted November 28, 2009 Members Share Posted November 28, 2009 I was in high school and the youth orchestra I played in did the 5th Symphony. I love that piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members WilmerTheWhite Posted November 28, 2009 Members Share Posted November 28, 2009 My jazz-fusion/avantgarde band made a version of Shostakovics 7 string-quartet. Not the easiest thing to do with a 5-piece band including a sax and a trombone - plus guitar, bass and drums. It Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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