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D D# C B day
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 6:49 pm
by Chuck(G)
Hey Tubenetters, today's old Dimitri Shostakovich's (or however you want to spell it) 100th birthday!
What's your favorite work of his--other than "Festive Overture"?
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 6:55 pm
by porkchopsisgood
Symphony 5....yay!
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:00 pm
by Wyvern
I really like the march in the 10th symphony
Re: D D# C B day
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:30 pm
by finnbogi
Chuck(G) wrote:What's your favorite work of his--other than "Festive Overture"?
The eleventh symphony (The year 1905).
Also the 24 preludes and fugues. I am listening to the recording by Tatjana Nikolajeva right now.
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:46 pm
by GC
Fourth Symphony.
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:25 pm
by sc_curtis
I like Symphonies #4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, and 15. The others are ok, too...
Also, The Execution of Stepan Razin (sp?) is really cool. We played it back in school. You don't really see many recordings of it, though...
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:13 pm
by iiipopes
I listened to some of his quartet music on NPR St Paul Sunday on the way to church yesterday. What I found ironic was the comment made about his music that at the time, the USSR criticized his music for being too progressive or even avant-garde from their perspective as they were wanting him to, "Write for the masses," while the West, having just been through the development of atonality, considered his writing archaic.
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:10 pm
by Tubainsauga
Piano Trio
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:31 pm
by UTTuba_09
I'm quite fond of Bobo's performance of the Adagio from the Limpid Stream, quite a beautiful piece of Shostakovich
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:46 am
by Steve Marcus
The orchestral writing in his operas is incredibly striking.
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:24 am
by windshieldbug
The Nose knows...
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 10:10 am
by Alex C
Piano Concerto No. 1.
It is a virtuoso piece for the trumpet. I accidentally heard this piece for the first time at a CSO concert, Herseth was beyond amazing. The pianist pulled him to the front for a bow.
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 10:52 am
by TonyZ
Polka from "The Age of Gold"
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:44 pm
by Chuck(G)
Hmmm....no votes for "Lady MacBeth of Mtsensk"? Joe S.
really hated that one!
Joe S.:
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:08 pm
by windshieldbug
Suite #1 for Jazz Orchestra
yep
Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 1:38 am
by djwesp
"Lenningrad" Symphony.
I love the recapitulation, we even have words to it...
"i'm going to kill your family--- and your dog--- and your cat--- and maybe even your sisters---"
You youngins out there need to pick up a recording of it for your sight singing classes (it will make you a killer minor 2nd and tritone person)
Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 7:13 am
by MichaelDenney
My favorite is the 9th Symphony, in which the bass trombone gets lost.