Shostakovich op. 11 - 2 pieces for String Octet (2. Scherzo) - Zagreb Chamber Music Festival 2008

[Musicologyist]

The performance is awesome! The composition is thrilling and intense!

[crazyviolinguy]

heck yeah!!! This is how you play Shostakovitch!!!!!!

[bpertz]

2nd violinist was kinda lame. Like, seriously. How do you play this piece and not move at all?! Notwithstanding that, however, this is one of my favorite Shosti pieces...<3

[Vanguarde12]

"Scherzo"... what an ironic title. This is the literal opposite of a joke.

[Alexjr1543]

Shostakovich must have pleased the Lord of Awesomeness to have been rewarded with this skill.

Same with all these guys.

[markoparko]

YES.

[Kalen1457]

This piece is crazy!

Pure Insanity!

[Saddlebutt]

haha the cellists are really rocking it out towards the end...love the intensity of this piece...

[LordN3mrod]

D SCH

bowing my head

[mumusel]

Super!!!

[BenjiFester]

Gotta love the insanity!

[Axtonator]

Absolutly amazing!!! 1st cellist has the right idea. its horror music you gotta get into it to scare the shit out of the audience musically and artistically if you want to pull shostakovich pieces off.

[TheJoshwinter]

Great performances

[ysh729]

Great pieces and performance. But with those faces on the 1st Cello and Viola, is that necessary?

[raphino90]

the first cellist is godly

[violoncellame]

@raphino90 he's Giovanni Sollima

[horsewhispers1]

That's so intense. o_o.

[JupiterAdept]

Very shostakovich xD. Great piece, great performance.

The viola pizzicato a little before 3:00 is so awesome.

[achung205]

yeah...i didnt kno u could pizz so loud

[Beeth125]

*-*

[thesleepyfella]

the 1st cellist looks like he had his face warped

[xXLeafXNinjaXx]

you look like you had your faced warped

[celloguy]

amazing!