Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 8 - 3rd Mvt.

[fafner3d]

Skeletons rise from their graves at night to dance to this music

[fisher00769]

I love the part when... f it. The entire piece from the 1st movement to the last is pure genius. Every single note is saying "Hey bro, listen to me, and you'll forget everything. I enclose you in the world of beautiful music"

[fallenfairy19]

no one should dislike this

and no one has

it's so crazy awesome

[fallenfairy19]

pure awesomeness and genius

[tamaraviolin]

Amazing!

[fallenfairy19]

@tamaraviolin IKR

[MsModernComposer]

One of the most amazing quartets out there!

[jeromoss1]

perfectly

[SuperEbony5]

he had just been diagnosed with polio and was contemplating suicide after being forced to join the communist party in soviet russia. its so sad but if it wasn't shostakovich's pain we would not have this music.

[AuralArt]

@SuperEbony5 i pray to God that the last 2 1/2 years of chemo and isolation were so that I could write the music He wants me to.

[masterchaos669]

This and the 2nd movement are the best representatives of early technical death metal. I would LOVE to hear Nile play this, mainly just to hear the drumming that George would lay down.

[mdross9500]

@masterchaos669 hahaha damn straight

[scribbledhp]

If I remember correctly, this piece was written for a memorial for the bombing of Dresden. It was also written right after a string of very emotional events in Shostakavoch's old age -- he had just joined the Communist party (which some people believe he was blackmailed into doing) and his health had been deteriorating for some time. I've read many places that this pieces is mostly a reflection on his own personal crisis as well as Dresden.

[tothewheel]

@scribbledhp He wrote this as his own obituary, because he figured nobody would bother to write a piece in his memory. It is dedicated “In memory of the victims of fascism and war.”

Dmitry Shostakovich, Story of a Friendship: The Letters of Dmitry Shostakovich to Isaak Glickman 1941-1975 ed. Isaak Glickman; trans. Anthony Phillips (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001), 90-91.

[fallenfairy19]

@tothewheel lol he figured nobody would bother to write a piece in his memory?

people are listening to this and getting ready to write obituaries for him...

[FeyriVs]

found it. abelcain sampled this song to perfection.

[zammer997]

@profoundlysecret1 i do in the middle of orchestra everyday...

[dominicangurl95]

My orchestra teacher said that this song was about the Nazis dancing on top of the dead Jew people's grave. that's why the violin are in the major key while the viola and cello are in minor.

it makes...an interesting mix O.O

[zammer997]

@dominicangurl95 its probably not about the nazis at all because Shostakovich was Russian not german.... this song is more about what the russian government and its effects on the russian people and what he did to not die... In the 4th movement the beginning starts off with 3 notes that represent the KGB knocking on peoples doors to take them away and stuff

Thats what my orchestra teacher said... and we watched a movie on it

[FeyriVs]

@dominicangurl95 i think it is about russia and communism etc

[Ihavenicesocks]

you can hear the cello concerto in this movement.  interesting.

[SaarSil]

fantastic intro!

[lovelyamoose]

fuck yeah

[GingerJoberton]

Bouncy!

[gunncarr]

Love it! Greatest peace ever!

[beethomozart]

it seems with an opression atmosphere tainted with bit of sarcasm this quartett