Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 8 - 4th Mvt.

[hwuman]

3:18

[fallenfairy19]

sounds as crazy as stravinsky's rite of spring

they were both crazy genius contemporary composers

[feedthefurnace6]

\M/ 

[DeSegura]

Depends on what kind of heavy metal. For instance, avant-garde bands.

[D0ctorGonz0]

The breathing of the musicians makes the beginning of the song all the more dramatic.

[sheznic]

goosebumps yall. no lie

[warmimagnolia]

Dmitri-s great sense of ambiguity and despair. It-s a common place to limit his music to the eppoch he lived through, but overall he is a tragic and ironic poe, and has made some of the best pieces of deep music ever since Mahler.

[SuperEbony5]

those notes in the beginning represent the knocking on his door, the impending doom he felt being forced into the communist party.

[haydo143]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!! Shostakovitch is like the heavy metal of classical music..... gotta love it!!

[damiancho15]

@haydo143 how can you compare this fantastic music... with heavy metal( heavy metal is fine a don't have problem) but Shostakovich got away from the tonality....heavy metal has the same easy tonal fuctional style...and Shostakovich is not classical music...is academic contemporary music...classsical music is Mozart .

[firedeathterror999]

@damiancho15 it can be compared to some subgeneres of extreme metal , or some bands , maybe unexpect , oh and you seem to know about it , so i was wondering if you could tell me the subgeneres of this kind of music , like baroque , romantic , etc

[damiancho15]

@firedeathterror999 this is a neoromantic compouser. and he have atonal music too, there are many subgeneres in the contemporary music like the minimalists, the neotonal, the serialist, the electroacustic music etc, i found one thing in common with heavy metal and its the headbanging...

[dominicangurl95]

amazing. WOW :D

[cigtt]

my favourite movement. by far.

[beethomozart]

surprising, enigmatic movement

[profoundlysecret1]

This is dismembering! The caressing touch in between makes it more brutal. God, I love it!

[fallenfairy19]

@profoundlysecret1 it's like being punched then being hugged