Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor (IV)

[canuckcity]

i love it when the 2nd violin, viola, and cello come in together. best part.

[JohnThomWebb]

Are there multiple recordings of this piece by Emerson? My Emerson recording sounds nothing like this. It's way, way better. Strange.

[bobthezee]

"Since I know no one will write a piece in memory of me, I will myself." -Shostakovich to a friend about this quartet.

[hwuman]

2:56

[Zephanus]

I liked playing this movement more than any of the others. (1st violin)

[yao76]

1:43 = jizz in my pants

[Shostakovichforever]

how can it be more beautifull?impossible of course...

[Funnysterste]

is this sped up??

[bigalex6393]

The statements in the entirety of this quartet are absolutely amazing!

[sradley89]

Shastakovich's submission to the soviets. Very depressing.

[avagregin]

Amazing :)

[cigtt]

2:53 - 3:31

lady macbeth.

[jhendricks316]

So beautiful... The time went by fast.

[benbisley]

Excellent. This put me in mind of Franz Kafka's novel The Trial.

Thank you so much.

[ashgal89]

This is such an amazing piece!!! You appreciate it so much more after you know the story and after you play it!! It's amazing!! I highly recommend playing this piece if you are a string player!! :)

[thejndsho]

@ashgal89 do you know where i can get the sheet music?? i play violin in an advanced string orchestra in middle school and i would love to play it! probably a little difficult but i think i could manage ;)

[ashgal89]

@thejndsho Welll...i'm actually not sure! I'm sure any sheet music store would have it. Or you might have to order it online somehwere. My orchestra teacher had provided it for us. So I didn't have to purchase it. But yes its extremely hard...the timing is wierd and the key that it is in is wierd..but still amazing :)

[luiehiy]

@thejndsho my advanced high school orchestra is playing it and our music teacher got it for us, so idk really probably one of those liscensed songs you have to pay for from some place

[coturechick1112]

@luiehiy haha... my orchestra is performing this too! we're playing it for a competition... are you guys using the "Barshai version"? (:

[TFishwrestler]

@luiehiy You're lucky your highschool even has one of those. "Conventional" band material bores me :C

[FiatObscuritas]

excellence!

[petitjaque]

the secret police knocking on the door...

[2january1992]

I will never listen to this piece the same way again...

[Nujjitoza]

@petitjaque theyre coming to get you!!!

[SonofDostojevskij]

Greatest composers of the 20th centunary in my opinion: 1: Gustav Mahler 2: Richard Strauss 3: Dimitri Shostakovich 4: Jean Sibelius 5: Sergej Rachmaninov 6: Maurice Ravel 7: Carl Nielsen 8: Igor Stravinsky 9: Bela Bartok

10: Carol Schnymanowski

[TheGreatDissolve]

I'd at least replace ravel.... with schnittke

[SierraNeef]

Agree.

[lawrentii]

whel, I have a bad opinion about your opinion!:D

[eisk69]

@SonofDostojevskij : not Carol Schymanowski but Karol Szymanowski. He was polish composer and musician, becouse of that his name should be writen in polish

[roman1akid]

Very nice very nice but do you not like Prokofiev and Debussy? I believe they should be top 7 or so...

=)

[SonofDostojevskij]

Yeas, I actually forgott them, I could at least replease Schnymanovski with Prokofiev, I agree.

[whythewar1]

@SonofDostojevskij Don't forget samuel barber dude.

[SummersDyingFast]

Brilliant, passionate, very Russian also.

[cuteandviciousjoany]

I LOVE SHOSTAKOVICH!!! :)

[raphung]

Shostakovich is a true god

[Yaflet]

Beginning is the cello concerto :)

[SpanishEyedDesi]

ah this is my ultimate FAVE movement!!!

ah knowing the story behind Shostakovich writing this symphony helped SOO much in recognizing all the symbolic parts in the piece.

AMAZING job to whomever performed this!

[dagdas01]

I love the one before this, but this entire quartet is aww my god amazing.

[violin957]

Please clarify.... Symphony??? what story??

[136918]

Beautiful :)

[goldenzlug]

perfect.

[clix089]

@goldenzlug all four movements were composed in three days. what a boss.