Shostakovich String Quartet No.8 - 3rd&4th mvt

[teadrinkerification]

I love the way the DSCH motif goes into the new section at around 6:20-ish

[bananaphone951]

such a great piece of music, too bad Shostakovich was such a fail after he composed this piece (he was gonna kill himself, but his friend took the poison away before he could)

[Ohglaba]

this is so awesome it blew my head right off.

*searches under table blindly*

Found it

[Amarynthine]

omg, so aggressive! I laik

[temperheaded1]

3 People Are Death

[VeggiePirateLorryn]

there is one viola and two violins. At least that was the way I received the arrangement :)

[Nutterbutterz95]

I like the 3rd movement more than I like the 2nd movement. Is that weird?

[dragonscarz13]

@Nutterbutterz95 Yes.

[Nutterbutterz95]

@dragonscarz13 That doesn't mean I don't like the second movement as well. :P

[diedoppelganger]

Are these not those musicians?

youtube.com/watch?v=QiDM5-yHI5­E

witching rendition

[Celloheaven]

@diedoppelganger

Nope. We're not those musicians. :D Though I know the 1st violinist from that video. That other video is from New England Conservatory.

[GLaDOSsMailerDaemon]

3 people listen to Beethoven.

[Nutterbutterz95]

@GLaDOSsMailerDaemon I listen to Beethoven! D:

[peekabooro]

i love the little ditty violas get a way of mocking stalin

[ebecello]

Now nobody needs an red bull.

[THEMGOROTH75]

Epic!Epic power,epic!!!

[triviumlambofgod]

what do the 3 knocks mean?

[ChocolateCaliente062]

@triviumlambofgod The three loud attacking notes represent knocking on his door by people sent to collect and kill him.

[peppersax]

There are no words for Shostakovitch. He was the Master! Interesting note: Bernard Herrmann must have listened to DS when composing his "Psycho" theme for Alfred Hitchcock in 1959 (The movie came out in 1960). Nevertheless, I love both of them!

[M0niqa91]

The first violinst is great! So talented girl:) I cannot stop listening to it!

[LOTViolists]

Jaw-dropping. Thank you for this.

[sethlightking]

i just noticed something, shostakovich has reoccuring themes through out all his music! for example in the 3rd movement of this at 1:55, its the main theme from his cello concerto. and in the second movement of this, it has the theme in it from his piano trio!

[eerbrev]

@sethlightking this is because he wrote this piece for himself (some say as a suicide note). there are themes in all of the movements from pieces of his the he had composed previously. I did a paper on it in college. there's a lot of info on it. quite interesting if you're in to that sort of thing. The 3 accented note theme in the 4th movement are supposed to be the KGB knocking on the door to take him away (one theory)

[SuinjaoRaosue1]

This music is just dark.

I like this Mvmnt very much !!

suinjaoraosue

[ktmad]

"DSCH" ALL THE WAY, movement rocks!

[peterayuso]

We're doing Mvmnt. 4 and 5 for festival, but we cant do it this good. lol

My teacher says that its about his paranoia towards Stalin and such. In the 4th movement, you can hear the Secret Police "knocking" on his door in the middle of the night. The cover story was that it was to commemorate the war. It peculiar because you can hear the hum of the planes throughout it.

[cellogeek95]

Ah! they play the theme in shostakovich cello concerto no 1 at 1:55!

[Soulstar333]

@cellogeek95

Actually, from what I understand, that is a common theme in Shostakovich's music because the notes are his initials

[cecily0redman]

@Soulstar333 Yeah! I read that too :)

[electricviolinist92]

poor cello has that one harmonic forever

[BassBroMike]

Its dark to represent the shadow of war. Excellent work

[Zebeldarebel]

I thought it was dark because Shostakovich was thinking of suicide... =/

[RobertoFasciano]

Great performance, compliment.

[VeggiePirateLorryn]

the first violinist's use of her bow is amazing

and when the violists goes into the cut time part, it's powerful and rich

the entire quartet is so talented

kudos :]

[Nutterbutterz95]

@VeggiePirateLorryn It's a string quartet, so that means there is only 1 violinist, right? The other two are violists; people who play the viola.

[karlbaseballviolinn]

i love this song! we played it in my orchestra

[maxlorenz24]

Excellent!

Romantic Shosta. :-)

We want more of them.

[mxpxrox590]

很好。。。they are playing in the dark because it is very dark and sinister piece representing war.

[gauran123456]

wow wow wow cant stop saying wow since i listened to this piece

[JessicaSweden]

why are they playing in the dark?

[karlbaseballviolinn]

that probably how the concert hall is so all of the focas is on them

[qutoobe]

I can't imagine it being played otherwise, given the nature of the piece!

[bigb47]

to elaborate on the reason for the lack of lighting: its about stalin's treacherous fascist regime and the regime's terrorized and murdered victims

[Batman001]

Thats exactly what I was thinking

[parallax7d]

you just made Shostakovich musical, how'd you do that?

[zokerfan]

Shostakovich is very musical in his own way, great music

[guitarcameron]

now this is music here!

[dani1978el]

qué buenos! y parecen jovencitos! Una de las mejores versiones que he escuchado de esta obra

[moman1208]

freaky...just how i love this movement

[moman1208]

freaky...just how i love this movement

[Georgegershwin]

Very nice performance - shame the intro was too fast, but technically sound and very musical.

[BuyingSoulsOver]

entrance of the cello was nice- the trills by the violin II could've been louder. but yea. Cool stuff (good audio despite the bad visual, but i'm not here for the visual anyway XD). My orchestra is currently working on this (it's a small one- chamber sized).

[randomperson1792]

Same here.

[stricken66626]

yeah we are too. this is an amazing piece. i just love the secong movement. can u say angst? haha