@Polistotle I was just saying that your renaming the piece "Festive Dirge" because of how slow it was was rather humorous. It was, in my opinion, a win.
The opening fanfare should be magnificently grand. This interpretation is not grand but grandiose, an absurd exageration played so slowly as to mock grandeur rather than harken harken it. To the extent that there is any genuine grandeur to be salvaged from the deadly slow tempo, it is the granduer one might associate with a funeral march. Despite the dark temperment characterizing Slavs, I doubt that Shastakovich intended to introduce his self-named "Festive Overture" with a dirge..
@sizviolin1 I agree totally.
markedwardindc 1 year ago
@Polistotle
Thank you for your explanation and for your compliment! See my new comment--more explicit.
Polistotle 1 year ago
@Polistotle I was just saying that your renaming the piece "Festive Dirge" because of how slow it was was rather humorous. It was, in my opinion, a win.
pianomancuber91 1 year ago
The opening fanfare should be magnificently grand. This interpretation is not grand but grandiose, an absurd exageration played so slowly as to mock grandeur rather than harken harken it. To the extent that there is any genuine grandeur to be salvaged from the deadly slow tempo, it is the granduer one might associate with a funeral march. Despite the dark temperment characterizing Slavs, I doubt that Shastakovich intended to introduce his self-named "Festive Overture" with a dirge..
Polistotle 1 year ago
@pianomancuber91
Pianoman--I do not understand your comment, particularly as it (n.b., presumably) relates to my comment. Please elucidate? Thank you.
Polistotle
Polistotle 1 year ago
@Polistotle WIN
pianomancuber91 1 year ago
Sounds like it's underwater at times...
freshhh1994 1 year ago
Very good performance, too bad the sound quality is lacking
sizviolin1 1 year ago
not that the performance is bad, but the audio quality sucks, there's definitely something golden underneath.
yumyumwhatzohai 2 years ago
Festive dirge?
Polistotle 3 years ago