Shostakovich's 4th Symphony 7
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The last few passages of this symphony are like listening to the wind blowing through a burned out village. You can't separate the artist from his times - truly breathtaking.
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This is so fantastic. Goosebumps! Thank you :)!
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Eerie and compelling. Thank you for uploading.
How wonderful that silence between the end and the applause.
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This sympphony was (have I read) under rehercing when the Pravda article acused som musicans for formalism. The las movement should in this case have been unschanged too. But if this is true I really do not kow. Anyhow the final is a milestone in symphonic music no doubt.
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Brilliant Shostakovich!! Stupid and ignorant Stalin!
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Our GCSE Music class went to listen to this piece and it was excellent, I wasn't expecting an ending quite so beautifully haunting as this. I usually listen to metal and stuff but this was like a chilling breath of fresh air.
That tune on the violin at 2:14 is just so amazing and then the celesta at 2:24 - fucking jaw dropping.
At the end of the piece there was the longest drawn out silence I had ever experienced - I think everyone was taken by the poignancy of the piece.
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@Akaki59 He finished the last movement just after the Pravda article in Jan '36- it's apparently a 'creative response' to being called a formalist.
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absolutely love the celesta
Haunting!
frenchhousewolf 3 years ago 18
Superbe.
darkarchon39 4 years ago 17