Dmitri Shostakovitch - Three Fantastic Dances

Dmitri Shostakovitch (25 September 1906 -- 9 August 1975)

Three Fantastic Dances, Op. 5 (1922)

1. March - Allegretto
2. Waltz - Andantino (1:21)
3. Polka - Allegretto (2:55)

Konstatin Scherbakov, piano

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[susannerup]

The first dance is much to fast played !

[bartje11]

@susannerup There is NO set tempo for music. There is no such a thing as too fast or too slow. Only interpretation. Obviously the pianist liked this tempo (so do I)

[bayreuth79]

@bartje11 That makes no sense to me. If I decided to play the first movement of Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata Molto Lento would you be inclined to say "there is no such thing as too fast or too slow". Why should composers bother indicating tempos if there are no boundries? Clearly, there is no such thing as an "Allegro" or "Adagio" tempo as such, but these terms set boundries and to transgress such a boundry is to take it too fast or too slow.

[bartje11]

@bayreuth79 Look at Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata first movement it says Cut time 2/2

NOBODY plays it that way, ever. It should be played much faster......... just to give you one example. Everybody plays it way tooooo slow. But hey interpretation. It took Elgar only 45 minutes to get through his first Symphony but most conductors take 10 to 15 minutes longer...........

[Vicky0o0Love0o0Music]

I like more this dances played by Ashkenazy

[bartje11]

@Vicky0o0Love0o0Music Ashkenazy is awesome! but so what? what is your point?

[iamalittlespy]

He was only 16 when he composed these pieces.

[susannerup]

@bartje11

Yes, sorry, you're right!

[konfunable]

@Vicky0o0Love0o0Music Somehow Ashkenazy's version is too rude... this one is more fluid like..

[Vicky0o0Love0o0Music]

@bartje11 thanks!!!!!! (:

[bartje11]

@Vicky0o0Love0o0Music Click on the tab "show more" and you wil see it.