Dmitrij Dmitrievič Šostakovič Symphony. Similar pieces to this please.

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May 19, 2016, 04:58:27 AM Last Edit: May 19, 2016, 05:01:47 AM by SKYIO
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I like how dark it is.  Is it just me, or is all Russian classical music just absolutely epic and dark?

Karl Henning

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May 19, 2016, 05:07:25 AM
Not even all of Shostakovich's music is epic or dark:

http://www.youtube.com/v/mmCnQDUSO4I
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[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
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His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Karl Henning

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May 19, 2016, 05:24:01 AM
True!
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Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

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May 19, 2016, 05:36:28 AM
Quote from: SKYIO on May 19, 2016, 04:58:27 AMIs it just me, or is all Russian classical music just absolutely epic and dark?

It's just you I'm afraid. :) I don't find all of Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Weinberg, or Stravinsky dark and epic. The same could be said for those that came before them: Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Liadov, etc.

vandermolen

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May 19, 2016, 06:21:34 AM
Quote from: SKYIO on May 19, 2016, 04:58:27 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/e21aVAJALLc


I like how dark it is.  Is it just me, or is all Russian classical music just absolutely epic and dark?
If you like Symphony 13 try Weinberg Symphony 6.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

techniquest

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May 20, 2016, 09:46:51 PM
If you particularly like the 13th, I'd suggest you listen to Shostakovich's 'Execution of Stepan Razin'. It was written around the same time as the 13th and has a very similar sound in places.

Karl Henning

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May 21, 2016, 04:40:13 AM
Quote from: techniquest on May 20, 2016, 09:46:51 PM
If you particularly like the 13th, I'd suggest you listen to Shostakovich's 'Execution of Stepan Razin'. It was written around the same time as the 13th and has a very similar sound in places.

And, of course, the poet is the same.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

SKYIO

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May 21, 2016, 10:31:29 AM
Quote from: techniquest on May 20, 2016, 09:46:51 PM
If you particularly like the 13th, I'd suggest you listen to Shostakovich's 'Execution of Stepan Razin'. It was written around the same time as the 13th and has a very similar sound in places.
I just listened to it. It's not bad, I like it.

Karl Henning

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May 21, 2016, 10:58:13 AM
"It's not bad" ???

8)
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

starrynight

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May 24, 2016, 01:24:54 AM
By the thread title I thought it was some composer I'd never heard of.   :laugh:

jochanaan

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May 24, 2016, 06:52:00 AM
Russian music, in my experience, tends to gravitate to extremes of either darkness or light.  Witness Tchaikovsky 6: after a most joyous quick march, the finale sinks into deepest blackness.  It exemplifies this quote from Kahlil Gibran: "And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?" --The Prophet
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