The largest quartets and works of Shostakovich!!!

[denison rosario]

The largest quartets and works of Shostakovich!!! <BR> <BR>Shostakovich created 15 quartets for strings; the 5 first and the 6 last they are the more commented. The symphony is a gender for the great people; it is very easy to impress with a symphony! Is camera music is another thing!!! doesn't it find more work to just express feelings with four instruments? <BR>In the quartets, Shos is with less humor, more sober and " oriental ". <BR> <BR>: I appreciate concerts, suites, symphonies and camera music, as well as you. Still more the camera music, that, with its atmosphere more intimist and fewer diversified, it tends to take the composer to condense and to elaborate the writing. In the music for great orchestra, there is always the temptation of creating show and games of emblems that don't take to place none: we have like this the orchestral curiosities of Rimsky-Korsakov, the one that Debussy already referred as oriental box-of-music. <BR> <BR>The works cousins of Shos are the ballet " THE Age of the Gold ", the Symphony 10, the quintet with piano and the quartets mentioned before.<BR>

[shostakovich]

Hi Denison. I once picked up a disc of quartets #2 & 4. I'll listen to them with "orientalism" in mind. I agree with you on the distinction between full orch and chamber music. I favor the orchestral. As for his symphonies, 2, 3, and 4 pose a problem for me. I need to go at them more. His 13 & 14 are not symphonies to me. I don't think voices belong in symphonies, with the exception of Mahler's (sorry, Ludwig). His film suites and ballets pose no problem, but Age of Gold leaves me cold. The overplayed Polka ruins it for me. The New Babylon is a mixed bag to me. Are you familiar with The Execution of Stepan Razin? I like that, and voice is vital for that work.<BR>Shos