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 Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 11:42 am
Shostakovich rocks, period...Anyone with a question about Dmitri, I'm sure I can answer it...Oh, and the other Russian composers I know a lot about....Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Khachaturian, Mussorgsky....et al......
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Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:40 pm
I love Shostakovich. It's a little bit of an obsession. I haven't really found anyone who's as snide and sarcastic as he can be, while still retaining actual depth of emotion in his music. And then, of course, there's the fact that every single one of his symphonies (except for 14, which is strings + percussion only) has a massive bassoon solo in it...
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 2:27 pm
I listen to lots of Rachmaninoff. And Borodin. Have read the pocket score to Borodin's second string quartet a few hundred times.
I find it amusing that we're calling this "Shostakovich + the other Russians," lol. What about Tchaikovsky wink ? Even in their lifetimes, I think Prokofiev had a much more profound impact upon Russian music.
Which isn't to discount Shostakovich, of course. Listened to Vadim Repim play his violin concerto here in concert, absolutely gorgeous. And his suite for Promenade orchestra is one of my favourites!
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 2:46 pm
I don't like Shost, personally I find him falling short in comparisons with to many other composers. But I can tell you if you stop listening to classical music for awhile, then Shost will sound pretty dang good. We're playing his 2nd mvnt. to his 10th symphony, which is of course my favorite piece from him.
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:46 pm
liebestraume I find it amusing that we're calling this "Shostakovich + the other Russians," lol. What about Tchaikovsky wink ? Even in their lifetimes, I think Prokofiev had a much more profound impact upon Russian music. It's funny, because that's exactly what went through my mind when I saw this title... Quote: Which isn't to discount Shostakovich, of course. Listened to Vadim Repim play his violin concerto here in concert, absolutely gorgeous. And his suite for Promenade orchestra is one of my favourites! Hah. I had a nightmare about Shostakovich and violin concerti. I was giving the premiere of his second concerto, only, of course, I play the bassoon, and have no idea what to do with a violin. But no one seemed to notice except the concertmistress who was trying to kill me with her glares...
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 7:17 pm
Amphion liebestraume I find it amusing that we're calling this "Shostakovich + the other Russians," lol. What about Tchaikovsky wink ? Even in their lifetimes, I think Prokofiev had a much more profound impact upon Russian music. It's funny, because that's exactly what went through my mind when I saw this title... Quote: Which isn't to discount Shostakovich, of course. Listened to Vadim Repim play his violin concerto here in concert, absolutely gorgeous. And his suite for Promenade orchestra is one of my favourites! Hah. I had a nightmare about Shostakovich and violin concerti. I was giving the premiere of his second concerto, only, of course, I play the bassoon, and have no idea what to do with a violin. But no one seemed to notice except the concertmistress who was trying to kill me with her glares... ROFL
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 2:56 pm
`Kel` Amphion liebestraume I find it amusing that we're calling this "Shostakovich + the other Russians," lol. What about Tchaikovsky wink ? Even in their lifetimes, I think Prokofiev had a much more profound impact upon Russian music. It's funny, because that's exactly what went through my mind when I saw this title... Quote: Which isn't to discount Shostakovich, of course. Listened to Vadim Repim play his violin concerto here in concert, absolutely gorgeous. And his suite for Promenade orchestra is one of my favourites! Hah. I had a nightmare about Shostakovich and violin concerti. I was giving the premiere of his second concerto, only, of course, I play the bassoon, and have no idea what to do with a violin. But no one seemed to notice except the concertmistress who was trying to kill me with her glares... ROFL ha ha....That's truly funny...that's a good nightmare...Anywho, liebestraume, you're right...Prokofiev did have quite a powerful effect on his time with his music, hence Scythian Suite...Also genius...
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 3:38 pm
My favorite is Rachmaninov, but probably Stravinsky if he's allowed to count as Russian. I don't recall not liking anything I've heard by Rimsky-Korsakov either.
Tchaikovsky is someone I need to get into later. But one thing's for sure, V. Semjonov is crazy. His music scares me, it's so obscure and weird and sometimes frightening. Contemporary music composed for bayan (Russian chromatic button accordion)..oh my.
I like some Shostakovich. Again a composer I don't really know much about.
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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 1:16 pm
I thought I didn't really like Shostakovich much, but then my quartet played a lot of his works for solo and ensemble and stuff. I actually really like the ones we played (Quartet no 8 and 3, allegros of both I think) .. like somebody said, his music can sound so sarcastic at times which is really interesting.
I do agree, though, that it's kind of funny that this thread is about "Shostakovich and the other Russian composers".
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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 11:08 pm
My youth symphony is actually playing all russian composers this year xD (last year was american, the year before was french, and the year before was...german I think...LOL). We're playing tchaikovsky's 4th, shostakovich 5th, peter and the wolf, petrushka (1947 version), plus many more, and in may we played rhapsody on a theme of paganini (rachmaninov) and last month we played capriccio espagnol (rimsky-korsakov) I'm so excited to start tchaik 4 <3333
Oh, and I LOVE shostakovich quartet 8 <33 I sightread it last month. SO GOOD. my quartet also did borodin's 2nd string quartet, which was niceee xD
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Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 12:48 pm
xMissMacabre My youth symphony is actually playing all russian composers this year xD (last year was american, the year before was french, and the year before was...german I think...LOL). We're playing tchaikovsky's 4th, shostakovich 5th, peter and the wolf, petrushka (1947 version), plus many more, and in may we played rhapsody on a theme of paganini (rachmaninov) and last month we played capriccio espagnol (rimsky-korsakov) I'm so excited to start tchaik 4 <3333 Oh, and I LOVE shostakovich quartet 8 <33 I sightread it last month. SO GOOD. my quartet also did borodin's 2nd string quartet, which was niceee xD Hey, I'm playing an excerpt from Tchaik 4 for an audition in like 3 days. What a cool piece, I love the first movement! Also I've played Capriccio Espagnol with some honors orchestra thing, that one's really fun.
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Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 11:07 pm
waterstream xMissMacabre My youth symphony is actually playing all russian composers this year xD (last year was american, the year before was french, and the year before was...german I think...LOL). We're playing tchaikovsky's 4th, shostakovich 5th, peter and the wolf, petrushka (1947 version), plus many more, and in may we played rhapsody on a theme of paganini (rachmaninov) and last month we played capriccio espagnol (rimsky-korsakov) I'm so excited to start tchaik 4 <3333 Oh, and I LOVE shostakovich quartet 8 <33 I sightread it last month. SO GOOD. my quartet also did borodin's 2nd string quartet, which was niceee xD Hey, I'm playing an excerpt from Tchaik 4 for an audition in like 3 days. What a cool piece, I love the first movement! Also I've played Capriccio Espagnol with some honors orchestra thing, that one's really fun. LOL for our auditions we have to sightread an excerpt from brahms 2nd symphony...EVERY YEAR but i always seem to screw it up rofl we got to sightread tchaik 4 during the summer, the last movement is SO HARD but I think it will be amazing 8D but yeah, the first movement is brilliant! I love it when tchaikovsky writes angry/angsty sounding music <3 we played francesca da rimini in may...I loved it so much!
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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 9:31 pm
For some reason I've always preferred the Russian classical over all other classical. I have no idea why... it just sounds so... Russian. They did a good job in keeping some folkish roots in there. cool
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Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 11:28 pm
Shostakovich is amazing, hands down. Anyone with any question of this need only listen to his Cello Sonata and the ballet The Golden Age.
Stravinsky's Rite of Spring was the first concert I ever saw the Atlanta Symphony give biggrin
most exciting piece ever.
And if you're looking for some exciting Rimsky-Korsakov, his Russian Easter Overture is amazing.
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Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 5:53 am
I love all of those composers. Each of them sound fairly different but when I listen to the music that they had composed I hear something much deeper I just can not pin point it.
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