If we're in this game - My favourites are - String Quartets - No. 6, 8, 10 and 12, The Jazz Suites, The Bolt, Suite for Variety Orchestra...um... etc. etc.
Great choice. I know nothing at all about classical music but recently, on a whim, I bought season tickets to see my national symphony orchestra play The Wartime Symphonies by this very man throughout 2015-2016. If they're all as good as this then it was money well-spent!
Mesmerizing! Best videography of an orchestra ever. Wow! The most powerful FU to the recently dead Stalin, and (oh no!) a powerful statement! I watched until the final second, even through five or more minutes of applause
15 Comments (since 5 Aug 2015)
AlteGeist
Kronos turned me on to Shostakovich and he's been a favorite ever since- thanks for this one.
twistymellorman
Yeah, I'm a Shostakovich fan too. Personal favourite is the Chamber Symphony in C Minor, Op. 110a. Check it out if you haven't heard it.
abigail.deeks
You get x x x for this. Marvellous jam. My favourite composer since my early teens!
Matan
If we're in this game - My favourites are - String Quartets - No. 6, 8, 10 and 12, The Jazz Suites, The Bolt, Suite for Variety Orchestra...um... etc. etc.
Bukowski
@abigail.deeks Thank you. xx
pez
The bravest of composers. Well jammed that man.
kfarrnd
This is masterful.
aHandfulOfRain
Great choice. I know nothing at all about classical music but recently, on a whim, I bought season tickets to see my national symphony orchestra play The Wartime Symphonies by this very man throughout 2015-2016. If they're all as good as this then it was money well-spent!
pippamiddleton
Mesmerizing! Best videography of an orchestra ever. Wow! The most powerful FU to the recently dead Stalin, and (oh no!) a powerful statement! I watched until the final second, even through five or more minutes of applause
shitsterbauer
Enjoyed it!
lunacraft
One of my favorite composers
Axol
His best symph?
ricercare
Was not aware of this conductor. He did a brilliant job.
nosajholt
We start with the Double Bass...excellent, Simpson, excellent...
Bukowski
@Axol 5th for me.