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In Reply to: RE: Well, you see, THAT is the problem posted by banpuku on March 25, 2017 at 16:53:25
a miserable, cold, windy, bleak, gray winter afternoon, watching the sleet or freezing rain outside while downing a tumbler or two of straight vodka. Shostakovich is all about quintessentially Russian black comedy or blacker tragedy.
As French as Debussy is, as British as Elgar is, as American as Copland is, as Spanish as Granados is, as Hungarian as Bartok is, Shostakovich is even more Russian. Those who can't or won't put themselves in that frame of mind may as well go elsewhere.
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Pretty much sums it up.
I would rather listen to almost any other Russian composer. Wait a minute - strike the "almost" from that sentence!
The problem with Shostakovitch is not that he's Russian. No, the real problem is that he often writes very poor-quality music IMHO! Which is then often excused (even venerated!) by a coterie of listeners who insist that the subjective quality of the music will greatly improve, if only one studies the tangential, non-musical aspects of the works sufficiently well.)
To paraphrase Playboy readers, I only listen to Shostakovich for the music.
Classic!
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