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In Reply to: RE: As you might guess from some of my previous posts. . . posted by Chris from Lafayette on September 12, 2014 at 16:58:57
Lord knows I have tried. But I just don't get it. Yet his music seems to be wildly popular.
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He's like the story that on the re-telling, just does not seem funny and at the end the story teller pauses and says...
"I guess you had to be there."
Shostakovich is hard to like. But then, anyone who can piss off Stalin can't be all bad, can they?
But then, as much as I appreciate Mahler, I don't love his works as others do.
I think Shostakovich takes a lot of time and effort. Similar to Mahler and Bruckner. I still feel the 5th symphony is one of the great works of the 20th century. Bruckner is the composer I can't deal with.
Alan
I have heard 3 different orchestras (BBC Phil, Berlin Phil, and San Francisco Symphony) play symphonies live, conducted by Sarasate, Nelsons and Dutoit. I have listened to all of the symphonies, several times with the Kitajenko SACD set, and I have also listened to alternative recordings on LP (Bernstein and Stokowski). I still don't get, although the performance of the 9th with the Berlin Phil almost worked for me.
I did not find Mahler to be nearly as hard - in fact, I related to the first first recording I heard, the Mahler 1 with Walter.
Bruckner is a tougher nut for me, although I love the 8th. Can't deal with the 9th (although it makes more sense with the 4th movement completed), and I find the 5th to be a music professor's dream.....not so interesting for me. I'm good with the 4th and 7th, and still working on the 6th.
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