Emerson String Quartet: Shostakovich Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110

This is the metal of classical music

Big problem of intonation...

This is real heavy metal

To me, this song is when Macbeth goes to the Weird Sisters

I don´t really get the sense of finishing with 2 Largos.

This piece was written as a suicide letter during communist Russia. Shostakovich wanted a piece to be remembered by. This is essentially written to demonstrate his fear of the government and how he could have been taken in the middle of the night. Beautifully chaotic piece.

I love the 1st movement. It has a deep sadness and gloom to it but you can hear a sort of peace peeking out in it. I picture a terminally ill person looking out a window reminiscing on their good but o so very short life knowing that death is just around the corner.

❤

Chopstakovich😎

The sound isn't accurate with the video. I mean it's and editing thing😂

Shostakovich string quartet 8? I forgot which movement though

IDK, I think the Allegretto is not played very good by the violinist. Not perfect in tempo, notes dragged out too long.

j'ecoute cette piece cas tous les jours. votre performance est magnifique! merci de la partager avec moi:)

this piece is so relatable tbh. the passages bring out a lot of familiar emotions and sometimes when im hating everything, ill go play intense dissonant chords and notes because its a helpful way to cope with built up emotions. love this piece fr

What a piece!! *standing ovation*. 😮

This song makes me want to run through a haunted castle in a blood soaked nightgown while a vampire chases me through the stone corridors and stairways.

These damned ads are doing a very effective job of driving me mad. Why must American companies feel the desire to break up works of art with screaming about their products?

Beauty!

I prefer the Emerson SQ version to many others, they speak the Slavic tongue

he wrote this while visiting the ruins of bomb-destroyed Dresden

This sounds like horror movie music.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 this is so good

Bravo !

Wonderful.

So ist es🎻🎻🎻🎼🎼🎼

If you listen closely - you see the naked and starving jews dancing around under the moon’s light begging to die.

No! I can not! Too painful 😮

Many, many thanks.

Music for the British Drama series "Traffic"

In this work, as in the 10th symphony, the theme of Stalin is clearly present, especially in the second movement. Just like the 10th symphony, this is undoubtedly an autobiographical work.

This quartet built upon the letters of the composer's name (DSCH) is both very strict in the motive derivatives and presnts a subjective tone hich makes it a unique tonal masterpiece. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

I love the flags in the background that say peace and hope as the sound of boxcars full of wailing people and midnight banging on your door punctuate periods of dreary existence.

the history behind this composition...

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Allegro molto part reminds me a liitle bit the initial part of Septicflesh's "Coming Storm".

My favourite!!

The 2nd movement is the theme song of my obsessive compulsive intrusive thoughts.

Music has to be the most powerful form of art, as exemplified by this excruciatingly beautiful peice.

People didnt actually speak like the writing in the Shakespeare example. Shakespeare's work had lots of uncommon words because he was utilising rhyme schemes and - especially - meter.

I went with a Russian friend to hear the Emerson Quartet play Shostokovich in London, maybe 20 years ago.
All the players except cello were on their feet, at that time - explaining that it literally "kept them on their toes".
It was an electrifying concert - so I was dismayed that my friend dismissed it as "boring"... though that gave me some insight into her soul, I suppose.

There wouldn't have been no Psycho's impact over Hermann's inspiration with this devlish masterpiece