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In the Thread: The "new" Shostakovich 10th symphony
Post Subject: SQ vs Large scale worksPosted by mats on: 10/24/2007
Shostakovich string quartets have long been favorites of mine as well.  For years I listened to them and the Bach cello suites  more than any other serious music.  I tried to get into the symphonic works but it never seemed as profound to me.  Also I never had speakers that could do justice to any larger works.  Now that is changing a bit (more on that later perhaps).  Is it not true that many composers ( all? ) experience more coersion when it comes to orchestral compositions;  political, financial and commercial?  Which composers have been most free to write from there heart and soul  I wonder? 

Parenthetically, David Berning once told me that he used the Fitzwilliam Quartet box on London as one of his references when developing Siegfried.

Thanks for the heads up on the Tanglewood cd.  Order is placed.  The ultraslow Beethoven was however, as you predicted Romy, impossible to find.

Mats

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