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Honestly it’s criminal it wasn’t featured in the first bracket
You’ve probably gotten a lot of these already
I saw it in concert not too long ago and it was amazing!
The 4th movement was one of the last pieces I got to play with my youth orchestra before graduating out, and once in the throes of rehearsals on top of senior year exams, my brain was so fried I thought that quietly singing the brass choir section near the end in the middle of a conversation would somehow be a joke? My sister still hums it sometimes to tease me
Shostakovich 12
It’s basically Shosty 11, but way better. The first movement is in 5 and it’s really fast and it has this awesome bassoon part and also a lot of angry sul g passages in the violins and rahhhh it’s so good
Honestly I don’t even care that much for the other movements (2 is very pretty though) but that first movement is totally fire and it reuses a lot of the ideas first presented in the second movement of 11 but I think they’re executed better this time
In my opinion, the Fifteenth is one of the most powerful and emotionally impactful symphonies ever written. The first movement is a masterful exercise in creating tension with diatonic versus chromatic features and includes some very neat hemiola effects.
The second movement starts with a dark, hushed brass chorale, then transitions to one of the most sorrowful and deeply beautiful cantabile cello solos I have ever heard—it raises the hair on my arms every time I hear it. If you have ever doubted the ability of the cello to mimic the human voice, I beg you to listen to this symphony.
This movement also contains the first occurrence of the "death whistle", a soft chord in the high woodwinds with a grinding dissonance. Later, it is paired with strokes from the woodblock that, to me, sound like death knocking at your door.
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A menacing utterance of the Shostakovich's musical motto, the DSCH motif, starts off movement three, transposed down a major 2nd and doubled a 5th below (a 5th below the transposed line starting on C, not the original starting on D) in the bassoons. What ensues is a quick, scathing scherzo lead by clarinet and solo violin.
Finally, the fourth movement, which I believe begins with the fate motif that Wagner uses throughout the Ring cycle. The beginning section is distinguished by a section of mostly strings where the first violins play perhaps one of the most expressive musical lines Shostakovich ever wrote. When I listen to this part of the symphony, I hear the work of a man who perhaps knows that he doesn't have much time left—before the 15th was premiered, Shostakovich had had a total of three heart attacks. This theme is full of remembrance and sounds like a bittersweet musical reflection on a difficult life.
The central passage of the final movement is a passacaglia whose repeating bass line, bearing much similarity to the "invasion" theme of Shostakovich's Seventh symphony, works itself up into one of the most devastating orchestral climaxes ever written; if you enjoy loud outcries of brass against the force of Time, you will not be disappointed.
The passacaglia is followed by a solemn repetition of the theme in the first violins discussed above. As for the conclusion of the symphony, I believe it is the most effective written ever by Shostakovich—the whine of the high strings against the celesta and percussion section perfectly encapsulates the feeling of slowly dying, fading into obsolescence.
I would recommend this 1979 recording by Bernard Haitink and the Concertgebouw (NOT his c. 2011 remake with the same orchestra) (it is also on YouTube; I did not want to have to link four different videos though):
or the recording with Maxim Shostakovich and the Prague Radio Symphony that is part of this cycle:
I also like Neeme Järvi's recording with the Gothenburg Symphony, but not nearly as much as Haitink's.
song of the night 💫🫶 i can’t even express how much i love this one… seriously cannot recommend that people listen to it enough. the end is so happy, the opening so iconic. as a kid literally one of my fav cds was the ashkenazy sso one. praying someone who’s more eloquent can write something to do this one justice. who doesn’t love a symphony with cowbells anyways 💝
Here's what Mahler 7 is all about. It's like if a symphony was a bug. It's the first piece that comes to mind when I think of the phrase "creepy crawly." But it's also like if an ice cream sundae was a symphony. It combines the whipped-smooth textures of cello and horn (and wagner tuba!) with sprinkles of mandolin and cowbell that you can crunch between your teeth. It's like sleep paralysis demon music if your sleep paralysis demon was also in love with you. It's the soundtrack of you getting pulled down to hell by little tiny sprites that are also laughing the whole time. It feels like a puzzle or a trick, something you have to work at with your tongue for a bit before it will crack open. And then bite you. I think that RECORDING MATTERS more than any other symphony! The texture of the percussion in particular is very fickle! My favorite is the one linked in the Spotify playlist (Haitink Bavarian Radio Symphony), but I put a YouTube recording I like below. If you only have time to listen to one movement, listen to 3 (the scherzo). It's the most quintessentially 7. It will make you feel like the below image (from the symphony's wiki page). However, my favorite part of the symphony is in the first movement (I made a little post about it here) and my personal favorite movement is the finale. :) CRUNCHY!
It makes use of the Ondes Martenot which is a cool electronic instrument (cooler than the theramin in my opinion) and it especially sounds hauntingly beautiful when playing the melody with the violins at various points!
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this one is my symphony equivalent of a comfort read! warm, vivid, graceful and clear. not sure how to describe what it sounds like but let's give it a go. every time there's a little descending run in the melody in the first movement it flows directly over my heart. minor key moments unfurl like ribbons of darkness across the shining gold and then furl themselves up again like roses. symphony for when you're in a warm bright kitchen with a cold day outside the windows. i love her.
Holy shit the horn solos?? And like?? Brass????? The scherzo is so fucking good??? Please vote it????
The opening of this symphony is my favorite of all time. I can't explain the degree to which my heart explodes in my chest when I hear the opening lines. I love how Bruckner plays with inversions of the main theme in the final movement. This symphony feels like a love letter to triplets to me.
