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I agree, the orchestra was crap. I was looking for a vid on youtube, since I own that perticular piece on LP.

I liked the vid (on a sidenote), I liked how it goes up and down - fast and slow -loud and silent. 8 out of 10.


Here is one of the most magnificant pieces of art I know, which i have defenatly posted before in some other thread about music. It`s the fourth movement out of Shostakovich`s 7th Symphony.
It is also called "The Leningrad" Symphony. Shostakovich, wrote it while he was in the city of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) while it was besiged and brutaly and slowly starved to death.
The music tells a story.
The brutal rule of the Czars - the great Revolution - wonderfull sovjet sociaty - invasion by the germans - brutality of war - march on Berlin - Fall of Berlin - Victory.

But since Shostakovich wasn`t always in Stalins favor, and almoust got murdered by Stalin, aswell as he had lost many friends through Stalin`s clensings, this masterpiece is some think to be correctly interpretated as:

Brutal Czars - Revolution - Hope - Lenin and Stalin - Regime of Terror - War - End of War - Death of Stalin.

anyway it`s a work of genius. The forth movement describes the turning point of the war and the march on berlin - and the victory in the end.
I hope the orchestra is of better quality this time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPb8n-s4i7w