Line Out - Comments on Shostakovich for Black-Magic Venus http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/shostakovich_for_blackmagic_venus I have this Shostakovich CD, his trios: Piano, cello, violin. The first batch was written in the 1920s, I think, when he was a conservatory student. The next batch was written in the 1940s. Tacked on at the end of... Copyright 2008 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:13:31 -0800 Tue, 25 Dec 2007 16:08:54 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Megan Seling That song you posted is gorgeous. It's really fucking spooky, but it's gorgeous!

]]> Megan Seling http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/shostakovich_for_blackmagic_venus#c871574 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/shostakovich_for_blackmagic_venus#c871574 History Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:36:43 -0800 Comment by Christopher DeLaurenti Ah, this must be from the Beaux Arts Trio disc...

]]> Christopher DeLaurenti http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/shostakovich_for_blackmagic_venus#c871691 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/shostakovich_for_blackmagic_venus#c871691 History Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:23:58 -0800 Comment by Matt from Denver There weren't a batch of trios - he wrote one when still a student at the conservatory (seldom played or recorded) and one in 1944 after the death of a close friend (considered one of his seminal chamber works and thus much more popular). The series of songs came in the 60s when Shostakovich went through kind of a phase of setting poetry to music (I don't know how many works, but his 13th and 14th symphonies are part of this).

I have a CD with all this by some obscure Russian group (The Moscow Trio). I think it's out of print now (I couldn't find it at arkivmusic.com) but it's a good recording. Russian musicians always seem to interpret his music better than Western ones, despite some good recordings (Emerson's quartet set, von Karajan and BPO's 10th symphony, etc).

]]> Matt from Denver http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/shostakovich_for_blackmagic_venus#c871848 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/shostakovich_for_blackmagic_venus#c871848 History Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:22:57 -0800 Comment by Matt from Denver Oops, I see I just repeated some stuff you said in your post. Sorry Josh. I just want to share my knowledge with everyone so much that I don't care if they already know what I'm saying...

]]> Matt from Denver http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/shostakovich_for_blackmagic_venus#c871852 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/shostakovich_for_blackmagic_venus#c871852 History Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:28:05 -0800 Comment by flights moscow tracking moscow continental flights

]]> flights moscow tracking http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/shostakovich_for_blackmagic_venus#c882767 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/shostakovich_for_blackmagic_venus#c882767 History Tue, 25 Dec 2007 16:08:54 -0800