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when i listen to shostakovich i try to imagine what it must have been like for him to live under stalin When I listen to Shostakovich I find myself thinking how unfortunate it is that this great composer is often reduced by writers and critics into nothing more than some political platitudes. Congrats on discovering the joys of Shosti by the way Emily! :) I used to hate him too, then a few string quartets and a violin concerto later, I was OBSESSED. :) I found two arrangements. One of them is Janine Jansen's boyfriend and somehow doesn't cut the mustard here. The other is genuine hippo and clown. Much prefered. Predictably, Misfit does the whole set while Casanova does a smattering.

Casanova here

misfit here

test post. never mind. thought I'd found a way to edit comments Hmm. Those are both disappointing. Thanks for finding them, though.

The last page is where it gets good, and the samples don't make it that far.

Sorry. It's a skinny wire. At russiandvd.com you can listen to the whole darn cd:

Go to Track 19

This is more like it.

So you can. They obviously don't understand capitalism. After hearing that I know what to do with the violin part. Both those players tried to take it someplace it didn't want to go and went there by themselves. I didn't know a thing about it.