Happy Birthday Shostakovich!

[scherzo123]

It's Shostakovich's Birthday! Let's celebrate by naming your favorite Shostakovich pieces! Mine are his Piano Sonatas.

[ahinton]

It's Shostakovich's Birthday! Let's celebrate by naming your favorite Shostakovich pieces! Mine are his Piano Sonatas.

Really?! But let's celebrate indeed - his 106th birthday! My favourites? - where to start? Symphonies 1, 4, 6, 8, 10, 13, 15; some of the quartets (but how to choose between them?!), both violin concertos, both cello concertos, the 24 Preludes for piano...

Best,

Alistair

[j_menz]

... Symphonies 5 and 7, the piaonoi concerti, the P&Fs.....

[rachmaninoff_forever]

P&F's and his sonatas.

[49410enrique]

The Gadfly Suite, Op. 97a
Piano Concertos (actually Olga Kern is in the area tomorrow to play one of them, I'm going to try and make the drive to go see this live)