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No. I recognise certain parts of it. That was Shostakovich? Oh, I’ll get it in the neck from the Brodskys for not recognising that. But it didn’t sound like him, it sounded Spanish. But I like the way he incorporated Spanish music, that might have been considered light or banal, and made it into something. Sometimes he did it ironically, and sometimes he did it just because he liked it. I’m fascinated by the Brodsky cycle because they play it from memory, and that’s a daunting thing, to remember that amount of music. | No. I recognise certain parts of it. That was Shostakovich? Oh, I’ll get it in the neck from the Brodskys for not recognising that. But it didn’t sound like him, it sounded Spanish. But I like the way he incorporated Spanish music, that might have been considered light or banal, and made it into something. Sometimes he did it ironically, and sometimes he did it just because he liked it. I’m fascinated by the Brodsky cycle because they play it from memory, and that’s a daunting thing, to remember that amount of music. | ||
The string quartets were probably less liable to interference than say the symphonies because the symphonies were the big philosophical and political statements in praise of the collective farms or something, the ones that got big articles written about in Pravda the next day, with the unseen hand of Stalin condemning him. Whereas, with that piece, it’s as if it couldn’t be more capricious and more personal. | The string quartets were probably less liable to interference than say the symphonies because the symphonies were the big philosophical and political statements in praise of the collective farms or something, the ones that got big articles written about in ''Pravda'' the next day, with the unseen hand of Stalin condemning him. Whereas, with that piece, it’s as if it couldn’t be more capricious and more personal. | ||
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'''The last time I read a decent interview with you, you were reading ''Testimony'', Shostakovich’s memoirs.''' | '''The last time I read a decent interview with you, you were reading ''Testimony'', Shostakovich’s memoirs.''' |
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