A Debauched Galop
February 23rd, 2009 Posted in classical music, shostakovich, youtube
Lately I’ve been listening to a lot of this:
I feel a bit naughty because I don’t actually know the other movements at all. I’m not really a big fan of 5-8. This movement though… there is something entrancing about it, in a sort of benevolently disturbing kind of fashion.
You know how sometimes you get seats on a train which are facing in the opposite direction to how the train is traveling? And sometimes you don’t realize that you are facing the wrong way until the station starts falling away from you.
That’s how it makes me feel, like I am being rushed very rapidly backward. Especially the last few bars — I’m convinced it is deliberately arranged to sound like a skipping record.
