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Classical Music

MuseRider

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6. Both incredible composers.

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Reply #4)

Fri Jun 1, 2018, 11:50 PM

Jun 2018

I am partial to Shostakovich symphony 7. Also painful.

Have you heard the violin concerto? If not you must. I have rarely had so much fun playing it, great parts for the orchestra. It almost seems like circus music.

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