Shostakovich - Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57, Camerata Pacifica

RECORDED LIVE & UNEDITED. March 9th, 2012, Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara, CA.
Adam Neiman, Catherine Leonard, Ara Gregorian, Richard O'Neill & Ani Aznavoorian perform Dmitri Shostakovich's Quintet for Piano and Strings in G Minor, Op. 57.
www.cameratapac.... Camerata Pacifica is a chamber music ensemble based in Santa Barbara that performs a monthly series of concerts in Santa Barbara, Ventura, San Marino, and Zipper Hall in Downtown Los Angeles. Founded by Adrian Spence in 1990, the group is composed of the finest performers of chamber music from around the world. The ensemble is distinctive for artistic excellence, an innovative approach to classical music and a repertoire that ranges from baroque to brand new, from familiar masterworks to works that have yet to become favorites.

[@pcostafloripa]

que maravilhosa apresentação! grato!

[@lisapeters3120]

Really Extraordinary

[@jestemqiqi7647]

What a wonderful and expressive performance of this grand quintet by these virtuosic musicians. Thank you so much for sharing!

[@scottgilesmusic]

This is a superb work. A difficult one in expression. Wishing this ensemble good wishes in their continued efforts.

[@ahmadshiddiqi-rv3bg]

Wonderful Have nice weekend

[@MegaVicar]

A great performance of a great quintet! I enjoy Camerata Pacifica’s DSCH string quartet cycle. DSCH is the perfect music for these times.

[@Knskyzlp]

Amazing

[@symphonicpoem11]

The pianist looks like Frozone from The Incredibles

[@Alexagrigorieff]

After trying to listen to different music of Shostakovich, I've come to the impression that he was just a fraud who wrote music simply by rolling dice, without any care for harmony and tonality. Maybe he was harmony deaf.

[@7stringjazz1]

Try listening next time!

[@Milomakesmonumentalmoneymoves]

@@7stringjazz1 haha nice

[@victorlabsky2104]

Fraud? In my opinion, you can´t convince thousands of musicians and millions of listeners with fraudulent schemes or "rolling dice". Shostakovich´s music won the hearts and minds of millions all over the world. Do you realize that the same objections like yours were thrown almost two and half centuries ago at another great composer, Ludwig van Beethoven?

[@earsense]

Yeah, I have to totally disagree with @Alexagrigorieff and especially in the case of this work in particular. It is supremely "classical" in many ways and predominantly tonal with rather straightforward harmonies (albeit with his trademark dissonances, etc.). Your comment seems completely off base. Are you serious or just being a troll? If you are serious, I would, as the others here have suggested, listen again. I think "fraud" is rather extreme. I find much of his music brilliant and deeply satisfying, the opposite of the rolling of dice or harmonic "deafness."

[@bmort1313]

Okay, it’s not going IV-V-I, doesn’t mean there’s no harmony. He literally gave the piece a key