#1st symphony

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What "classical music" is for me

If someone asked me to tell what “classical music” is, I would pick a passage from the Balakirev’s 1st Symphony. The way the clarinet opens the third movement, Andante, is a perfect example of classical music. The melody is just an excuse, here, to create beauty and wonder. Only eight measures The third movement of the 1st Symphony (1897) from Milij Alekseevič Balakirev (1836-1910) is an…

What "classical music" is for me

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Cover of the first edition of the score for Shostakovich's Symphony No. 1

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No no noooooo! The second movement is way too slow! I really expected more of the LPO :(

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No, I'm not singing along to Mahler 1 alone in my bedroom...