Hello, everybody.
Here are first two movements of D. Shostakovich's string quartet performed with Xsamples.
on SoundClick
 

I don't post often, so I don't expect responses.

Thanks for listening in advance.
Slava
 
Stream the whole quartet here:
https://app.box.com/s/h6hsp084qrjz6at6krfk

I'm not imto classical...much...but nicely done.

Started out slow, but built up into an interesting piece that told an interesting story. The sample library used seemed to work very well.

I ended up doing some research into the Shostakovich, which then lead to more research into modal compositions.

Cheers
Shad

Not a classical bone in my body and very little knowledge of composers, but I enjoy listening to good music, as I am right now.. Great samples and obviously a lot of talent to play this, even if it's not yours. Emotional and dynamic! WOW!

wow gonna have to check this out tomorrow when i'm off, Shostakovich is my favourite composer, i hvae the Melodiya Borodin Quartet edition of all 15 plus the Quintet, i'll give some feedback then!

Thanks, guys, for taking a moment of your time to listen and comment.
The purpose of the exercise was to dive deeper into the score, to brush up my knowledge of alto clef, to learn how to use this rather complicated library and, of course, to perform this genius music the way I feel it.
All I can say - it was fun.
I'm glad to hear that you liked it and it touched you on some level.
There are 3 movements left and I don't know if I should continue.

Slava

Shad (Foxwolfen)
i know you love this sorta stuff, the opening motif of this quartet uses a riff Dmitri Shostakovich incorporates into lots of his work, being his name DSCH, which in German notation is D-Es-C-H, or D-Eb-C-B.

Slava, excellent work, it sounds pretty close to a real quartet to me! did yiou spend a long time on articulations for this?

ORIGINAL: mgh

Shad (Foxwolfen)
i know you love this sorta stuff, the opening motif of this quartet uses a riff Dmitri Shostakovich incorporates into lots of his work, being his name DSCH, which in German notation is D-Es-C-H, or D-Eb-C-B.

That's just bloody brilliant! His signature sound is literally his signature.

another more well-known example is BACH which is Bb-A-C-Bnatural...

i was thinking for me my surname is HAIGH so i could do B-A-I (the root note of whatever scale i use)-G-B....hours of fun! you could use SHAD or Eb-B-A-D...which leads to some weird chord changes right there!

This is nice, man. Do continue - and I should check out our friend Shostakovich. He has some real nice dark twists, moving between a lot of mixed emotions. Awesome.