ORIGINAL: sfiks

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

Slava - Do continue, its fascinating music and should teach me a lot just listening to it. :)

Mark - I am gonna give that a try right now

Slava, Amazing work with samples. Very, very well done.

That sounded exceptionally good for a solo string library. That's a great piece of music as well.

The Xsamples, you mean these?
http://www.soundsondemand.com/sort3.asp/xsample/strings/kontakt/en

Thanks

Great job, beautiful. Those samples and your use of their dynamics/controllers sound great.

ORIGINAL: mgh
did yiou spend a long time on articulations for this?

Yes, Mark it took a lot of time to understand structure of the instruments and their strong and weak points. CC implementation is the most confusing thing. Also I don't have a 88-key keyboard, so changing keyswitches was pain in an ..... everything.

Shad, Rob, Tom, Ed, and Frank thank you all for the encouraging words.

Yes, Ed. That's the beast. I have a Kontakt version.

Slava

There are only a few classical pieces I enjoy, but you did a great job with this and now that I understand how hard it is to wrestle with samples to make them sound anywhere near right, I'm even more impressed!

I love classical music, but I'm not that well acquainted with Shostakovich, only one CD in my collection. This particular work sounds like a good reason to explore him further. dark and brooding. Excellent work. Instruments sound terrific.

Thank you, Janet. Sometimes that wrestling pays off.
Happy composing.

ORIGINAL: mcourter

I love classical music, but I'm not that well acquainted with Shostakovich, only one CD in my collection.

Thank you for listening, Mark.
I don't hear a lot of his music either.

Hello everybody!
It's been a while since my last post.
Here is a complete (5 movements) quartet:
https://app.box.com/s/h6hsp084qrjz6at6krfk
 
Thanks for listening,
Slava