Is it a fugue? Discuss.
I hope your families are not complaining about the sounds coming out of your instruments this month. Meanwhile, we have this eloquent comment by Steven regarding the difficulty of playing this opus.
STEVEN 3/3: “A better way to put it might be that Shostakovich resolves through multiple steps and I’m reading slowly enough that I lose the point I’m resolving from before I reach the point I’m resolving to. Contrasted with the Bach inventions I’m using as warm-ups, which usually have at most a single passing tone, so I can’t get lost on the way.
I’m still enjoying it, but at some point I’ll have to pick one of these to actually learn so I can get it sounding something like the recording. 🙂
HELEN 3/3: Indeed, Shostakovich makes us wait, and wait, and wait, for resolution. With, for instance, today’s prelude, the final resolution does not entirely resolve. So, there’s that. Regardless, I absolutely love the sound he creates, every time. (So far.)