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Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

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The DSCH Motive Returns

The DSCH music returns, almost exactly as it was at the beginning of the piece. The counter melody makes one last attempt at some sort of salvation. And with a strange sense of finality, but also with a strangesense that the story never really went anywhere at all.

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