Dette i går kveld og i morges.
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Slik omtales denne musikken av en anmelder på Musicweb:
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What we have in the Shostakovich preludes and fugues is the sound of a man saving his soul. His musical soul at any rate. By withdrawing into a kind of internal exile, away from the public demands upon his music, Shostakovich defiantly asserts his own creativity and its right to go where it wants and not where the Stalinist regime required it to go. What we are eavesdropping on might be thought of as the composer Shostakovich might have been, and certainly this set can be seen as opening the way to the remarkable sequence of late string quartets which, even more than the symphonies, were his crowning glory."
Dette var fra en anmeldelse av Igor Levit sin utgivelse (2020). Kan godt være det er en bedre versjon enn denne, men musikken bør høres uansett.
Det er nokså ulikt symfoniene på mange måter.