How do you describe instrumental music, what it means and does? Odd as the metaphor sounds, it's like dancing about architecture: any verbal or written description of such music makes little to zero sense. Yet this review worked its way quite easily through my fingers into print. That's because Dmitri Shostakovich's works can be described as creative yet convoluted, brilliant yet baffling. Although other composers, such as Bach and Mozart, were more elegant, and others such as Beethoven are more...

How do you describe instrumental music, what it means and does? Odd as the metaphor sounds, it's like dancing about architecture: any verbal or written description of such music makes little to zero sense. Yet this review worked its way quite easily through my fingers into print. That's because Dmitri Shostakovich's works can be described as creative yet convoluted, brilliant yet baffling. Although other composers, such as Bach and Mozart, were more elegant, and others such as Beethoven are more...