“I commend this inexpensive disc to explorers of the string quartet who know and love their Smetana and late Dvořák Quartets.”
– MusicWeb
“Glazunov’s string quartets contain attractive music. … a successful reconciliation between the two traditions of Borodin and Tchaikovsky.”
– Gramophone
“… one is tempted to believe [Quartet No. 5] is the finest of the seven … The Shostakovich Quartet have great feeling for this music and play with real conviction.”
– Penguin Guide
The Shostakovich Quartet provides the ideal introduction to the string quartets of Alexander Glazunov, music in the great romantic Russian nationalist tradition from a composer and pedagogue who deeply influenced two generations of Russian composers, including Rachmaninoff, Glière, Shostakovich and Myaskovsky.
