Tag: Shostakovich Quartet
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Glazunov: String Quartets Nos. 3 and 5, Music from “The Fridays”
“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…
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Classic Valentine – Music for Love
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Great Russian String Quartets
(Borodin) “movement-by-movement comparison makes it clear that …the Borodins win hands down … their internal balance at every point is irreproachable (Gramophone) (Glazunov): “reconciliation between the traditions of Borodin and Tchaikovsky … Shostakovich Quartet have great feeling for this music and play with real conviction” (Penguin Guide); (Tchaikovsky): “their earlier recordings (as here) are unassailable…
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Tchaikovsky: Complete Music for String Quartet
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Tchaikovsky: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2; Five Early Pieces
“the Shostakovich Quartet is notable for their powerful playing and their ability to get deeply into the emotions of a work” (MusicWeb, 2008) “versions by the Shostakovich Quartet are also masterly…the early pieces dating from Composer’s student days….are of interest as is anything that the master penned…” (c) Penguin Guide
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Borodin String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2
“Performance thoroughly enjoyable” -Penguin Guide
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Shostakovich: Complete String Quartets
The staying power of the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich’s string quartets rivals that of his symphonies. His quartets are deeply personal works – intensely autobiographical, confessional, intimate, intensely emotional – and among the most insightful works in the quartet repertoire.
