Shostakovich: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 3, Nos. 13-15
This third and final album of the impressive complete set from the Cuarteto Casals immerses us in the twilight world of Shostakovitch’s last three quartets. Legacy works of the years 1970-74, movingly marked by signs of his illness and acute awareness of approaching death, they strike the ear with ...
Composer: Dmitri Schostakowitsch (1906-1975)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Shostakovich: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 2, Nos. 6-12
Shostakovich’s String Quartets nos. 6 to 12, written between 1956 and 1968, are marked by the relative freedom regained after the death of Stalin. In the second volume of its complete set, the Cuarteto Casals explores this period of a dozen years in which the composer never ceased ...
Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Shostakovich: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 1, Nos. 1-5
After being subjected to public attacks by the Soviet regime in the mid-1930s, Shostakovich sought new avenues of self-expression by turning to chamber music, and the string quartet became for him the perfect medium for private confession. To launch their complete Shostakovich cycle, members of the Cuarteto Casals ...
Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Shostakovich: Complete String Quartets, Vol. V
With Vol. V the Mandelring Quartet has accomplished its complete edition of the fifteen string quartets of Dmitri Shostakovich. Highly praised in the trade press as one of the outstanding complete editions of our time the last volume
Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Shostakovich: Complete String Quartets, Vol. IV
Nos. 11, 13 and 15. It must already be clear beyond doubt that the interpretations by these four musicians are of the very highest quality. In the case of Shostakovich the question always arises to what extent the biographical and/or political
Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Shostakovich: Complete String Quartets, Vol. III
There is no doubt that Ludwig van Beethoven’s legacy was fundamental in the creation of Dmitri Shostakovich’s String Quartets which are outstanding both in their craftsmanship and spirituality. They are also convincing in their palette of
Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Shostakovich: Complete String Quartets, Vol. I
Dmitri Shostakovich’s First Quartet had a surprise in store for those who knew how much all composers respect the string quartet genre. What the 32-year-old star of the Soviet composers’ scene turned out in 1938 was a spring-like,
Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Shostakovich: Complete String Quartets, Vol. II
Following the release of the Mandelring Quartet's highly acclaimed first volume of the Complete String Quartets of Dmitri Shostakovich, they have now recorded a second volume containing another three. Here again the ensemble
Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
