The Soviet Experience: Pacifica Quartet: String Quartets in 4 Volumes

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Release Date: 8th Sep 2014
Catalogue No: BOX1003
Label: Cedille
Series: The Soviet Experience
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

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Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 5 in B flat major, Op. 92

Work length31:50

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Pacifica Quartet

I. Allegretto non troppo

Track length11:29

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II. Andante - Andantino - Andante - Andantino - Andante

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III. Moderato - Allegretto - Andante

Track length10:54

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Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 6 in G major, Op. 101

Work length25:40

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Pacifica Quartet

I. Allegretto

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II. Moderato con moto

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III. Lento

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IV. Lento - Allegretto

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Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 7 in F sharp minor, Op. 108

Work length12:19

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Pacifica Quartet

I. Allegretto

Track length3:28

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II. Lento

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III. Allegro - Allegretto

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Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110

Work length22:00

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Pacifica Quartet

I. Largo

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II. Allegro molto

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III. Allegretto

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IV. Largo

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V. Largo

Track length3:55

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Miaskovsky: String Quartet No.13 in A minor, Op. 86

Work length25:38

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Pacifica Quartet

I. Moderato

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II. Presto fantastico

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III. Andante con moto e molto cantabile

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IV. Molto vivo, energico

Track length4:54

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Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 1 in C Major, Op. 49

Work length14:28

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Pacifica Quartet

I. Moderato

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II. Moderato

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III. Allegro molto

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IV. Allegro

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Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 68

Work length35:01

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Pacifica Quartet

I. Overture. Moderato con moto

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II. Recitative and Romance. Adagio

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III. Waltz. Allegro

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IV. Theme with Variations. Adagio

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Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 4 in D major, Op. 83

Work length25:11

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Pacifica Quartet

I. Allegretto

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II. Andantino

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III. Allegretto

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IV. Allegretto

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Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 73

Work length31:02

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Pacifica Quartet

I. Allegretto

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II. Moderato con moto

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III. Allegro non troppo

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IV. Adagio

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V. Moderato

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Prokofiev: String Quartet No. 2 in F major, Op. 92

Work length22:04

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Pacifica Quartet

I. Allegro sostenuto

Track length6:25

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II. Adagio

Track length7:27

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III. Allegro

Track length8:12

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Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 9 in E flat major, Op. 117

Work length27:28

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Pacifica Quartet

I. Moderato con moto

Track length4:47

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II. Adagio

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III. Allegretto

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IV. Adagio

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V. Allegro

Track length9:54

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Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 10 in A flat major, Op. 118

Work length24:56

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Pacifica Quartet

I. Andante

Track length4:34

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II. Allegretto furioso

Track length4:10

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III. Adagio

Track length6:26

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IV. Allegretto - Andante

Track length9:46

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Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 122

Work length17:47

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Pacifica Quartet

I. Introduction. Andantino

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II. Scherzo. Allegretto

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III. Recitative. Adagio

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IV. Etude. Allegro

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V. Humoresque. Allegro

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VI. Elegie. Adagio

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VII. Finale. Moderato

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Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 12 in D flat major, Op. 133

Work length26:17

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Pacifica Quartet

I. Moderato

Track length6:47

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II. Allegretto

Track length19:30

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Weinberg: String Quartet No. 6, Op. 35

Work length32:04

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Pacifica Quartet

I. Allegro semplice

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II. Presto agitato

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III. Allegro con fuoco

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IV. Adagio

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V. Moderato commodo

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VI. Andante maestoso

Track length6:46

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Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 13 in B flat minor, Op. 138

Work length19:22

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Pacifica Quartet

Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 14 in F sharp major, Op. 142

Work length25:47

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Pacifica Quartet

I. Allegretto

Track length8:43

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II. Adagio

Track length8:43

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III. Allegretto

Track length8:21

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Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 15 In E Flat Minor, Op. 144

Work length36:15

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Pacifica Quartet

I. Elegy. Adagio

Track length11:39

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II. Serenade. Adagio

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III. Intermezzo. Adagio

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IV. Nocturne. Adagio

Track length4:27

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V. Funeral March. Adagio molto

Track length5:37

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VI. Epilogue. Adagio

Track length6:59

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Schnittke: String Quartet No. 3

Work length22:55

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Pacifica Quartet

I. Andante

Track length6:14

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II. Agitato

Track length8:18

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III. Pesante

Track length8:23

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The Pacifica Quartet’s acclaimed survey of Dmitri Shostakovich’s complete string quartets, The Soviet Experience, has been praised as “forceful, intimate, and consummately recorded” (Positive Feedback). Now, record collectors have more reason than ever to acquire this exceptional series in its entirety with the release of this value-priced boxed set offering all four volumes (each a 2-CD set) for the price of two CDs.

The Soviet Experience has been lauded as unique among Shostakovich quartet cycles for including quartets by some the composer’s most significant Soviet-era contemporaries: Nikolai Miaskovsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Mieczyslaw Weinberg, and Alfred Schnittke.

Every installment of The Soviet Experience has garnered praise in the U.S. and internationally. Reviewing Volume I, The New York Times said, “The excellent Pacifica Quartet . . . offers electrifying interpretations.” Assessing Volume II, The Classical Review wrote, “the Pacifica’s Shostakovich cycle already is shaping up as definitive, even in a field stocked with . . . formidable Russian contenders.” BBC Music Magazine’s review of Volume III said the series “is turning out to be one of the most riveting of recent years. . . . Pacifica’s Shostakovich cycle is already shaping up as definitive.”

The Soviet Experience: Pacifica Quartet

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