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Chamber » Quartets » String Quartets
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The Emersons have played Shostakovich all over the world, and this long- pondered intégrale sets the seal on a process that has brought the quartets to the very centre of the repertoire – the... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2000, Winner - Chamber
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Grammy Awards, 43rd Awards (2000), Best Chamber Music Recording
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Grammy Awards, 43rd Awards (2000), Classical Album of the Year
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These aren’t warm interpretations; they repel as readily as they attract. But they’re thought-provoking, and often startlingly beautiful. And anyway, perhaps one shouldn’t draw too close to... —
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
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The Emersons have played Shostakovich all over the world, and this long- pondered intégrale sets the seal on a process that has brought the quartets to the very centre of the repertoire – the... —
Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 2000, Winner - Chamber
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Grammy Awards, 43rd Awards (2000), Best Chamber Music Recording
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Grammy Awards, 43rd Awards (2000), Classical Album of the Year
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These transparent, refined and frequently brilliant performances are thoroughly up to date. Which is not to suggest that they lack passion or understanding of the idiom. George’s presence guarantees... —
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Shostakovich's last three Quartet can seem bleak and uncomprising, yet the Pacifica Quartet manages to extract a much wider range of colours from this music than do many other interpreters.... —
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The performances by the Cuarteto Casals, completing their Shostakovich quartet cycle, have the same humane glow and loving finesse of earlier volumes...However chilly and painful the music may... —
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Shostakovich: Complete Quartets
Borodin Quartet (string quartet), Prokofiev Quartet, Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
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The Rubio performances are refreshing, emotionally satisfying within the parameters of their smooth-edged approach, and highly accomplished. —
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As before, the Carducci’s performances are scrupulously prepared and musically persuasive, yet rather narrower in expressive range than this music demands. —
