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Chamber » Quartets » String Quartets
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They make interpretive decisions that are unexpected but none the less to me felt deeply initiative and this passage showcases the gorgeous cello line that has extraordinary shaping in how you... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st November 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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Building a Library, January 2023, Recommended Recording
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This recording is an absolute winner. As in its previous explorations of Shostakovich, primarily on the Harmonia Mundi label, the Jerusalem Quartet provides consummately brilliant playing throughout,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2025, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2025, Recording of the Month
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The New York Times, Best Classical Music Albums of 2025
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As always, balance, intonation and ensemble are impeccable, and the Hagens demonstrate a masterly control of large-scale structure, nowhere more impressively than in the rise and fall of tension... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2007, Chamber Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2006, Chamber Choice
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Building a Library, January 2023, Also Recommended
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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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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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The Soviet Experience Volume I
String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich and his Contemporaries
Pacifica Quartet
their sense of the musical argument is always impressive, shining through their objective but never over-slick approach. The Pacifica Quartet only seem to draw breath, like Shostakovich, between... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2012, Chamber Choice
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Shostakovich: Complete Quartets
Borodin Quartet (string quartet), Prokofiev Quartet, Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
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On their first Shostakovich disc, the playing is of the highest musical and technical quality. The quintet takes its place alongside celebrated accounts by Sviatoslav Richter and Vladimir Ashkenazy. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Chamber Music
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Unlike most of their peers, Meta4 have found their way to the particular world of musicality that Shostakovich inhabits...Listen to the highly contrapuntal central section of the first movement... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012, Editor's Choice
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