Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 73
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Chamber » Quartets » String Quartets
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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... —
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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The performances of both the Saariaho and Shostakovich are extremely insightful. The Shostakovich is outstanding in delineating the quartet's disturbing narrative, from seemingly carefree innocence... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2025, Chamber Choice
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Founded in 2016 and led by Tamsin Waley-Cohen, the Albion Quartet pace, phrase, point and colour Walton’s volatile textures and agile rhythms with all the sensitivity and energy they require.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2022, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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The Belcea Quartet’s first Shostakovich release offers much food for thought. Their insightful performance of the Third Quartet fully encapsulates the work’s war-scarred anguish…Anderszewski... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2018
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Record Review, 5th May 2018, Recording of the Week
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The players strongly empathise with the frequent moments of darkness and despair in Shostakovich's music...The performance of the Beethoven has many virtues, not least in its purposeful drive... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2013, Editor's Choice
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The Casals Quartet should certainly be commended for their attempt to rethink the Shostakovich quartets. But their beauty of sound and attention to small-scale detail seems to prevent them from... —
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Shostakovich: Complete Quartets
Borodin Quartet (string quartet), Prokofiev Quartet, Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
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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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