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Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 4 in D major, Op. 83
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Chamber » Quartets » String Quartets
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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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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
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
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Shostakovich -String Quartets Nos. 2 & 4
Arranged by Marijn van Prooij
Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson
Curious that the Second is among the last of the quartets to be given orchestral treatment, as its symphonic weight and expressive range make it the most suitable in any case. The Amsterdam... —
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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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The Soviet Experience Volume II
String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich and his Contemporaries
Pacifica Quartet
The expected rhetoric and terror of Shostakovich's Soviet armour are here carefully measured with universal frameworks of great sonic beauty, whether fragile or strong: Beethoven, thank goodness,... —
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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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