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Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 5 in B flat major, Op. 92
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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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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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Special offer. Shostakovich: String Quartet Nos. 5, 7 & Piano Quintet
Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano)
Artemis Quartet
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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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 Dudoks deliver a rhythmically dynamic and wonderfully nuanced account of the Bacewicz. Their Shostakovich is also impressive, projecting tremendous power, ferocity and forward momentum in... —
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Shostakovich: Complete Quartets
Borodin Quartet (string quartet), Prokofiev Quartet, Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
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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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The Debussy Quartet plays assuredly and expressively throughout, with moments of fizzing energy. —
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Building A Library, February 2019, Recommended
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The Shostakovich… is totally engrossing. …the Atriums sustain intensity throughout the epic structures of the first and third movements while managing to hold back sufficiently to make the... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th September 2008
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2008, Editor's Choice
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