Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) was a Russian composer of operas, ballets, concertos, string quartets, and 15 symphonies. Shostakovich was frequently denounced...
Gramophone: SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets Nos 2, 7 & 8 (Pave Haas Quartet)
String Quartet No. 7 Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer Pavel Haas Quartet String Quartet No. 8 Pavel Haas Quartet Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer The recording quality is correspondingly striking in its ...
Sydney Morning Herald: Pacifica Quartet review: Splendid technical accomplishment of Shostakovich string quartet
BroadwayWorld: World Premiere of Emerson String Quartet's SHOSTAKOVICH AND THE BLACK MONK
Given their importance in the quartet literature of the 20th century, there are surprisingly few complete recordings of Shostakovich's 15 string quartets. Even so, this set joins some pretty select ...
Dmitri Shostakovich in 1972(Erich Auerbach/Hulton Archive) Dmitri Shostakovich's career was plagued by censorship and heartbreak. His string quartets are perhaps his most intimate, interior ...
Shostakovich’s fifth string quartet is performed less frequently than any other of his string quartets but that difficultly was not evident in the Emerson Quartet’s polished performance. In 1948, the ...
Next Friday, the Lafayette String Quartet, who have been artists-in-residence in the University of Victoria’s School of Music since 1991, will launch what will surely be the classical music event of ...
Da Camera of Houston presents the first two programs in an extended concert-series in which the Jerusalem String Quartet will perform all 15 of the Quartets by Russia’s most important composer of the ...
Volkov has further argued, both in Testimony and in Shostakovich and Stalin, that Shostakovich adopted the role of the yurodivy or holy fool in his relations with the government.