Carducci Quartet: Complete Shostakovich cycle on 9 August 2015

[Pulcinella]

I was at the Carducci performance of Shostakovich 1, 8, and 12 yesterday (Sunday 1 February) in the Holywell Music Room in Oxford, and as a consequence have just booked to hear them perform all 15 quartets in London (Globe) on Sunday 9 August, the 40th anniversary of Shostakovich's death.

Here is the link:

http://www.shakespearesglobe.com/theatre/whats-on/concerts-by-candlelight/shostakovich

I heard all the quartets over a weekend in Bromsgrove (Brodsky Quartet, October 1992), but to have them all played in one day will be quite an experience for both players and audience.

Tickets likely to sell quickly, I imagine.
Haven't seen this mentioned elsewhere on the forum.

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

I attended this Shostakovich marathon last Sunday and it was mighty wonderful:

https://bachtrack.com/review-shostakovich-carducci-quartet-globe-london-august-2015

[ahinton]

I attended this Shostakovich marathon last Sunday and it was mighty wonderful:
https://bachtrack.com/review-shostak...on-august-2015

I would love to have attended this rare event. A challenge and a half by anyone's standards and the thought of listening to all of them at one sitting is one that has never occurred to me but, having listened a few years ago to Jonathan Powell playing all ten numbered Scriabin sonatas as a single programme and finding how wonderfully they worked as though a single work diarising the composer's development it seems a most intriguing prospect which I hope that the Carduccis will repeat at some point. I wonder what Shostakovich himself would have thought of the idea?!...

[Pulcinella]

There are some other comments on Beefy's thread, here:

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?13825-Shostakovich-s-15-String-Quartets