Originally posted by Pulcinella
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Shostakovich String Quartets
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Originally posted by Nick Armstrong View Post
I found three previous threads, and have combined them all. I suggest a read from the top (January 2011!) for lots of interesting comments about the pieces and recordings (plus statutory tangents such as whisky etc )"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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Originally posted by Petrushka View PostThanks. The search facility on here was of no help but was sure there was something."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by MickyD View PostI picked up the 27 CD Brilliant Classics box of Shostakovich works for an incredibly low price some years ago. In this, the string quartets are played by the Rubio Quartet. How do you rate their performances in comparison to other more well-known ensembles?
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Originally posted by Petrushka View PostI can't find a thread on these but feel sure there must have been one at some time.
I've had the Chandos box of the original Borodin Quartet playing Quartets 1 - 13 for some time but have only recently got properly stuck into it. I very recently supplemented the set with the later Borodin readings on EMI of the missing final two quartets thus giving me the full set and am greatly enjoying listening by taking them in order. Currently at the 5th which is a bleak and unsettling work but one I found as impressive and moving as anything in the symphonies.
Others will know them better than I do and wonder how these recordings are rated? They sound pretty well definitive to me but interested to know if any others are preferred. What, for instance, is the Decca set of the Borodins?
A couple of sites from our very own reference library and probably in this thread somewhere, may be of interest
An introduction to, and a musical analysis of, the fifteen string quartets of Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975)
“Music is the best means we have of digesting time." — Igor Stravinsky
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Originally posted by Edgy 2 View PostI have that box Pet, great though it is nowadays I tend to listen more to the Pacifica Qt and the Eder Qt on Naxos, all brilliant IMVHO.
A couple of sites from our very own reference library and probably in this thread somewhere, may be of interest
An introduction to, and a musical analysis of, the fifteen string quartets of Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975)
https://www.earsense.org/search/?q=shostakovich"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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It's a long time since I listened to them (I have the Fitzwilliam set and I can't imagine any of the other currently available ones superseding it in my affections, although I certainly can imagine some future as yet unheard recording doing so) and I've always tended to concentrate on the last three to the exclusion of most of the others, which aren't essential to me in the way that Bartók, Janáček, Ligeti, Feldman and Nono are (to name a few examples). 13-15 seem to me much more original in conception and execution and in their unique expressive worlds than their predecessors.
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