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Shostakovich - Complete Quartets Vol.4 | Audite AUDITE92529

Shostakovich - Complete Quartets Vol.4

Label: Audite

Cat No: AUDITE92529

Barcode: 4022143925299

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 30th March 2009

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Shostakovich's fifteen string quartets probably represent the most important corpus of string quartets of the 20th-century.

His most innovative work, and perhaps his most important quartet, is the String Quartet No.12 (1968) where the composer makes systematic but not dogmatic use of dodecaphonic methods for the first time. String Quartet No.14 (1973), on the other hand, was written during his final period, when Shostakovich increasingly composed slow movements and intoned laments.

String Quartet No.10 (1964), where the goose-step of the rulers can be heard, as well as the will of the individual to survive, sets the tone.

Here the Mandelring Quartet present the fourth volume in an already acclaimed cycle.

"…the Mandelring Quartet makes it abundantly clear that it is building one of the outstanding cycles in today's catalogue." - The Strad [Vol.2]

Mandelring Quartet:
- Sebastian Schmidt, Nanette Schmidt (violins)
- Roland Glassl (viola)
- Bernhard Schmidt (cello)

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