Medici String Quartet - Shostakovich: Works for String Quartet (2019)
Medici String Quartet - Shostakovich: Works for String Quartet (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 276 MB | Tracks: 14 | 69:04 min
Style: Classical | Label: Nimbus Records
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 276 MB | Tracks: 14 | 69:04 min
Style: Classical | Label: Nimbus Records
Shostakovich was no child prodigy — he began piano lessons at nine — but success as a composer came early when his First Symphony, written as a graduation piece, was acclaimed in Leningrad at the premiere in May 1926. That said, there is some fine chamber music in Shostakovich's student output. Much of the Two Pieces for String Octet Op. 11 actually predates the First Symphony Op. 10, remarkably assured for an eighteen year-old. The Two Pieces for String Quartet on the other hand did not surface at all until 1984! Dedicated to the J. Vuillaume Quartet they give us the suggestion of a Shostakovich quartet sound circa 1931 — seven years before the real thing. The original stimulus to compose a piano quintet came from musicians of the Beethoven Quartet who had asked him for something they could all play together. But Shostakovich must have relished the technical challenge of a medium which few twentieth century composers had been prepared to tackle because of its peculiar problems of balance and texture. The composer himself gave the first performance with the Beethoven Quartet in Moscow on 23 November 1940. And, utterly non-ideological as it was and is, the music won him a Stalin Prize. Shostakovich was one of the most important and prolific writer of string quartets in the 20th century. His String Quartet No. 8 comes from an important period in his personal as well as his artistic life. Musically it comes from the same period as his widely acknowledged masterpiece, the Tenth Symphony. Dissident writers have claimed it represents the composer himself – a lost voice in a cruel world.
Tracklist:
01. Two Pieces for Octet, Op. 11: I. Prelude. Adagio
02. Two Pieces for Octet, Op. 11: II. Scherzo. Allegro molto
03. Two pieces for Quartet: I. Elegy
04. Two pieces for Quartet: II. Polka
05. Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57: I. Prelude. Lento
06. Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57: II. Fugue. Adagio
07. Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57: III. Scherzo. Allegretto
08. Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57: IV. Intermezzo. Lento
09. Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57: V. Finale. Allegretto
10. String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110: I. Largo
11. String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110: II. Allegro molto
12. String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110: III. Allegretto
13. String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110: IV. Largo
14. String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110: V. Largo
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