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Music : Dmitry Shostakovich: String Quartet Nos. 2,3,7,8 & 12
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Dmitry Shostakovich: String Quartet Nos. 2,3,7,8 & 12 from: EMI Classics List Price: $10.98 CD-Charts Price: $9.99 You Save: $0.99 ( 9%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0724356163027 Label: EMI Classics Manufacturer: EMI Classics Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: EMI Classics Release Date: February 01, 2000 Studio: EMI Classics Sales Rank: 9578 MPN: 61630 Disc 1: Disc 2:
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 Rating: - intense, excellentshostakovitch wrote crazy awesome music, and worked with the borodin string quartet while he was composing quartets; this suggests (to me) that the borodin quartet is the best suited in the world to interpret his works; though the original members who worked with shostakovitch no longer play in the group, the original cellist was still with the group at the time of this recording, and surely, experience, knowledge, and wisdom have been shared with new members as they were introduced to the group. this is amazing, powerful, often bewildering stuff- i love it. Rating: - Buy this cd or live to regret it. It's stupidly inexpensive, it's TWO discs, it should be badly recorded garbage. And it's absolutely brilliant. Amazing music, performed with consummate skill and musicality. Rating: - Great Chamber Music Superbly PlayedMany think that the Borodins' recorded performances of the Shostakovich quartets, especially those made earlier in their career, are definitive. Some critics have complained that these more recent recordings show that the players had lost their "edge". What is missing is the distortion introduced in earlier recordings by the Russian engineers. These recordings are very good. All five of the Shostakovich quartets on these two CDs are superbly played. The performance of the 8th is stunning. Anyone who enjoys chamber music or Shostakovich should not miss this two CD set. Rating:  - Mellow and relaxed -- perhaps not the best anymoreI respect the five-star reviews here, but for me this super-bargain selection of Shostakovich quartets sounds a bit tame. One must grant that the Borodin Qt. has long been acclaimed for its readings of these works, but there were two previous sets, one from 1967-71 with the original members (available on Chandos), another from 1978-83 with a new first and second violinist after the emigration of the two original members (recorded by Melodiya, licensed in the West to EMI and BMG). Both are acknowledged as nearly definitive, even though the earleir set lacks the last two quartets, #14 and #15, which had yet to be composed. These 1990 performances, recorded at the Maltings, Snape in nice digital sound, are typical of the Borodins ... Read More: Rating: - sheer brilliance and range, brilliantly performedThese five Shostakovich string quartets were recorded by the Borodin Quartet in London in 1990, and the performance and recording are absolutely brilliant, to match the compositions. (The earlier complete cycle of 15 quartets, recorded in the 1980s by an earlier line-up of the Borodins, is no longer available.) Quartets 2 and 3, which open and close this set, were written respectively in 1944 and 1946, expressions of DSCH in his prime, during the war and its immediate aftermath. They are among his finest works, too rich in mood and style to summarize briefly. The 8th Quartet of 1960 is his best known, and it was publicly dedicated to "the victims of war and fascism." Of course the interpretation of that phrase by the Soviet ... Read More: |
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