Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) was a Russian composer of operas, ballets, concertos, string quartets, and 15 symphonies. Shostakovich was frequently denounced...
Dmitri Shostakovich in 1972(Erich Auerbach/Hulton Archive) Dmitri Shostakovich's career was plagued by censorship and heartbreak. His string quartets are perhaps his most intimate, interior ...
Mercury News: Review: Borodin Quartet pours forth a masterful account of Shostakovich’s intensely personal Eighth String Quartet at Music@Menlo
Review: Borodin Quartet pours forth a masterful account of Shostakovich’s intensely personal Eighth String Quartet at Music@Menlo
The hottest ticket in Chicago classical music at the moment? That’s an easy one. It is the Pacifica Quartet’s Shostakovich string quartet cycle at Roosevelt University’s Ganz Hall. After the ...
BroadwayWorld: World Premiere of Emerson String Quartet's SHOSTAKOVICH AND THE BLACK MONK
San Diego Union-Tribune: Danish String Quartet delivers excellence, from Bach and Beethoven to Shostakovich and Schnittke
Danish String Quartet delivers excellence, from Bach and Beethoven to Shostakovich and Schnittke
Medicine Buffalo: First presentation of Shostakovich String Quartet Cycle at UB to take place this month
UB music fans will have the opportunity to hear all 15 Shostakovich String Quartets performed in five concerts taking place April 12-23 in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, North Campus The ...
First presentation of Shostakovich String Quartet Cycle at UB to take place this month
It is a commonplace among music historians to write about Shostakovich’s string quartets as his most personal and intimate works, expressing the irony and the despair he felt as a victim of Soviet ...
Shostakovich’s fifth string quartet is performed less frequently than any other of his string quartets but that difficultly was not evident in the Emerson Quartet’s polished performance. In 1948, the ...