String Quartets Nos.2 & 3
SHOSTAKOVICH Dimitri (1906-1975)
St Petersburg String Quartet
Label : Hyperion Records
Artikelnummer: CDA67153
1 CD Spielzeit : 066:37
CHF 19.50
Shostakovich wrote his first string quartet in 1938, with No.2 following six years later in 1944 (three weeks after the completion of his Piano Trio). The Piano Trio and String Quartet No.2 appear, emotionally, to be the obverse of the same coin and although the Quartet contains structural elements such as found in the Piano Trio, it stands entirely on its own as a wholly convincing work of art.