String Quartets Nos.4, 6 & 8
SHOSTAKOVICH Dmitry (1906-1975)
St Petersburg String Quartet
Label : Hyperion Records
Artikelnummer: CDA67154
1 CD Spielzeit : 070:17
CHF 19.50
Quartet No 4 was written at a time when leading Soviet composers were having their music publicly denigrated for failing to appeal to 'the people'. The Sixth Quartet was written for a commemorative concert on the occasion of Shostakovich's 50th birthday by the Beethoven Quartet in 1956, while the experience of seeing the remains of Dresden's bombardment in 1960 inspired his Eighth String Quartet. // Cf. 'The Complete String Q.' (CDS44091/6)