Dmitri Shostakovich - Complete String Quartets (The Borodin Quartet)
Dmitri Shostakovich - Complete String Quartets (The Borodin Quartet)
6 CDs | MP3 192 Kbps | ~600 Mb in 8 RAR files
6 CDs | MP3 192 Kbps | ~600 Mb in 8 RAR files
Rarely do we come across as intimate and wide-angled a set as this collection of Dmitri Shostakovich's 15 string quartets, all of them played by the Russian Borodin Quartet. Recorded in Moscow between 1978 and 1983, the quartets are excellently reproduced in digital sound by Sviatoslav Richter, who maintains just enough shadow from the old Melodiya vinyl's audio vérité to make the music breathe passionately. Of course, it's the Borodins who really amp up the musical breath, whether in their near-giddy reading of the third quartet's first movement or in the 14th's complex, stoutly metaphysical somberness. These recordings will likely always remain the standard for Shostakovich's chamber repertoire because the Borodins were so focused on the Russian quartet literature and so little of anything they played by one composer approached the immediate, mature fullness of Shostakovich's quartets from the first to the last. And they played the music with unflagging intensity. Over the six CDs, it's a fascinating exercise to hear the development of compositional elements between the first (1935) and 15th (1974, the year before his death) quartets. Variations on the passacaglia technique, for example, permeate the music, allowing telescopic focus on Shostakovich's careful mediation of the dialogue between constancy and change, flying motifs from violin to viola to cello and back even as it appeared little fundamental groundwork had changed. Polyphony, dissonance, and aching resonance find a home in the music, showing Shostakovich's Catholic reach–and surely the impetus for his long-standing troubled relationship with Soviet politics.Andrew Bartlett (Amazon.com)
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CD 1
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String Quartet No.1 in C Major, Op.49 (1935)
String Quartet No.2 in A Major, Op.68 (1944)
String Quartet No.4 in D Major, Op.83 (1949)
Total playing time: 78.14
Recorded in Moscow, 1978 (Op.49), 1982 (Op.68, Op.83)
Part 1 - Part 2
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CD 2
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String Quartet No.3 in F Major, Op.73 (1946)
Two Pieces for Strings Octet, Op. 11 (with Prokofiev Quartet)
Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op.57 (1945) (with Sviatoslav Richter, piano)
Total playing time:79.30
Recorded in Moscow, 1983 (Op.73), 1964 (Op.11) (Studio recordings);
Live in the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire, 5—6 September 1983 (Op.57)
Part 1 - Part 2
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CD 3
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String Quartet No.5 in B flat Major, Op.92 (1952)
String Quartet No.6 in G Major, Op.101 (1956)
String Quartet No.7 in F sharp Minor, Op.108 (1960)
Total playing time: 68.44
Recorded in Moscow, 1983 (Op.92), 1981 (Op.108) (Studio recordings);
Live in the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire, 27 September 1981 (Op.101)
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CD 4
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String Quartet No.8 in C Minor, Op.110 (1960)
String Quartet No.9 in E flat Major, Op.117 (1964)
String Quartet No. 10 in A flat Major, Op.l 18 (1964)
Total playing time: 73.14
Recorded in Moscow, 1978 (Op.110), 1981 (Op. 118) (Studio Recordings);
Live in the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire, 27 September 1981 (Op.117)
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CD 5
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String Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 122 (1966)
String Quartet No.12 in D flat, Op.133 (1968)
String Quartet No.13 in B flat Minor, Op.138 (1970)
Total playing time: 65.52
Recorded in Moscow, 1981
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CD 6
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String Quartet No. 14 in F sharp Major, Op. 142 (1973)
String Quartet No. 15 in E flat Minor, Op.144 (1974)
Total playing time: 65.02
Recorded in Moscow. 1981 (Op.142). 1978 (Op.144)
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