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SHOSTAKOVICH The String Quartets Emerson

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH

Die Streichquartette
The String Quartets
Les Quatuors à Cordes
I Quartetti per archi

Emerson String Quartet

Int. Release 01 Mar. 2000

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Track List

CD 1: Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos.1 - 3

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975)

String Quartet No. 1 in C Major, Op. 49

1.

3:56

2.

3:59

3.

3. Allegro molto

2:23

4.

3:44

String Quartet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 68

5.

1. Overture (Moderato con moto)

7:58

6.

2. Recitative & Romance (Adagio)

9:05

7.

3. Valse (Allegro)

5:29

8.

4. Theme & Variations

10:44

String Quartet No. 3 in F Major, Op. 73

9.

6:52

10.

2. Moderato con moto

4:22

11.

3. Allegro non troppo

3:50

12.

4:44

13.

8:19

Emerson String Quartet

Total Playing Time 1:15:25

CD 2: Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos.4 - 6

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975)

String Quartet No. 4 in D Major, Op. 83

1.

3:51

2.

6:23

3.

4:35

4.

9:31

String Quartet No. 5 in B-Flat Major, Op. 92

5.

1. Allegro non troppo

11:19

6.

8:29

7.

10:22

String Quartet No.6 In G Major Op.101

8.

6:44

9.

2. Moderato con moto

4:59

10.

3. Lento - attacca:

3:58

11.

4. Lento - Allegretto - Andante - Lento

6:33

Emerson String Quartet

Total Playing Time 1:16:44

CD 3: Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos.7 - 10

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975)

String Quartet No. 7 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 108

1.

3:42

2.

2:49

3.

5:06

String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110

4.

4:34

5.

2. Allegro molto

2:38

6.

4:05

7.

4:46

8.

3:34

String Quartet No. 9 in E-Flat Major, Op. 117

9.

1. Moderato con moto

4:24

10.

3:47

11.

4:02

12.

3:00

13.

9:29

String Quartet No. 10 in A-Flat Major, Op. 118

14.

1. Andante con moto

4:13

15.

2. Allegretto furioso

3:58

16.

4:49

17.

4. Allegretto - Andante

8:41

Emerson String Quartet

Total Playing Time 1:17:37

CD 4: Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos.11 - 13; Adagio (Elegy); Allegretto (Polka)

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975)

1.

Adagio (Elegy) for String Quartet

4:35

2.

Allegretto (Polka) for String Quartet

2:47

String Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 122

3.

1. Introduction: Andantino

2:12

4.

2. Scherzo: Allegretto

2:42

5.

3. Recitative: Adagio

1:08

6.

4. Etude: Allegro

1:15

7.

5. Humoresque: Allegro

1:02

8.

6. Elegy: Adagio

4:12

9.

7. Finale: Moderato

3:39

String Quartet No. 12 in D-Flat Major, Op. 133

10.

1. Moderato - Allegretto

6:29

11.

2. Allegretto - Adagio - Moderato - Allegretto

19:24

12.

String Quartet No.13 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 138

19:09

Emerson String Quartet

Total Playing Time 1:08:34

CD 5: Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos.14 & 15

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975)

String Quartet No. 14 in F-Sharp Major, Op. 142

1.

8:14

2.

8:52

3.

7:59

String Quartet No. 15 in E-Flat Minor, Op. 144

4.

12:37

5.

5:47

6.

1:38

7.

4:30

8.

5. Funeral March

4:36

9.

6:18

Emerson String Quartet

Total Playing Time 1:00:31

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. . . their work has helped build audience appreciation for these quartets.

... the Emerson quartet are a virtuosic group who play beautifully, individually and together. If ever you were in any doubt that this music deserves to stand alongside the Bartok and even the Beethoven quartets, this release will put you right.

. . . if I had to select just one set, it would be the Emerson. They are . . . consistently unified in their conceptions . . . The accompanying booklet with the Emerson set prints a fascinating Shostakovich chronology and an essay by Alan George . . . The Emerson . . . never lose sight of that crucial underlying pulse . . . [they] are particularly impressive . . .

Man findet in diesen letzten Streichquartetten leichenblasse Soli, gellende Crescendi auf Einzeltönen und Passagen, in denen die Instrumente nur noch geklopft, geschabt und gezupft werden . . . 1960 . . . schreibt [er] sich bei einem Besuch in Dresden innerhalb von drei Tagen das Achte Streichquartett von der Seele: eine berührende Klagemusik, in der sich Verzweiflung, Ohnmacht und Selbsthass Bahn brechen . . . Eine Referenzaufnahme der Streichquartette hat vor sechs Jahren das Emerson-Quartett eingespielt.

El Cuarteto Emerson interpretó la integral en el Festival de Música de Aspen, toda una proeza, recogida en su totalidad en cinco discos en los que su perfecto conocimiento del autor queda de sobra demostrado, constituyéndose las obras en una síntesis perfecta de toda su trayectoria. Imprescindible.