Description
The Soviet Experience Volume IV / String Quartets By Dimitri Shostakovich And His Contemporaries / Shostakovich: Quartets Nos. 13-15, Schnittke: Quartet No. 3 / Pacifica Quartet / Cedille Records 2x Audio CD 2013 / CDR90000145
UPC 735131914529
Product Details:
Label: Cedille Records – CDR 90000 145
Format: 2x CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 2013
Genre: Classical
Description:
This is the final installment in the Pacifica Quartet’s highly anticipated, and already highly acclaimed four-volume CD survey of the complete Shostakovich string quartets: The Soviet Experience: String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich and his Contemporaries. The Soviet Experience Volume IV features Shostakovich’s String Quartets Nos. 13-15 from the 1970s. These three quartets are paired with Schnittke’s allusive homage, String Quartet No. 3, written in 1983. It’s a work full of quotation including a 12-tone row transposed from a theme by Shostakovich, whose influence was felt throughout Schnittke’s career.
This superbly performed series of audiophile recordings, produced and engineered by multiple Grammy Award winner Judith Sherman, will appeal to everyone interested in great Russian music of the 20thcentury. It’s also a great value: each 2-CD installment is priced as a single CD.
This superbly performed series of audiophile recordings, produced and engineered by multiple Grammy Award winner Judith Sherman, will appeal to everyone interested in great Russian music of the 20thcentury. It’s also a great value: each 2-CD installment is priced as a single CD.
Tracklist:
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Disc 1 |
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| 1-1 | String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Minor, Op 138 Adagio - Doppio Movimento - Tempo Primo
Composed By – Dmitri Shostakovich |
19:15 |
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String Quartet No. 14 in F Sharp major, Op. 142 Composed By – Dmitri Shostakovich |
(25:45) |
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| 1-2 | I. Allegretto | 8:41 |
| 1-3 | II. Adagio | 8:43 |
| 1-4 | III. Alegretto | 8:18 |
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Disc 2 |
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String Quartet No. 15 in e-Flat Minor, Op. 144
Composed By – Dmitri Shostakovich |
(36:10) |
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| 2-1 | I. Elegy: Adagio | 11:39 |
| 2-2 | II. Serenade: Adagio | 5:49 |
| 2-3 | III. Intermezzo: Adagio | 1:44 |
| 2-4 | IV. Nocturne: Adagio | 4:27 |
| 2-5 | V. Funeral march: Adagio Molto | 5:37 |
| 2-6 | VI. Epilogue: Adagio | 6:57 |
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String Quartet No. 3 Composed By – Alfred Schnittke |
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| 2-7 | I. Andante | 6:14 |
| 2-8 | II. Agitato | 8:18 |
| 2-9 | III. Pesante | 8:20 |
More Details:
- Cello – Brandon Vamos
- Engineer – Bill Maylone
- Ensemble – Pacifica Quartet
- Producer, Engineer – Judith Sherman
- Viola – Masumi Rostad
- Violin – Sibbi Bernhardsson, Simin Ganatra
