AN award winning, internationally acclaimed, string quartet will bring a successful season of music to a close at Skipton ...

The Spruce Quartet will be performing two string quartets from very different composers, Beethoven and Shostakovich, but both interpret Russian themes and music. First, Dmitri Shostakovich's 8th ...

Freedom of expression is enjoyed by many, but it is cherished by those who have lived without it. In his early 30s, a leading musical voice was reprimanded by his heads of state for his disapproved ...

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Dmitri Shostakovich in 1972(Erich Auerbach/Hulton Archive) Dmitri Shostakovich's career was plagued by censorship and heartbreak. His string quartets are perhaps his most intimate, interior ...

Shostakovich’s fifth string quartet is performed less frequently than any other of his string quartets but that difficultly was not evident in the Emerson Quartet’s polished performance. In 1948, the ...

String Quartet No.1 in C major, Op.49: 1. Moderato String Quartet No.1 in C major, Op.49: 2. Moderato String Quartet No.1 in C major, Op.49: 3. Allegro molto String ...

String Quartet No. 13 Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer Fitzwilliam String Quartet String Quartet No. 14 Fitzwilliam String Quartet Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer String Quartet No. 15 Dmitri Shostakovich, ...

Dmitri Shostakovich once told a friend that he planned to compose 24 string quartets, one in each of the major and minor keys. He completed only 15, but they span his entire mature period as a ...

Ravinia had its “Million-Dollar Trio” in 1950 when Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky and Artur Rubinstein joined forces to play chamber music there. By the same token, Symphony Center on Saturday ...