Shostakovich: The String Quartets
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Music CD Cover Composer: Dmitry Shostakovich Performer: Fitzwilliam String Quartet Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 1998-02-10 Music Label: Decca Soundtracks: Music CD 1
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Free Music Notes for Shostakovich: The String Quartets Album
Free Music Review: mollifying the 20th century
Hit: 5 Stars
To those of you like me, bred off the strictly diatonic classical and romantic periods, when melody and counterpoint were fitted nicely within keys, the twentieth century can be a frightening place. I have a hard time making sense of atonal music (much of Bartok's quartets, for example). But Shostakovich's quartets make sense to me, even though he sometimes wanders through the chromatic scales and forsakes a set key. This package is a wonderful offer, and a good introduction to the composer's later work. They are quite different from his early symphonies. Much of the music is so emotive its palpable, and the emotions range from burlesque, to grotesque, to deeply wounded and plaintive. I love the largo from quartet six, a surprisingly diatonic and elated quartet in comparison with the others.When you get this set, wander off by yourself for a day and listen to each quartet. I can't guarantee you'll like them all, but I hope you have the sense to appreciate these for what they are.
I can't compare this to the Emerson quartet's package, as I have not heard it, but the sound here is crisp. I certainly can't tell that it's twenty-years old.