Dmitry Shostakovich Fitzwilliam String Quartet - Shostakovich The String Quartets +Album Reviews +Used CD available for Swap
Giordano Bruno | 05/22/2008 (5 out of 5 stars) "Shostakovich's string quartets are as much the supreme masterworks of 20th Century music as Beethoven's were of the classical period. I hardly dare say more about them; they are profound on every level, and like Beethoven's, they grow more profound with every listening. Shostakovich, in a sense, discovered the Fitzwilliam String Quartet when its members were undergrads at Cambridge. He entrusted the first western performances of his last three quartets to them for premiere, and they in turn made the first western recording of his full quartet ...
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