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 ...

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 ...

Several of Vancouver’s classical music organizations are exploring the trend toward focused miniseries. (I shy away from the term “binge-listening,” but it’s certainly expressive enough). In the next ...

Dmitri Shostakovich gives us the carnival and the graveyard, the cabaret and the padded cell, often at the same time. Just as we sink into beauty, he tells a joke. Just as we start to chuckle, he ...

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 ...

A few weeks ago at London’s Wigmore Hall the Pacifica Quartet concluded its outstanding survey of Shostakovich’s 15 string quartets, exceptional both in the musicians’ maturity and breadth of ...

Dmitri Shostakovich's 15 string quartets trace a creative path from youthful vigor to dread of death, tensely combining along the way pathos with caustic comedy, folk melodies with modern angularities ...

Given their importance in the quartet literature of the 20th century, there are surprisingly few complete recordings of Shostakovich's 15 string quartets. Even so, this set joins some pretty select ...

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, ...

Polish-born composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg (also spelled Vaynberg) was of Jewish decent, and the only immediate member of his family to get out of Poland alive, following the Nazi occupation of 1939.