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	Amazon.com: Dmitry Shostakovich: String Quartet Nos. 2,3,7,8 & 12: Music: Dmitry Shostakovich,Borodin Quartet
		These five Shostakovich string quartets were recorded by the Borodin Quartet in London in 1990, and the performance and recording are absolutely brilliant, to match the compositions.
		Quartets 2 and 3, which open and close this set, were written respectively in 1944 and 1946, expressions of DSCH in his prime, during the war and its immediate aftermath.
		Shostakovich's music is not exactly neo-classical, or neo-romantic, but the modernist elements in his work are integrated seamlessly into a mainly tonal, lyrical conception that makes it more acceptable to the average concert-goer than the music of many of DSCH's contemporaries in the West.
	www.amazon.com /Dmitry-Shostakovich-String-Quartet-Nos/dp/B000027JEP (0 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: String Quartet No. 8 (Shostakovich)
		According to the score, it is dedicated "to the victims of fascism and war"; his son, Maxim, interprets this as a reference to the victims of all totalitarianism, while his daughter Galina says that he dedicated it to himself, and that the published dedication was imposed by the authorities.
		Shostakovich's friend, Lev Lebedinsky, said that Shostakovich thought of the work as his epitaph and that he planned to commit suicide around this time.
		The contribution of Shostakovich to the string quartet repertoire is one of the most important of any 20th century composer — and listeners are fortunate because the world-class St. Lawrence Quartet has chosen to deliver these remarkable Shostakovich quartets in all their full expressive power.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/String-Quartet-No.-8-%28Shostakovich%29 (928 words)

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		The String Quartet No. 8 by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in 1960.
		According to the score, it is dedicated "to the victims of fascism and war" but Shostakovich's daughter, Galina, stated that Shostakovich secretly dedicated it to himself.
		Shostakovich's friend, Lev Lebedinsky, said that Shostakovich thought of the work as his epitaph and that he planned to commit suicide around this time.
	www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/s/st/string_quartet_no__8__shostakovich_.html (168 words)

	Written With the Heart's Blood
		The power of Shostakovich's music is evidenced by the fact that its composer used it as a weapon in the fight against Hitler: witness the 7th [Leningrad] Symphony, written in 1942, which became the worldwide symbol of resistance against Nazism.
		The dedication of the Eighth String Quartet "to the memory of the victims of fascism and war" was a constant reminder to us musicians of how visceral Shostakovich's music is; and yet the recurring motifs of hope and renewal show that Shostakovich was ever a human being, always hopeful of an end to dark times.
		Shostakovich composed his Quartet No. 8 in the astonishingly short period of three days in July 1960 at Dresden, where he was working on the music for a war film about the destruction of that city called "Five Days - Five Nights".
	www.newalbion.com /NA088 (468 words)

	SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No 8 in C Minor, Op. 110; BORODIN: String Quartet No. 2 in D Major; RAVEL: String Quartet ...
		SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No 8 in C Minor, Op.
		The quartet is a kind of spiritual autobiography of the composer, rife with his Schumannesque anagrams, allusions to his own works, and intimations of mortality.
		Most felicitous is the Borodin Quartet’s rendition of the Ravel F Major Quartet (1902), where finesse and coloristic dexterity conspire to paint ravishing pictures in sound.
	www.audaud.com /article.php?ArticleID=674 (441 words)

	Takacs Quartet
		Quartet in Residence at the University of Colorado since 1983, the group has been described by music critics as having “the instinct to play from inside the music.” Formed at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest by Gabor Takács-Nagy, the Takács has won numerous chamber music prizes worldwide.
		The Shostakovich cycle is part of the great rebirth of quartet writing after the relative neglect of the form during the late 19th Century.
		Quartet No. 11 is the first of four dedicated to the individual members of the Beethoven Quartet, the ensemble which first performed all but one of the cycle.
	www.cincychamber.org /0607/takacs.htm (839 words)

	Shostakovich and Schumann
		Shostakovich’s last string quartet is a profound and deeply moving work, full of fury, pathos, and poetry.
		Shostakovich recognized his demise was near as he composed his Fifteenth String Quartet between February and May 1974 at the Union of Composers’ House of Creativity, a restful retreat northwest of St. Petersburg at Repino on the Gulf of Finland.
		Some years later, the violist (from 1964) of the Beethoven Quartet, Fyodor Druzhinin, recalled the group’s rehearsals of this work in summer and fall 1974, at which Shostakovich implored that the Elegy be played “so that flies drop dead in mid-air, and the audience start leaving the hall from sheer boredom.” It is hauntingly unforgettable.
	www.knoxvillesymphony.com /ShostakovichandSchumann.htm (1114 words)

	The Chamber Music of Dmitri Shos
		Shostakovich was given more liberty with his chamber music, which by its very nature could not attract large-scale recognition, at least on the level of the Symphonies.
		Shostakovich said in a letter while he was composing the quartet that chamber music is one of the hardest genres to compose for and that his work was merely an experiment.
		Shostakovich admired the Beethoven Quartet to such an extent that he wrote a Piano Quintet for the express purpose of being able to perform and tour with the group.
	oak.cats.ohiou.edu /~bs285902/info-pub.htm (1359 words)

	St. Lawrence String Quartet :: Shostakovich: String Quartets 3, 7 & 8
		In this artistically rich recording of the Shostakovich string quartets 3, 7 and 8, the St. Lawrence String Quartet fully evokes the complex fl humour and the range of strange beauty that runs throughout these powerful and individually different three string quartets.
		String Quartet No. 7 in F# Minor — the shortest quartet, and the first written in a minor key — is driven by the austere and bouncing 3-note violin figure.
		Composed in 1960 in three intense days, the String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor (also known in Russia as the 'Dresden' quartet) was favourably declared an anti-Fascist work by the Soviet powers-that-be.
	www.thelivemusicreport.com /received/2006/davidFujino/shostakovich378.html (439 words)

	Rolling Stone : Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 3, 7 and 8 : Music Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: )
		String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op.
		String Quartet No. 7 in F sharp minor, Op.
		String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op.
	www.rollingstone.com /artists/dmitrishostakovich/albums/album/9078360 (167 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Music: Shostakovich: The String Quartets, Emerson String Quartet, CD
		String Quartet No. 13 in B flat minor, Op.
		It is tempting though ultimately unfair to compare the Emerson String Quartet's interpretations with versions by the Borodin, Shostakovich or Fitzwilliam Quartets.
		Shostakovich didn't start exploring the quartet form until he was in his 30s, so unlike Beethoven, his 15 quartets change less in style than in content.
	music.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?EAN=28947574071&z=y (764 words)

	bulgarianCDs.com - Dmitry Shostakovich - String quartet nos 8, 10, 11
		Quartet No. 8 is of programmatic character and is related to one of the leading themes in the music of Shostakovich - the theme of war, anti-humanism and the staunch support of the idea of peace and humanity.
		Of particular interest is No. 11, consisting of 7 movements, each of which with an emotional context present in its title.
		The performance of the works by "Sofia" Quartet is remarkable for its technical virtuosity and freedom - each of the four instrumentalists is a superb musician - with a mastery in the rendition of the multitude of nuances and moods, varying from grief and tragic resignation to joyful intoxication, joke and emotional outbursts.
	www.bulgariancds.com /c/sl-e/mid-3/p-p/id-20/dmitry-shostakovich-string-quartet-nos-8-10-11.html (347 words)

	Los Angeles Philharmonic Association - Piece Detail
		In the summer of 1960 Shostakovich’s work on the score of a Soviet-East German film took him to Dresden, the German city that had been destroyed in 1945 by an Allied firebombing which killed more people than the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
		There, in a span of three days, Shostakovich composed a quartet inscribed “In memory of victims of fascism and war.” That much is beyond question.
		Moreover, some of the Quartet has no apparent autobiographical connection (for example, the dramatic appearance of a “Jewish” theme in the middle movement seems a reference to the Holocaust).
	www.laphil.org /resources/piece_detail.cfm?id=382 (1089 words)

	Dimitri Shostakovich (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Shostakovich composed the Quartet in a three-day period in 1960.
		At the time, the "official" story behind the Quartet was that Shostakovich had been so shocked and distressed upon witnessing the destruction in Dresden that he composed the piece to express his horror of Fascism.
		So Shostakovich wrote the Quartet No. 8 to express his despair, hoping that the audience would be able to read between the lines.
	www.epitonic.com /artists/dimitrishostakovich.html (577 words)

	Mondavi Center > Events > Shostakovich String Quartets Spring
		Mondavi Center is proud to present the third and final year of a series of lecture/performance exploring the quartets of Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-75), considered the greatest composer of the former Soviet Union.
		His 15 string quartets, written between 1938 and 1975, are now among the acknowledged masterpieces of twentieth-century music, thanks to their accessible musical language and powerful emotional appeal.
		Shostakovich's qusrtets are an opaque, frequently encoded, almost autobiographical outpouring of the public and private agony endured by the creative artist under totalitarianism.
	www.mondaviarts.org /events/event.cfm?event_id=81 (194 words)

	SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No. 3 in F Major, Op. 73; String Quartet No. 7 in F# Minor, Op. 108; String Quartet No. 8 ...
		Recorded 13-17 January 2006, these three quartets reveal the emotional turbulence and dire pessimism of their creator, beginning with the postwar, five-movement 1949 Quartet in F Major, with its bitter contrasts of emotion cast in neoclassical garb.
		Shostakovich composed his first quartet in a minor key, the Seventh, in 1960.
		The so-called Dresden Quartet (No. 8, 1960) is the composer's self-proclaimed obituary.
	www.audiophileaudition.com /article.php?ArticleID=2374 (623 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Shostakovich - String Quartets: Music: Emerson String Quartet (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Composers have always reserved the expression of their deepest feelings for the string quartet; Beethoven, Berg and Janàcek, come to mind, as does Shostakovich, whose 15 quartets are an opaque, frequently encoded, almost autobiographical outpouring of the public and private agony endured by the creative artist under totalitarianism.
		However, his quartets, thanks to their accessible musical language and powerful emotional appeal, soon gained a wide audience and are now among the acknowledged masterpieces of 20th-century chamber music.
		I owned Nos 2,8 and 12 and had heard snatches of others without being really hooked.I've had the Emerson collection now for 3 months and the whole process of listening is a moving adventure.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Shostakovich-String-Quartets-Emerson-Quartet/dp/B00003XAGO (703 words)

	Shostakovich: String Quartets 4 6 & 8
		Quartet No 4 was written at a time when leading Soviet composers were having their music publicly denigrated for failing to appeal to 'the people'.
		Whatever Shostakovich feared to express publicly at this time (1949), by 1956, the year of his Sixth Quartet, the political and cultural climate had improved.
		This was the first time Shostakovich had seen the remains of the city's bombardment, and the experience directly inspired his Eighth String Quartet, Op 110, which was written in just three days, July 12 to 14.
	www.hyperion-records.co.uk /details/67154.asp (409 words)

	SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Trio No. 2 / String Quartet No. 8 / 7 Poems, Op. 127 recommended cd collection, cd review and cd ...
		SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Trio No. 2 / String Quartet No. 8 / 7 Poems, Op.
		Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op.
		String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op.
	www.naxos.com /catalogue/item.asp?item_code=BIS-CD-26 (110 words)

	YouTube - Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8
		Seraphina Quartet plays Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op.
		Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8 in C minor
		Borodin - Shostakovich Quartet 2 Op 68, I Oberture
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=nfzhU7m7gHA (360 words)

	Shostakovich
		Shostakovich continues to fascinate, both through the compelling communicative power of his music and because of debate over the connections between that music and his life, which was deeply affected by the historic twists and turns of Soviet Russia.
		Dmitri Shostakovich´s 15 string quartets have often been regarded as a private musical diary that the composer kept between 1938 – the pre-War, Stalinist era and 1974 – the year of his death.
		The Parker Quartet was enrolled in NEC's Professional String Quartet Training Program at the time of this performance.
	www.newenglandconservatory.edu /shostakovich (557 words)

	Dmitry Shostakovich - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dmitry Shostakovich - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Shostakovich, Dmitry Dmitrievich (1906-1975), Russian composer, considered the greatest writer of symphonies of the mid-20th century.
		Art: They tried to destroy the memory of Babi…, Autobiography: These are not memoirs about myself.
	encarta.msn.com /Dmitry_Shostakovich.html (101 words)

	Dmitri Shostakovich - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
		Shostakovich used a fake ID to enroll in the Odessa Conservatory three years before the legal Russian composition age of 21.
		Shostakovich, son of the wealthy son of rich internet tycoon Al Stalin, dismisses his father's wishes in pursuit of his dream of one day becoming a real live human composer.
		Shostakovich's style during this period combined his previous darkness with the Far Out proto-emo style of Gustav Mahler.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich (1012 words)

	Alive: Critically acclaimed Russian string quartet performs here
		The quartet's first performance at the museum was one of the musical highlights of 1997, with an especially bracing rendition of Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8.
		Shostakovich is again on the program -- this time it's his second string quartet -- along with Glazunov's Five Novelettes and Prokofiev's Sonata in F major.
		The St. Petersburg String Quartet is in the process of recording a complete cycle of Shostakovich's 15 string quartets.
	www.sptimes.com /News/033100/Alive/Critically_acclaimed_.shtml (777 words)

	INKPOT#104: SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets. Emerson Quartet (DG)
		Shostakovich's fifteen string quartets, along with Bartok's six, are the greatest of the twentieth century.
		Shostakovich's are melodic, lyrical and often direct (and perhaps more intimate, not least in the final three), whereas Bartok's are abrasive and often make for an uncomfortable listening experience, astonishingly powerful though they are.
		The pacing is fast, the string playing often disfigured by grotesquely drawn harmonies (6'20 onwards), and the direct quotes from the Tenth at 7'50 to 8'06 are savagely presented.
	inkpot.com /classical/shostaqtem.html (1629 words)

	Sibelius: String Quartet In D Minor, Op. 56 / Schumann: String Quartet No. 3 In A Major, Op. 41/3 by Voces Intimae ...
		41, No. 3: I. Andante espressivo - Allegro molto moderato
		Audio Lunchbox / Classical / Voces Intimae Quartet / Sibelius: String Quartet In D Minor, Op.
		String Quartet No. 3 in A major, Op.
	www.audiolunchbox.com /album?a=44138 (398 words)

	Stereophile: Recording of June 2000: Shostakovich: String Quartets 1-15
		No doubt Western audiences were particularly puzzled by their seemingly inconsequential surfaces, intermittent lack of thematic argument, warped folk dances, and formal mutations.
		Shostakovich biographers have revealed that the quartets were meant to be even more subversive than the symphonies—thicker with double meanings, and deeply personal in their expression of his inner torment at the hands of Stalin and others who attempted to control the character of his output.
		The early quartets are revelations in the Emerson set; Quartet 2, in particular, seems to be one of the most substantial of the entire 15 as Shostakovich eagerly transforms and personalizes classic string-quartet techniques at every turn.
	www.stereophile.com /recordingofthemonth/432 (923 words)

	Dmitri Shostakovich--Opus 110
		One might write on the frontispiece, 'Dedicated to the author of this quartet.'" The work is truly autobiographical--Shostakovich quotes many of his other works within the quartet, and he expresses many of the horrible situations that he and other Russians experienced and feared.
		Shostakovich went on to write seven more string quartets, but among them the Eighth remains the most well known and touching.
		Fourth Movement: Shostakovich embodies his fear of KGB agents knocking on his door in the middle of the night to take him away or kill him by repeated triple blasts of sound in all four voices.
	www.andrew.cmu.edu /user/jlozos/shostakovich/opus110.html (739 words)

	Backstage Pass: St. Petersburg String Quartet to Perform
		The internationally-acclaimed St. Petersburg String Quartet, composed of Alla Aranovskaya and Ilya Teplyakov on violin, Aleksey Koptev on viola and Leonid Shukayev on cello, is slated to perform two landmark 19th-century Russian Romantic works on the ensemble's October 26 Faculty Recital.
		Borodin's style is lighter, especially in the case of the beautiful third movement of his String Quartet No. 2.
		Borodin's String Quartet was written during the summer of 1881 in the country residence of the composer Lodyshensky in Zhitovo, and premiered by the Galkin-Degtyerev-Rezvetsov-Kuznetsov Quartet at a meeting of the Imperial Russian Musical Society in St. Petersburg on March of the following year.
	www.oberlin.edu /con/bkstage/199910/stpetersburg.html (571 words)

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