The String Quartets

by Dmitri Shostakovich / Emerson String Quartet

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Recorded over a series of performances at the Aspen Music Festival, this comprehensive cycle captures the harrowing emotional depth of Shostakovich's most personal chamber works. The renowned ensemble renders the intense, anxious, and deeply melancholic compositions with astonishing technical precision and dramatic weight.

Genres

  • Modern Classical
  • Chamber Music
  • String Quartet

Tracklist

  1. Adagio For String Quartet Op. 29
  2. Allegretto (Polka) For String Quartet, Op. 22
  3. String Quartet No.13 In B Flat Minor, Op.138 (1970)