Beethoven, Schubert, Shostakovich: String Quartets

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1.	Beethoven: String Quartet No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 18 I. Allegro, ma non tanto 05:57
2.	Beethoven: String Quartet No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 18 II. Scherzo. Andante scherzoso quasi allegretto 04:57	buy track
3.	Beethoven: String Quartet No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 18 III. Menuetto. Allegretto 03:01	buy track
4.	Beethoven: String Quartet No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 18 IV. Allegro - Prestissimo 03:51	buy track
5.	Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 3 in F Major, Op. 73 I. Allegretto 04:50	buy track
6.	Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 3 in F Major, Op. 73 II. Moderato con moto 05:24	buy track
7.	Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 3 in F Major, Op. 73 III. Allegro non troppo 04:08	buy track
8.	Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 3 in F Major, Op. 73 IV. Adagio - attacca 05:03	buy track
9.	Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 3 in F Major, Op. 73 V. Moderato 09:47	buy track
10.	Schubert: String Quartet No. 12 in C Minor, D. 703 'Quartettsatz' 05:35	buy track
11.	Paganini: Caprice No. 24 in A Minor, Op. 1 (Arr. for String Quartet) 04:57	buy track

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"Blithe ignorance of the future cataclysm” is the subtitle originally chosen by Shostakovich for the first movement of his “war quartet”, String Quartet no. 3 (1946), which he considered one of his finest works. The subtitle sets the tone for a composition that, nourished by popular folklore, appears to stage the inexorable confrontation of opposing forces. The same tension, the same razor’s-edge atmosphere is to be found in Beethoven’s Quartet op. 18, no. 4, and in Schubert’s unfinished Quartet, no. 12, generally known as the Quartettsatz.
The musicians of the David Oistrakh Quartet embrace the latent fury of these three works, without giving in to the maelstrom: the precision of their playing feeds a raw, electric expressiveness, magnified by an exceptional ensemble sound, taking the emotional power of this programme to great heights.

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released February 3, 2023

Violist - Fedor Belugin
Cellist - Alexey ZhilinThe
Second Violinist - Rodion Petrov
1rst Violin - Andrey Baranov

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