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The 10th Quartet, written c..

THE BORODIN QUARTET SPEAK ON THE SHOSTAKOVICH QUARTETS AND THEIR LEGACY

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The Borodins (then named the Moscow Philharmonic Qt.) met Shostakovich in 1946, eight years after he took up the quartet form.

The second traversal by the Borodin Quartet of the complete String Quartets of Dmitri Shostakovich.

The 10th Quartet, written c.

Although Shostakovich entrusted the premieres of 13 of his 15 quartets to the Beethoven Quartet, the Borodin Quartet earned them world acclaim, and their post-.

The Borodin Quartet's relationship with Shostakovich's chamber music is intensely personal.

You hear it from the outside, and we hear it mostly from the inside. Sometimes we share our views with others, and we hear from professional and non-professional listeners alike something very different than we feel -- not worse points of view, just a different angle. So it is easy to understand what you mean: Shostakovich quartet No.

4, 2nd movement could be seen as similar to Quartet No. 14, and his 2nd quartet might tie to No. 15, Intermezzo. Perhaps there is an arch here: maybe Shostakovich had something in mind when he developed in the later quartets, or used some ideas from his youth – who knows?

The same with Beethoven: even in his Op. 18, you can find the grain of the things that came in the late quartets. For example, Op. 18, no. 6, last movement, the introduction (melancholia) has something to do with late