Special offer. Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 3, 4 & 7
Meta4
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012, Editor's Choice
Unlike most of their peers, Meta4 have found their way to the particular world of musicality that Shostakovich inhabits...Listen to the highly contrapuntal central section of the first movement...
Special offer. Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 3, 4 & 7
Meta4
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012, Editor's Choice
Unlike most of their peers, Meta4 have found their way to the particular world of musicality that Shostakovich inhabits...Listen to the highly contrapuntal central section of the first movement...
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In recent years, the Finnish string quartet Meta4 has become one of the world’s top quartets. The ensemble won the Shostakovich Competition in Moscow in 2004, so are well qualified to record these works. Their first release of Haydn’s Op.55 quartets won an Echo Klassik Award.
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Gramophone MagazineAwards Issue 2012Editor's Choice
Awards Issue 2012
Unlike most of their peers, Meta4 have found their way to the particular world of musicality that Shostakovich inhabits...Listen to the highly contrapuntal central section of the first movement of the Thrid Quartet and marvel at the range and precision of colour and articulation...I'm not sure I've ever heard the opening folk-like Allegretto of No. 4 more subtly explored
