Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 4, 8 & 11
Carducci Quartet
Their warmly engineered release of three of the Russian master's quartets is undoubtedly a fine achievement, boasting excellent ensemble, musical insight and sensitive attention to detail...cellist...
Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 4, 8 & 11
Carducci Quartet
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Their warmly engineered release of three of the Russian master's quartets is undoubtedly a fine achievement, boasting excellent ensemble, musical insight and sensitive attention to detail...cellist...
About
The Carducci Quartet launches Shostakovich15 – its project to perform all 15 of Shostakovich’s string quartets in 2015. Commemorating 40 years since Shostakovich’s death, the Carducci Quartet is performing 10 complete cycles throughout the year and releases this recording of Shostakovich’s fourth, eighth and eleventh string quartets – all landmark works in the string quartet repertoire. They will be blogging at www.shostakovich15.com and shostakovich15.blogspot.co.uk throughout the year.
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Awards and reviews
June 2015
Their warmly engineered release of three of the Russian master's quartets is undoubtedly a fine achievement, boasting excellent ensemble, musical insight and sensitive attention to detail...cellist Emma Denton not only provides a solid foundation for the group as a whole, but is particularly eloquent in solo passages.
June 2015
[The Carducci Quartet] clearly have the technical measure of these three highly contrasting works from Shostakovich's quartet output…this well-recorded disc holds out much promise of things to come
1st March 2015
All central to the repertoire irrespective of other associations, these works nevertheless make powerful extramusical statements...The performances are both polished and passionate.
