Shostakovich: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 3, Nos. 13-15
Cuarteto Casals (string quartet)
The performances by the Cuarteto Casals, completing their Shostakovich quartet cycle, have the same humane glow and loving finesse of earlier volumes...However chilly and painful the music may...
Shostakovich: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 3, Nos. 13-15
Cuarteto Casals (string quartet)
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The performances by the Cuarteto Casals, completing their Shostakovich quartet cycle, have the same humane glow and loving finesse of earlier volumes...However chilly and painful the music may...
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This third and final album of the impressive complete set from the Cuarteto Casals immerses us in the twilight world of Shostakovich’s last three quartets. Legacy works of the years 1970-74, movingly marked by signs of his illness and acute awareness of approaching death, they strike the ear with their condensed formal daring and raw emotion.
Contents and tracklist
Work length19:32
This work is only available as an album download.
I. Adagio - Doppio movimento - Tempo primo
Track length19:32
This track is only available as an album download.
Awards and reviews
28th January 2026
The performances by the Cuarteto Casals, completing their Shostakovich quartet cycle, have the same humane glow and loving finesse of earlier volumes...However chilly and painful the music may be, Cuarteto Casals’ interpretation is always full-blooded. Life after death, you could almost say.
