Shostakovich: String Quartets, Vol. 1

A Brilliant Classics debut for one of today’s most accomplished Italian string quartets, in 20th-century masterpieces which make a compelling introduction to the troubled private world of Shostakovich’s chamber music.

Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich
Artists: Quartetto Noûs

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Unchanged since its formation more than a decade ago, the Quartetto Noûs has made albums for the Amadeus label and the Italian division of Warner Classics, but this is the ensemble’s first recording to receive international distribution and attention. As frequent return guests to well supported chamber music series at Conway Hall in London, the Società del Quartetto in Milan and the Festival Ticino Musica in Lugano, Quartetto Noûs has won critical praise for its supercharged interpretations. Having studied with the Quartetto di Cremona but also quartet luminaries such as Gunter Pichler and Rainer Schmidt, they combine an Italian warmth of collective sonority with the incisive musical instincts of modern-European schools of quartet playing.

Presenting five of Shostakovich’s best-known quartets, this volume presents the first in a projected series of the complete quartets for release on Brilliant Classics. Contemporaneous with the postwar Ninth Symphony which attracted censure for its unsettling humour, the Third Quartet of 1946 remained one of the composer’s own favourite works, and its five-movement form – encompassing two black Scherzos and a brief but intense slow movement – dives deep into dark waters before finding uneasy rest in one of Shostakovich’s most characteristically edgy finales.

Tracklist:
String Quartet No. 3 in F Major, Op. 73:
0:00 Allegretto
7:10 Moderato con moto
12:52 Allegro non troppo
17:05 Adagio
22:50 Moderato

String Quartet No. 5 in B-Flat Major, Op. 92:
33:16 Allegro non troppo
44:44 Andante
54:27 Moderato - Allegretto – Andante

String Quartet No. 7 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 108:
1:05:26 Allegretto
1:09:13 Lento
1:12:14 Allegro – Allegretto

String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110:
1:18:03 Largo
1:23:15 Allegro molto
1:26:06 Allegretto
1:30:40 Largo
1:35:47 Largo

String Quartet No. 9 in E-Flat Major, Op. 117:
1:39:46 Moderato con moto
1:44:15 Adagio
1:48:43 Allegretto
1:52:49 Adagio
1:56:24 Allegro

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