UB music fans will have the opportunity to hear all 15 Shostakovich String Quartets performed in five concerts taking place April 12-23 in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, North Campus The ...

In its landmark 12th Season, Axiom Quartet has announced UNBROKEN, the complete cycle of Dmitri Shostakovich’s 15 string quartets performed across seven concerts during the 2025–2026 Season. This ...

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975): Piano quintet G minor, op. 57 (1940); String quartet no. 12 D flat major, op. 133 (1968). Bruno Canino, piano; Amati Quartett.

Dmitri Shostakovich in 1972(Erich Auerbach/Hulton Archive) Dmitri Shostakovich's career was plagued by censorship and heartbreak. His string quartets are perhaps his most intimate, interior ...

The Ninth Quartet has five movements, contrasting the wittily disquieting pizzicato of the opening with a profound Adagio, dancing Allegretto and something of a maelstrom in the finale. In No 10 the ...

This quartet combines a glorious selection of blonde beards and moustaches and eyelashes and floppy fringes with playing that ...