String Quartets 3, 7 & 8

Album by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich & St. Lawrence String Quartet

String Quartets 3, 7 & 8 is a collection of chamber works by Dmitri Shostakovich, composed between 1946 and 1960. The music uses classical quartet textures alongside increased dissonance, terse motifs and abrupt contrasts, and the pieces fall in Shostakovich's mid to late creative period when he turned increasingly to the string quartet as a medium for concentrated expression.

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  1. 1.
    String Quartet no. 3 in F, op. 73: I. Allegretto
    5:13
  2. 2.
    String Quartet no. 3 in F, op. 73: II. Moderato con moto
    5:19
  3. 3.
    String Quartet no. 3 in F, op. 73: III. Allegro non troppo
    3:54
  4. 4.
    String Quartet no. 3 in F, op. 73: IV. Adagio
    5:41
  5. 5.
    String Quartet no. 3 in F, op. 73: V. Moderato
    9:33
  6. 6.
    String Quartet no. 7 in F-sharp minor, op. 108: I. Allegretto
    3:39
  7. 7.
    String Quartet no. 7 in F-sharp minor, op. 108: II. Lento
    4:24
  8. 8.
    String Quartet no. 7 in F-sharp minor, op. 108: III. Allegro allegretto
    6:13
  9. 9.
    String Quartet no. 8 in C minor, op. 110: I. Largo
    5:31
  10. 10.
    String Quartet no. 8 in C minor, op. 110: II. Allegro molto
    2:41
  11. 11.
    String Quartet no. 8 in C minor, op. 110: III. Allegretto
    4:21
  12. 12.
    String Quartet no. 8 in C minor, op. 110: IV. Largo
    5:56
  13. 13.
    String Quartet no. 8 in C minor, op. 110: V. Largo
    4:24

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