The Quartets

Album by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich & Borodin Quartet

The Quartets is a cycle of fifteen string quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich, composed between 1938 and 1974. The works range from tightly woven, often terse chamber music with sharp dissonance to passages of lyrical melody and sombre reflection, and they show Shostakovich's stylistic development across his middle and late career within Soviet musical life.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Piano Quintet in G minor, op. 57
    35:02
  2. 2.
    Quartet no. 8 in C minor, op. 110
    21:36

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Quartet no. 1 in C major, op. 49
    34:05
  2. 3.
    Quartet no. 13 in B-flat minor, op. 138
    34:05
  3. 4.
    Quartet no. 2 in A major, op. 68
    37:58

Disc 3

  1. 3.
    Quartet no. 3 in F major, op. 73
    33:23
  2. 4.
    Quartet no. 4 in D major, op. 83
    24:56

Disc 4

  1. 4.
    Quartet no. 5 in B-flat major, op. 92
    31:17
  2. 5.
    Quartet no. 6 in G major, op. 101
    24:10

Disc 5

  1. 5.
    Quartet no. 9 in E-flat major, op. 117
    26:37
  2. 6.
    Quartet no. 10 in A-flat major, op. 118
    24:00

Disc 6

  1. 6.
    Quartet no. 7 in F-sharp minor, op. 108
    12:17
  2. 7.
    Quartet no. 11 in F minor, op. 122
    17:47
  3. 8.
    Quartet no. 12 in D-flat major, op. 133
    27:10

Disc 7

  1. 7.
    Quartet no. 14 in F-sharp major, op. 142
    28:06
  2. 8.
    Quartet no. 15 in E-flat minor, op. 144
    36:02

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