Quartets no. 3, 9

Album by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich & Taneyev Quartet

String Quartets Nos. 3 and 9 are chamber works by Dmitri Shostakovich, composed in 1946 and 1964 respectively. They illustrate contrasting facets of his chamber output within 20th-century Soviet composition, with No. 3 drawing on post-war contrapuntal writing and sombre lyricism and No. 9 adopting a more concise, tightly wrought idiom marked by terse motifs and cyclical structures that relate to his later quartet output.

Quartets no. 3, 9 by Chostakovich - album cover

First released: 1991

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1.
Quartet no. 3 for Two Violins, Viola and Cello in F major, op. 73: 1. Allegretto
7:03
2.
Quartet no. 3 for Two Violins, Viola and Cello in F major, op. 73: 2. Moderato con moto
4:30
3.
Quartet no. 3 for Two Violins, Viola and Cello in F major, op. 73: 3. Allegro non troppo
3:44
4.
Quartet no. 3 for Two Violins, Viola and Cello in F major, op. 73: 4. Adagio
5:36
5.
Quartet no. 3 for Two Violins, Viola and Cello in F major, op. 73: 5. Moderato
10:39
6.
Quartet no. 9 for Two Violins, Viola and Cello in E-flat major, op. 117: 1. Moderato
4:04
7.
Quartet no. 9 for Two Violins, Viola and Cello in E-flat major, op. 117: 2. Adagio
3:42
8.
Quartet no. 9 for Two Violins, Viola and Cello in E-flat major, op. 117: 3. Allegretto
4:01
9.
Quartet no. 9 for Two Violins, Viola and Cello in E-flat major, op. 117: 4. Adagio
3:27
10.
Quartet no. 9 for Two Violins, Viola and Cello in E-flat major, op. 117: 5. Allegro
10:14