This recording by the Jerusalem Quartet is absolutely compelling from the outset, with Shostakovich’s Second Quartet – a much weightier piece than you might suppose from the early number. The bright ...

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 ...

Which is, in a word, muscular. Sculpted, too – these are athletic, upfront performances, clear in texture, forthright in tone and bold in articulation. Recorded at Wyastone, the sound is ...

Boris Giltburg (piano), Rhys Owens (trumpet), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/ Petrenko (Naxos) Always under the shadow of a regime he had to support but privately feared, Shostakovich in ...

The first of a trio of concerts focusing on Shostakovich’s string quartets saw the Emersons bring a persuasive intensity to the Russian dissident composer’s music As the Russian patron saint of ...

HERE'S an imperative for CD collectors and fans of the Scottish Ensemble. Released tomorrow is the orchestra's first recording on Linn Records in a decade. It is a stonker, with a characteristically ...

In 2010 the Borodin Quartet gave concerts by candlelight on what was to be one of the most memorable Musica Viva Australia tours of the past few decades. Musica Viva Australia and the Borodin Quartet ...

Dmitri Shostakovich once told a friend that he planned to compose 24 string quartets, one in each of the major and minor keys. He completed only 15, but they span his entire mature period as a ...