Medicine Buffalo

First presentation of Shostakovich String Quartet Cycle at UB to take place this month

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 ...
Colorado Public Radio

Cavani Quartet plays Shostakovich, Schubert, Mendelssohn at University of Colorado

The Cavani String Quartet performs Sunday and Monday at Grusin Hall on the University of Colorado campus. The program starts at 4 p.m. Sunday and 7:30 p.m. Monday: Schubert: String Quartet No. 10 in E ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Brodskys: champions of Shostakovich's string quartets

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 ...
Oregonian

Jerusalem Quartet gives compelling performances of Shostakovich string quartets: Review

Dmitri Shostakovich's 15 string quartets trace a creative path from youthful vigor to dread of death, tensely combining along the way pathos with caustic comedy, folk melodies with modern angularities ...