Taneyev string quartet shostakovich biography

Over the course of a decade, starting in , the Taneyev Quartet recorded the cycle of Shostakovich Quartets. It�s been a long wait to have them collated now but admirers, who may have despaired of seeing them re-released in this way, can rejoice.

They were last seen over a decade ago and for completeness sake I should note those issue numbers here � Nos. 1, 4 and 5 appeared on Melodiya SUCD , Nos. 3 and 9 on SU , Nos. 6, 7, and 8 on SU , Nos. 2 and 10 on SU , Nos, 12 and 13 on SU , and Nos.

14 and 15 on SU The last two quartets were licensed to, and issued by, CBS in the USA. As a footnote to this I should add that Praga brought out what is undoubtedly a bogus "live" Fifth.

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It�s almost certainly the studio Fifth recorded here.

As many will know the Taneyev premiered the Fifteenth Quartet and their authority in this music, whilst not as intimate of course as the Beethoven or as widely acknowledged as the Borodin, remains powerful and lasting.

Certainly their tonal