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String Quartets

Pacifica Quartet

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Format: 8CD

Cat No: BOX1003

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Release Date:  31 August 2014

Label:  Cedille Records

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  8

Barcode:  735131100328

Genres:  Classical  

Composer/Series:  String Quartets

  • Description

    The Pacifica Quartet's acclaimed survey of Dmitri Shostakovich's complete string quartets, The Soviet Experience, has been praised as forceful, intimate, and consummately recorded" (Positive Feedback). Now, record collectors have more reason than ever to acquire this exceptional series in its entirety with the release of this value-priced boxed set offering all four volumes (each a 2-CD set) for the price of two CDs.The Soviet Experience has been lauded as unique among Shostakovich quartet cycles for including quartets by some the composer's most significant Soviet-era contemporaries: Nikolai Miaskovsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Mieczyslaw Weinberg, and Alfred Schnittke.Every installment of The Soviet Experience has garnered praise in the U.S. and internationally. Reviewing Volume I, The New York Times said, "The excellent Pacifica Quartet . . . offers electrifying interpretations." Assessing Volume II, The Classical Review wrote, "the Pacifica's Shostakovich cycle already is shaping up as definitive, even in a field stocked with . . . formidable Russian contenders." BBC Music Magazine's review of Volume III said the series "is turning out to be one of the most riveting of recent years. . . . Pacifica's Shostakovich cycle is already shaping up as definitive.""

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Miaskovsky String Quartet No.13 in A minor, Op 86
      • 2. Prokofiev String Quartet No.2 in F major, Op 92
      • 3. Schnittke String Quartet No.3
      • 4. Shostakovich String Quartets Nos 1 - 15 (complete)
      • 5. Weinberg String Quartet No.6, Op 35

      Disc 2

      • 1. Allegretto
      • 2. Lento
      • 3. Allegro - Allegretto
      • 4. Largo
      • 5. Allegro Molto
      • 6. Allegretto
      • 7. Largo
      • 8. Largo
      • 9. Moderato
      • 10. Presto Fantastico
      • 11. Andante Con Moto E Molto Cantabile
      • 12. Molto Vivo, Energico

      Disc 3

      • 1. Moderato
      • 2. Moderato
      • 3. Allegro Molto
      • 4. Allegro
      • 5. Overture: Moderato Con Moto
      • 6. Recitativo and Romance: Adagio
      • 7. Waltz: Allegro
      • 8. Theme With Variations: Adagio
      • 9. Allegretto
      • 10. Andantino
      • 11. Allegretto
      • 12. Allegretto

      Disc 4

      • 1. Allegretto
      • 2. Moderato Con Moto
      • 3. Allegro Non Troppo
      • 4. Adagio
      • 5. Moderato
      • 6. Allegro Sostenuto
      • 7. Adagio
      • 8. Allegro

      Disc 5

      • 1. Moderato Con Moto
      • 2. Adagio
      • 3. Allegretto
      • 4. Adagio
      • 5. Allegro
      • 6. Andante
      • 7. Allegretto Furioso
      • 8. Adagio
      • 9. Allegretto
      • 10. Introduction: Andantino
      • 11. Scherzo: Allegretto
      • 12. Recitative: Adagio
      • 13. Etude: Allegro
      • 14. Humoresque: Allegro
      • 15. Elegie: Adagio
      • 16. Finale: Moderato

      Disc 6

      • 1. Moderato
      • 2. Allegro - Adagio
      • 3. Allegro Semplice
      • 4. Presto Agitato
      • 5. Allegro Con Fuoco
      • 6. Adagio
      • 7. Moderato Commodo
      • 8. Andante Maestoso

      Disc 7

      • 1. String Quartet No. 13 in B Flat Minor, Op. 138
      • 2. Allegretto
      • 3. Adagio
      • 4. Allegretto

      Disc 8

      • 1. Elegy: Adagio
      • 2. Serenade: Adagio
      • 3. Intermezzo: Adagio
      • 4. Nocturne: Adagio
      • 5. Funeral March: Adagio Molto
      • 6. Epilogue: Adagio
      • 7. Andante
      • 8. Agitato
      • 9. Pesante

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