Shostakovich – String Quartet No.1
Dmitri Shostakovich began writing his first string quartet in 1938, completing it in just six weeks not long before his thirty second birthday. ...
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First Light
A comparison of the recordings of Dmitri Shostakovich's first String Quartet by the Borodin Quartet.
Early threads
My earliest serious attempts at some kind of engagement with the many-headed behemoth that is classical music probably date back to my late ...
An introduction
In many ways, it is difficult to explain the reasoning behind my starting this blog, or even to give any kind of explanation of what I intend it ...