Fourth Quartet DDD SHOSTAKOVICH - Classical Music - …€¦ · · 2016-01-29Rudolf Barshai’s...
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Rudolf Barshai’s professional association with Shostakovich lasted until the composer’s death. The success of his five transcriptions and arrangements of Shostakovich’s string quartets was a catalyst for re-workings of nearly the entire cycle from string ensemble to full orchestra. The essential naivety and understatement of the First Quartet is here discreetly underlined by the larger string ensemble. This contrasts with the broodingly autobiographical Eighth Quartet, the searing emotions of which have made it the best known of Shostakovich’s quartets. Barshai’s transcription of the Fourth Quartet is his most ambitious and interventionist, the addition of winds and percussion emphasising the work’s symphonic dimension. DDD 8.573466 7 47313 34667 7 & 2016 Naxos Rights US, Inc. Booklet notes in English Made in Germany www.naxos.com Dmitry SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-1975) Kiev Soloists • Dmitry Yablonsky Chamber Symphony for Strings in C major, Op. 49a ‘Eine kleine Symphonie’ (1938/1995) 15:06 (String Quartet No. 1, arr. Rudolf Barshai) 1 Moderato 4:39 2 Moderato 4:48 3 Allegro molto 2:26 4 Allegro 3:13 Chamber Symphony for Strings in C minor, Op. 110a (1960) 19:54 (String Quartet No. 8, arr. Rudolf Barshai) 5 Largo 4:28 6 Allegro molto 2:48 7 Allegretto 4:21 8 Largo 5:01 9 Largo 3:16 Chamber Symphony in D major, Op. 83a (1949/1990) 24:12 (String Quartet No. 4, arr. Rudolf Barshai) 0 Allegretto 4:37 ! Andantino 5:33 @ Allegretto – 5:15 # Allegretto 8:47 Recorded at the Concert Hall of the National Radio of Ukraine, Kiev, on 19th and 20th October, 2014 Engineer: Anton Sasko • Editors: Anton Sasko and Yevhenii Maximenko • Booklet notes: Richard Whitehouse Publishers: Sikorski Musikverlage, Hamburg (tracks 1-4, 10-13); Edition Peters (tracks 5-9) Cover: Dmitry Shostakovich and Rudolf Barshai at a rehearsal for the orchestrated version of Six Romances on Verses by English Poets in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, 29th November, 1973 Photograph by V. Akhlomov / DSCH Archive, Moscow Playing Time 59:14 SHOSTAKOVICH: Three Chamber Symphonies NAXOS SHOSTAKOVICH: Three Chamber Symphonies NAXOS 8.573466 8.573466
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Rudolf Barshai’s professional association with Shostakovich lasted until the composer’s death. The success ofhis five transcriptions and arrangements of Shostakovich’s string quartets was a catalyst for re-workings ofnearly the entire cycle from string ensemble to full orchestra. The essential naivety and understatement of theFirst Quartet is here discreetly underlined by the larger string ensemble. This contrasts with the broodinglyautobiographical Eighth Quartet, the searing emotions of which have made it the best known of Shostakovich’squartets. Barshai’s transcription of the Fourth Quartet is his most ambitious and interventionist, the additionof winds and percussion emphasising the work’s symphonic dimension. DDD
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Chamber Symphony for Strings in C major, Op. 49a ‘Eine kleine Symphonie’ (1938/1995) 15:06(String Quartet No. 1, arr. Rudolf Barshai) 1 Moderato 4:392 Moderato 4:483 Allegro molto 2:264 Allegro 3:13
Chamber Symphony for Strings in C minor, Op. 110a (1960) 19:54(String Quartet No. 8, arr. Rudolf Barshai)5 Largo 4:286 Allegro molto 2:487 Allegretto 4:218 Largo 5:019 Largo 3:16
Chamber Symphony in D major, Op. 83a (1949/1990) 24:12(String Quartet No. 4, arr. Rudolf Barshai)0 Allegretto 4:37! Andantino 5:33@ Allegretto – 5:15# Allegretto 8:47
Recorded at the Concert Hall of the National Radio of Ukraine, Kiev, on 19th and 20th October, 2014Engineer: Anton Sasko • Editors: Anton Sasko and Yevhenii Maximenko • Booklet notes: Richard Whitehouse
Publishers: Sikorski Musikverlage, Hamburg (tracks 1-4, 10-13); Edition Peters (tracks 5-9)Cover: Dmitry Shostakovich and Rudolf Barshai at a rehearsal for the orchestrated version of Six Romances
on Verses by English Poets in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, 29th November, 1973Photograph by V. Akhlomov / DSCH Archive, Moscow
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