Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 5 - 8
Label: CEDILLE RECORDS Catalog: CDR127 Format: CD PACIFICA QUARTETThe excellent Pacifica Quartet, which has demonstrated its empathy with Shostakovich’s music in recent concert performances, offers electrifying interpretations of his Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Quartets. The group conveys every shade of Shostakovich’s extreme emotional palette in a set — Volume 1 of a series called “The Soviet Experience” — that also includes a stirring rendition of Miaskovsky’s String Quartet No. 13 in A minor. VIVIEN SCHWEITZER Price: $25.98 |