Pavel Haas Quartet – Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 2, 7 & 8 (2019) FLAC

FLAC tracks | Classical | 01:10:54 | 314 Mb

Shostakovich – his music is a challenge each and every quartet sooner or later has to face up to. Yet when it comes to the Pavel Haas Quartet, it seems to be in their very DNA. The ensemble’s unbridled, impulsive and, now and then, frenetic energy, sense for extreme contrast, ability to bring to bear gradation from breath-taking subtlety and tenderness to symphonic drama are facets essentially incident to Shostakovich’s music.

Although composed in safety, away from the horrors of World War II, String Quartet No. 2 (1944) reflects the suffering, uncertainty and anxiety of living at the time (the lyrical recitative of the second movement, as performed by Veronika Jarůšková, the first violin). Both dating from 1960, String Quartets Nos. 7 and 8 are truly intimate confessions. While Shostakovich dedicated the former (the shortest piece of the cycle) to the memory of his first wife, he most likely intended the latter as his own epitaph, at the time when be hovered on the thin line between life and death. Attesting to the autobiographical nature of String Quartet No. 8 is the opening DSCH motif, Shostakovich’s musical signature, which reoccurs throughout the piece.
Tracklist:
01. String Quartet No. 2 in A-Sharp Major, Op. 68: I. Ouverture. Moderato con moto
02. String Quartet No. 2 in A-Sharp Major, Op. 68: II. Recitative and Romance. Adagio
03. String Quartet No. 2 in A-Sharp Major, Op. 68: III. Waltz. Allegro
04. String Quartet No. 2 in A-Sharp Major, Op. 68: IV. Theme with Variations. Adagio-Moderato con moto
05. String Quartet No. 7 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 108: No. 1, Allegretto
06. String Quartet No. 7 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 108: No. 2, Lento
07. String Quartet No. 7 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 108: No. 3, Allegro-Allegretto
08. String Quartet No. 8 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 110: No. 1, Largo
09. String Quartet No. 8 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 110: No. 2, Allegro molto
10. String Quartet No. 8 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 110: No. 3, Allegretto
11. String Quartet No. 8 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 110: No. 4, Largo
12. String Quartet No. 8 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 110: No. 5, Largo

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