Belcea Quartet & Piotr Anderszewski - Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 3 & Piano Quintet (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Time - 69:07 minutes | 622 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet
Formed in 1994 at the Royal College of Music in London, the Belcea Quartet has recorded the complete string quartets of Beethoven, Brahms, Bartók and Britten. For this new Alpha release it has chosen two works by one of the leading composers of twentieth-century chamber music, Dmitri Shostakovich. The Quartet no.3, of historic importance, was initially censured by the Soviet regime, then revised by Shostakovich for its first performance in 1946; the refined playing of the Belcea Quartet brings out all its contours.