Dmitri Shostakovich in 1972(Erich Auerbach/Hulton Archive) Dmitri Shostakovich's career was plagued by censorship and heartbreak. His string quartets are perhaps his most intimate, interior ...

String Quartet No. 13 Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer Fitzwilliam String Quartet String Quartet No. 14 Fitzwilliam String Quartet Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer String Quartet No. 15 Dmitri Shostakovich, ...

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It’s not even 249 years after Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth — Dec. 16, 1770 — yet programmatic celebrations of his 250th anniversary have already begun. Beethoven’s symphonies, sonatas and concertos ...

Where: Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, MacLaurin Building, University of Victoria When: Feb. 3, 4, 6, 8 and 9. All concerts at 8 p.m. Pre-concert talks at 7 p.m. Tickets: $25 single ticket or $100 for ...

The Alexander String Quartet will complete its two-year survey of the complete cycle of the 15 string quartets composed by Russian/Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich in the next few months, with ...

Dmitri Shostakovich once told a friend that he planned to compose 24 string quartets, one in each of the major and minor keys. He completed only 15, but they span his entire mature period as a ...

The Carduccis maintained astonishing intensity throughout the complete cycle of Shostakovich’s 15 string quartets – performed in a single day Most ensembles gung-ho enough to attempt a complete cycle ...

Da Camera of Houston presents the first two programs in an extended concert-series in which the Jerusalem String Quartet will perform all 15 of the Quartets by Russia’s most important composer of the ...

Next Friday, the Lafayette String Quartet, who have been artists-in-residence in the University of Victoria’s School of Music since 1991, will launch what will surely be the classical music event of ...