DESCRIPTION:
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September 1906 - 9 August 1975)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shostakovich

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Emerson String Quartet:

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Eugene Drucker, 1st Violin (Antonio Stradivari, Cremona 1686)

Philip Setzer, 2nd Violin (Nicolas Lupot, Orléans 1793)

Lawrence Dutton, Viola (Pietro Giovanni Mantegazza, Milano 1796)

David Finckel, Cello (Sam Zygmuntowizk, Brooklyn 1993)

Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 7 in F sharp minor (Op. 108) was composed in February and March 1960 in memory of his first wife Nina Vassilyevna Varzar, who died in December 1954. It was premiered in Leningrad by the Beethoven Quartet on 15 May 1960. It consists of three movements, performed without a break:

Allegretto - 0:00

Lento - 3:41

Allegro - Allegretto - [Adagio] - 6:30

(Live recordings from the ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL)