String Quartet No 8 in C minor, Op 110 (Shostakovich)

from Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos 4, 8 & 11 (SIGCD418)

1 Largo [5'01]
2 Allegro molto [2'48]
3 Allegretto [4'19]
4 Largo [5'28]
5 Largo [3'55]

21 minutes 31 seconds 5 tracks

'All central to the repertoire irrespective of other associations, these works nevertheless make powerful extramusical statements. The Fourth (1949) embraces Jewish inflections in the face of rising S ...