Kopelman Quartet - Shostakovich & Kissin: Works for String Quartet (2018)
BAND/ARTIST: Kopelman Quartet
- Title: Shostakovich & Kissin: Works for String Quartet
- Year Of Release: 2018
- Label: Nimbus Records
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless
- Total Time: 01:01:16
- Total Size: 273 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
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01. String Quartet No. 2, Op. 68: I. Overture Moderato con moto
02. String Quartet No. 2, Op. 68: II. Recitative & Romance Adagio
03. String Quartet No. 2, Op. 68: III. Waltz Allegro
04. String Quartet No. 2, Op. 68: IV. Theme with Variations Adagio-Moderato
05. Two Pieces for String Quartet (Elegy & Polka), Op. 36a: I. Elegy-Adagio
06. Two Pieces for String Quartet (Elegy & Polka), Op. 36a: II. Polka-Allegretto
07. Quartett: I. Adagio Liberamente
08. Quartett: II. Allegro inquieto
09. Quartett: III. Largo drammatico
10. Quartett: IV. Pensierosamente ma mautenendo strettamente
Shostakovich composed his String Quartet No. 2 in A major Op. 68 in just nineteen days during the summer of 1944 at a 'House of Rest and Creativity' in Ivanovo. Its allusions to Russian folk music made it a loyal response to the 'Great Patriotic War', but its incorporation of style elements of the sacred and klezmer music of Eastern European Jewry, historically oppressed within Russia and Eastern Europe, took its implications further afield. By including aspects of Jewish style, he may have desired to express his sympathy for the persecuted Jewish people, especially when news broke in 1944 of the atrocities carried out at the Treblinka concentration camp, built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during WWII. While staying in Batumi, Georgia in late October/early November 1931, he adapted in one evening two short movements from earlier works as a gift to the Jean Vuillaume Quartet. His beautiful Elegy for string quartet is derived from Katerina Ismailova’s aria 'The foal runs after the filly' in Act I, Scene 3 of Lady Macbeth, which he completed in its original version in 1932. The Polka derives from Shostakovich's first ballet The Golden Age Op. 22 (1929-30), which dramatizes the visit of a Soviet football team to a decadent Western European city. The footballers are subjected to various indignities, including imprisonment, but they are eventually freed when the working classes revolt against their bourgeois rulers and the ballet ends with a dance of solidarity between the footballers and the workers. Kissin's String Quartet is a fitting companion to Shostakovich's works on this disc, not least because both composers' musical language has much in common. The work is modernist, starkly constructed but deeply communicative and it comprises an eclectic mixture of styles that appertain to Kissin's life and career.
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01. String Quartet No. 2, Op. 68: I. Overture Moderato con moto
02. String Quartet No. 2, Op. 68: II. Recitative & Romance Adagio
03. String Quartet No. 2, Op. 68: III. Waltz Allegro
04. String Quartet No. 2, Op. 68: IV. Theme with Variations Adagio-Moderato
05. Two Pieces for String Quartet (Elegy & Polka), Op. 36a: I. Elegy-Adagio
06. Two Pieces for String Quartet (Elegy & Polka), Op. 36a: II. Polka-Allegretto
07. Quartett: I. Adagio Liberamente
08. Quartett: II. Allegro inquieto
09. Quartett: III. Largo drammatico
10. Quartett: IV. Pensierosamente ma mautenendo strettamente
Shostakovich composed his String Quartet No. 2 in A major Op. 68 in just nineteen days during the summer of 1944 at a 'House of Rest and Creativity' in Ivanovo. Its allusions to Russian folk music made it a loyal response to the 'Great Patriotic War', but its incorporation of style elements of the sacred and klezmer music of Eastern European Jewry, historically oppressed within Russia and Eastern Europe, took its implications further afield. By including aspects of Jewish style, he may have desired to express his sympathy for the persecuted Jewish people, especially when news broke in 1944 of the atrocities carried out at the Treblinka concentration camp, built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during WWII. While staying in Batumi, Georgia in late October/early November 1931, he adapted in one evening two short movements from earlier works as a gift to the Jean Vuillaume Quartet. His beautiful Elegy for string quartet is derived from Katerina Ismailova’s aria 'The foal runs after the filly' in Act I, Scene 3 of Lady Macbeth, which he completed in its original version in 1932. The Polka derives from Shostakovich's first ballet The Golden Age Op. 22 (1929-30), which dramatizes the visit of a Soviet football team to a decadent Western European city. The footballers are subjected to various indignities, including imprisonment, but they are eventually freed when the working classes revolt against their bourgeois rulers and the ballet ends with a dance of solidarity between the footballers and the workers. Kissin's String Quartet is a fitting companion to Shostakovich's works on this disc, not least because both composers' musical language has much in common. The work is modernist, starkly constructed but deeply communicative and it comprises an eclectic mixture of styles that appertain to Kissin's life and career.
Year 2018 | Classical | FLAC / APE
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