Vilabertran Festival 3/4
String quartets by Mozart and Shostakovich played by the Casals Quartet.
Sarah Walker introduces string quartets by Mozart and Shostakovich, written some two hundred years apart, part of a concert given by the Casals Quartet at last year's Vilabertran Festival.
Mozart's wasn't responsible for the nickname given to his B flat quartet, this comes from a general feeling of vigour and the outdoors in its first movement. Shostakovich's eighth quartet has no such bounciness, rather a sombre intensity made all the more personal by the composer's use of a theme made up of his own initials: DSCH (in German notation D - E flat - C - B).
Mozart: Quartet in B flat, K.458 鈥楬unt鈥�
Shostakovich: Quartet No.8 in C minor, Op.110
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Quartet in B flat major K.458 (Hunt) for strings
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Dmitry Shostakovich
String Quartet No. 8 In C Minor Op.110
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Franz Schubert
Quartet in E flat, D.87 - Scherzo
Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
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- Thu 9 Jul 2020 13:00大象传媒 Radio 3