Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8 with score Borodin String Quartet

Shostakovich s Dresden Quartet from 1960 scarcely needs an introduction. Its official dedication as a memorial to the victims of the 1945 Dresden fire bombing has long been supplanted by a focus on the obsessive use of Shostakovich s own DSCH motif (D Eb C B), plus its references to a convoy marching to Siberia from his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, and the revolutionary song Tortured by grievous unfreedom, as well as other works. 0:04 1st movement (Largo) 4:57 2nd movement (Allegro Molto) 7:48 3rd movement (Allegretto) 12:02 4th movement (Largo) 17:25 5th movement (Largo) This performance by the Borodin Quartet is from a studio recording made in Moscow, with the players Rostislav Dubinsky, Yaroslav Alexandrov, Dmitri Shebalin and Valentin