Cheap Shostakovich: String Quartets (Complete), Vol. 4 (Music) (Gyorgy Eder, Dmitry Shostakovich, Eder Quartet, Sandor Papp, Janos Selmeczy, Peter Szuts) Price

Shostakovich's orchestral and instrumental works often blend traditional classical with Baroque musical forms. The second quartet has four movements like a traditional symphony or string quartet, but the forms of those movements are all closely related to the Baroque dance suite: there's an impressive overture, followed by an operatic recitative and romance, a lively waltz, and a final theme and variations. Quartet No. 12, by contrast, is in two large movements, a short opening in moderate tempo, and a huge finale nearly 20 minutes long. It's a much darker piece than the Second Quartet, though both are very well played and recorded as part of this fine survey of all the Shostakovich Quartets. Budget price, too. --David Hurwitz

ARTIST:	Gyorgy Eder, Dmitry Shostakovich, Eder Quartet, Sandor Papp, Janos Selmeczy, Peter Szuts
CATEGORY:	Music
MANUFACTURER:	Naxos
TYPE:	Classical, Chamber, Quartet for Four String Instruments, Classical Music, Classical Composers
MEDIA:	Audio CD
TRACKS:	String Quartet No. 2 In A Major, Op. 68: Overture: Moderato con moto, String Quartet No. 2 In A Major, Op. 68: Recitativo And Romance: Adagio, String Quartet No. 2 In A Major, Op. 68: Valse: Allegro, String Quartet No. 2 In A Major, Op. 68: Theme With Variations: Adagio-Moderato con moto, String Quartet No. 12 In D Flat Major, Op. 133: Moderato - Allegretto, String Quartet No. 12 In D Flat Major, Op. 133: Allegretto
# OF MEDIA:	1
UPC:	730099597524