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Shocked that this thread skipped over Dmitri's birthday. Shocked I tell you!
Just finished one of my labor-of-love discographies: A Survey of Shostakovich String Quartet Cycleshttp://ionarts.blogspot.com/2018/10/a-survey-of-shostakovich-string-quartet.html
Nice reading! One small error I noticed is in your write-up at the bottom for the new Borodin/Decca set: in the second sentence, you note that the set includes the "piano quartet". But should be piano quintet. Just trying to be neighborly.
Following some discussion on the forum I found a cheap second-hand copy of this. I find it excellent and as deeply moving (especially the Largo) as any other performance I know. Brilliant recording as well. I'd rate this with the recordings by Previn (EMI version), Haitink, and Slatkin as a top version:
Excellent.
This set contains one of the greatest performances I have heard of Shostakovich's Symphony 4. Worth having the set (which was very well reviewed in Gramophone a couple of months ago), for that alone. I managed to get an inexpensive second-hand copy of the box:
Thank you for the tip. I just ordered it off Amazon MP.
I keep telling myself I do not need another recording of the mighty Op. 43.So I may hold off until the spring . . . .
It was not just for the DSCH
Thanks! (I think . . .)
[...] I didn't like it but might be thinking of a different recording!