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Category: Music
Music:
String Quartet No. 3, Move. 3
Composer:
Dimitri Shostakovich
Performers:
Emerson String Quartet:
Philip Setzer - violin
Eugene Drucker - violin
Lawrence Dutton - viola
David Finckel - cello
Notes:
copy/pasted from Wikipedia:
1) Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (Russian....25 September [O.S. September 12] 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Russian composer of the Soviet period and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century.
After a period influenced by Prokofiev and Stravinsky....Shostakovich developed a hybrid style,....juxtaposed a wide variety of trends, including the neo-classical style (showing the influence of Stravinsky) and a form of post-romantic style (after Mahler)....His works frequently include sharp contrasts and elements of the grotesque.
Shostakovich rose to fame in the Soviet Union under the patronage of Leon Trotsky's chief of staff Mikhail Tukhachevsky, but later had a complex and difficult relationship with the Stalinist bureaucracy, suffering two official denunciations of his music, in 1936 and 1948, and the periodic banning of his work. At the same time, he received a number of accolades and state awards and served in the Supreme Soviet of RSFSR. Despite the official controversy, his works were popular and well received.
Click here for Dmitri Shostakovich bio.
2) Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 3 in F major (Op. 73) was composed in 1946 after his Symphony No. 9 was censured by Soviet authorities. It was premiered in Moscow by the Beethoven Quartet, to whom it is dedicated, in December 1946. The work was furiously denounced due to the horrors the music portrays and because it ends on a very ambiguous, inconclusive, fashion. Some critics went as far as accusing Shostakovich of hiding coded subversive messages against Stalin within it.
3) The Emerson String Quartet is a renowned New York–based string quartet in residence at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Previously the Quartet was in residence at The Hartt School. Formed in 1976, they have released more than twenty albums and won eight Grammy Awards. Both violinists in the quartet were students of the noted violinist Oscar Shumsky. Formed in the bicentennial year of the United States, the Emerson String Quartet took its name from the great American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. Violinists Drucker and Setzer alternate as first and second violinists.
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