Glazunov - The Shostakovich Quartet - Quartet & Quintet (MP3)

Glazunov Quartet & Quintet
Composer: Alexander Glazunov
Performer: Shostakovich Quartet
mp3 320 kbits
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Born in 1865 in St. Petersburg, Glazunov was a leading Russian composer of the generation after Tchaikovsky. Doubtless owing to his exceptional mastery of and attentiveness to form, exemplified by his exceptional grasp of counterpoint, he has been described as a Romantic Classicist and therefore compared to Brahms. Furthermore, since he remained faithful to a traditional nineteenth century musical idiom, while some of his contemporaries pursued varieties of Modernism, critics have described Glazunov's music as academic and formal. But Glazunov's oeuvre, which includes a wide range of genres, cannot be easily reduced to mere
critical formulas. ”


Tracks
Quintet for Two Violins, Viola and Two Cellos in A Major, Opus 39
1- Allegro
2- Scherzo. Allegro moderato
3- Andante sostenuto
4- Finale. Allegro moderato

Quartet No. 7 for Two Violins, Viola and Cello in C Major, Opus 107
5- Adiago. Allegro giocosa (Remembrance of the Past)
6- Andante affetuoso (The Breath of Spring)
7- Allegro scherzando (In the Mysterious Forest)
8- Moderato (Russian Festivity)

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