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Music Mountain 2012, #4

From: Music Mountain
Series: Music Mountain 2012 Chamber Music Concerts
Length: 01:56:02

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This program was recorded July8, 2012 and features the St. Petersburg String Quartet; Alla Aranovskaya, Violin; Boris Vayner, Viola; Evegeny Zvonnikov, Violin; Leonid Shukayev, Cello; Assisting Artist Victoria Schwartzman, Piano; Peter Askim, Bass. Read the full description.

2001_hall_small This program was recorded July8, 2012 and features the St. Petersburg String Quartet;  Alla Aranovskaya, Violin; Boris Vayner, Viola; Evegeny Zvonnikov, Violin; Leonid Shukayev, Cello; Assisting Artist Victoria Schwartzman, Piano; Peter Askim, Bass.

PROGRAM; ALL RUSSIAN PROGRAM

STRING QUARTET # 1 IN C MAJOR, OPUS 49 by Dmitri Shostakovich

-Moderato

-Moderato

-Allegro molto

-Allegro

STRING QUARTET # 15 IN E FLAT MAJOR by Dmitri Shostakovich

-Elegy (Adagio)

-Serenade (Adagio)

-Intermezzo (Adagio)

-Nocturne (Adagio

-Funeral March (adagio moto)

-Epilogue (Adagio)

(Played without pause)

GRAND SEXTET FOR PIANO, STRING QUARTET & BASS IN E FLAT MAJOR by Mikhail Glinka

-Allegro

-Andante, leads into

-Allegro con Spirito

HISTORIC ENCORE:

Bloch, Piano Quintet #1 played by the St.Petersberg String Quartet and Volodmyr Vynnytsky, piano (partial)

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Piece Description

This program was recorded July8, 2012 and features the St. Petersburg String Quartet;  Alla Aranovskaya, Violin; Boris Vayner, Viola; Evegeny Zvonnikov, Violin; Leonid Shukayev, Cello; Assisting Artist Victoria Schwartzman, Piano; Peter Askim, Bass.

PROGRAM; ALL RUSSIAN PROGRAM

STRING QUARTET # 1 IN C MAJOR, OPUS 49 by Dmitri Shostakovich

-Moderato

-Moderato

-Allegro molto

-Allegro

STRING QUARTET # 15 IN E FLAT MAJOR by Dmitri Shostakovich

-Elegy (Adagio)

-Serenade (Adagio)

-Intermezzo (Adagio)

-Nocturne (Adagio

-Funeral March (adagio moto)

-Epilogue (Adagio)

(Played without pause)

GRAND SEXTET FOR PIANO, STRING QUARTET & BASS IN E FLAT MAJOR by Mikhail Glinka

-Allegro

-Andante, leads into

-Allegro con Spirito

HISTORIC ENCORE:

Bloch, Piano Quintet #1 played by the St.Petersberg String Quartet and Volodmyr Vynnytsky, piano (partial)

Transcript

PROGRAM NOTES; ALL RUSSIAN PROGRAM

INTRODUCTION:

For our 83rd season we wanted to bring to our audience the first and last works by various of the great composers as well as any compositions that were unique in a composer’s total output. This concert achieves both goals with the first and last of the 15 Shostakovich String Quartets and the Glinka Sextet for Piano, String Quartet and Bass, not only Glinka’s ‘s only work in this form but quite probably the only composition using this exact combination of instruments.

STRING QUARTET # 1 IN C MAJOR, OPUS 49; Dmitri Shostakovitch (1906-1975)

In his note to the complete Shostakovich Quartets, the Russian scholar and writer Dr. Sigrid Neef, had this, in part to say about the first quartet: The fifteen string quartets of Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) are entirely worthy of taking their place alongside his fifteen symphonies not only from a...
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Timing and Cues

Intro, Outro, and all introductions to pieces are self-contained. Timing sheet is available for download below.

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