Dmitri Shostakovich in 1972(Erich Auerbach/Hulton Archive) Dmitri Shostakovich's career was plagued by censorship and heartbreak. His string quartets are perhaps his most intimate, interior ...

The Spanish quartet are recording all 15 of Shostakovich’s string quartets, this opening volume features the first five, all given refined performances The first volume in the Cuarteto Casals’ survey ...

Where: Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, MacLaurin Building, University of Victoria When: Feb. 3, 4, 6, 8 and 9. All concerts at 8 p.m. Pre-concert talks at 7 p.m. Tickets: $25 single ticket or $100 for ...

The venerable Borodin Quartet has something of an edge when it comes to performing the works of Shostakovich: the composer supervised its original players in the study and performance of each of his ...

(24) Preludes, Movements: No. 10. C sharp minor Dudok Quartet (24) Preludes, Movements: No 15. D flat major Dudok Quartet (24) Preludes, Movements: No 14. E flat minor Dudok Quartet (24) Preludes, ...

Polish-born composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg (also spelled Vaynberg) was of Jewish decent, and the only immediate member of his family to get out of Poland alive, following the Nazi occupation of 1939.

Has the Borodin Quartet inherited a musical style through its DNA? There have been many changes to the membership of the Quartet since it was founded 70 years ago, but its close association with ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Unlike his 15 symphonies, most of which are “public” in character, Shostakovich’s 15 quartets are notable for their ...

Four string players and a funeral: such a shorthand summary of perhaps the most stressful event in the extraordinary 70-year history of the Borodin Quartet tells only half the story. One of the ...

Next Friday, the Lafayette String Quartet, who have been artists-in-residence in the University of Victoria’s School of Music since 1991, will launch what will surely be the classical music event of ...