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Shostakovich

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Second of seven programmes of the complete string quartets played by BORODIN STRING QUARTET The Leningrad Conservatoire dismissed contemporary music as 'fairground charlatanism The greatest 'charlatans' of course were Stravinsky,
Schoenberg and Hindemith. It was only much later that I came to understand the great talent, originality and taste of these 'seditious' composers. (1938) Quartet No 2, in A, Op 68
10.40* Interval Reading
10.50* Quartet No 12, in D flat, Op 133; Elegy and Polka
(Given on 26 February in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London)

Source: Radio Times

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