- Composer: Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September 1906 -- 9 August 1975)
- Performers: St. Lawrence String Quartet
- Year of recording: 2006
String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110, written in 1960.
00:00 - I. Largo
05:36 - II. Allegro molto
08:18 - III. Allegretto
12:39 - IV. Largo
18:36 - V. Largo
The String Quartet No. 8 is a complex, melancholy work written while Shostakovich was visiting Dresden, Germany, in 1960, where he was to provide music for the film Five Days-Five Nights. There, amid the rubble still visible from the Allied bombings during World War II, he was inspired to composed this quartet in remembrance of the victims of both Hitler and Stalin. The work is cast in five continuous movements and contains numerous thematic references to other works by Shostakovich.
- The first movement, marked Largo, opens with the now famous motto theme derived from the composer’s initials, DSCH (given in its German equivalents as D, E flat, C, and B n
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