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Session Report: the Carducci Quartet on recording Shostakovich

2024-04-05T10:31:00

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As the Carducci Quartet releases its third Shostakovich disc, Tom Stewart hears from the group’s violist and cellist about the extreme contrasts between the two featured pieces – the ninth and fifteenth string quartets

The Soviet Union in the 1970s was characterised by social, political and economic stagnation – or so the story goes. Dmitri Shostakovich, the country’s pre-eminent composer, completed his fifteenth and final string quartet in 1974, the year before he died…

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