| Quatuor Danel | |
| Marc Danel | Violín |
| Gilles Millet | Violín |
| Vlad Bogdanas | Viola |
| Yovan Markovitch | Violonchelo |
In 1949, Shostakovich wrote the Fourth of his eventual 15 string quartets, with the Fifth following in 1952. His friend and colleague Weinberg’s Fourth Quartet is somewhat earlier, dating from 1945, at a period when he was living in Moscow.