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| Composer | Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975) |
| Period | Early 20th century |
| Work type | Chamber |
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LondonArod Quartet & Danel Quartet: String Octets
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Shostakovich, Mendelssohn, Enescu
Arod Quartet; Quatuor Danel
HamburgMaat Saxophone Quartet
Rivier, Boulanger, Bosmans, Shostakovich, Vrebalov, Weill, Gershwin
Maat Saxophone Quartet; Daniel Ferreira; Catarina Gomes; Pedro Silva
BerlinJanine Jansen and the Karajan-Akademie
Beethoven, Shostakovich, Bartók
Karajan-Akademie der Berliner Philharmoniker; Janine Jansen
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The Scottish Ensemble rounds off Dundee residency with Russian style
Dundee is on the final shortlist for the UK City of Culture 2017, and the final bid was given a rousing send-off by a large crowd in Tay Square outside the Caird Hall on 30 September.
Re-defining the string quartet? Scottish Ensemble at the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh
The Scottish Ensemble’s tagline, “re-defining the string orchestra” could, in this particular programme, have justified the additional claim “re-defining the quartet”. The only work in this imaginatively conceived, four-item programme not written for quartet (or double quartet) was the opening Musical Postcard no. 4 by the young British composer Martin Suckling.