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String Quartet No. 8

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String Quartet No. 8 --- 1999

(James Keller is Program Editor of the New York Philharmonic and writes about music on staff at THE NEW YORKER) Recording: Harris Hall, Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, Colorado (7/98) Cover Photo: Shostakovich in his fifties, listening to a rehearsal of his music. Courtesy of Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, "Archiv Musikverlag Sikorski, Hamburg." ℗ © 1999 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Hamburg. Manufactured and Marketed by Universal Classics Group, a division of Universal Music Group. CD is made in USA. Printed in USA. This recording of the Eighth Quartet offers Shostakovich's most intensely autobiographical and personal testimony about the tyranny and suffering of his time. In response to the Nazi genocide of the Jews and the devastation of Europe from WWII bombing, Shostakovich dedicated this music to the victims of fascism and war. The disc is a preview of his complete cycle of 15 Quartets, recorded by the GRAMMY® Award-winning Emerson String Quartet, available on Deutsche Grammophon in January 2000 (DG 289 463 284-2; 5 CDs). (played without pause) ℗ © 1999 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Hamburg. Manufactured and Marketed by Universal Classics Group, a division of Universal Music Group. Made in USA. CD: Made in USA. Comes in a standard jewel case with 12-page booklet; liner notes in English only (ABOUT SHOSTAKOVICH The Emerson String Quartet in conversation with James Keller)