Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 10, Op. 118 (1964)

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (Дми́трий Дми́триевич Шостако́вич, tr. Dmitriy Dmitrievich Shostakovich 25 September 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Soviet composer and pianist, and a prominent figure of 20th-century music. Please support my channel: String Quartet No. 10 in A flat, Op. 118 (1964) Dedicated to Moisey Vainberg (1919-1996) 1. Andante (0:00) 2. Allegretto furioso (4:11) 3. Adagio (8:16) 4. Allegretto (13:32) Fitzwilliam Quartet Details by Thomas May: Shostakovich’s Tenth Quartet was given its premiere in Moscow on November 20, 1964. Shostakovich dedicated it to one of his closest musical friends, the composer Moisey Vainberg, who had also incurred the perilous wrath of Stalin. (Vainberg had been imprisoned in 1953, the year of Stalin’s death.) At first glance, the familiar four-movement outline of the quartet follows a long-accustomed pattern. Yet much of the impact of this music comes from