Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 12, Op. 133 (1968)

[@classicore22]

I love this quartet: warm and richly expressive, with one of Shostakovich's more triumphant endings.

[@erika6651]

Does it feel like a scarred victory to you?

[@classicore22]

@@erika6651 Possibly, but maybe less so than the triumphant ending of the Fifth Symphony-this may be more sincere

[@ceticobr]

@@classicore22 @erika6651 It builds up from a serene, but carefully optimistic section at around 23:30. Then it brings back some elements of fear with some of the material from the previous sections to follow it with the somewhat triumphant, but exhausted ending. This is how I feel the final sections of this wonderful piece.

[@jestemqiqi7647]

This wonderful quartet should be played more often!

[@johkkarkalis8860]

Thanks for the suggestion. For some unknown reason my Shostakovich string quartet library lacks the 6th and the 12th quartets. I will essay the 12th.

[@johnpcomposer]

The opening movement's mood is so wonderfully sanguine and ambiguous...

[@notaire2]

Wunderschöne und spannende Interpretation dieses einzigartig konstruierten doch perfekt komponierten Streichquartetts im veränderlichen Tempo mit seidigen doch gut phrasierten Tönen beider Violinen, mildem doch ebenso gut phrasiertem Ton der Bratsche und tiefem Ton des Violoncellos. Die intime und perfekt entsprechende Miteinanderwirkung zwischen den vier Virtuosen ist wahrhaft ergreifend. Wunderbar und atemberaubend zugleich!

[@ceticobr]

Each time I listen to this piece it gets better and better.