The Soviet Experience
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The Soviet Experience Volume I
String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich and his Contemporaries
Pacifica Quartet
their sense of the musical argument is always impressive, shining through their objective but never over-slick approach. The Pacifica Quartet only seem to draw breath, like Shostakovich, between... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2012, Chamber Choice
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the Pacificas demonstrate strong empathy with the contrasting emotional narratives of each work and probe well beneath the surface simplicity of some of the writing...The Pacifica Quartet brilliantly... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2013, Disc of the month
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Special offer. The Soviet Experience: Pacifica Quartet
String Quartets in 4 Volumes
Pacifica Quartet
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Shostakovich's last three Quartet can seem bleak and uncomprising, yet the Pacifica Quartet manages to extract a much wider range of colours from this music than do many other interpreters.... — More…
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The Soviet Experience Volume II
String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich and his Contemporaries
Pacifica Quartet
The expected rhetoric and terror of Shostakovich's Soviet armour are here carefully measured with universal frameworks of great sonic beauty, whether fragile or strong: Beethoven, thank goodness,... — More…
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