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    • Dmitri Shostakovich

    • String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110 (1960)

    • G Schirmer Inc (USA, Canada and Mexico only)
      Le Chant Du Monde (France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Andorra, French speaking African countries)

    G Schirmer is the publisher of the work in the USA, Canada and Mexico only. Le Chant du Monde is the publisher of the work in France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Andorra, French speaking African countries.
    arr. Rudolf Barhsai

    • 2vn, va, vc
    • 19 min

    Programme Note

    Dedicated to the memory of the victims of fascism and war.

    First performance: 2 October 1960, Leningrad, Glinka Concert Hall Beethoven String Quartet (Dmitri Tsyganov, Vasili Shirinsky, Vadim Borisovsky, Sergei Shirinsky).

    Also known as ‘Dresden Quartet’. Apart from Shostakovich’s initials DSCH which serve as musical motto, several themes from other works by the composer are quoted in the present work: Symphonies No. 1, Op. 10, No. 5, Op. 47 and No. 8, Op. 65, Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra No. 1, Op. 107, Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 67, ‘The Young Guard’, Op. 75a (No. 6), and Katerina’s ‘Seryoscha, My Love’ from Act IV of ‘Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District’, Op. 29.

    Moreover the second theme from Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, Op. 74 (first movement) and the Funeral March from Richard Wagner’s ‘Götterdämmerung’ are cited.

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    1. Largo (attacca)
    2. Allegro molto (attacca)
    3. Allegretto (attacca)
    4. Largo (attacca)
    5. Largo