Shostakovich’s stunning tenth quartet from 1964 returns to the themes of conflict, aftermath and resolution which pervade many of his earlier quartets.Valencia is another in Caroline Shaw’s remarkable series of attractive short pieces for string quartet. It is the Valencia orange that is the hero here, made up, in her words, of Hundreds of brilliantly colored, impossibly delicate vesicles of juice, ready to explode. Siobhán Cleary’s new quartet takes its starting point from Reel du Pendu, a traditional Québécois reel.Beethoven’s first Rasoumovsky quartet is perhaps the most gloriously expansive of all his quartets.

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