Jerusalem Quartet: Schostakowitsch IV

In the organizer's words:

Jerusalem Quartet

Alexander Pavlovsky: Violin

Sergei Bresler: Violin

Ori Kam: viola

Kyril Zlotnikov: Violoncello

(Beethovenfest Residence)

Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartets No. 3, No. 13 and No. 14

The fourth part of the cycle with the Jerusalem Quartet begins with String Quartet No. 3, in which Shostakovich offers one of his typical dance persiflage. In it, he seems to ridicule all the constraints of his life under the Soviet regime. The thirteenth quartet turns inwards as a one-movement meditation and reveals a desperate landscape of the soul. Dedicated to a violist friend, it ends with one of the most difficult viola solos in the highest register, the last note of which swells from deepest resignation to a final cry. The penultimate quartet, No. 14, concludes with its austere tonal language.