After having suffered the attacks of the regime at the end of the 1930s, Shostakovich sought new paths of expression in chamber music. The string quartet then became his most faithful confidant. For this first volume of his complete set, the Cuarteto Casals offers us a reading of profound humanity of these five foundational opuses.
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