Heavy Metal on Strings: Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8 [DOVER QUARTET]

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String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, 2nd movement by Dmitri Shostakovich, performed live by Dover Quartet.

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Dover Quartet:
Joel Link, violin
Bryan Lee, violin
Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola
Camden Shaw, cello

DOVER BIO:

“…the Dover Quartet players have it in them to become the next Guarneri String Quartet – they’re that good.” – The Chicago Tribune

Hailed as “the next Guarneri Quartet” (Chicago Tribune) and “the young American string quartet of the moment,” (New Yorker), the Dover Quartet catapulted to international stardom in 2013, following a stunning sweep of all prizes at the Banff Competition and has since become one of the most in-demand ensembles in the world. In addition to its faculty role as the inaugural Penelope P. Watkins Ensemble in Residence at the Curtis Institute of Music, the Dover Quartet holds residencies with the Kennedy Center, Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University, Artosphere, and the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival. Among the group’s honors are the Avery Fisher Career Grant, Chamber Music America’s Cleveland Quartet Award, and Lincoln Center’s Hunt Family Award. The Dover Quartet has won grand and first prizes at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition and fourth prize at the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition.

In the 2020–21 season, the Dover Quartet debuts with Berkeley’s Cal Performances and embarks on its first-ever tour of Latin America, both of which will be conducted using virtual technology. Tour performances include collaborations with the Escher Quartet and harpist Bridget Kibbey. The quartet’s first volume of the complete Beethoven string quartet cycle, which focuses on the composer’s Op. 18 quartets, was released by Cedille Records in September 2020.

Among its many notable performances in 2019–20, the Dover Quartet made its Zankel Hall debut in collaboration with Emanuel Ax and returned to London’s Wigmore Hall. Other recent collaborators include Inon Barnaton, Ray Chen, Edgar Meyer, Anthony McGill, the late Peter Serkin, and Roomful of Teeth. Equally comfortable with repertoire from a range of eras, the quartet has worked with some of the world’s foremost living composers, including Caroline Shaw and Mason Bates.

Cedille Records released the Dover Quartet’s Voices of Defiance: 1943, 1944, 1945 in October 2017; and an all-Mozart debut recording in the 2016–17 season, featuring the late Michael Tree, violist of the Guarneri Quartet. Voices of Defiance, which explores works written during World War II by Viktor Ullman, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Simon Laks, was lauded upon its release as “undoubtedly one of the most compelling discs released this year” (Wall Street Journal).

The Dover Quartet draws from the lineage of the distinguished Guarneri, Cleveland, and Vermeer quartets. Its members studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, where they were mentored extensively by Shmuel Ashkenasi, James Dunham, Norman Fischer, Kenneth Goldsmith, Joseph Silverstein, Arnold Steinhardt, Michael Tree, and Peter Wiley. It was at Curtis that the Dover Quartet formed, and its name pays tribute to Dover Beach by fellow Curtis alumnus Samuel Barber.

The Dover Quartet is the Penelope P. Watkins Ensemble in Residence at Curtis. Their faculty residency integrates teaching and mentorship, a robust international performance career, and a cutting-edge digital presence. With this innovative residency, Curtis reinvigorates its tradition of maintaining a top professional string quartet on its faculty, while providing resources for the ensemble to experiment with new technologies and engage audiences through digital means.

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[christopherhurray]

I will always love the calm and relaxing style of Shostakovich's work.

[Examantel]

This is the first recording I've heard where the viola in her solo actually digs into it with just as much energy as when the movement first starts. Most other quartets seem to get tired by this point.

[prettypuff]

0:54 this transition can get “muddy” in other versions.

This is best I’ve heard this piece.

[irispaiva]

This really captures Shostakovich's feeling of having the secret police break down your front door

[aaronchan]

The first violin was headbanging because of how heavy this metal was lol.

[chknoodle]

Cello line starting at 1:15 slaps so hard!

[Sean-Ax]

It's like tech-death without the drums; why no metal drummer on YouTube has taken up this piece is beyond me. There needs to be a drum cover of this particular interpretation.

[mistermoog]

Wow! Shostakovich 8th is, for me, the greatest string quartet. After it lulls me with the cantor of its soft, pastoral opening, this movement is like holding on to a horse that bolts, galloping wildly as I hold on for dear life, yet utterly overwhelmed with joy. And I love how this performance turns it right the way to eleven. Exhilarating!

[Faith_Bartos]

(As a violist) Love how the violist really dug in and played with so much passion from beginning to end without even skipping a beat! Great work!!

[out_of_the_BOX]

This is the clearest, fastest, most chaotically beautiful interpretation of this song ive heard.

[maggiepie]

As a metalhead, my brain is conditioned differently, so this is quite pleasant and relaxing. 😂

[waidi]

This piece makes me feel all the emotions, anger, anxiety, sadness, and on top of all that i get goosebumps through out the whole piece. So amazing work of art.

[enopio_O]

I genuinely cannot breath while watching this video. How intense! My heart was twitching all the time till the last note.

[ericN]

No words can´t describe this performance and the genius of Shostakovich. BRAVO!

[RG]

0:53 was playing at full blast in my ears and I kept it like that. It legit scared me

[Flopperhead]

this is by far my favorite recording/rendition of No. 8 mv. 2

[ybsyexo]

This is the best quartet I have ever seen and heard on YouTube. The four of them are on the same level, which is very rare! Hope to stick to it, you are the first quartet of YouTube!

[OldsReporter]

How did they do it before modern technology? I mean flipping the pages! This music is so metal it's almost non-stop. How did they have time to flip the pages?

[christopherpericolosi-king]

Excellent performance! Its hard to channel Shostakovich, because of his.. extreme passion. Great job by these four!

[Pretzels]

The performers, the recording quality, the camera work, the setting, all of this is perfect. We should be paying to see this!