Schostakovich Quartet No. 8 - Jansen, McElravy, Rachlin, Maisky

Dmitri Shostakovich - Quartet for 2 Violins, Viola & Cello No. 8 in c minor op. 111

Janine Jansen - 1. Violin
Sarah McElravy - 2. Violin
Julian Rachlin - Viola
Mischa Maisky - Cello

Recorded live on August 11th, 2017 at the Julian Rachlin & Friends Festival in Mallorca, Spain.

Video by SLFILM, Sebastian Leitner
Sound recordist: Adam Lukas

[notemusic]

I love their dress code. We have a guy in formal suit, one lady in night gown, another lady just arrived from a coffee shop and the cello dude right out of disco

[piccolonaganini]

Yes, classical music is very relaxing. It helps people sleep and study.

[cauecampos]

you know the cover is good when Beethoven is on the cello

[ftntvoi]

Okay, here we have: a violinist, violist, cellist and a headbanger.

[maskless]

RIP to the multiple bow hairs hanging off of Jansen's bow

[AlexYaremenkotheonly]

I swear, Shostakovich whould be proud of this performance.

[bach]

Mozart string quartet:😍✨🥰😃💫
Shostakovitch:🥵⛓⚰️🌧👻👹💀

[bigworldsmallperson]

from wikipedia: 'Shostakovich's musical response to [a number of recent] personal crises was the Eighth String Quartet, composed in only three days. He subtitled the piece "To the victims of fascism and war", ostensibly in memory of the Dresden fire bombing that took place in 1945. Yet like the Tenth Symphony, the quartet incorporates quotations from several of his past works and his musical monogram. Shostakovich confessed to his friend Isaak Glikman, "I started thinking that if some day I die, nobody is likely to write a work in memory of me, so I had better write one myself."'

[dariazaldrizoti]

I FEEL LIKE IM A FLY ON THE FLOOR BEING WHACKED REPEATEDLY WITH A GUITAR AND IM LOVING IT

[robinpetersson]

The violinist on the left brings out the crazy in that piece beautifully. Amazing performance by all of them.

[olliemartinelli]

There is something so thrilling about Shostakovich. His music (especially symphonies) are so hard to understand musically, but when ur listening to it life you get a sense of intense emotion. I don’t understand how u compose something so dissonant, something that no one would even think to compose, and achieve such an effective and outstanding result. Absolute genius of a composer.

[rusT]

you know it's going to be killer when you see Stallone is playing the cello

[TatianaDadovich]

This is how this piece was meant to be played.

[wateryflavor]

I was so happy when I saw Twosetviolin show this recording! This is my favorite performance of this string quartet

[Desireyso]

Just perfect for a calm winter evening!!!

[ethangrieshop]

2:33 might be one of my favorite musical moments in all of chamber music.

[nna]

I can imagine Brett's face while looking at Janine

[emilym]

Jansen plays that violin like it’s an electric guitar. I feel like if you were there in the room with them you’d feel it reverberate in your bones.

[itzumetric]

Janine WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

I can listen to the beginning over and over forever. how does her sound not crunch with so much power???

[KH-mnbt]

Love this interpretation, wow. Please post the whole thing.