Written With The Hearts Blood

Music Director The New Century Chamber Orchestra With Stuart Canin (Artist), Dmitry Shostakovich (Composer), New Century Chamber Orchestra (Orchestra) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Orchestra: New Century Chamber Orchestra
• Composer: Dmitry Shostakovich
• Audio CD (November 18, 2009)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: New Albion Records
• ASIN: B000000R4C
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #434,975 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the best version i've heard, January 3, 2005

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Christopher J. Miles "break up the family" (syracuse/oswego, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Written With The Hearts Blood (Audio CD)

this (the 8th quartet) was the first piece of shostakovich's music i ever heard, and it is still my favorite. i bought the kronos quartet's black angels hoping to finally own an interpretation of it, and was thoroughly disappointed. kronos' interpretation is thin, tinny, and too fast; wholly unsatisfying.

this new albion edition however is incredible. they play the quartet with a very full sound for just a string quartet. its paranoia is tangible, and this rendering of the 8th quartet is one of the best pieces of compositional music iv'e heard. i absoloutely love this record and thoroughly recommend it.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars if you like shostakovich, get this, July 23, 1999

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Jim Prell (Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Written With The Hearts Blood (Audio CD)

I am an avid DSCH fan. The Chamber Symphony (which is just the orchestration of the Eight Quartet) is excellent. True, it isn't as bold an interpretation as that of the Kronos Quartet, but it's still great. The second of the octets is perhaps the most interesting DSCH I've heard yet. He wrote it at age nineteen or so, and it shares the brilliance of many of his later semi-atonal, percussive string works. A MUST BUY!!!