TCHAIKOVSKY: Complete Music for String Quartet

Pyotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

Complete Music for String Quartet

Five Early Pieces
String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 11
String Quartet No. 2 in F major, Op. 22
String Quartet No. 3 in E flat minor, Op. 30
String Quartet in B flat major
Adagio Cantabile (from Souvenir de Florence Op. 70)
Adagio Molto for string quartet and harp

Shostakovitch Quartet

2 CD set - For track information please see RRC1238 and RRC 1239

The Shostakovich Quartet understand the music well, not only setting intelligent tempos and phrasing with warmth and flexibility, but grasping the very elaborate harmonic structures...
Gramophone

Versions by the Shostakovich Quartet are also masterly...emanate from Moscow Radio...the early pieces dating from Composer's student days...not masterpieces but they are of interest as is anything that the master penned.
Penquin Guide