(1992) Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony, Op. 110 bis / Symphony For Strings, Op. 110 bis / Requiem For Strings, Op. 144 bis Gábor Takács-Nagy he lost his life in

he lost his life in a shipwreck in the English Channel on March 24th

followed by a Gloria subdivided into five parts) were borrowed from cantatas composed ten or twenty years previously

the Third Sonata has been one of Bohuslav Martinu's most popular works

though never far from the night

and fugato pieces in which imitative counterpoint is employed call forth Telemann’s German contrapuntal heritage

(1992) Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony, Op. 110 bis / Symphony For Strings, Op. 110 bis / Requiem For Strings, Op. 144 bis Gábor Takács-Nagy he lost his life inThe string quartet was Dimitri Chostakovitchs preferred form for self expression. He frequently referred to his quartets as symphonic quartets (quartet symphonies). The enormous emotional power which he gave this formation, the depth of contrast, the symphonic development and the transformation of musical ideas, all of this go into making his quartets into true symphonies for four instruments. It is significant that the composer himself approved