Music For Silenced Voices by Elizabeth Lesser
Shostakovich and His Fifteen String Quartets
An intimate portrait of Dmitri Shostakovich told through his fifteen string quartets, blending close listening, historical narrative, and personal reflection. It explores how these chamber works encode private emotion and public turmoil under Soviet repression—irony, fear, grief, and resistance—while drawing on performers’ insights and performance histories to reveal their enduring humanity and power.
- Published
- 2011
- Nationality
- American
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- Pages
- 300-380
- Original Language
- English
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