The piece was written shortly after two traumatic events in the life of the composer: the first presentation of debilitating muscular weakness that would eventually be diagnosed as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and his reluctant joining of the Communist Party. According to the score, it is dedicated "to the victims of fascism and the war"; his son Maxim interprets this as a reference to the victims of all totalitarianism, while his daughter Galina says that he dedicated it to himself, and that the published dedication was imposed by the Russian authorities. Shostakovich's friend, Lev Lebedinsky, said that Shostakovich thought of the work as his epitaph and that he planned to commit suicide around this time.
| Date of composition | 1960 (Written in three days (12–14 July 1960)) |
| Premiered | 1960 in Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Dedicated to | Dedicated "to the victims of fascism and war" |
| Type | String Quartet |
| Tonality | C Minor |
| Catalogue | Op. 110 |
| Approx. duration | 20 minutes |
| Instruments | String Quartet |
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Dmitri Shostakovitch: Chamber Symphony in C minor, Op. 110a
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Dmitri Chostakovitch: Quatuor à cordes n°8 en do mineur, Op. 110 Dmitrij Šostakovič: Quartetto d'archi n. 8 in do minore, Op. 110 Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Schostakowitsch: Streichquartett Nr. 8 c-moll, Op. 110 |
Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet no. 8 in C minor, op. 110 - Largo - Allegro molto - Allegretto - Largo - Largo CAMERATA QUARTET Włodzimierz Promiński — first violin Andrzej Kordykiewicz — second violin Piotr Reichert — viola Roman Hoffmann — cello This video was recorded during the chamber concert on October, 1 2014, which took place in the Concert Hall of Frederic Chopin University of Music in Warsaw - Poland
D. Shostakovich, String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110, performed at the Meadowmount School of Music, August 10, 2015 by Takumi Taguchi and Phoenix Avalon, violins; Jonathan Wu, viola; Jiho Choi, cello String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110 Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975) Takumi Taguchi, violin Phoenix Avalon, violin Jonathan Wu, viola Jiho Choi, cello
Played by the Borodin Quartet.
00:00 Largo 05:07 Allegro molto 08:12 Allegretto 12:36 Largo 17:43 Largo 1st violin: Eugene Drucker 2nd violin: Philip Setzer Viola: Lawrence Dutton Cello: Paul Watson This performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s 8th String Quartet in C minor, Op. 110, by the Emerson String Quartet took place on December 16, 2018 on Parlance Chamber Concerts at West Side Presbyterian Church in Ridgewood, NJ. *Artistic Director Michael Parloff’s pre-performance introduction to Dmitri Shostakovich’s 8th String Quartet can be viewed at https://youtu.be/hTMp1bEcrEc Michael Parloff’s full lecture at Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society about Shostakovich’s 8th String quartet can be viewed at https://youtu.be/9tZ28pM14oY?t=635 Parlance Chamber Concerts (Michael Parloff, Artistic Director) presents 8 concerts per season featuring world-class performers. Tickets and information at http://www.parlancechamberconcerts.org Video produced by Darryl Kubian A/V Production by Indigo Fox Media 2018©Parlance Chamber Concerts
MOSAIC Ensemble based on Five Egyptian Musicians, all of them are members of the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra. Islam El Hefnawy (violin) Mohamed Sharara (violin) Islam Abd El Aziz (viola) Hassan El Molla Houssam Haggag (Double bass) The main idea of MOSAIC Ensemble is to perform both Arabic and western music. The concert,s programe includes a very nice Arabic piece composed by Khaled Shokry -one of the well known Egyptian composers- and two more wonderful pieces composed by Dvorak and Shostakovich MOSAIC Ensemble Video created by Alex Klim - www.alexklim.com Sound recording by Gaston Matthijsse