String Quartets

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...and a couple more folk-inspired works. Shirinsky was a violinist and composer who studied under Myaskovsky and went on to write a number of conservative piano pieces (including a 24 prelude book that has already been shared here) and at least six string quartets (not including this work).

Vasily Petrovich SHIRINSKY
Suite, on themes of Dagestan folk songs, for string quartet, op. 18; 1. Avar, 2. March, 3. Byul-Byul, 4. Kazi-Kumukh, 5. Avar, 6. A Suitable Evening, 7. Shepherd

Shirinsky - Suite, on themes of Dagestan folk songs, for string quartet, op. 18.pdf

Alexandra Nikolayevna PAKHMUTOVA
Plyasovaya, on the theme of a Russian folk song, for string quartet

Pakhmutova - Plyasovaya, on the theme of a Russian folk song, for string quartet.pdf

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Here's the first of six by one of the more well-known post-Shostakovich Soviet composers. To any who haven't yet checked out the Taneyev Quartet's performance of this cycle for the Northern Flowers label, it comes highly recommended.

Boris Alexandrovich TCHAIKOVSKY
String Quartet no. 1 (1954)

Tchaikovsky, B. - String Quartet no. 1 (1954).pdf

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Boris Alexandrovich TCHAIKOVSKY
String Quartet no. 2 (1961)

Tchaikovsky, B. - String Quartet no. 2 (1961).pdf

[Riodk]

Thank you for all these treasures Caostotale !

Riodk

[Timtin]

Thanks seconded!
http://www.russiancomposers.org.uk/page1343.html

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We've previously seen a pair of short works by this composer for quartet (Concert allegro and Andante). He's credited with writing at least two numbered quartets during the 1930s-40s. I'm not sure which one this is.

David LVOV-KOMPANEETS
String Quartet

Lvov-Kompaneets - String Quartet.pdf

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The bio for this composer can be found here:

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/ ... F87y7NoIGA

Pirumov was a student of Kabalevsky's and, alongside his composing, went on to teach other great composers like Elena Firsova, Efram Podgaits, Alisher Latif-Zade, etc...

I'm not sure if his first quartet (1954) was ever printed. His second one is available as a rather lengthy (124 pp.) miniature score, but it is not easy to find. Some other piano scores of his are available here, as is a symphony for string orchestra.

Alexander Ivanovich PIRUMOV
String Quartet no. 3 (1959)

Pirumov - String Quartet no. 3 (1959).pdf

String Quartet no. 4 (1967)

Pirumov - String Quartet no. 4 (1967).pdf

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Here's Golubev's fourth quartet, a recording of which can be heard at classical-music.online.net . Though composed in the 'thawing' Khrushchev era, this work adapts materials Golubev wrote during the 1930s, and as such sounds akin to the very safe idiom of earlier works like the harp quintet and the 2nd string quartet (see elsewhere on the forum). The quartets following these works and this would bring a lot more stylistic latitude, all the more reason it's unfortunate that the majority of his two-dozen-or-so quartets haven't yet been re-explored.

Yevgeny Kirillovich GOLUBEV
String Quartet no. 4, op. 44 (1960)

Golubev - String Quartet no. 4, op. 44 (1960).pdf

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And the fifth:

Yevgeny Kirillovich GOLUBEV
String Quartet no. 5, op. 48 (1961)

Golubev - String Quartet no. 5, op. 48 (1961).pdf

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Here's the second of seven numbered quartets from this composer. His first, a 1940s work based on Kyrgyz folk motives, was shared previously:

Mikhail Rafailovich RAUKHVERGER (Kyrgyzstan)
String Quartet no. 2 (1954)

Raukhverger - String Quartet no. 2 (1954).pdf