Alexander Glazunov - String Quartet No. 1, 2, 3

Alexander Glazunov

 

Portrait of Glazunov by Ilya Repin, 1887

(1865 – 21 March 1936)

was a Russian composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Russian Romantic period.

He served as director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory between 1905 and 1928 and was instrumental in the reorganization of the institute into the Petrograd Conservatory, then the Leningrad Conservatory, following the Bolshevik Revolution. He continued heading the Conservatory until 1930, though he had left the Soviet Union in 1928 and did not return.The best-known student under his tenure during the early Soviet years was Dmitri Shostakovich.

 String Quartet No. 1, Op. 1 (1882)  

dedicated to Ludmilla Shestakow née Glinka

I. Andante moderato
II. Scherzo. Vivace
III. Andante
IV. Finale. Moderato
Shostakovich Quartet

String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10 (1884)

Dedication: Monsieur M. P. Belaieff (Mitrofan Belyayev, 1836–1904)

1. Allegro non troppo.
2. Scherzo. Allegro. - Allegro scherzando.(6:29)
3. Adagio molto.(11:52)
4. Finale. Allegro moderato (21:18).

Shostakovich Quartet

String Quartet No. 3, Op. 26 (1888) "Quatuor Slave"  

Dedicated to Nikolay Artsybushev

1. Moderato
2. Interludium: Moderato (5:38)
3. Alla Mazurka: Allegretto (10:50)
4. Finale: Une fête slave. (16:51)

Shostakovich Quartet