Shostakovich: String Quartet nr. 7

I'm happy to be pick up the thread again after a long spell. That interval is partly due to the holiday period and partly to the fact that I had to dig in to write my masterpaper for the urban planning program. That's now just been submitted and now we can free up some space in our mind for other things.

I haven't been doing any serious listening over that past period. The only little thing I have to mention is a short Shostakovich quartet (at about 15 minutes the Seventh is, in fact, his shortest) in a 1990 recording from Snape Maltings concert hall. Excellent reading of a typical piece of the mature Shostakovich, mixing brutal violence with a wry kind of simplicity.