Shostakovich/ Haas - String Quartets 7-9Shostakovich his music is a challenge each and every quartet sooner or later has to face up to. Yet when it comes to the Pavel Haas Quartet, it seems to be in their very DNA. The ensemble's unbridled, impulsive and, now and then, frenetic energy, sense for extreme contrast, ability to bring to bear gradation from breath taking subtlety and tenderness to symphonic drama are facets essentially incident to Shostakovich's music. Although composed in

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who envision the eight-track collection as the first of two eventual full-length releases encompassing the full scope of the new project

that perhaps we overlook too easily

he influenced musicians like Big Bill Broonzy

Engineered and mixed by Bill Metoyer at Track Records

The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996

The Ex headed back into the studio in early 1983

an album of feminist-rager lullabies for the new queer era

Johnson plays traditional fiddle tunes and southern Appalachian melodies

where the piano was tuned to a variety of temperaments

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