String Quartet No. 3 in G major, Op. 26
String Quartet No. 5 in D minor, Op. 70
“The Fridays” cycle for String Quartet:
Prelude & Fugue (Book 1, No. 1)
Kuranta (Book II, No. 6)

“I commend this inexpensive disc to explorers of the string quartet who know and love their Smetana and late-Dvořák Quartets.” (MusicWeb)

“Glazunov's string quartets contain attractive music … a successful reconciliation between the two traditions of Borodin and Tchaikovsky” (c) Gramophone

[Quartet 5]: “one is tempted to believe this is the finest of the seven (quartets) … Shostakovich Quartet have great feeling for this music and play with real conviction” © Penguin Guide

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Recorded by the State Radio & TV Committee of the Moscow Central Recording Studio 1979 (1-4), 1975 (4-8), 1974 (9-10).