Works
Chamber Instrumental Ensembles
String Quartet No. 6
Opus 101
1956 year
premiere:
07-October-1956
October 7, 1956. Leningrad. Glinka Small Hall; October 23, 1956 - Moscow in the Small Hall of the Conservatoire by the Beethoven Quartet.
first publication:
1957. Score, “Sovietskii kompozitor” Publishers, Moscow.
manuscripts:
Hand-written score is in the Russian State Archive for Literature and Art (Stack 2048, Inv. 2, Items 11 and 12).
Duration: 25'
String Quartet No. 6
In G Major
Op. 101
In G Major
Op. 101
I. Allegretto
II. Moderato con moto
III. Lento
IV. Lento
II. Moderato con moto
III. Lento
IV. Lento
The composer, half in jest, told close friends that he had written the Sixth Quartet as a gift to himself on his fiftieth birthday. Composition number - one hundred and first opus! - also contained a humorous hint: exceeded one hundred.
Quartet No. 6 was written in 1956 (August 7–31).
The premiere took place on October 7, 1956 in Leningrad, in the Small Hall named after M.I. Glinka, at the author's concert dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of Shostakovich. On October 23 of the same year, the quartet was played by the Beethoven Quartet in Moscow, in the Small Hall of the Conservatory.
Quartet No. 6 was written in 1956 (August 7–31).
The premiere took place on October 7, 1956 in Leningrad, in the Small Hall named after M.I. Glinka, at the author's concert dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of Shostakovich. On October 23 of the same year, the quartet was played by the Beethoven Quartet in Moscow, in the Small Hall of the Conservatory.
recordings:
- Borodin Quartet: M. Kopelman, A. Abramenkov, D. Shebalin, V. Berlinsky 1981 // Melody C10 19535 003, 1983
- Borodin Quartet: R. Dubinsky, Y. Alexandrov, D. Shebalin, V. Berlinsky 1967 // Melody C 01435-6, 1967