Eliot Quartet releases album with Shostakovich string quartets
On the 50th anniversary of Dmitri Shostakovich’s death (2025) and on the occasion of its tenth anniversary, the Eliot Quartet is dedicating itself to a cyclical performance of all 15 of the composer’s string quartets in the twelve-part concert series ‘DSCH & beyond’. The works are deliberately set in relation to pieces by other composers – from Bach, Haydn and Schubert to Gubaidulina and Pärt – in order to reveal exciting connections and invite the audience on an extraordinary journey of discovery.
This project has now resulted in the first album, which presents Shostakovich’s String Quartets No. 3 and No. 8 as well as the ‘hypothetical’ Quartet No. 16 ‘Au-delà d’une absence’ by Krzysztof Meyer.
Following the conclusion of the concert series at the Holzhausenschlösschen in Frankfurt am Main, the complete Shostakovich cycle will also be performed internationally, including in Austria at the Carinthian Summer (26 July – 2 August 2025), at the MITO Festival in Italy (September 2025) and in Canada (September 2025).
The album will be released on 7 February 2025 on the GENUIN label.
> To the album DSCH & Beyond (Genuin, Release Date 7 Feb. 2025)
