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Mayer’s quartets reveal a creative spirit

E Mayer

String Quartets in G major, A major and E minor

Constanze Quartett

CPO 555600-2 71:41 mins

A ‘diary, the story of his soul’, was how Shostakovich’s string quartets weregaining public performances, she turned to chamber music. The string quartet offered, perhaps, a place for her to forget the restrictions of 19th-century society.

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