SHOSTAKOVICH - String Quartets - The Beethoven String Quartet - 5 LPs Box Set

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The Beethoven Quartet was a string quartet founded between 1922 and 1923 as The Moscow Conservatory Quartet  by graduates of the Moscow Conservatory: violinists Dmitri Tsyganov and Vassily Shirinsky, violist Vadim Borisovsky and cellist Sergei Shirinsky (half brother of Vassily).
 In 1931 they changed their name from The Moscow Conservatory Quartet to The Beethoven Quartet.
 In the course of its fifty-year history, The Quartet performed more than six hundred works and recorded more than two hundred Russian and international classical works.
From 1938 it collaborated closely with the composer Dmitri Shostakovich and premiered thirteen of his fifteen string quartets, Nos. 2 through 14. He dedicated his third and fifth quartets to The Beethoven Quartet, while later quartets were dedicated individually to the members: Quartet No. 11 to the memory of Vassily Shirinsky, Quartet No. 12 to Tsyganov, Quartet No. 13 to Borisovsky, and Quartet No. 14 to Sergei Shirinsky.
 In addition to the string quartets, The Beethoven Quartet also premiered the Piano Quintet with the composer at the piano, and likewise the second piano trio with two of the Quartet's players.
Feodor Druzhinin took over from Borisovsky in 1964, giving a runthrough of the ninth quartet with the rest of the group. Sergei Shirinsky died during rehearsals of Shostakovich's fifteenth quartet.
 In 1977, final founding member and first violinist Dmitri Tsyganov departed and was replaced by Oleg Krysa. 
The Beethoven Quartet disbanded in 1987.

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Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH

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 String Quartets Nos.1-10

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The Beethoven String Quartet:
Dmitri Tsyganov, 1st violin Vassily Shirinsky, 2nd violin Vadim Borisovsky, viola Sergei Shirinsky, cello
( Quartets Nos,1-8 )
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Dmitri Tsyganov, 1st violin Vassily Shirinsky, 2nd violin Feodor Druzhinin, viola Sergei Shirinsky, cello
( Quartets Nos. 9-10 )
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5 LPs Box Set
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Original 1960s USSR First Mono Pressing

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Melodiya
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33D - 08019 / 08020
33D - 015665 / 09789
33D - 015683 / 015684
33D - 015691 / 015692
33D - 015785 / 015786
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Aprelevsky Zavod first mono pressing ( pink label )
* GOST - 5289-61
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cover - NM  ( see by the photo )
booklet - NM
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