Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 14 - III. Allegretto-Adagio
Performed by the Shostakovich Quartet in 1988
Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 14 - II. Adagio
Performed by the Shostakovich Quartet in 1988
Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 14 - I. Alegretto
Performed by the Shostakovich Quartet in 1988
Tair Salakhov (1928) - Portrait of the Russian Composer Dmitri Shostakovich
DSCH is a musical motif used by Dmitri Shostakovich to represent himself. It is a musical cryptogram in the manner of the BACH motif, consisting of the notes D, E flat, C, B natural, or in German musical notation D, Es, C, H (pronounced as “De-Es-Ce-Ha”), thus standing for the composer’s initials in German transliteration: D. Sch. (Dmitri Schostakowitsch), also pronounced as “De-Es-Ce-Ha.”
The motif occurs in many of his works, including the Symphony No. 10 in E minor, the String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, the Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, the Cello Concerto No. 1 in E flat Major, the Symphony No. 15 in A major and the Opus 61 Piano Sonata No. 2 in B minor.
Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 4 - IV. Allegretto
Performed by the Petersburg Quartet in 1994
Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 4 - III. Allegretto
Performed by the Petersburg Quartet in 1994
Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 4 - II. Andantino
Performed by the Petersburg Quartet in 1994
Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 4 - I. Allegretto
Performed by the Petersburg Quartet in 1994
Dimitri Shostakovich on the cover of Time magazine on July 20, 1942
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 6 - III. Presto
Performed by the Vienna Philharmonic with Leonard Bernstein, 1986
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 6 - II. Allegro
Performed by the Vienna Philharmonic with Leonard Bernstein, 1986
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 6 - I. Largo
Performed by the Vienna Philharmonic with Leonard Bernstein, 1986
Dmitri Shostakovich (center) with his wife Irina and Azerbaijani composer Gara Garayev
