Since 2005, the Quatuor Danel is quartet in residence at the University of Manchester, where they uphold a tradition of coaching and collaborations with world-renowned musicologists.

In this latest instalment of the ensemble’s exploration of chamber works by Shostakovich and Weinberg, we hear the Tenth Quartet (1964) of the former and the Eleventh (1965-6) of the latter, alongside his early (1944) Piano Quintet.

Since 2005, the Quatuor Danel is quartet in residence at the University of Manchester, where they uphold a tradition of coaching and collaborations with world-renowned musicologists.

‘I count myself as his pupil, his flesh and blood,’ noted Mieczysław Weinberg about his friend Dmitry Shostakovich. Quatuor Danel continues its exploration with three extraordinary works, including Shostakovich’s edgy F minor Quartet and the troubled psyche of Weinberg’s Twelfth Quartet of 1969-70.