Nicolas Croze-Orton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >few years ago I played has an encore during a string quartet performance, >a very short (2 or 3 minutes) quartet allegretto by Shostakovitch. It was >in his usual playfull bafoonesque Alegretto style. It is not, I repeat, >NOT a movement in his string quartet cycle, maybe it was an arrangement of >a piano piece I don`t know about, which is unusual because I know quite a >bit of his repertoire. May be the string quartet arrangement of one of his Op.87 preludes and fugues for piano. I have a recording with a couple of such arrangements, can dig up the detailed info if you are interested. Ulvi [log in to unmask]