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
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