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Eric Schissel wrote:
>Is anyone familiar with the music of this composer (full name Anatolii
>Nikolaevich Aleksandrov)? A string quartet of his was on LP with the eighth
>quartet of Shebalin apparently (I haven't heard that recording, though.)
I have this LP -- Melodiya D-012745/46 mono. The coupling is Vissarion
Shebalin's String Quartet No. 9 in B minor, op 58, composed after profound
brain injury occasioned by a stroke in 1953. This left Shebalin aphasic
to speech and writing, but did not impair his ability to compose and notate
music in much the same style as pre-injury works. That, and the quality
of the music, is why I have the recording; I've never listened to the
Alexandrov side, his String Quartet No. 4 in C, op. 80. If you can play
audiocassettes I will gladly dub this off and dispatch it to Triphammer
Road..both sides. It's the original Borodin Quartet playing, about as good
as such things get. Sorry I can't do a CD-R.
John Wiser
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