The Shostakovich Chamber Symphony, op. 110a, is in fact a transcription
of his quartet #8. IIRC one of the Barshai's did it, and the composer
authorized it. Both the quartet and the symphony use a tune that DSCH had
used in the trio. This tune, reputedly of Jewish provenance, always sounds
weird to me without the piano's clanging away.
Aaron J. Rabushka
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