Takacs Quartet - Shostakovich: Piano Quintet & String Quartet No 2

It is hard to envisage a more enticing prospect: Shostakovich�s densely woven String Quartet No 2 and his deceptively backward-looking Piano Quintet, performed by the stellar Takacs Quartet and Marc-Andre Hamelin, generously notated by David Fanning, and lovingly recorded by Hyperion�s Simon Eadon and Andrew Keener team. Seventy minutes of post-Revolutionary Russian ecstasy.