1953/4 Abonnement Concert Programs Leningrad. Shostakovich, Oistrakh, Richter, Knushevitsky, Rostropovich, Yudina, and others.

Season 1953-1954. The Small hall of the Leningrad Philharmonic. Performers: Beethoven Quartet, Glazunov Quartet, Trio (Oborin, Oistrakh, Knushevitsky), D. D. Shostakovich (piano), D. Oistrakh (violin), S. Richter (piano), M. Rostropovich (cello), D. Shafran (cello), M. Yudina (piano), L. Kogan (violin), and many others.

Concert programs (briefly):
 
Abonnement 1
Soviet music
 
-1-
D. D. Shostakovich Gala evening
 
A new work*
Preludes and fugue
Quintet
Perform: AUTHOR and Quartet
 
-2-
Reinhold Glière Gala evening
 
Quartet no. 4
Preludes, Scherzo, Mazurka
Romances
Perform: AUTHOR and Glazunov Quartet, Ye. Shumskaya (singing)
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Abonnement 2
Russian chamber music
 
-3-
Trio Concert
Rimsky-Korsakov – Trio
Tchaikovsky - Trio "In Memory of a Great Artist."
Perform: L. Oborin, D. Oistrakh, S. Knushevitsky
 
Abonnement 4
Sonata Evenings
 
-3-
Beethoven – Sonata for piano and cello
Brahms - Sonata for piano and cello
Prokofiev - Sonata for piano and cello
Perform: L. Oborin and S. Knushevitsky
 
-6-
Rachmaninoff - Sonata for piano and cello
Grieg - Sonata for piano and cello
Shostakovich - Sonata for piano and cello
Performs: D. Shafran
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Abonnement 5
Mixed programs
 
-2-
Trio Concert
Haydn - Piano Trio in G major
Brahms - Horn Trio
Dvořák - Piano Trio in F Minor
Perform: L. Oborin, D. Oistrakh, S. Knushevitsky
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Abonnement 8
Evenings of instrumental ensembles
 
-2-
Haydn - Quartet
Mozart - Quintet with Two Violas
Tchaikovsky - String sextet 'Souvenir de Florence'
Perform: Quartet of the Bolshoi Theatre, R. Barshai and S. Knushevitsky
 
-3-
Golubev – Quartet no. 2
Foerster – Nonet
Brahms – Piano Quartet in A major
Perform: Quartet of the Moscow Philharmonic, S. Richter and Ensemble of the Orchestra soloists.
 
-4-
CPE Bach - Concerto for cello and string orchestra
Tartini - Concerto for cello and string orchestra
Schubert - Schubert with two cellos
Perform: M. Rostropovich, Quartet of the Leningrad Philharmonic, M. Karandashova (piano), M. Kurbatov (double bass)
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Etc.

 
* Presumably: String Quartet No. 5 in B major, Op. 92 (1952). Premiere: November 13, 1953, Moscow (Beethoven Quartet)