String Quartet No. 3

Year of Premiere: 
1945
Composer: 
Szymon Laks
Artists: 
Mikhail Shmidt, violin; Leonid Keylin, violin; Susan Gulkis Assadi, viola; Mara Finkelstein, cello

Laks’ third string quartet, his first composition after liberation from Auschwitz, returns to folk and dance elements of regions of his native Poland.