Dmitri N. Smirnov: to be, or not to be... for violin, viola, cello & piano, Op. 195, 2018/19, 12' "to be, or not to be..." is a concert piece, about 12 minutes long, for piano quartet. The idea of the composition is to represent by purely musical means the famous soliloquy of Hamlet, prince of Denmark, from the great Shakespearean tragedy of the same name. The whole text of the monologue, transformed into melodic phrases and put into the part of the...