The generation of Russian performers to which the pianists Tatiana Nikolayeva and Sviatoslav Richter as well as the original members of the Borodin Quartet belonged were Shostakovich's contemporaries, ...

The Lindsays, now sadly nearing disbandment, add to their fine repertory of warm, intense recordings with this splendid coupling of Borodin's two string quartets alongside a rarity from early in the ...

Four string players and a funeral: such a shorthand summary of perhaps the most stressful event in the extraordinary 70-year history of the Borodin Quartet tells only half the story. One of the ...

String Quartet No. 12, 'American' Antonín Dvořák, Composer Escher String Quartet String Quartet No. 1 Escher String Quartet Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer String Quartet No. 2 Alexander Borodin, ...

String quartets come and go fairly quickly. Orchestras endure for centuries, but 40 years is a good run for a quartet. But no other quartet can quite match the record of the Borodin Quartet, which is ...

String quartets come and go. The Borodin Quartet endures. Founded in 1945 as the Moscow Philharmonic Quartet, renamed in 1955 after the Russian composer, the Borodin today remains one of the world's ...

City Recital Hall, September 29 In their stage manner, formal bows and dutiful concert decorum, the Borodin Quartet make dourness an artform. But in their smooth, perfectly balanced sound, impeccable ...

Has the Borodin Quartet inherited a musical style through its DNA? There have been many changes to the membership of the Quartet since it was founded 70 years ago, but its close association with ...