The man who wrote the opera 'Prince Igor' was a renowned scientist and chemist, besides being a great composer. Although composer Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) is best known for writing one of the ...

Like many of Russia's great composers, Alexander Borodin was renown in other fields beyond music. Although composer Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) is best known for writing one of the best Russian ...

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 ...

Musically speaking, the time of the String Quartet No. 2 was the beginning of the end for Borodin. It was written when he was in his late forties and at exactly the period when finding time for music ...

The Beethoven and Shostakovich quartets received the technically dependable Borodin treatment, but struck no new creative sparks Beethoven and Shostakovich have been the twin poles by which the ...

Not since the Bolsheviks took over Russia has there been such a musical orgy as that which began in Leningrad last week, promised to run for ten full days. Soviet Russia was having its first big music ...

When Valentin Berlinsky packed away his cello for good last September, it marked the end of an era, but not the end of an ensemble: the Borodin Quartet hadn't survived for 63 years only to fold with ...

Borodin Quartet (from left) Vladimir Balshin, Sergei Lomovsky, Igor Naidin and Ruben Aharonian. Quartet’s performance at CMNZ’s final concert music to appreciative ears It was a privilege to be at the ...

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 ...

The Borodin Quartet is remarkable for its longevity, still operating 72 years after it was founded under the name Moscow Philharmonic Quartet. It must be the longest-playing chamber ensemble currently ...

Three cheers to the Seattle Symphony for championing Borodin’s symphonies, particularly in such fresh, lithe performances. They are slightly brightly recorded, maybe, and lack that particular warmth ...