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 ...

Alexander Borodin was an amateur musician, but you can't tell that from his music. His String Quartet No. 2 is a masterpiece of melody and great compositional skill. The Borgonzi String Quartet plays ...

The Borodin String quartet performed as part of the International Festival of the Arts and the Chamber Music NZ 2010 programme to a packed Town Hall. The programme was exclusively Russian and featured ...

The Borodin Quartet has a very special relationship with the music by Shostakovich. The quartet may be made up of different players these days, but they still play off the parts with notes given by ...

Though he wrote his String Quartet No. 2 in 1881 and passed away in 1887, in 1954 Russian composer Alexander Borodin won a Tony Award because his music was used as the basis for new songs in the ...

It's said that the cello in the String Quartet No. 2 is the amorous “voice” of composer Alexander Borodin while the first violin represents his wife, to whom he dedicated the quartet as a 20th ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Next year Musica Viva and the renowned Borodin Quartet share a 70th anniversary. For Musica Viva the past years have been a time of ...