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 ...

Framing the programme are two orchestral works inspired by the capital, performed by the BBC Philharmonic: Edward Elgar’s ...

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 ...

Prepare to trek through the desert landscape of Central Asia on Classical 91.7 this Thursday as Sir Georg Solti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a program rich in Russian themes, including ...

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 ...

Well, continuity is everything in the Russian tradition; much of the old team's famous flexibility and, when needed, its ineffable remoteness, remain in evidence. But competition even in the ...

Russia's contribution to the arts over the past couple of centuries has been extraordinary and unparalleled. Russian authors are among the greatest writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Russia is ...

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, ...

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Vladimir Balshin (left), Sergei Lomovsky, Igor Naidin and Ruben Aharonian gave a highly charged performance. At its Auckland concert, the Borodin Quartet reaffirmed both the pleasure and privilege of ...

Shostakovich’s Ninth Quartet dates from 1964 and has the same sombre mood as the more famous Eighth that precedes it. But there is more irony here – folk tunes and nursery rhymes peer out through the ...

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