[ Warner Classics / 8 CD ]
Release Date: Friday 21 August 2020
This item is only available to us via Special Import.
Established in Moscow in 1945, and still performing today, the Borodin Quartet sustains a distinctive tradition in the interpretation of Russian chamber music. Over the decades its members - all trained at the Moscow Conservatory - have inevitably changed, but the ensemble's identity has remained cohesive, its philosophy and aesthetic embodying an entire musical culture. The quartet's close association with Dmitri Shostakovich has gone down in history, and his chamber works are central to this 7CD collection which, offering music by a succession of Russian composers from Borodin himself to Schnittke, spans the 19th and 20th centuries.
Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 11
Tchaikovsky: String Quartet movement in B flat major (1865)
Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70
Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 2 in F major, Op. 22
Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 3 in E flat minor, Op. 30
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 1 in C Major, Op. 49
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 15 In E Flat Minor, Op. 144
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 68
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 12 in D flat major, Op. 133
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 73
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 7 in F sharp minor, Op. 108
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57
Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67
Borodin: String Quartet No. 2: 3rd Movement (Notturno)
Borodin: Serenata alla Spagnola (Third Movement from String Quartet on the Theme B-la-F)
Shebalin: String Quartet No. 5 - Scherzo
Rachmaninov: String Quartet No. 1: Romance
Prokofiev: Visions fugitives, Op. 22 (extracts)
Weinberg: String Quartet No. 7 - Intermezzo
Excerpt, Tchaikovsky: Album for the Young, Op. 39
Tchaikovsky: Andante Cantabile (from String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 11)
Schnittke: Canon in memoriam Igor Stravinsky for string quartet
Glazunov: All'Ungherese (No. 5 from Novelettes (5), Op. 15)
Stravinsky: Three Pieces for String Quartet
Shostakovich: Two Pieces for String Quartet (Elegy & Polka), Op. 36a
Schnittke: String Quartet No. 3
Schnittke: Piano Quintet, Op. 108
Mahler: Piano Quartet (in one movement) in A minor