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 ...

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 ...

Pianist Junhui Chen from Fuzhou, China graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music in 2019 and is currently pursuing a master’s degree at the Juilliard School. In his graduation recital, Junhui paid ...

EARLIER this year I took a sideways look at Alexander Borodin, one of my favourite Russian composers. I love his music deeply, but it is a funny, rather insubstantial love affair, because Borodin didn ...

Thursday’s concert at the Seattle Symphony treated the audience to some pretty dazzling violin-playing. The concerto was Bartók’s second for the instrument, and the soloist was Gil Shaham. The Israeli ...

The State Borodin Quartet is a unique phenomenon, not just in the history of Russian music but of the entire world. This legendary ensemble has won a reputation as a leader in international quartet ...

These works of Beethoven’s final years attain such a rarefied atmosphere of harmonic daring and structural density that most composers who followed him were at a loss to know what to make of them. It ...

NORTH-EAST classical music lovers will get the rare opportunity to see the legendary Borodin Quartet when it visits Sage Gateshead as part of its 70th anniversary world tour The foundations for one of ...

The late 19th century, you'll hardly need reminding, was a time when nationalism flourished in Europe. In Russia, it prompted a musical movement towards traditional culture. Alexander Borodin pushed ...

Russia’s Borodin Quartet returns to Hong Kong this week with a programme that marks the chamber music ensemble’s 80th anniversary. Comprising two violinists, a violist and a cellist, the quartet ...