If you're looking for the best-performed, best-recorded, best-coupled version of Dvorák's magnificent Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 81, look no further. Although some might argue that the performance is too Russian, the playing of the Borodin Quartet and Sviatoslav Richter is so strong, so soulful, and so consummately musical that calling it too ...
The later Mikhail Kopelman-led Borodin Quartet recordings of the complete string quartets of Shostakovich aren't so much better than the earlier Valentin Berlinsky-led Borodin Quartet's recordings as they have more than the earlier recording. For one thing, there are two more quartets; the earlier cycle stops with 13 because Shostakovich hadn't ...
All one can regret about this admirable set of Dvorák chamber music is what it leaves out. Of course, one can understand omitting the Czech master's 14 string quartets -- surely an apt subject for a separate set -- but the inclusion of most but not all of his other chamber music works makes this set almost but not quite ideal. Most of the ...
Sure, they're getting old. This is the 60th anniversary of the founding of Russia's venerable Borodin Quartet in 1944, and cellist Valentin Berlinsky has been there since the beginning, while violinist Andrei Abramenkov joined in the mid-'70s and violinist Roubén Aharonian and violist Igor Naidin joined in the mid-'90s. But how do they sound on ...
Still at it and still pretty good at it even if not as good at it as it used to be, the Borodin Quartet continues to record with only cellist Valentin Berlinsky still on hand from the Borodin Quartet of the '60s. With a powerful attack and an expressive tone, the new Borodin Quartet is a fine ensemble. But although the attack is powerful, it's not ...
The wisdom of experience and the infirmities of age lie perhaps too heavy on the Borodin Quartet's set of Beethoven's early quartets. There is no denying that the Borodin know exactly what to do with the music. Their balances are exemplary, their tempos are ideal, and their phrasing is supremely expressive. And there is no denying that the Borodin ...
Maybe this 2005 recording of Beethoven's A minor String Quartet by the Borodin Quartet isn't quite in the same league as its 1989 recording. Maybe the attacks and releases aren't quite as tight. Maybe the tempos are a bit too impetuous. Maybe the emotions are too overt. Maybe the depths are not quite so deep. The question is: are there any later ...
The third volume of the Borodin Quartet's long-awaited digital set of Beethoven's cycle presents one bold work from the end of the middle period, the String Quartet in F minor, Op. 95; the deeply moving late masterpiece, the String Quartet in C sharp minor, Op. 131; and the sui generis Grosse Fuge in B flat major, Op. 133, which is treated here ...
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