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The Borodin Quartet
Running time:
2 parts by 45 minutes
6+

Рrogramme:

Shostakovich
String Quartet No. 3 in F major Op. 73

Schubert
Das Forellen Quintett/Trout Quintet D.667 Opus 114 A Major,
for cello, double bass,
and piano

   


12 February 2019 Tuesday 19.00 Chamber hall
19.00 Chamber hall

The Borodin Quartet

Ruben Aharonian, 1st violin
Sergey Lomovsky, 2nd violin
Igor Naidin, viola
Vladimir Balshin, cello
Featuring special guests:

Andrey Pisarev, piano
Grigoriy Krotenko, double bass

The State Borodin Quartet is a unique phenomenon, not only for Russia, but for the whole world. British Guardian hailed the four musicians as a “golden standard of Russian chamber music”. Greatest musicians are honored to play with the Quartet, while the ensemble elevates prestige of any music forum it plays at to the next level.

The singular achievement is the longevity: it is one of the world's longest-lasting string quartets, having marked its 70th-anniversary season in 2015. Certainly, there were some dramatic changes in its lineup, but all the musicians involved have always been unsurpassed professionals.
“It’s not four musicians onstage, but the one great virtuoso”, German Frankfurter Allgemeine once wrote, but this phrase can be added to any review of any Quartet’s concert.

Dmitri Shostakovich’s chamber music is the feature of the Quartet. The quartet has been playing his music ever since they and Shostakovich met in 1946. They’d been working closely for 30 years, and after the composer’s death they would record all of his 15 quartets. The elder of the Quartet, Valentin Berlinsky, then came up with the idea of the Competition of Shostakovich’s string quartet performers. The virtual “collaboration” of the Quartet and the composer keeps going today, for his music is often in their set-list.

The famous “Trout Quintet” by Franz Schubert was performed by Quartet with great Sviatoslav Richter himself – their friendship began in 1950. And the number of great pianists the Quartet plays with keeps adding up. Boris Berezovsky, Dmitry Masleev, Andrei Korobeinikov are among many other recent collaborators. One of them is Andrey Pisarev, a winner of international Rachmaninov’s and Mozart’s competitions, and a professor at the Moscow Conservatory.