Borodin Quartet

Big Boxes/Richter Redux: The Complete Warner Recordings

Jed Distler

Back in 2008 EMI Icon brought out a complete edition […]

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Beethoven: String Quartets/Borodin

Victor Carr Jr

The ensemble featured in these distinctly Slavic-toned Beethoven readings is not the Borodin Quartet of old, whose decades-old Melodiya recordings showcased the group’s trademark ferocious

Beethoven: String quartets Op. 59, 74/Borodin Qt

Victor Carr Jr

The Borodin Quartet’s assumption of the Beethovenian challenge yields mixed results. The “Razumovsky” No. 2 is a rather laborious affair, with heaviness of phrasing and

Borodin plays Debussy/Ravel

ClassicsToday

As noted previously by my colleague Dan Davis in his review of the “original” Borodin set of the Tchaikovsky quartets (type Q2878 in Search Reviews),

The Music of Boris Parsadanjan/Antes C

ClassicsToday

Armenian composer Boris Parsadanjan (1925-97) got his musical education at Moscow’s famous Gnessin School where everyone (at the time) was under the influence of Shostakovich.

chandos tchaik quartets

Dan Davis

The preferred version of the Tchaikovsky Quartets is that of the Borodin Quartet. Problem is: Which Borodin Quartet? This Chandos Historical two-pack features the original