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Borodin quartet shostakovich 8 The Borodin Quartet’s relationship with Shostakovich’s chamber music is intensely personal. This special association between creator and interpreters originated in cellist Valentin Berlinsky’s student days, when he studied the First Quartet with the composer.

Borodin quartet recordings The quartet first met Shostakovich in and became an interpreter of his compositions. In due course they became known for their performances of all of Shostakovich's quartets (eventually numbering 15) at concert halls around the world.

Borodin quartet no 2 in d major Meet the Quartet. For more than seventy years, the Borodin Quartet has been celebrated for its insight and authority in the chamber music repertoire. Revered for its searching performances of Beethoven and Shostakovich, the Quartet is equally at home in music ranging from Mozart to Stravinsky.

Borodin quartet concerts The quartet, being one of the world’s most senior ensemble was founded in , ten years before it adopted the name Borodin Quartet. Its longest-serving member, Valentin Berlinsky, was there almost at the beginning, though he modestly declines the title of having been the original cellist.

The Borodin Quartet is The Borodin Quartet has always been one of the world’s greatest chamber ensembles. Formed in with original members that briefly included the likes of cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and violist Rudolph Barshai, the string quartet has now gone through three incarnations.

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Watch the Borodin Quartet perform Mozart, Shostakovich and Brahms at the Philharmonie, Paris.

Borodin Quartet plays chamber Composed By – Alexander Borodin (tracks: , ), Alexander Glazunov (tracks: ), Alfred Schnittke, Dmitri Shostakovich (tracks: to , to , to , to , , ), Gustav Mahler (tracks: to ), Igor Stravinsky (tracks: to ), Mieczysław Weinberg (tracks: ), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (tracks.

4 years ago more. The Borodin Quartet’s relationship with Shostakovich’s chamber music is intensely personal. This special association between creator and interpreters originated in cellist Valentin Berlinsky’s student days, when he studied the First Quartet with the composer.