Borodin Quartet (from left) Vladimir Balshin, Sergei Lomovsky, Igor Naidin and Ruben Aharonian. Quartet’s performance at CMNZ’s final concert music to appreciative ears It was a privilege to be at the ...

The Borodin Quartet is remarkable for its longevity, still operating 72 years after it was founded under the name Moscow Philharmonic Quartet. It must be the longest-playing chamber ensemble currently ...

The Borodin Quartet are no strangers to Hong Kong. Previous appearances include concerts in 2005 and 2015 to mark the ensemble’s 60th and 70th birthdays. The Russian string quartet were back this ...

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 ...

Several of Vancouver’s classical music organizations are exploring the trend toward focused miniseries. (I shy away from the term “binge-listening,” but it’s certainly expressive enough). In the next ...

Musically speaking, the time of the String Quartet No. 2 was the beginning of the end for Borodin. It was written when he was in his late forties and at exactly the period when finding time for music ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. City Recital Hall, September 29 In their stage manner, formal bows and dutiful concert decorum, the Borodin Quartet make dourness an ...

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 ...