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 String quartet performed as part of the International Festival of the Arts and the Chamber Music NZ 2010 programme to a packed Town Hall. The programme was exclusively Russian and featured ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...