The Borodin Quartet is one of the world's great chamber music groups. Formed in 1945 by students at the Moscow Conservatoire, its members have included the likes of Mstislav Rostropovich, Rostislav Dubinsky, Rudolf and Nina Barshai, Mikhail Kopelman and a handful of others. While its repetoire has always included the core of the works composed for string quartet, it became synonymous with the works of Alexander Borodin and Dmitri Shostakovich. In some ways too, it is a time capsule of Soviet history. They were required to play at Stalin's funeral and various members defected to the West. With...
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