Following the quartet's successful North American tour, the New York Times commented 'the Borodin Quartet that played at the 92nd Street Y on Tuesday evening was not the same group that played for Shostakovich, it closed its program with a stunning performance of that composer’s Third Quartet (Op. 73). This work, from 1946, begins with a bouncy innocence and darkens with each movement, descending to mournful desolation in the penultimate Adagio and becoming an enveloping elegy in the finale. The quartet’s sound reflected this journey, beginning with a relatively light tone and moving through stages of astringency and intensity.'