January 2011
medici.tv streams the Borodin Quartet live from Cité de la musique
The Borodin Quartet performed six Shostakovich Quartets at Cité de la musique on 8 and 9 January which were streamed live on www.medici.tv. These concerts by the world's leading interpreters of this repertoire are available for a further sixty days free of charge on www.medici.tv. This is the first of many collaborations between ICA and medici.tv.
Click here to watch their performance of Shostakovich String Quartet No. 11
December 2010
Borodin Quartet featured in The Telegraph's 'Top 10 classical music moments of 2010'
In their 'Top 10 classical music moments of 2010', The Telegraph has named the Borodin Quartet's concert at the Wigmore Hall on January 9 their best chamber moment of 2010. The Borodin Quartet "proved that decades of experience really count" in a concert that saw them perform music by Beethoven, Shostakovich and Schnittke.
The Borodin Quartet performed to a sold-out Wigmore Hall on 9 and 10 January and received outstanding press acclaim. The Financial Times reported 'today's Borodin Quartet has lost nothing of its old authority...Everything had a deep and understated gravity, as though they were exploring the most private corners of the human soul'
The Independent commented on the quartet's interpretation of Shostakovich 'they play him with a very particular authority, as if the hotline to his every thought it still very much open...The final sunset that the Borodins conjoured here [Quartet No 8] was possessed of an almost supernatural radiance'.
Please click here to view The Telegraph's 'Top 10 classical music moments of 2010'
May 2010
New CD release on Onyx
The Borodin Quartet has a new CD release on the Onyx label. The CD features Borodin's precocious first quartet coupled with the imposing 13th quartet by Myaskovsky, a composer who is slowly emerging from the shadow cast by Shostakovich and Prokofiev. His is a major voice in 20th - century Russian music from the Soviet period. The CD also includes Stravinsky's Concertino.
The quartet has recently returned to Russia after a critically acclaimed and extensive 65th anniversary tour to Australia and New Zealand, ending with a concert at the Lincoln Center in New York.
March 2010
On tour down under, then to America...
Marking their 65th anniversary, the Borodin Quartet throughout February and March embarked on an extensive 20 concert tour of Australia and New Zealand. The quartet ended its tour with concerts in the US, including a performance in the Lincoln Centre for Performing Arts in New York. They performed predominantly Russian works by Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Borodin and Tchaikovsky, composers whose interpretation has made the quartet so famous across the globe since its founding in 1945.
Click here for more on their tour to Autralia in partnership with Musica Viva
Click here for more on their tour to New Zealand in partnership with Chamber Music
Jan 2010
From the front cover of Classical Music Magazine to Wigmore Hall!
On 9 and 10 January, the Borodin Quartet performed in London to a rapturous and sold-out Wigmore Hall. The response from both the audience and the critcs has been fantastic:
The Financial Times reported 'today’s Borodin Quartet has lost nothing of its old authority...Everything had a deep and understated gravity, as though they were exploring the most private corners of the human soul'
The Independent commented on the quartet's interpretation of Shostakovich 'they play him with a very particular authority, as if the hotline to his every thought it still very much open...The final sunset that the Borodins conjoured here [Quartet No 8] was possessed of an almost supernatural radiance'
In other news, Classic Music Magazine ran a major feature on the quartet. The article describes them as 'both steeped in tradition and fresh as ever'. To read the article please click here.