The Borodin Quartet
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
The Borodin Quartet is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year! You can hear them on WNYC this evening, playing the Beethoven String Quartet No. 15. Or you can hear them live...
The Borodins will play Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, and Shostakovich in the concert at the 92nd Street Y on Saturday, April 2nd. This group is the longest-lived quartet in the world, having started life in 1945 as the Moscow Philharmonic Quartet. They acquired their current name in 1955. Only cellist Valentin Berlinsky has been with the group all these years, but its reputation has been sterling throughout its various incarnations, which you can explore at www.andersmanagement.com/enborodin.htm.
Haydn's "Surprise" Symphony (No. 94 in G) is something you won’t want to miss, either. Christopher Warren-Green conducts the London Chamber Orchestra in this work that got its name because of a sudden very loud chord in the 16th bar of the second movement Andante, which has been strolling along quietly. Another example of "Papa" Haydn's famed sense of humor.
» Borodin SQ @ 92nd St.Y Sat April 2
The Borodins will play Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, and Shostakovich in the concert at the 92nd Street Y on Saturday, April 2nd. This group is the longest-lived quartet in the world, having started life in 1945 as the Moscow Philharmonic Quartet. They acquired their current name in 1955. Only cellist Valentin Berlinsky has been with the group all these years, but its reputation has been sterling throughout its various incarnations, which you can explore at www.andersmanagement.com/enborodin.htm.
Haydn's "Surprise" Symphony (No. 94 in G) is something you won’t want to miss, either. Christopher Warren-Green conducts the London Chamber Orchestra in this work that got its name because of a sudden very loud chord in the 16th bar of the second movement Andante, which has been strolling along quietly. Another example of "Papa" Haydn's famed sense of humor.
» Borodin SQ @ 92nd St.Y Sat April 2
