Borodin Quartet – Vainberg: Quintet & Quartet No. 8 (2005)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 55:35 | 276 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Melodiya | Catalog: MEL CD 10 00979
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 55:35 | 276 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Melodiya | Catalog: MEL CD 10 00979
Founded at the Moscow Conservatory in 1945 by violist (and later conductor) Rudolf Barshai, the Borodin Quartet survived defections and other personnel changes to become regarded as the leading Soviet (and then Russian) quartet of the second half of the twentieth century. Through Barshai, the student group became closely associated with Dmitry Shostakovich, and its later recordings and concerts of that composer's complete quartets are widely regarded as definitive.