Has the Borodin Quartet inherited a musical style through its DNA? There have been many changes to the membership of the Quartet since it was founded 70 years ago, but its close association with ...

Dmitri Shostakovich in 1972(Erich Auerbach/Hulton Archive) Dmitri Shostakovich's career was plagued by censorship and heartbreak. His string quartets are perhaps his most intimate, interior ...

Shostakovich’s fifth string quartet is performed less frequently than any other of his string quartets but that difficultly was not evident in the Emerson Quartet’s polished performance. In 1948, the ...

Where: Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, MacLaurin Building, University of Victoria When: Feb. 3, 4, 6, 8 and 9. All concerts at 8 p.m. Pre-concert talks at 7 p.m. Tickets: $25 single ticket or $100 for ...

The generation of Russian performers to which the pianists Tatiana Nikolayeva and Sviatoslav Richter as well as the original members of the Borodin Quartet belonged were Shostakovich's contemporaries, ...

String Quartet No. 13 Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer Fitzwilliam String Quartet String Quartet No. 14 Fitzwilliam String Quartet Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer String Quartet No. 15 Dmitri Shostakovich, ...

Dmitri Shostakovich once told a friend that he planned to compose 24 string quartets, one in each of the major and minor keys. He completed only 15, but they span his entire mature period as a ...

The venerable Borodin Quartet has something of an edge when it comes to performing the works of Shostakovich: the composer supervised its original players in the study and performance of each of his ...

Elégie, a transcription of Katerina Izmailova’s Act 1 aria from Lady Macbeth (not Act 3, as per the booklet), is expressive and flowing, if without the degree of heartache that the original setting ...