While studying at the Medical-Surgical Academy in St. Petersburg, Alexander Borodin’s professor warned him against his pursuit of music. “You can’t hunt two hares at the same time,” he was told. As a ...

The Borodin Quartet are no strangers to Hong Kong. Previous appearances include concerts in 2005 and 2015 to mark the ensemble’s 60th and 70th birthdays. The Russian string quartet were back this ...

Next year Musica Viva and the renowned Borodin Quartet share a 70th anniversary. For Musica Viva the past years have been a time of bringing the greatest performers to tour Australia; for the Quartet ...

(2) Pieces for String Quartet Borodin Quartet Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer Yet at the same time there are aspects that strain the most charitable ears. Above all there is the first violin’s tone, ...