The Borodin Quartet

Zaryadye Hall, Chamber hall, Moscow, Russia

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7 PM

Important Info

Type: Classical Concert

City: Moscow, Russia

Starts at: 19:00

Duration:

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Overview

The State Borodin Quartet is a unique phenomenon, not only for Russia, but for the whole world. British Guardian hailed the four musicians as a “golden standard of Russian chamber music”. Greatest musicians are honored to play with the Quartet, while the ensemble elevates prestige of any music forum it plays at to the next level.

Ruben Aharonian, 1st violin
Sergey Lomovsky, 2nd violin
Igor Naidin, viola
Vladimir Balshin, cello

The singular achievement is the longevity: it is one of the world's longest-lasting string quartets, having marked its 70th-anniversary season in 2015. Certainly, there were some dramatic changes in its lineup, but all the musicians involved have always been unsurpassed professionals.
“It’s not four musicians onstage, but the one great virtuoso”, German Frankfurter Allgemeine once wrote, but this phrase can be added to any review of any Quartet’s concert.

Dmitri Shostakovich’s chamber music is the feature of the Quartet. The quartet has been playing his music ever since they and Shostakovich met in 1946. They’d been working closely for 30 years, and after the composer’s death they would record all of his 15 quartets. The elder of the Quartet, Valentin Berlinsky, then came up with the idea of the Competition of Shostakovich’s string quartet performers. The virtual “collaboration” of the Quartet and the composer keeps going today, for his music is often in their set-list.

The famous “Trout Quintet” by Franz Schubert was performed by Quartet with great Sviatoslav Richter himself – their friendship began in 1950. And the number of great pianists the Quartet plays with keeps adding up. Boris Berezovsky, Dmitry Masleev, Andrei Korobeinikov are among many other recent collaborators. One of them is Andrey Pisarev, a winner of international Rachmaninov’s and Mozart’s competitions, and a professor at the Moscow Conservatory.

Venue Info

Zaryadye Hall - Moscow
Varvarka Street, 6 с.4

Zaryadye Hall is a concert hall in Moscow located in the Zaryadye Natural Landscape Park. Valery Gergiev, Denis Matsuev, Anna Netrebko, Daniil Trifonov and Ildar Abdrazakov spoke at the opening ceremony.

The peculiarity of Zaryadye Hall is its strict genre correspondence. No pop performances are planned in the hall. The Zaryadye Hall received world-class performers on the stages of the Big and Small Halls, introduced the audience to the work of such musicians as mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kozhena (Czech Republic), conductor Andrew Parrot and Taverner Choir, Consort and Players (Great Britain), countertenor Jakub Josef Orlinsky ( Poland), Quatuor Diotima string quartet (France). And these artists, in turn, discovered Moscow and Russia.

The hall hosts concerts of not only outstanding masters, but also young artists, a series of topical musical projects: Sound Up, New Classics. The Zaryadye Hall hosted the world premiere of the ballet "Little Red Riding Hood" by the famous dancer Sergei Polunin. The repertoire of the hall also includes educational programs for children and adults: excursions, lectures, master classes, and interactive concert programs.

Important Info

Type: Classical Concert

City: Moscow, Russia

Starts at: 19:00

Duration:

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