“You have to be deeply in love with the string quartet as a form in order to live the life of a string quartet.”
Igor Naidin, violaRuben Aharonian, violin
Andrei Abramenkov, violin
Igor Naidin, viola
Vladimir Balshin, cello
The Borodin Quartet considers the string quartet the most beautiful way to make music. Throughout the group’s illustrious career its unique identity has been closely linked with the so-called ‘Russian school’ of string playing. All of the group’s members studied at the Moscow Conservatory, absorbing this method as it evolved across the generations.
Formed in 1945, the Quartet’s remarkable history includes working with Dmitri Shostakovich on every one of his quartets, and performing on the same day at the funerals of both Stalin and Prokofiev.
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