The Ottawa Chamber Music Society presents

Borodin Quartet
Sunday, January 18, 2009 3:00pm

RUBEN AHARONIAN , 1st violin
ANDREI ABRAMENKOV , 2nd violin
IGOR NAIDIN , viola
VLADIMIR BALSHIN , cello

For more information, visit the Ottawa Chamber Music Society website.

 

One of the world's great music ensembles, Russia's Borodin Quartet was founded in 1945 and is the world's longest-lived string quartet with an unparalleled reputation and history. Revered for its searching performances of Beethoven and Shostakovich, the Quartet is equally at home in music ranging from Mozart to Stravinsky. Their particular affinity with Russian repertoire was stimulated by a close relationship with Shostakovich who personally supervised their study of each of his quartets.

Eloquent Borodin Quartet blows them away...
“The phrasing, the sound, everything was incredible. They have the huge palette of sound and an intelligence that goes from beginning to end, movement to movement. When the final sighing notes hung in the air, there was a long silence before the crowd, caught in the spell of the music, let out its breath and erupted into ceiling rattling cheers.”
Ottawa Citizen, 2005