In late December, the Berlin Philharmonic performed an all-Russian concert: Mussorgsky and Borodin. Now that concert is an EMI Classics CD. It begins with Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” (in ...
PITTSFIELD The Borodin String Quartet won't be playing Borodin's string quartet here. Nor does the Russian group play the Russian composer's famous work — actually his second quartet — anywhere else ...
Russian composer Alexander Borodin had a hard time finishing anything. His friends had to finish his operas and get them performed, and they've never become part of the standard repertory. But some of ...
Steven Machtinger, Attorney and Violist performing with The San Joaquin Quartet Alexander Borodin (1833-87) was a famous Russian chemist who today is better known as one of the greatest Romantic ...
Little Gania Borodin had a favor to ask of her famous father: Could she play a duet with him on the piano? Russian Composer Alexander Borodin beamed—it was news to him that his little girl could play ...