"Borodin Quartet" plays Borodin Quartet #1, in A Major (1/5)

Part I
Borodin: Quartet For Strings No 1 In A Major
1. Moderato - Allegro

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Music

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• borodin
• quartet
• classical

[NOSEhow2LIV]

I can hardly describe my joy at hearing this again after some years absence.I always thunk it to be THE concentrated masterwork of Russian chamberNoises,not an empty phrase,no note wasted. This recording brung out the best,with passionately vibrant string sound & resonant acoustic. One of the great documents of quartet playing.

[smithsherman]

Will you stop calling yourself a nerd already?!! You're a Pink Panther with a Peacock tail!

[Vanguarde12]

Oh, my God. This is absolutely profound. Thank you much for all of the uploads.

[VelikyUstyug1]

This piece and the performance of this piece are so unspeakably dreadfully beautiful... that it ceases to be beautiful at all. Rather: it seems like the meaning of life... before we get distracted.

[5610winston]

@teh5o Why not? Go ahead, tape it, and post it for all of us to enjoy!

[5610winston]

@alanstillair It has to be a quartet. There's too much music there for a bigger ensemble to do it justice!

[5610winston]

@birdmetal90 I would recommend the biographical sketch of Balakirev in WIKIPEDIA. He appears to have been a prodigious musician from an early age. A few years younger than Borodin, he championed the works of Glinka and wanted to establish a uniquely Russian style of music distinct from the western European traditions.

His (Balakirev's) colleagues and friends remarks quoted in the WIKI entry suggest that, though functional, he was (how to put this delicately?) emotionally volatile.

[birdmetal90]

any idea what balakirev was like? i've always pictured a mad scientist type

[violaviolino]

che bella esecuzione calda! la musica che ti accarezza.

[5610winston]

Borodin felt that "Respectable people don't write music or make love for a living." He was a champion of women's education, a professor of chemistry (one of the greatest scientists of his time), and a family man. His flat in a dormitory at the Academy was split by a public hallway for access to the student quarters. He and his wife were regularly hosts to less-prosperous relatives, and it was often impossible for him to play the piano because someone had fallen asleep on it.

[teh5o]

my favorite quartet. The goodness just fills my heart.

I wish my quartet would give this a shot. :(