The man who wrote the opera 'Prince Igor' was a renowned scientist and chemist, besides being a great composer. Although composer Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) is best known for writing one of the ...

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 ...

Not since the Bolsheviks took over Russia has there been such a musical orgy as that which began in Leningrad last week, promised to run for ten full days. Soviet Russia was having its first big music ...

The Borodin Quartet is remarkable for its longevity, still operating 72 years after it was founded under the name Moscow Philharmonic Quartet. It must be the longest-playing chamber ensemble currently ...

String quartets come and go fairly quickly. Orchestras endure for centuries, but 40 years is a good run for a quartet. But no other quartet can quite match the record of the Borodin Quartet, which is ...

Four string players and a funeral: such a shorthand summary of perhaps the most stressful event in the extraordinary 70-year history of the Borodin Quartet tells only half the story. One of the ...

Three cheers to the Seattle Symphony for championing Borodin’s symphonies, particularly in such fresh, lithe performances. They are slightly brightly recorded, maybe, and lack that particular warmth ...

The thunderstorm that provided accompaniment to the final minutes of the Borodin Quartet’s concert Tuesday night at Coral Gables Congregational Church could have put out the lights and still would not ...

Several of Vancouver’s classical music organizations are exploring the trend toward focused miniseries. (I shy away from the term “binge-listening,” but it’s certainly expressive enough). In the next ...

For a full-time professional scientist to compose works of such originality and beauty as the Polovtsian Dances (from Prince Igor) and the String Quartet No 2 is a minor miracle. Borodin’s first ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Sometimes it's hard to shake the notoriety of your past. Especially when that past involves playing at Stalin's funeral at the Kremlin.

Kismet (book by Charles Lederer & Luther Davis; music by Alexander Borodin; musical adaptation and lyrics by Robert Wright & George Forrest) seems to have mistaken itself at times for a supercolossal ...