Description
Title: Complete Chamber Music
Artist: Moscow String Quartet
Label: Brilliant Classics
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 842977039733
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2010-02-09
Number of Discs: 2
Alexander Porfireyevich Borodin was the illegitimate son of a prince and his mistress, educated at home in St Petersburg by his mother. Although music was an early passion, he discovered his avocation once he matriculated at the city”s Medical-Surgical Academy. A chemist he became, and a good one, though not without his extra-curricular enthusiasms: the head of department once admonished him thus, mid-lecture: ”Mr Borodin, busy yourself a little less with songs. I”m putting all my hopes in you as my successor, but all you think of is music: you can”t hunt two hares at the same time.” This release contains a selection of chamber music, great performances by the Moscow Trio and the Moscow String Quartet.
Tracks:
1.1 String Quartet No. 1 in a Major: 1. Moderato
1.2 String Quartet No. 1 in a Major: 2. Andante Con Moto
1.3 String Quartet No. 1 in a Major: 3. Scherzo: Prestissimo
1.4 String Quartet No. 1 in a Major: 4. Finale: Andante – Allegro Risoluto
1.5 Piano Quintet in C minor: 1. Andante
1.6 Piano Quintet in C minor: 2. Scherzo: Allegro Non Troppo
1.7 Piano Quintet in C minor: 3. Finale: Allegro Moderato
2.1 String Quartet No. 2 in D Major: 1. Allegro Moderato
2.2 String Quartet No. 2 in D Major: 2. Scherzo: Allegro
2.3 String Quartet No. 2 in D Major: 3. Nocturne: Andante
2.4 String Quartet No. 2 in D Major: 4. Finale: Andante – Vivace
2.5 String Quintet for 2 Violins, Viola ; 2 Cellos in F minor (Finale Completed By O. Evlakhov): 1. Allegro Con Brio
2.6 String Quintet for 2 Violins, Viola ; 2 Cellos in F minor (Finale Completed By O. Evlakhov): 2. Andante Ma Non Troppo
2.7 String Quintet for 2 Violins, Viola ; 2 Cellos in F minor (Finale Completed By O. Evlakhov): 3. Menuetto
2.8 String Quintet for 2 Violins, Viola ; 2 Cellos in F minor (Finale Completed By O. Evlakhov): 4. Finale: Prestissimo
2.9 Spanish Serenade for String Quartet (For the Collaborative String Quartet ”B-La-F” with Rimsky-Korsakov, Glazunov, Lyadov)
3.1 String Sextet in D minor (3rd ; 4th Movements Lost): 1. Allegro
3.2 String Sextet in D minor (3rd ; 4th Movements Lost): 2. Andante
3.3 Trio for 2 Violins ; Cello in G minor (Based on a Russian Song ”How I Did Grieve Thee”)
3.4 Trio for 2 Violins ; Cello in G Major (Fragments): 1. Allegro
3.5 Trio for 2 Violins ; Cello in G Major (Fragments): 2. Andante
3.6 Piano Trio in D Major (3 Movements Only): 1. Allegro Con Brio
3.7 Piano Trio in D Major (3 Movements Only): 2. Romance: Andante
3.8 Piano Trio in D Major (3 Movements Only): 3. Intermezzo: Tempo Di Minuetto
