Beethoven: String Quartets, Volume 4 String Quartet Chamber Chandos

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This redoubtable Russian group plays with all the powerful, focused tone youd expect and brings out the entire wealth of Beethovens colour in these fiery performances.

Classic FM Magazine on Volume 2

The Borodin’s Beethoven series has, with this fourth volume, reached the halfway mark – time for assessment, perhaps. The impact of the playing is very positive: clear, expressive, unforced tone combined with spontaneity and lack of mannerism. The unrivalled experience of this group – Valentin Berlinsky has been playing with the quartet since its inception in 1945 – doesn’t translate into a one-sided, set view of Beethoven’s compositions. Instead we are given the feeling of a voyage of discovery, and of the player’s own enjoyment of the music.

Gramophone

These Borodin accounts are distinguished by their feeling of spontaneity; the continual small rubati and emphases may be worked out in advance but sound like spur-of-the-moment inflections as each player lives the music. Another striking overall impression is of tonal beauty, with a near perfect blend of sounds.

Gramophone on Volume 1

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