Prepare to trek through the desert landscape of Central Asia on Classical 91.7 this Thursday as Sir Georg Solti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a program rich in Russian themes, including ...

Shostakovich’s Ninth Quartet dates from 1964 and has the same sombre mood as the more famous Eighth that precedes it. But there is more irony here – folk tunes and nursery rhymes peer out through the ...

At 81, Valentin Berlinsky, cellist of the famed Borodin Quartet, is a remarkable musician. I wish the concert had been equally remarkable. Here's my review of Monday's concert. Let's be clear: Cellist ...

Not exactly a cheery prospect, but at the start of its eighth Australian tour for Musica Viva, the Borodin Quartet is a known quantity, an institution for the hardcore chamber music connoisseur ...

For six decades, this treasured ensemble has been Russia’s calling card to the chamber-music world. Under the auspices of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, it performs string quartets by ...

Russia's contribution to the arts over the past couple of centuries has been extraordinary and unparalleled. Russian authors are among the greatest writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Russia is ...

The Lindsays have been one of the dominant forces in the string quartet world for the past 25 years or so, and have released superb accounts of quartets by Beethoven, Haydn and Tippett amongst others ...

Well, continuity is everything in the Russian tradition; much of the old team's famous flexibility and, when needed, its ineffable remoteness, remain in evidence. But competition even in the ...