COMPANY: Praga Digitals
ARTIST: Prazak Quartet
CATEGORY: SACD
COMPOSER: Borodin

Product: 794881995622

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An amateur cellist, the composer of Prince Igor was the only one of the Group of Five to have written some ten chamber works for his personal pleasure in keeping with the laws of Germanic rhetoric - to Balakirev's great displeasure. One of them is a serious masterpiece: his Quartet in D, featuring an irresistible ‘Nocturne’, known in various arrangements, here with the Prazaks: “Quite simply a joy to hear.” The Strad

“as a library acquisition, calculated to enrich one's perspectives on a wonderful composer...the value of the Prazak Quartet's enterprise is obvious. Their playing brings many delights of its own. The Second Quartet is idiomatically and individually coloured without ever sounding forced...Such affectionate and unpretentious music-making, in nicely balanced recordings, does Borodin an admirable service.” Grammophone