Borodin lived in faculty quarters in a student dormitory at the Academy of Medicine. His flat was bisected by the only access the students had to their quarters. We have to envy them that they were able to hear the professor and his pals jamming this quartetdownstairs while they were trying to study. Incidentally, I would argue that Borodin's first quartet is the finest example of that genre ever composed, unsurpassed before or since.
very well done. my favorite rendition of this movement by far.
Borodin lived in faculty quarters in a student dormitory at the Academy of Medicine. His flat was bisected by the only access the students had to their quarters.
We have to envy them that they were able to hear the professor and his pals jamming this quartetdownstairs while they were trying to study.
Incidentally, I would argue that Borodin's first quartet is the finest example of that genre ever composed, unsurpassed before or since.