Borodin: String Quartet No. 1 in A Major; String Quartet No. 2 in D Major
The Borodin Quartet plays the music of its namesake as to the manner born. Theirs is a beautiful, lush realization of this lyrical work, polished and full of nuance, and well-served by the 1980 analog recording. The coupling with Borodin's First Quartet is especially attractive.--Ted Libbey