Borodin: Piano Quintet & String Quartet No 2
Goldner String Quartet, Piers Lane (piano)
CDA68166
Russia in the nineteenth century had little need for chamber music—no Parisian-style competitive quartetting here. But out of this very isolation came a small, but nonetheless mighty, handful of works: those by Borodin are among the finest. Piers Lane and the Goldner String Quartet revel in what they find.