Ruben Aharonian, Igor Naidin, Valentin Berlinsky, Andrei Abramenkov & Borodin Quartet
Tchaikovsky - String Quartet No. 3, Op. 30
Video Director: Marco Capalbo - Artist: Ruben Aharonian, Igor Naidin, Valentin Berlinsky, Andrei Abramenkov & Borodin Quartet - Soloist: Ruben Aharonian, Igor Naidin, Valentin Berlinsky & Andrei Abramenkov - Producer: Bernhard Fleischer & Korbinian Meyer - Remixer: Vincent Schmitt - Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Orchestra: Borodin Quartet
Tchaikovsky - String Quartet No. 3, Op. 30
The Borodin Quartet, consisting of Valentin Berlinsky (Cello), Andrei Abramenkov (Violin), Igor Naidin (Viola) and Ruben Aharonian (Violin) perform Tchaikovsky's String Quartet No. 3, Op. 30 at the Kuhmo Festival for Chamber Music 2002. The composer completed his last String Quartet in 1876. The work is dedicated to the memory of violinist Ferdinand Laub, who was a good friend of the composer and a fellow professor at the Moscow Conservatory. Laub led the quartet which premiered the composer’s first two string quartets. It is the slow Andante funebre e doloroso ma con moto which commemorates Laub. The vigorous concluding Allegro risoluto provides a mood contrast from the deep grief expressed in the Andante.