String Quartet no. 1 in A
The String Quartet No. 2 is a string quartet in D major written by Alexander Borodin in 1881. It was dedicated to his wife Ekaterina Protopova. Some scholars, such as Borodin's biographer Serge Dianin, suggest that the quartet was a 20th-anniversary gift and that it has a program evoking the couple's first meeting in Heidelberg. Of its four movements, the third movement, "Notturno," is the most famous. Borodin wrote the string quartet quickly in 1881 while staying at the estate of his friend, the composer Nikolai Lodyzhensky, which was located in Zhitovo, southeast of Moscow.
Most recent recordings
- Guarneri String Quartet - Highlights from The Complete RCA Album Collection — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Claude Debussy, Joseph Haydn, Maurice Ravel, Edvard Grieg, Bedřich Smetana, Alexander Borodin, Ernst von Dohnányi, Guarneri Quartet (2025) Spotify
- Borodin: String Quartet No.1 In A Major — Aleksandr Borodin, Maxwell Philharmonic Orchestra (2023) Spotify
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