BORODIN ALEXANDER

(CD) DVORAK: QUARTET NO. 12 IN F MAJOR, OPUS 96, 'THE AMERICAN' / BORODIN: STRING QUARTET NO. 2 IN D MAJOR
DDD / 32 Bit Digital Sound / High Quality Audiofile Edition Total time: 51:55 CD jewel case is housed in cardboard slip case. Includes 8 page booklet. According to liner notes part of 'The Royal Philharmonic Collection' Digitally recorded in January 1994 at C.T.S. Studios, London. 20 Bit Digital Recording, Editing and Mastering via 32 Bit Digital Sound Processing (DSP) Sound Recording Technology, England....
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(2CD) SYMPHONIES Nos. 1-3
It seems strange that such a celebrated composer as Alexander Borodin actually spent much of his life as a distinguished research chemist. While working as a professor in Chemistry at the University of St Petersburg in 1862, Borodin met pivotal composer Mily Balakirev, who encouraged him to explore the musical world, and began to tutor him in harmony and counterpoint. The rest, as they say, is history. The First Symphony is notable for the rhythmic interest of the first movement and the lively second movement, which shows the influence of ...
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(3-CD) PRINCE IGOR
The composition of Alexander Borodin's opera Prince Igor - based on the Song of Igor, a 12th-century Russian epic - got off to a slow start, with the composer's career as an organic chemist preventing him from making much progress . Eventually his friends tricked him into composing certain parts of the work by inserting these numbers into a concert programme; later still, another friend, the celebrated Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, suggested making the opera a joint venture, putting himself at Borodin's disposal as a musical secretary as well a...
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(10-CD SET) BORODIN EDITION
Alexander Porfireyevich Borodin was the illegitimate son of a prince and his mistress, educated at home in St Petersburg by his mother. Although music was an early passion, he discovered his avocation once he matriculated at the city's Medical-Surgical Academy. A chemist he became, and a good one, though not without his extra-curricular enthusiasms: the head of department once admonished him thus, mid-lecture: 'Mr Borodin, busy yourself a little less with songs. I'm putting all my hopes in you as my successor, but all you think of is music...
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