Tracklist

String Quartet No.1 In C Major, Op.49	(13:49)
1-1	I: Moderato	4:31
1-2	II: Moderato	4:19
1-3	III: Allegro Molto	1:55
1-4	IV: Allegro	2:52
String Quartet No.3 In F Major, Op.73	(32:58)
1-5	I: Allegretto	6:43
1-6	II: Moderato Con Moto	5:18
1-7	III: Allegro Non Troppo	4:06
1-8	IV: Adagio	6:31
1-9	V: Moderato	10:08
String Quartet No.12 In D Flat, Op.133	(28:46)
1-10	I: Moderato	7:17
1-11	II: Allegro - Adagio - Moderato - Adagio - Moderato - Allegretto	21:24
String Quartet No.4 In D Major, Op.83	(25:12)
2-1	I: Allegretto	4:04
2-2	II: Andantino	7:00
2-3	III: Allegretto	3:54
2-4	IV: Allegretto	10:02
String Quartet No.5 In B Flat Major, Op.92	(29:34)
2-5	I: Allegro Non Troppo	10:54
2-6	II: Andante	8:10
2-7	III: Moderato - Allegretto	10:28
String Quartet No.6 In G Major, Op.101	(24:50)
2-8	I: Allegretto	6:58
2-9	II: Moderato Con Moto	4:42
2-10	III: Lento	5:56
2-11	IV: Lento - Allegretto	7:06
String Quartet No. 7 In F. Sharp Minor, Op.108	(11:52)
3-1	I: Allegretto	3:24
3-2	II: Lento	2:55
3-3	III: Allegro - Allegretto	5:32
String Quartet No.8 In C Minor, Op.110	(20:42)
3-4	I: Largo	4:52
3-5	II: Allegro Molto	2:51
3-6	III: Allegretto	4:13
3-7	IV: Largo	5:23
3-8	V: Largo	3:20
String Quartet No.9 In E Flat Major, Op. 117	(28:37)
3-9	I: Moderato Con Moto	4:13
3-10	II: Adagio	6:01
3-11	III: Allegretto	3:47
3-12	IV: Adagio	4:37
3-13	V: Allegro	9:56
String Quartet No.11 In F Minor, Op.122	(16:07)
3-14	I: Introduction. Andantino	2:14
3-15	II: Scherzo. Allegretto	2:41
3-16	III: Recitative. Adagio	1:22
3-17	IV: Etude. Allegro	1:18
3-18	V: Humoresque. Allegro	1:01
3-19	VI: Elegy. Adagio	4:14
3-20	VII: Conclusion. Moderato	3:14
String Quartet No.2 In A Major, Op.68	(36:08)
4-1	I: Overture. Moderato Con Moto	8:08
4-2	II: Recitative And Romance. Adagio	12:02
4-3	III: Waltz. Allegro	5:25
4-4	IV: Theme With Variations. Adagio	11:19
String Quartet No.10 In A Flat Major, Op.118	(23:50)
4-5	I: Andante	4:23
4-6	II: Allegretto Furioso	4:04
4-7	III: Adagio	6:16
4-8	IV: Allegretto	8:57
String Quartet No.13 In B Flat Minor, Op.138	(18:38)
4-9	Adagio - Doppio Movimento - Tempo Primo	19:56

Companies, etc.

• Remastered At – Chandos Records Ltd
• Copyright (c) – Chandos Records Ltd
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Chandos Records Ltd
• Published By – Boosey & Hawkes
• Pressed By – CDA – 13966
• Pressed By – CDA – 13967
• Pressed By – CDA – 13968
• Pressed By – CDA – 13969

Credits

• Booklet Editor – Elizabeth Long
• Cello – Valentin Berlinsky
• Composed By – Dmitri Shostakovich
• Design – Tim Feeley
• Ensemble – Borodin String Quartet
• Liner Notes – M. Yakubov*
• Liner Notes [French Translation] – Marie-Stella Pâris
• Liner Notes [German Translation] – Andreas Klatt
• Remastered By – Christopher Brooke , Peter Reynolds*
• Viola – Dmitri Shebalin
• Violin – Andrei Abramenkov, Rostislav Dubinsky

Notes

℗ 2003 © 2003
This incomplete cycle of quartets is recorded by the original Borodin Quartet (1953-74).
First issued in Russia on Melodiya LPs, quartets 1-11 (1967-1971) and later: (Shostakovich*, The Borodin Quartet* - The Complete String Quartets (Vol. 2 Nos. 6-11) & Shostakovich*, The Borodin Quartet* - The Complete String Quartets, Vol. 1 (Nos. 1-5).

Not to be confused with Melodyia-EMI edition recorded in the 80´s D. Shostakovich*, Borodin Quartet* - Complete Quartets and including String Quartets No. 14 & 15 not included here. Violinists Rostislav Dubinsky and Yaroslav Alexandrov left the group before they could record Shostakovich's then-recent, final two quartets and were replaced by Mikhail Kopelman and Andrei Abramenkov.

36-page booklet with texts in English, German and French.

Total Time:
CD 1: 75:51
CD 2: 79:54
CD 3: 77:44
CD 4: 78:55

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode (Text): 0 95115 10642 6
• Label Code: LC 7038
• Matrix / Runout (CD 1): 13966 █ CD CHAN10064-1
• Matrix / Runout (CD 2): 13967 █ CD CHAN10064-2
• Matrix / Runout (CD 3): 13968 █ CD CHAN10064-3
• Matrix / Runout (CD 4): 13969 █ CD CHAN10064-4
• Rights Society: MCPS
• Mould SID Code (Variant 1): IFPI 1G16
• Mould SID Code (Variant 2): IFPI 1G09
• Mastering SID Code (CD 1 & CD 3 - Variant 1): IFPI L622
• Mastering SID Code (CD 2 - Variant 1): IFPI L623
• Mastering SID Code (CD 4 - Variant 1 & 2): IFPI L621
• Mastering SID Code (CD 1, CD 2, CD 3 - Variant 2): IFPI L621
• SPARS Code: ADD