Piano Quintet in C minor (1862)
Cello Sonata in B minor (1860)
String Quartet No 2 in D major (1881)

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.

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Recorded in Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, on 21, 23 & 24 April 2016