Background
He was born on November 11, 1833, at St. Petersburg, the illegitimate son of the elderly Caucasian Prince Luka Gedeanishvili and the young wife of an army doctor.
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The Borodin Quartet plays the music of its namesake as to the manner born. Theirs is a beautiful, lush realization of this lyrical work, polished and full of nuance, and well-served by the 1980 analog recording. The coupling with Borodin's First Quartet is especially attractive. --Ted Libbey
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The Sofia National Opera Chorus has garnered acclaim the world over and is accompanied here by the Sofia Festival Orchestra. The recording also boasts a wealth of celebrated vocalists, including Boris Martinovich and Stefka Evstatieva. This recording of the best loved and Russian romantic opera, Prince Igor has been unavailable for quite some time.
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Alexander Porfir'yevich Borodin inarguably best known for his membership in the Russian Mighty Handful was a chemist by profession and composed in his spare time. Despite the hint toward dilettantism that might be suggested nothing amateurish can be traced in the small but sophisticated opus left to us. This near-complete edition comprehends his three highly original symphonies complete chamber music songs piano music and his unfinished masterpiece opera Prince Igor. Mostly Russian performers execute flawless performances with distinct national flavor.
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Alexander Borodin's In the Steppes of Central Asia performed by the RSO Ljubljana with Marko Munih conducting. When sold by Amazon.com, this product will be manufactured on demand using CD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
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He was born on November 11, 1833, at St. Petersburg, the illegitimate son of the elderly Caucasian Prince Luka Gedeanishvili and the young wife of an army doctor.
As a child he learned German, French, and English, and later Italian. He soon showed an interest in music, and was given flute lessons at eight, wrote a polka for piano at nine, studied piano and cello, and was composing chamber music at the age of fourteen. Nevertheless his main interest was chemistry, which became his profession. From 1850 to 1856 he studied at the Medico-Surgical Academy, becoming an assistant lecturer immediately on graduation and gaining his doctorate in 1858. He continued his studies in western Europe (1859 - 1862).
On his return to Russia he was appointed assistant professor, and in 1864, full professor of chemistry at the academy. Throughout this period music was never entirely neglected; Borodin had composed a piano quintet, a sextet, and other chamber music. But in 1862, spurred on by his new friendship with the composer Mili Balakirev and his circle, which included César Cui, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and Modest Mussorgsky, he embarked on the composition of a Symphony in E flat major. Its completion was delayed by his professional work - research, teaching, translation of foreign scientific books - but it was completed in 1867 and publicly conducted by Balakirev in 1869. A farcical pastiche opera, The Bogatirs, based on music by Jacques Offenbach, Giacomo Meyerbeer, and others, and four or five songs which are among the masterpieces of Russian art song dated from 1867-1868. The success of his first symphony emboldened Borodin to begin a second, the Symphony in B minor, in 1869; but he was distracted from this project by the idea of basing an opera on the 12th-century epic The Tale of Igor's Campaign. This in turn was soon abandoned and some of the music transferred to the second symphony which was ultimately finished in 1875. His interest in Igor was now revived, and from 1874 until he died he worked desultorily at his opera without finishing it. At about this time Borodin wrote two string quartets (1879 and 1885), two movements of a third symphony in A minor, an orchestral piece In Central Asia (1880), and a few songs and piano pieces. During these years Borodin's music began to be heard in Germany, Belgium, and France, thanks largely to the advocacy of Liszt, with whom Borodin had become personally acquainted. But only a small proportion of his life could ever be given to music. He was as he acknowledged in a letter to his wife, "at one and the same time scientist, commissioner, artist, government official, philanthropist, doctor, and invalid. " Hopelessly overworked, he died suddenly at a ball in St. Petersburg on February 27, 1887. Borodin's most important work was undoubtedly the opera Prince Igor, completed and orchestrated after his death by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Glazunov, and produced at St. Petersburg in 1890. The Symphony No. 2, Symphony No. 3, and Central Asia all belong to the same musical world - a world in which Russia's heroic past is evoked in music of remarkable power, color and individuality, and also humor. Borodin had little dramatic ability, but his opera has held the stage by its sheer musical power.
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He was a member of The Mighty Handful, a group of composers dedicated to producing a uniquely Russian kind of classical music
He married Ekaterina Sergeyevna Protopopova, a pianist, in 1863, and had at least one daughter, named Gania.