Rimskij-Korsakov Quartet

The Rimskij-Korsakov Quartet is a chamber music ensemble that has performed most of the 20th century’s musical history. Created as a permanent ensemble in 1939, this quartet continued to play marked by the best Russian tradition of team work and extremely high professionalism. As is inevitable, over time its members changed. The current musicians were recently the stars at the Berlin Philharmonic of the very first performance of Hans Werner Henze’s Quintet for strings and piano in the presence of the composer himself. The concert for the Laudamo Philharmonic includes one authentic rarity; a selection from Les vendredis, and hence from that vast repertoire of chamber music that is however very pleasant and filled with nationalistic tension, played at the “musical Fridays” held at Mitrofan Petrovic Beliajev’s home, the great patron in Saint Petersburg who gathered around himself young talents such as Borodin, Ljadov, Glazunov and not last Nikolaj Rimskij-Korsakov, with 2008 marking the centenary of his death.

RIMSKIJ-KORSAKOV QUARTET

FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN
Quartet in C major op. 33 no. 3 Hob. III:39
«Der Vogel»

DMITRIJ ŠOSTAKOVIC
Quartet in C major op. 49

LES VENDREDIS
Nikolaj Rimskij-Korsakov Allegro
Nikolaj Artcibušev Serenata
Felix Blumendeld Sarabanda
Aleksandr Borodin Scherzo
Nikolaj Sokolov Canon
Anatolj Liadov Mazurka
Maximilian d'Osten-Sacken Berceuse
Sokolov/Glazunov/Liadov Polka

 

violin Mikhail Bondarev
violin Ekaterina Belisova
viola Aleksej Popov
violoncello Stanislav Lyamin